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Rainbow Trout eggs in our classroom !

Coho Salmon are returning to Lagunitas Creek in Marin. I (christian) had a chance to see the coho last weekend -- a wonderful experience.

Totally sweet time-lapse video of Yosemite.

The always great BibliOdyssey offers up turtle anatomy engravings.

CA WOLF
Twitter (hobbies: wandering, ungulates)
NY times piece

California Condor Webcam

Love the perspective on this horned lizard photograph

Even Talking Points Memo (a political news site and blog) is on the Camera Trapping Bandwagon.

Fruitfly Genome 3D map.  This is the type of stuff I (JK) study.

New smallest vertebrate in the world. An adorable little frog.

Further cute alert ! Baby sea otter at the Seattle Aquarium.

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Male Western Snowy Plover. (Photo by Lisa Cox/USFWS)

Javan Rhinos camera trapped (h/t Chris Hartzell).

City bird versus country bird accents (h/t Bay Laurel).

What American in their right mind would not want David Attenborough narrating their nature specials?

How Belgium came to dominate the world of beer brewing (via Ezra Klein).

I am not a huge fan of the end of the year lists, but Randomtruth's favorite flora of 2011 is an exception.

Cal scientists design a robot after lizards.

The CA wolf is caught by a camera trap outside of Butte Falls, OR before it crosses the border.

Cal Academy is having a photo contest.

Monterey Bay marine biologist indited for feeding whales while running her whale watching business.

Australian researchers discover the first known wild hybrid shark.

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Shinisaurus crocodilurus Photo by JK.

No excuse for Shark-fin soup.  A faux-fin soup fools all the experts.

Discerning chromosome number through frog calls. This is really cool.

Killing cholera with bio-films.  A UCSC research project, but maybe more importantly, the story features a certain Mr. Walter Bray M.S. who went to High School with your blog authors.

Adorable pics of baby crocodile lizards, Shinisaurus crocodilurus. One of my all-time favorite reptiles and I am excited to see the Woodland Park Zoo breed them.  If memory serves me correctly I used to care for a male that ended up there.  Maybe the dad?

Scientists hack an Xbox Kinect to study glaciers.

Minke Whale washes ashore in Marin County.


That lone wolf made it into California!


We will be back next week with some actual (non-link dump) blogging.

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image by elizabeth heffernan

US Federal guidelines for when you find a Yeti in Nepal.

World's First captive bred Ozark Hellbenders.

Awesome Toucan plates from 1806.

I missed the Lame Coon Pun meme, but somehow searchers for "Raccoon Pun" are getting to CTC.

Great documentary on the silky sifaka lemur, a species in peril.

Wolves in CA? !

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Ban the sale of bullfrogs in California. A pretty good idea IMO.

Want camera trap images sent to your smart phone. There's an app for that.

Jaguar in Arizona treed by Mt. Lion hunter. UofA deploys 240 camera traps!


Ca Condors in the Grand Canyon lead authorities to a body.

A week old but the greatest video from space ever.

Humbolt Squid are shrinking.  I was going to make a joke about the water getting colder, but turns out it is because the water is getting warmer.

Killer Whale washes up on the shores of Pt. Reyes.

Fishers back in their old habitat in Northern Sierras. I expect some pictures Codger.

Sorry this post has been sitting around in the draft pile for some time.

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Photo credit: Pete Leary/USFWS Used under a CC license.

Excess nutrients threaten Elkhorn Slough ecosystem, the senior author is a friend of CTC.

Once in 100 or so Blue Moons.  First short-tailed albatross on the Farallon Islands in 124 years! I love the lab notebook sketch that was scanned and put into the blog post. Also, check out Pete at Midway, who took the above photo, for news on short-tailed albatross and more at Midway Atoll.

Mange in bobcats and coyotes may be coming from the ingestion of poisoned rodents. Not sure if this is what might be happening with Don Coyote or not.  The bordering agriculture lands may be poisoning, but obviously not in the reserve. h/t Bay Laurel.

CRYPTID ALERT.

Loads of bad Rhino news.

Video of blowing up the Condit Dam in Washington to restore Salmon habitat.

10 Massive Paleontology F ups.

What to do with your dead hummingbird?  Scale bar of course.

Pot growers threatening Steelhead Trout.

