Comments on: Backyard Wildlife http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2007/08/10/backyard-wildlife/ Wesley R. Elsberry's personal weblog, talking about falconry, science, antievolution, computation, and the broken body he lives in. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:25:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Austringer http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2007/08/10/backyard-wildlife/comment-page-1/#comment-120032 Austringer Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:49:45 +0000 http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2007/08/10/backyard-wildlife/#comment-120032 Studying invertebrates has its advantages; institutional care committees don't when it comes to them. I'd just be concerned that it is rather a small pond, but I suppose it does have plenty of avian vectors linking it to other bodies of freshwater. So, sure, why not? Studying invertebrates has its advantages; institutional care committees don’t when it comes to them.

I’d just be concerned that it is rather a small pond, but I suppose it does have plenty of avian vectors linking it to other bodies of freshwater. So, sure, why not?

]]> By: Gary http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2007/08/10/backyard-wildlife/comment-page-1/#comment-120003 Gary Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:52:27 +0000 http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2007/08/10/backyard-wildlife/#comment-120003 Cool. I could never get any work done at all living at your house. Well, maybe a few weeks in the spring and fall depending on the freeze. I would probably try to get a project on freshwater liminology. I just recoverd a new species of leech, one that infests tuna stomachs. (I have found zero literature on leeches in the stomachs of tuna. These critters are the second I have discovered, 9 years ago I found a clearly related leech in some yellowfin tuna. They were supposed to have been written up by now. I plan to name them after my brother. My wife would slug me!) Could we aply for funding to study fish leeches from your pond? ;) Cool. I could never get any work done at all living at your house. Well, maybe a few weeks in the spring and fall depending on the freeze.

I would probably try to get a project on freshwater liminology. I just recoverd a new species of leech, one that infests tuna stomachs. (I have found zero literature on leeches in the stomachs of tuna. These critters are the second I have discovered, 9 years ago I found a clearly related leech in some yellowfin tuna. They were supposed to have been written up by now. I plan to name them after my brother. My wife would slug me!)

Could we aply for funding to study fish leeches from your pond? ;)

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