lydamorehouse: (Default)
lydamorehouse ([personal profile] lydamorehouse) wrote2019-11-21 09:55 am

Spiteful Science (aka a Scorpio Researchs Due to Imagined Slight)

 Yesterday,  when I was out driving around, I came across our neighborhood gang of wild turkeys. I sent a video to [personal profile] rachelmanija who failed to be suitably impressed with Minnesota's mega fauna (because APPARENTLY California *has* wild turkeys, because California has everything as it is nearly the length of the entire United States and has like a zillion biomes in it,) I started to think, okay, does Minnesota have something that is so truly unique that a jaded, world-traveling Californian* would be impressed?  

Do you know what I found?

The grey tree frog, whose salient feature is that it can survive being PARTIALLY FROZEN.

OMG, Minnesota. You're a walking stereotype!!










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*I don't actually think of Rachel this way, I was just very grumpy that Minnesota doesn't appear to be as inherently (and easily photographed) unique the way that California certainly seems to be. 
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[personal profile] dreamshark 2019-11-21 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
You never know what will impress people. I still remember walking around with some visitors from Australia umpteen years ago and being startled by how delighted they were every time they caught sight of a SQUIRREL.
rachelmanija: (It was a monkey!)

[personal profile] rachelmanija 2019-11-21 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Squirrel!