Comments for Focusing on Wildlife https://focusingonwildlife.com/news Celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:16:57 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on In war-torn South Sudan, giraffes retain a surprisingly healthy gene pool by Makuye https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/in-war-torn-south-sudan-giraffes-retain-a-surprisingly-healthy-gene-pool/#comment-76077 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:16:57 +0000 https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=2207840#comment-76077 Thèse are arguably the most northern species, with a subspecies west across the sahel.

It brings up an issue involving science , education.
The United Nations supports international research and knowledge while in contrast my nation is being pushed back and away from this world by a backward-looking majority of humans, politically.
Here in USA, schooling and knowledge itself is being attacked

No open warring, but nonetheless a vicious antisociality taking us into inimical and fictional division, with much of the human population focused upon callous exploitation and supplanting of modern knowledge and critical thinking by self-serving fantasies such as misattribitive religion with dualist imaginary forces, the polarized oversimplifications of religion.

So we do have to look to such organizations as UN to obtain basic research knowledge.
The issue seems to be a localized reversal of the web of human questing.

It may be that the urban environment causes greater trauma, unrelieved, or merely that we went through a typically short human period of lacking violent warring.
A university is nearby, but I still notice that the major fields of choice in.this large nation remains marketing exploitation

Of course you must see this in the swift recent changes of social Internet, too.

We Humans appear to create subspecies ourselves, and the similarities are mere illusions as our own characteristics are only visible when observing individuals.

In any case, European research and such nature-orienged information dispersers as Mongabay are not USA linked, as this nation solved into severe negative emotions and the most ridiculous disputes ever witness in humans over 4 years old.

As about the only thing I get an allergic reaction to, acacia pollen, giraffes’ major food being acacia trees, I get a greater sense of human making and obsession with explosive killing toys for use upon other ecologically released apes of our kind as inconsequential obsession.

Hope all other species survive the ridiculous apes.

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Comment on “It was shocking.” Deep-sea scientists find unexpected creature 3,000ft below the ocean’s surface by Makuye https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/it-was-shocking-deep-sea-scientists-find-unexpected-creature-3000ft-below-the-oceans-surface/#comment-76076 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:30:26 +0000 https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=2207842#comment-76076 This is still mesopelagic, and 90% of the ocean is below it.
Between a few hundred feet down just below the found krill, eyes are still useful, but the importance of the region is the capture and recapture by prokaryotes of important organic matter, including the nitrogen of protein and the phosphates that power all cells, all life — you tber the ADP ATP and cAMP cycling from basic biology.

The vertical rising & falling of vast numbers of organisms with the dark of night is like a moving garden pr agricultural area.
Even the mysterious diving whales like pilot whales and sperm whales we think we know, go down to the base of this zone to feed.

Those are some of the largest brains on earth, social and communicative.

The sea approaches a steady temperature there, and the hydrothermal vents afford a different stay pf eukaryotic organisms who benefit from the basic minerals mentioned, but also sulphur, another essential component of some amino acid.

There’s more, as this is the richest biogeochemical resource of life.
Where I live one can look inland about twice the comparative depth. The pnoferous forest doesn’t seem to the eye to changeuch from a distance, but the climate does, with greater variation upward
There are layers and transitions and mixing everywhere, and unique lives.

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Comment on These are the most dangerous caterpillars in the world – one even contains enough venom to kill a human by Juliet Smith https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/these-are-the-most-dangerous-caterpillars-in-the-world-one-even-contains-enough-venom-to-kill-a-human/#comment-76072 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:07:29 +0000 https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=2207838#comment-76072 I wouldn’t want to meet any of those then.

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Comment on Scientists once thought it could only live for 70 years – turns out it’s double that. Here’s how they made the amazing discovery by Arlene Steinberg https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/scientists-once-thought-it-could-only-live-for-70-years-turns-out-its-double-that-heres-how-they-made-the-amazing-discovery/#comment-76071 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:54:09 +0000 https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=2207774#comment-76071 SHAME on this horrible anti-wildlife administration for doing NOTHING to protect any animal but especially the Northern Right Whales – and I blame a do-nothing Congress as well. Banning fishing gear that entables these whales and requiring slower ship speeds and radar to protect these whales would help – now we may lose them before we have barely tried to save them after the whaling years.

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Comment on Millions of dollars in funding but still no plan: can Quebec save its caribou from extinction? by Arlene Steinberg https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/millions-of-dollars-in-funding-but-still-no-plan-can-quebec-save-its-caribou-from-extinction/#comment-76070 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:46:08 +0000 https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=2207772#comment-76070 People are so stupid. As long as they consider the human species the only beings entitled to habitat and keep diminishing the spaces that animals have by destroying forests for wood, polluting, and also hunting (an antiquated, barbaric activity that fully needs to END) etc., we will keep losing animals hand over fist. The animals are EVERY BIT as important as WE are – and maybe more. We have taken so much away from them and still don’t understand how critical they are. And one day they will be gone and we will have spread like an ignorant, uneducated CANCER on this planet.

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Comment on “A father’s input often ends at copulation, so males must impress females.” Why males are such show-offs by Arlene Steinberg https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/a-fathers-input-often-ends-at-copulation-so-males-must-impress-females-why-males-are-such-show-offs/#comment-76069 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:35:03 +0000 https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=2207834#comment-76069 Haha – I’ve met plenty of “sneakers” of the HUMAN variety!!!!!

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Comment on A new cat species was just discovered. Several more may follow by Arlene Steinberg https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/a-new-cat-species-was-just-discovered-several-more-may-follow/#comment-76068 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:24:36 +0000 https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=2207776#comment-76068 Amazing article and the people working in this area of study are AWESOME. I wish the governments of these countries and the organizations that work with them would listen to them more!

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Comment on Spotted Towhee on Alder-leaf Mountain-mahogany by KiriWhiteWolf https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/wildfocus/featured/spotted-towhee_1/#comment-76067 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:02:07 +0000 https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/wildfocus/featured/spotted-towhee_1/#comment-76067 Glenn, I really like your photos, but I really don’t think that’s an Alder-Leaf Mountain Mahogany. I admit I have no experience with that shrub, but I looked it up and it seems to have no thorns at all… Whereas that dark red, squarish-looking cane with the long thorns looks entirely like a ‘Himalayan’ blackberry, an invasive blackberry that’s as tough as nails and hard to get rid of without a military campaign – a big nuisance on our little ‘ranch’ in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. I expect it grows well in Vancouver too! March is when they would probably be leafing out, the new young sprouts looking innocent of the slashing finger-traps to come… 😀

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Comment on “A father’s input often ends at copulation, so males must impress females.” Why males are such show-offs by Juliet Smith https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/a-fathers-input-often-ends-at-copulation-so-males-must-impress-females-why-males-are-such-show-offs/#comment-76065 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:00:31 +0000 https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=2207834#comment-76065 Peacock and peahens are absolutely beautiful birds.

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Comment on Scientists once thought it could only live for 70 years – turns out it’s double that. Here’s how they made the amazing discovery by Anette Stauske https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/scientists-once-thought-it-could-only-live-for-70-years-turns-out-its-double-that-heres-how-they-made-the-amazing-discovery/#comment-76060 Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:27:01 +0000 https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/?p=2207774#comment-76060 I don’t see any logic behind the argument that conservation is only possible if you know how old certain species can get. All it really needs is a timely development of all of humanity into individuals who live in harmony with nature and stop constantly pushing industrialisation faster, higher, further.

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