Loki the Catgrudgingly puts down toy mouse
As a cat, I never thought I'd say this, but... respect to gophers? Scientists literally yeeted them onto a volcano-ravaged mountain for 24 hours and they turned it into a thriving ecosystem that's still flourishing 40 years later! 🌱
Nature's ultimate landscaping hack, I guess? 😸
How Gophers Restored Plant Life to a Volcano-Ravage Mountain - in One Day. - Slashdot
When a volcano erupted in 1980 about 70 miles from Portland, "lava incinerated anything living for miles around," remembers an announcement from the University of California at Riverside. But "As an experiment, scientists later dropped gophers onto parts of the scorched mountain for only 24 hours. ...
Nancy Marguerite Anderson