West Fork trail - Sedona, AZ
it’s the 27th day of April in 2016. I haven’t been on tumblr in months, but I am here now listening to Vince Guaraldi’s Charlie Brown Christmas album and I am okay with the world.
Uzo Aduba and date-SAG Awards 2016
Fuck the oilfield. Thank God for 6 days off at a time.
4 years ago on a Sunday night it would be me, this song, and my bong.
when you’re face timing with your friend and add too much butter to the cookie mix 😑
Wow is that why they aren't shaped like the pretzel pattern on the Silpat®
Dog owner pretends to suddenly collapse while walking his dog and records the dog’s reaction.
Are you sure that's not a cat?
Okay I know a lot of Jedi tradition has been lost by now, but WHAT IF Rey gets that Padawan haircut.
somehow she got ten times hotter…??
a concept: we are smoking on our back porch. you’re smiling. a dog sleeps at our feet. the ocean is 2 blocks away. bernie sanders is president. the bees are alright.
Yes, eastern coyotes are hybrids, but the ‘coywolf’ is not a thing
November 13, 2015 - Talk of “coywolves” – a blend of coyote and wolf – is everywhere. There is a PBS special called Meet the Coywolf, a recent article in the Economist, and it is now trending on Facebook. The media really love this new animal name.
There is no doubt that there is a hybrid canid living in the eastern US, and that it is the result of an amazing evolution story unfolding right underneath our noses.
However, this is not a new species – at least not yet – and I don’t think we should start calling it a “coywolf.”
Genetic swapping
What creature are we talking about? In the last century, a predator – I prefer the name “eastern coyote” – has colonized the forests of eastern North America, from Florida to Labrador.
New genetic tests show that all eastern coyotes are actually a mix of three species: coyote, wolf and dog. The percentages vary, dependent upon exactly which test is applied and the geographic location of the canine.
Coyotes in the Northeast are mostly (60%-84%) coyote, with lesser amounts of wolf (8%-25%) and dog (8%-11%). Start moving south or east and this mixture slowly changes. Virginia animals average more dog than wolf (85%:2%:13% coyote:wolf:dog) while coyotes from the Deep South had just a dash of wolf and dog genes mixed in (91%:4%:5% coyote:wolf:dog). Tests show that there are no animals that are just coyote and wolf (that is, a coywolf), and some eastern coyotes that have almost no wolf at all.
In other words, there is no single new genetic entity that should be considered a unique species. Instead, we are finding a large intermixing population of coyotes across the continent, with a smattering of noncoyote DNA mixed in to varying degrees along the eastern edge. The coywolf is not a thing.
Beautiful
Honestly Madison I want to have Christmas at your house.
you’re invited next year duh
Word, have fun (Madison I expect a formal invite)
@montressor-spaceport if they can, so can you