In #CrittersClass two years ago I learned that, like mules, there are hybrids of male dromedary camels and female llamas called camas. Why?? I don't know, but they're both camelids. #2026MMM
Correction #CrittersClass
You think #zooarchaeology and the study of human-animal relationships in anthropology are tame and placid. But no.
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#CrittersClass Fresh mountain lion-human interaction alert.
#CrittersClass To read later. Curious who the experts are and in what way (long distance? pid-to-pid learning? local) they're "coordinated". Worried that this framing might endanger them.
Marking for a (hopefully 😪) future #CrittersClass!
Tool use in animals article! #CrittersClass
#Otter841 is back!!
A favorite of ye olde #CrittersClass .
#CrittersClass lol
The original.
#2025MMM #CrittersClass
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#CrittersClass not that anyone enrolled in it for the fall 😪
The whole Man or Bear thing is so #CrittersClass .
Allow me to just note that this stuffed octopus--who still needs a name--was by far my best purchase of 2023, and accompanied me to many a #CrittersClass.
I'm reading final papers (final grades due at noon aaaagh) and I feel I've reached a new pedagogical high because one of my students just discussed #FatBearWeek as "a worship ritual that improves understanding of human-animal relationships." If only we'd had #CrittersClass during #2024MMM! ;D
When you eat a cow, do you become a cow? Does the cow become you? #CrittersClass
#CrittersClass today was on de-extinction.
Apparently #vaquita numbers are down to10?!?!??? Is that true?!