Yo, does anyone wanna talk or discuss anything abt nature, animals or just biology in general?
>>2883552wouldve wanted to but im new to outdooring,
shut the fuck up faggot
>>2883552sure, what's the coolest wildlife you've seen? Objectively for me it's probably grizzlies, though the only even somewhat close encounter was while driving, pic related. I also enjoyed seeing reindeer while backpacking in Jasper. >tfw I've hiked and camped a gorillion times and still have never seen a wild cat. no mountain lion, bobcat or lynx.meanwhile on nextdoor people post seeing them in their backyard all the time
I JUST THINK FRESHWATER MUSSELS ARE COOL AND IT MAKES MY DAY WHENEVER I FIND A LIVE ONE
>>2883552I like to enjoy a few edibles and imagine history unfolding from prehistoric times to now. It’s wild the megafauna that existed just as recently as a few thousand years ago. Can you imagine the world in those days? In the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic about ancient history to those who lived in what we now consider ancient times, a time before bread was mentioned. That’s truly insane because that’s 10,000 years or more in the past. I think it’s a great example of the small timeline humans have occupied this world. In a way, it makes me feel small in a manner similar to how looking at the stars does. We’re here for just a blink of an eye in geological terms and time keeps moving. Who knows what beautiful, fascinating, or extraordinary history, plants, and animals will exist in the future.
>>2883613>you will never see a living Glyptodontit's not fucking fair I sometimes think about when like 50 or 100k years ago there were a bunch of different human species running around, what happened to them, did humans just straight up kill them? It's like some planet of the apes shit
>>2883646>not fairYou can say that again. Did humans selectively outbreed Neanderthals and other pre-modern human species? What others came before us and what did they know? Did they have stories? We’re cursed by these short lives. We’ll never truly pierce the veil of time to have all the answers we want.
>>2883613>mfw I touch a living tree that predates European colonization of North America
>>2883671Even several thousand years is such a short time geologically, but feels forever. My god how the world must have changed. The little ice age, changing weather patterns, environmental changes from colonization, deforestation, and the damming of rivers, rebirth of forests in some areas and now the ongoing removal of dams all happened in just a fraction of that tree’s life.
>>2883606You mean quagga mussels?
>>2883613There's a short trail near where I used to live in Washington that overlooks a large valley, and at the top there is a sign that talks about how prehistoric humans likely used the overlook to scout the valley for mastodons. It's pretty out of the way and untrafficked, so it's nice to sit and imagine what it could have been like. If anyone wants to go it's called Tamanowas rock in Chimacum.
>>2883730I'm local to a similar small hill in Northern Colorado from where indigenous Americans could apparently see the dust cloud form bison herds in present-day Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, and Pikes Peak is visible on a clear day. You would think it's hard to lose track of thousands of bison leaving tracks and pies, but the rolling hills of the shortgrass steppe do make tracking difficult. This gentle hill was a good place to reconvene. The area is Red Mountain Open Space.
