This one time we downloaded an iPad game for cats… it was a still background and occasionally an animated mouse would dart across the screen. If a hand/paw touched the mouse it registered a point
So we let my cat at it, and she did a couple unsuccessful grabs, but then the first time she managed to successfully "catch" a mouse and it didn't come away in her paw, she stopped, stared, and a moment later when the mouse appeared jabbed both her front paws *under the iPad*
They're Sumatran tigers. Sumatran tigers are the only remaining tigers in the Panthera tigris sondaica subspecies. The other two, the Bali tigers and the Javan tigers went extinct in this past century. Sumatran tigers are also critically endangered due to the forests where they live being cut down to make room for palm oil plantations. And also due to poaching for body parts used in Chinese traditional medicine.
They’ll tell you that they love you, like a spider loves a fly Promise you you’re safe, but never look you in the eye
In the past few decades, the number of invasive Burmese pythons has exploded in South Florida, especially in the Everglades. Because they are very difficult to find and track, however, many details of their behavior and ecological impact remain sketchy, such as how native species respond to their presence.
A new photo montage from a wildlife camera in Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve provides visual evidence of the Everglades “fighting back.” The images, captured in June 2021, show a bobcat raiding a python’s nest—the first observation of any Floridian animal preying upon the invasive snake’s eggs.
After happening upon an unguarded nest, the photos show, the curious bobcat sniffs about, scarfing a few eggs and trampling dozens more. Then he covers the nest, saving them for another day. After leaving and returning a short while later, he finds an unwelcome surprise: The nesting python is back on guard. An image captures the roughly 14-foot, 120-pound female python stretched out in striking position, having lunged at and possibly bitten the 20-pound bobcat; in the next, he’s taking a swipe at her.
Bobcats have been known to eat other reptile eggs, but never those of Burmese pythons; the two species have also never been documented actively antagonizing each other before. For Florida biologists, the aggressive interaction is a morale-boosting sign that the Everglades are learning to push back against the invasive apex predator who, until now, has rarely been challenged by native species.
“When we see something like this, it’s so exciting,” says Andrea Currylow, a U.S. Geological Survey ecologist stationed in Everglades National Park who led the Ecology & Evolution report detailing the finding. “The native species are learning, they’re adapting, [and] they’re able to be more resilient to an invasive species.”
Photos show the bobcat was apparently uninjured and returned to the nest repeatedly over the next several weeks, after the snake was removed by researchers.
“Luckily, [the python] wasn’t interested in eating” the nest-raider, Currylow says. “But man, that’s a brave bobcat.”
They’ll tell you that they love you, like a spider loves a fly Promise you you’re safe, but never look you in the eye
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