when kai fagerström happened upon an old cottage in rural suomusjärvi, finland, abandoned decades ago, he began to document its new residents.
there were badger cubs born under the floorboards, who now used the fireplace as an entrance. there was a raccoon dog pup who would drop in every night at the same time. there was a pygmy owl who would try to catch the home’s voles. there were red squirrels who had built their dreys inside the house. and there was a fox pup, seen peeking out from a cat door, that had taken up in the dilapidated shed.
“there’s consolation in the idea that nature is reclaiming the places it has lent to people,” he says, adding that when enters the house “it’s like stepping back in time. the past lingers in the corners.” it’s not just the animals that interest him, but the people no longer there. “who were they? what was their daily life like?”
to get his shots of these human weary animals, fagerström typically envisions an image first and then plans it out. he’ll set his camera at the perfect angle, throw out peanuts as bait, and wait patiently for wildlife to wander into the picture frame. “sometimes you get lucky, but often it takes all night,” he says. “every so often a shot is pure happenstance.”
ok so im gonna preface this by saying that botanists debate who the real smolest tree boi is. like, to judge a smol tree boi u gotta first decide what a tree boi is, and we dont have an official definition??? the closest u can find is the idea that a tree is a plant that gets secondary growth each year so like. if it got rings when u cut it open, its a tree, and if it only has vegetative growth (think banana trees) its not technically a tree. but then like is a shrub a tree?? are all woody plants trees????? is a shrub different from a bush???? we just dont know man we literally dont. we havent decided yet its a mystery. things that real botanists have decided on:
but anyway yeah so just to clear things up we’re gonna use the definition outlined in the book “Elsevier’s dictionary of forestry” published in 2004, which defines that if a woody perennial that got leaf is 3 meters tall (9.84 feet), he a tree, and if its less its a shrub. so in that case, the smolest tree possible is a tree that is exactly 9.84 feet tall at maturity. which can be a lot of things.
now, if we’re talking about the smolest shrub, then the botany community has identified a theoretical smol bab that isnt officially a tree but might be depending on who you take the tree definition from?????
this is Salix herbacea (dwarf willow), a very, very smol willow species adapted to arctic environments. usually it only gets about 1-6 cm tall. they stretch out and sometimes form older trunks when they crawl that make them look a liiiittle bit more like a conventional tree that just oozed everywhere like (x) (x) (pic is public domain)
whoa careful dont get lost in the forest
he crawl but he also grow tol u feel
so there is the smolest tree boi depending on who u ask
Among the smartest and longest lived animals we can ever hope to interact with and it was willing to learn this stupid trick to amuse its human friend.
so my brother was telling me about this human resources certification he attended a while ago. in a panel, the panelist asked a bunch of people in attendance, “who here knows if an applicant for a job is right for it in under 60 seconds?”
hands shot up around the room, people smug about their ability to “weed out the riff-raff” when it came to hiring for their fortune 500.
“you should all be fired and probably in jail,” they said, waiting for the whole room to get uncomfortable, then continued, “because the only things you can really learn about a human being in under 60 seconds are all things that are fueled by prejudices and biases covered by american law. so now, i will teach you how to stop being racist, sexist, judgmental assholes and hire people that will better your company of employ.”
I need this to be force taught at all companies
This is a good example of why study after study after studyhas shown that discrimination against racialized people looking for work is very real. Oh, and don’t get too smug if you’re not in the USA – similar studies have shown that the same shit happens in Canada, Germany, the UK, Sweden – basically in every country you can think of.
I’m watching a documentary on Netflix about animals getting prosthetics and this vet just hand sculpted a prosthetic beak for an injured swan and the very first thing it did was use its new beak to bite someone
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