Are you drawn to any combination of interesting tidbits about Australia, fascinating flora and fauna, natural history, and huge, fierce, flightless birds with blingy plummage, funky headgear, deadly talons, and an hypnotic stare? If yes, may I refer you to chariot pulled by cassowaries' entire body of work?

https://www.metafilter.com/activity/324939/posts/mefi/

Today we have the felicitous birth of a VIP (Very Important Puggle)!

https://www.metafilter.com/203056/Researchers-over-the-moon-as-puggle-is-born-in-Royal-National-Park

#animals #Australia #cassowary #ChariotPulledByCassowaries #history #nature #platypus #PostingHistory #posts #puggle

🚨 Platypus baby alert 🚨⁠

Less than a year after ten platypuses were released into Sydney’s Royal National Park, scientists and researchers have discovered a healthy female juvenile platypus.

Read more about the puggle success… https://ausgeo.co/juvenileplatypus

📷 Taronga Zoo Sydney

#ausgeo #australia #seeaustralia #baby #puggle #platypus #nature #wildlife #exploremore #science #conservation #sydney #nsw
#environment #globalwarming #biodiversity #ecology #rewilding #biology #nature #wildlife

Slow your roll, you still have 99% of the year left to do it all.

I may be a morning person, but I don't think I'm an early year person.

Some new reflections on trust, email overwhelm, and loose-lead walking…

https://medium.com/@KimWitten/you-still-have-the-rest-of-the-year-to-do-it-all-5b1438891eb0?sk=14d796d727f36b5e9e55de956961e800

#medium #newyear #goals #trust #dogs #pug #puggle

This adorable Puggle belonging to my neighbor was my New Year's Eve Eve dining companion. He got a fair amount of pork pieces under the table.

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#puggles
#dogsofmastodon