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Posted: Sep 17, 2012 - 2:16pm
Coaxial wrote: From next door. This little palm-sized guy is a muntjac fawn, which is the oldest type of deer still alive today. His mom was hit by a car and though vets tried to save her, they had no luck. They were, however, able to perform a C-section and pull Rupert out. He was born two weeks early and was just six inches tall!! poor Rupert

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Location: Comfortably numb in So Texas
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Posted: Sep 17, 2012 - 12:40pm
From next door. This little palm-sized guy is a muntjac fawn, which is the oldest type of deer still alive today. His mom was hit by a car and though vets tried to save her, they had no luck. They were, however, able to perform a C-section and pull Rupert out. He was born two weeks early and was just six inches tall!!

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Posted: Sep 17, 2012 - 8:54am

Umberdog wrote:

I just found this out a couple days ago.

Unlike mammals, horseshoe crabs do not have hemoglobin in their blood, but instead use hemocyanin to carry oxygen. Because of the copper present in hemocyanin, their blood is blue. Their blood contains amebocytes, which play a role similar to white blood cells for vertebrates in defending the organism against pathogens. Amebocytes from the blood of L. polyphemus are used to make Limulus amebocyte lysate, which is used for the detection of bacterial endotoxins.

I knew they were ancient. More like insects than crabs.

Those things are just about as ancient a critter that's still around. Makes cockroaches look like newcomers.

Their blood is a critical component of a number of medical items. And their numbers have decreased considerably over the last century or so. We may discover our destruction lies not in a cataclysm, but in the extinction of an ancient animal.

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Posted: Sep 17, 2012 - 8:47am

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Posted: Sep 14, 2012 - 4:28pm

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Posted: Sep 11, 2012 - 12:55pm

2cats

Location: Oklahoma
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Posted: Sep 11, 2012 - 7:06am
Proclivities wrote: cute kitty

2cats

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Posted: Sep 11, 2012 - 6:50am
RichardPrins wrote: Don't let him near your baay-beee.

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Posted: Sep 11, 2012 - 6:39am

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Posted: Sep 10, 2012 - 10:06pm
A dingo! I think.

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Posted: Sep 10, 2012 - 9:39pm

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Posted: Sep 10, 2012 - 7:34am
RichardPrins wrote: Love. That. Bellah!

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Posted: Sep 9, 2012 - 5:42pm
RichardPrins wrote: Most of them come from here. We used to have our own provider of extraordinary wildlife and landscape photographs. Another RPeep that drifted away. Can't say I know for why, but I could hazard a guess.

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Posted: Sep 9, 2012 - 4:13pm
RichardPrins wrote: Most of them come from here. I'm in. Thanks!

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Posted: Sep 9, 2012 - 4:08pm
katzendogs wrote: i love this one. I love this series you're posting. I haven't seen it before... Most of them come from here.

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Posted: Sep 9, 2012 - 4:04pm
RichardPrins wrote: i love this one. I love this series you're posting. I haven't seen it before...

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Posted: Sep 9, 2012 - 3:53pm

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Posted: Sep 7, 2012 - 4:48pm

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Posted: Sep 7, 2012 - 8:23am

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