One of the world’s rarest amphibians bred for the FIRST time outside of its homeland at Chester Zoo
Nov. 2017 – Conservationists at Chester Zoo have successfully bred one of the
world’s rarest amphibians in a bid to save it from extinction – the
first time the feat has ever been achieved outside the species’ native
Catalonia.
Twelve Montseny Newts, one of the most endangered species in Europe,
have hatched at the zoo where a team of experts are helping to ensure
the continued survival of the critically endangered population – ahead
of a future release into the wild.
It is the first time the newt has ever been kept outside of Catalonia
and the young hatched within the programme will be introduced back to
the Montseny mountain range in north-eastern Catalonia to help boost
numbers.
The mountains, which are approximately 100km north of Barcelona, are the
only place where wild Montseny newts live.
The zoo, renowned for its conservation work with threatened reptiles and
amphibians, has been asked to join the Barcelona Provincial Council,
the Catalan government’s Department of Territory and Sustainability and
Barcelona Zoo in caring for the highly threatened species – becoming the
first institution in the world outside of Catalonia to join the
recovery plan.
FACT CHECK: Are People Adopting Pit Bull Terriers for the Sole Purpose of Euthanizing Them?
The #PitbullDropOff hashtag and related claims of mass dog killing stem from a sophomoric troll attempt with origins in 4chan.
CLAIM:
People are adopting pit bulls with the express goal of euthanizing them,
and then bragging about it on the Internet with the hashtag
#PitbullDropOff.
RATING:
ORIGIN:
In mid-May 2018, the hashtag #PitbullDropOff began to gain traction on
social media. A typical post involves a picture of cute pit bull
terrier-type puppies, and a message that the person who took the picture
adopted them for the express purpose of euthanizing them to get them
off the streets. This post from “muffs-o-matic” is representative of most:
These posts are fabricated; they are part of a juvenile attempt to
provoke anger and outrage on the internet, and are specifically directed
at “naive pitmommies and various other low IQ individuals.” They have
their origins not in reality, but in the callow minds of the festering
racist, misogynistic, and nihilistic world that is 4chan — an anonymous
message board that unites trolls, “incels,” and neo-Nazis together in
their shared contempt for human decency.
A 13 May 2018 anonymous post
found in that website’s most infamous board (/pol/) presents an update
on their campaign, and also how you — assuming, of course, that you are a
troll — can get involved in the game:
Indeed, as many have pointed out on Reddit,
most of the photos shared on Twitter and Facebook with the
#PitBullDropOff hashtag include images that can easily be found on
reverse image search as having nothing to do with #PitbullDropOff, and
which predate the hashtag by years. The image that appears in the post
by “muffs-o-matic,” for example, can be found in a February 2017 list of
cute puppies on The Chive.
This tweet, from a burner account clearly created solely for the #PitbullDropOff troll, contains a picture of a sad dog that is at least as old as December 2011:
Outside the smug satisfaction of feeling smarter than the people they
have trolled, the underlying motivations for the hashtag fall clearly
into the political ideology
of the /pol/ message board, which has coagulated over time into a
simple philosophy: Women, liberals, and minorities are destroying
America. Here’s a sampling of some of the comments in the thread:
The anonymous trolls also suggest that pit bull-type dogs are almost
always owned by ethnic minorities, and are thus aggressive and
unfriendly — a racial stereotype that has long motivated anti-pit bull movements:
While we cannot speak to the broader claim that some terrible human
beings have adopted dogs for the purpose of putting them down, we can
say with confidence that the current viral #PitbullDropOff trend on
social media is a hoax orchestrated by anonymous hoaxsters using
unrelated photographs, fake context, and a characteristic reliance on
racism and misogyny. Don’t feed the trolls.
Employees at the Amsterdam zoo found an abandoned griffon vulture egg that none of the other vultures would adopt, so they placed it with a gay couple that had been nesting, bonding, and mating for years. The two males immediately took turns lying on the egg, cared for it until it hatched, and are now a happy family of three. SourceSource 2
We all have our own sexy little forms of escapism. Mine is pretending to be a farmer/baker that is wildly popular and beloved. My friends is to live in a mountain area and raise goats. Its the little things
the tags on these are so good tag your escapist fantasies
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