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We report the exotic (for #India) apple #snail, #Pomacea diffusa, also known as the spike topped apple snail, from the #Mumbai region, as part of our ongoing studies on #urbanwildlife, and the #ecology of introduced species, in #India, Mumbai.
The study was officially published in the 'ELA Journal of Forestry and Wildlife' - a peer reviewed #science journal, which is also the official journal of the #Maharashtra State #Forest Department.

Link to paper: researchgate.net/publication/35ā€¦

#sciencetwitter #TwitterNatureCommunity
Spiked Topped Apple Snails in #Mumbai (and other parts of #India) are the direct result of the #aquarium trade - either as accidental, or deliberate releases from home aquaria.

#InvasiveSpecies #sciencetwitter #ecology #naturalhistory #urbanwildlife
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Time for another #TetZoocryptomegathread, in which we examine the backstory to a photo or film said to depict a cryptid, or monster. This time, weā€™re not looking at a photo claimed to be of a live animal BUT at photos which depict a very dead one: a rotted carcass, in factā€¦
I am of course talking about the ZUIYO-MARU CARCASS: the large, decomposed body of a sea creature, ā€˜capturedā€™ by accident in the nets of the Japanese fishing vessel the Zuiyo-maru on April 25th 1977 while they were about 48km off the east coast of Christchurch, New Zealandā€¦
The name ā€˜Zuiyo-maruā€™ has been written in several ways in the literature (as ā€˜Zuiyomaruā€™ or ā€˜Zuiyo Maruā€™, for example). Iā€™m here going to follow the style used in the 1978 report on the carcass (Zuiyo-maru). And the Zuiyo-maru carcass will be called the ZMC from hereon!
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNetĀ 09/10/2020 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2020/09/10/daiā€¦
Psychological impacts of ā€œscreen timeā€ and ā€œgreen timeā€ for children and adolescents: A systematic scoping review

journals.plos.org/plosone/articlā€¦

#GreenTime #ScreenTime #psychology
It has four incarnations every lifetime, can return from the dead and is the subject of an unlikely new bestseller...

nexusnewsfeed.com/article/climatā€¦

#EuropeanEels #LifeCycle #zoology
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Last week in #zoology my class went over #amphibians & I was struggling to design a remote lab that they could enjoy & do easily.

Wound up going with a frog call analysis activity using #RavenLite and am ā˜ŗļøhappyā˜ŗļø to see how well they did at identifying the šŸø spp calling!
Also, this comment about a student's lab assignment #frog bombing her partner's #Zoom call šŸ˜‚ Image
Y'all....I am currently grading these lab assessments and the comments are making my day. #amphibians for the win! Image
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Grading #zoology student lab worksheets. They had to search through digital museum collections for images of #Echinoderms & draw representatives of major clades.

Really enjoying some of this artwork in the age of #COVID19 & #onlinelearning Image
Seriously, some of these are great! Image
Others...maybe not so much haha Image
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This thread is documentation of #viral, #PseudoScience & #irrational information circulating around in the midst of #CoronavirusOutbreakindia.
Starting from @AltNews report debunking uniform latitudes of places where #Corona came.

altnews.in/places-most-afā€¦

@ScienceMarchMum
Coronavirus: Is drinking cow urine any help?
By Reality Check team @BBCNEWSIndia1

bbc.com/news/amp/worldā€¦
China culled around 18,000 chickens in Shaoyang city in the southern province of Hunan as a result of a flu outbreak. Rumours in India started circulating, that broiler chicken has been infected with Coronavirus and people should avoid consuming it.

altnews.in/coronavirus-inā€¦
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The #zoology #bioblitz continues! Itā€™s going well!

In a student email this morning: ā€œbeing a psychology major this is my first bio blitz...this has to be the most fun I have had all semester...I am terrible at catching the specimens it has been a really great experience.ā€
And earlier in the week a team came by my office:

ā€œWeā€™re looking for #mollusks but arenā€™t sure where to find them.ā€ šŸ˜‚

I sent them to flip logs for slugs and look in ditches and ponds for snails.
The teams have 1 more day to add to their #animal #biodiversity collections (photos, no actual specimens collected).
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A little less than 1 hour until #ArthropodsGotTalent

19 students submitted their candidate species or groups, with the biggest category being interesting #behaviors (9/19)

I think some students are trying to play up the audience for votes w/references to popular filmsšŸ¤£ Image
Winning #arthropods will be posted after #zoology class!šŸ†šŸ…
And the winners of #ArthropodsGotTalent Spring 16 are:
1) For coolest antipreatory defense - the bomberdier #beetle !
2) For best parasite - the tongue eating louse!
3) For behavior - the Pacific cleaner #shrimp ! (Called it!šŸ¤£)
4) For coolest predator - the tiger beetle!
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We are now in the #diversity seciton of #zoology and this is how I feel: Image
Also, thank you #sciencetwitter ! Searching #porifera did not disappoint! Found awesome video footage of deep sea dives & great explanations about sponge biology
...I have absolutely been playing the #LittleMermaid soundtrack in my office while prepping this lecture šŸ˜‚šŸ¤£...

#AcademicConfessions
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#FutureIsBigger, you never know what will happen. No education is useless. Listen to your parents, they may not be wrong. Future is worth exploring. God got your back even when you think you got nothing.

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Azeez came out with 9 As in his #SSCE and he wanted to be a Doctor. Smart, intelligent and well bred from a humble home. However this hope was truncated at the University of Ibadan, he was offered #Zoology.

"Just start with that", said the father.

#FutureIsBigger
Azeez set another target for himself, "I must jam this JAMB again and this time, I will not show mercy", he said as he promised his father that he must be a Doctor.

He believed himself, he knew he could do it.

He walked into JAMB hall the following year, very confident like
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