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 Red-breasted Sapsucker, Terra Linda

Impact of mice on the Farallones may result in the use of brodifacoum.

Prehistoric KRAKEN?

Javan Rhino now extinct in Vietnam.

White-nose syndrome currently ravaging bat populations confirmed as caused by fungus.

Fascinating read on an adventure to find the thought-to-be extinct Imperial Woodpecker.

A Great White spotted a few miles from JK's house.

Monterey Bay Aquarium releases their White Shark.

Pika Pika Pika.

Turtle Roadway Mortality Study in the Northeast US.

Bigfoot walking on the sun! (please click through on this one)

Drawings of Australian Lepidoptera from the 19th century.

I am so jealous of these Santa Cruz Kayakers.  (Again must click through for this one)

UPDATE:  One more shark link as a surfer was attacked off Monterey County this morning.

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Batrachoseps gavilanensis - Gabilan Mountains Slender Salamander

Nobel Prize Week was a little "meh" this year.  I am not super excited about the Physiology and Medicine or the Chemistry prizes.  Deserving for sure, but the winning topics are just not of much interest to me.  I am NOT a crystallographer. I can barely stay awake during their talks. Despite trying, I have very little appreciation for poetry, so it is tough to get excited about the Literature Prize.

However, my alma mater gets a share of the physics prize and the oldest joke in Berkeley continues. "Q: What is better than winning a Nobel Prize? A: The free lifetime parking pass." It does remind me of one of my first days at college when I saw two cars double parked in the NL spot east of Memorial Glade. It made me realize the bar was pretty damn high and scared the hell out of me.

Salmon vandals strike.  I was a part of the United Anglers program way back in the late '90s where CTC went to High School. At least the fish were unharmed, but it must have been emotionally devastating.  Releasing fish you had spent a year raising from egg was one of the most rewarding experiences I have had.

A study of 300 Sea otters tells us ...? Well, they are still trying to figure it out.

Rains are here already and it is predicted to be a cold wet winter.  Time to start thinking about getting out the rain gear and doing some salamander hunting. I need to get my flashes fixed.

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A couple of rattlers, Crotalus oreganus, from the Peninsula.

Stem cell technology might be necessary to save the White Rhino with only two females left. Black Rhinos would make very suitable surrogates.

Wired.com is all over camera trapping the last 6 months. This time a study out of Indonesia using videos.  This compilation came from just one month of trapping, but 10 cameras. The water monitor, Varanus salvator, was unexpected. Are more studies using camera traps or are these studies just getting more press? When is Wired doing a story on the Codger?

Black Bear scat reported in Marin -- Camera Trapping Campus in on the case

Is that 12 hummingbirds in your pants or are you just happy to see me?

Tool using FISH!

Next week is one of my favorite weeks of the year. Yes Nobel Prize week.  I have four old instructors on this betting list for chemistry, best odds being Scheckman at 19:1 Not seeing odds on Physiology & Medicine yet. If you are super nerd check this Nobel Prize watch 2011 blog.

And just as good as the Nobels, the Ig Nobels, where friend of the Codger Dave Rentz won this year. Dr Rentz's blog BunyipCo is over in the blogroll. CTC was into him before he was famous.

L'shana tova, my friends.

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Deadman's Lake. Tahoe National Forest. Taken during the 2009 Camera Trap Workshop

Giant Armadillo caught on camera trap in Brazil!

100 year old glass slides depict early bone hunters.

An amphibian killing beetle larva.  Original paper in PLOS One (yeah open access!)

Deep-sea squid is Forever Alone (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

Marin County pest management, Owl style.

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Big buck from the UCSC campus.  They don't get much bigger out here on the coast.

Coyotes taking up residence in an abandoned SoCal home to be trapped and euthanized. Thoughts?

 

A bunch of new frogs in India.

Carmel-by-the-Sea is not the only town with raccoon problems.  Our state capitol has raccoon gang problems.

Chuck Testa! One of the most amazing commercials of all time.

Dinosaur feathers found in amber.  The images are awesome.

And a Giant extinct Crocodile found in Colombia.  In the same deposit as the Giant snake and thick shelled turtles from a few years back.

The Nile Crocodile is actually two distinct species.

