Conbio postdoc at @sdnhm, urban ecologist 🏙🐿🦝🦌, artist 👩🏻🎨 (she/her) | art insta: @ sciurusstitches | also @ https://nitter.gq/t.co/XglLPOyHxH
San Diego, CA
Joined May 2015
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Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
Fun Fact: Thorny devil lizards drink water with their feet. They step in water on the ground and the grooves on their skin channel water to their mouths through capillary action. This allows them to drink passively without lowering their guard.🦎🥤🐾
Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE #squirrel TREE OF LIFE:
Urocitellus idahoensis
Snake River Plains ground squirrel
ALT PHOTO by Alex Lamoreaux via iNaturalist
Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
Fun fact: Baby birds often ‘gape,’ opening their mouths wide to signal hunger. Parents feed them by regurgitating food until they’re weaned and learn to eat on their own. 🐥🦜
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Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
Throwback fact: Porcupines are covered in around thirty-thousand quills. Each quill has barbs at the tips that make them difficult to remove. 🌵🐖💺 #naturalhabitat #naturalhabitatshorts #naturalhabitok
Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
Fun fact: Flamingos can drink near-boiling water. They can even drink super salty and alkaline water.🦩☕️🔥
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Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
Spooky fact: Chipmunks’ stripes allow them to blend in to their wooded environment and hide in plain sight. 🐿️🌳📞 check out our merch at Naturalhabitatshorts.store #naturalhabitatshorts #naturalhabitat #naturalhabitok
Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
Spooky fact: When threatened, Horned lizards shoot blood from their eyes as a defense mechanism. Their blood is also toxic from a diet of venomous ants. 🦎🩸💀 #naturalhabitatshorts #naturahabitat #naturalhabitok
Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
Refuge Week 2024 starts tomorrow and we're kicking things off with Urban Wildlife Conservation Day!
This gorgeous sunset photo was taken at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, located just 10 miles northeast of downtown Denver, Colorado.
Photo by Patrick Gautier
ALT A sunset-colored sky is reflected off of a wetland below.
Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
Fun fact: Autumn is sometimes called “hooting season” because owls hoot more frequently during the fall to claim territory or find a mate. 🦉🍂🏡 #naturalhabitatshorts #naturalhabitok #naturalhabitat
Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
Fun Fact: Honey Badgers are unaffected by most snake bites, but if the bite is strong enough the badger will literally just ‘sleep’ off the venom for a few hours & will wake up ready to fight🦡🐍🚓
Special thank you to @BrockBaker for voicing our Honey Badger! #naturalhabitat
Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
Fun fact: turtles can carry salmonella on their outer skin and shell surfaces, so make sure to wash your hands after you handle them. Incidentally, rats urinate on food to indicate ownership or marker it as safe to eat 🐀🐢👨🍳
Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
Fun Fact: Platypus’ milk oozes out of the surface of their skin similar to sweat. However only female platypuses produce milk and neither produce sweat. 🍼💦🪩 #naturalhabitatshorts #naturalhabitok #naturalhabitat
Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
Fun fact: Koalas’ diet consists mostly of eucalyptus but they only recognize the leaves as food when on a branch. 🐨🍃🍽️ #naturalhabitat #naturahabitatshorts #naturalhabitok
Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
it's crazy that the best piece of artwork ever was made 2,200 years ago and no one has made anything better since. and yes you can bet your bottom dollar i'm talking about the ancient roman mouse eating a walnut mosaic
Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
Fun fact: while Quokka mothers don’t actually “throw” their babies at predators they do release them from their pouch as a distraction. The baby will hiss at the predator while the mother escapes. 🐿️🚔👛 #naturalhabitatshorts
Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
Fun fact: Axolotls are able to completely regrow their limbs, tail, gills, brain and heart in just a few weeks 🦎✂️🦵#naturalhabitat #naturalhabitok #naturalhabitatshorts
Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
Fun Fact: Some small bats can eat up to 1,000 bugs in just an hour 🦇🍽️🦟 #naturalhabitat #naturalhabitatshorts #naturalhabitok
Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
Fun Fact: Lizards, amphibians, and other reptiles shed their skin and eat it in order to avoid wasting any valuable nutrients. 🫖🦎🍽️ Big thanks to Bubs for voicing Ashley! 🎀
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Rachel Larson, PhD retweeted
Fun fact: Hedgehogs are one of the few mammals that are true hibernators. They enter a state of torpor causing them to become cold and their heart rate to dramatically drop, leading many hedgehog owners to believe they may no longer be alive until they awaken in the spring🦔⚰️🎈
