Cognitive zoologist investigating the evolution of animal cognition, particularly in response to fire (pyrocognition). Amateur wildlife photographer.
May 28, 2022 • 27 tweets • 15 min read
Delighted to see two scenes in amazing #PrehistoricPlanet speculating on fire ecology and how dinosaurs may have interacted with fire.
A thread on context with living species, and hopefully @TetZoo will explain the creators’ thought process in other episode threads. 1/🧵 @TetZoo Episode 4 (Ice Worlds) introduces an unspecified troodontid, which I presume is based on Troodon / Stenonychosaurus / Latenivenatrix (contentious classification) because of the remarks on its relatively large brain and intelligence. 2/
May 27, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Welp, this is a first...
A phone caught fire while we were still on the runway. The crew handled it quickly and the passengers remained calm, also during evacuation and didn't take their luggage.
As much as I love thermal imaging, this was the least fun way to see it in use