Posted on August 15, 2018
by Devon Bowker
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If you’ve ever seen a gelatinous blob of ick floating in the water and wondered what type of alien life you were seeing, it was probably a Bryozoan, and they’re honestly pretty neat.
Category: Animals, The Wild Life BlogTags: animal, aquatic, asexual, biology, blob, blob in lake, bryozoan, clones, colony, ecology, egg sack thing in lake, environment, freshwater, gelatinous blob in lake, invertebrate, jelly blob in lake, lake, life, marine, moss animals, science, water quality, wildlife
Posted on August 9, 2018
by Devon Bowker
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Most know them as seagulls, a name which implies a proclivity for life at sea. Yet this familiar moniker is neither accurate (scientifically speaking), nor seems to fall in line with a universal observation—gulls love parking lots, whatever their distance from the salty sea
Category: Animals, Birds, The Wild Life BlogTags: animal, animal behavior, ask a naturalist, bird, bird watching, birding, discover, gull, herring gull, lakes, laughing gull, learn, naturalist, nature, nature nerd, Ocean, omnivore, optoutside, ornithology, outdoors, parking lots, ring billed gull, Sea, seagull, the wild life, thewildlife, why do seagulls love concrete, why do seagulls love parking lots, wild, wilderness, wildernessculture