  

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Photo of 2nd White Shark at MBA by friend and Flickr user baltus15

African Golden Cat video from a camera trap with multiple videos.  You can see another camera in the background so they got both sides of the cat.  Wonder if the other one was set to video or still?

The Green Anole, Anolis carolinensis, genome is published in Nature.

Humpback Whale is hanging out in Monterey Bay and is visible from the Boardwalk on many days. Hopefully it doesn't do this.

Wishing the Chancellor a speedy recovery.

Mt. Lion roadkill on the 405 in Los Angeles.  Bummer.

The story of the WWF logo.

Monterey Bay Aquarium has a White Shark on display again. GO SEE IT!

UC Berkeley Scientists discover a supernova within hours of its explosion (well within hours of the first light from the explosion to make its long journey to Earth). You can even see it with a pair of binoculars. GO SEE IT!

I originally had a photo of a monster (for us coastal folks) buck for this link dump, but the shark wins with authority.  Those of you who drool over big bucks will have to wait another week.

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Lost Coast. Photo by Christian

A new species of bird discovered as a museum specimen by Peter Pyle of Devil's Teeth fame.

Will the Tea Party fight the protection of the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake that adorns their adopted flag?

A sea lion found on the Santa Cruz Pier with gunshot wounds is recovering at the Marine Mammal Center in Marin. UPDATE: Bad news. The sea lion was euthanized.

As the Codger promised we will have a couple of posts from the High Sierras coming in soon.

Needed steroids to beat the ol' Oak and I am finally starting to win.  No more coastal camera trapping in shorts.  Yes, yes I knew better, but it was such a glorious day and we may have not been in our right mind after a day of beer brewing the day before.

Speaking of beer, check out my friend Kate's beer blog, Brew in Review.  She drinks beer, visits breweries, and brews her own beer.  She is also a herper.  Sorry guys but John already put a ring on it.

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CA Poppies

Bad news for the Mountain Yellow-legged Frog.

IR camera trap images from the tropics.

Viviparous dinosaurs (Plesiosaurs)

Good news for the Lake Erie Water Snake.

Bird Evolution may have begun with the legs rather than the wings.  Also of interest, this seems to suggest that reptiles may have been warm-blooded and lost this feature as a common ancestor of reptiles and birds had and lost a protein used in endothermic metabolism.

Who lost their capybara?  I have always dreamed of owning one to live in a little pond in my backyard. Paris Hilton better not get one before me.

Clapper Rails nesting in SF.

Living with coyotes workshop in SF.

Also, poison oak sucks.

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Good news for the SC long-toed Salamander.

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Lilly pads in Utica Reservoir, California

It was a very busy week so this is the only post of the week. Sorry, but enjoy.

Dam removal in Washington state should help the salmoniods.

Australian Landscapes from the 1860s.

A plant that calls to bats. But is a Communist plant so Americans, you are out of luck if you want to see it.

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How about a photo of the Big Sur Coast to get us started?  A great place for California Condor spotting.  The condors have the right idea here.

Apex predators on the decline and what that means: a Science paper from our very own UC Santa Cruz.

Not the Lake Merritt Monster, but a possible monster out of Alaska. (no not her).

A fossilized pregnant lizard.

You know how I love my roadkill studies.  This one from the other side of the pond.

Extra "thumbs" on moles explained via genetics.

100 Anniversary of the -rediscovery of Machu Picchu.

Hope everyone had fun at the Codger's Camera Trapping Workshop this week. Sorry I missed you all.

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This week's photo by Christian. Estero Americano

I was actually able to live up to my promise.

A beating tarantula heart viewed under MRI.

Nature program on the Monterey Bay Aquarium.  Seeing the Great Whites in person was certainly an awe inspiring time. It is a creature that takes your breath away even at 5 feet long.

Ghost Mushrooms.  Too late for this year's class, but next year take it from the master.  Offered at the same field campus that the Codger teaches the camera trap class at (starts Sunday- Wish I was there). I hope to take the fungi class next year.

A toad once lost is found again after 87 years on the lam.  Ansonia latidisca is a pretty one.

Is the Afghanistan snow leopard population healthy despite the war?  Some camera trap images suggests it is.

A good science based comic from XKCD for the cell phones cause cancer peeps out there.

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Carrizo Plains National Monument Spring 2010

Hippo-sized Wombats!

The first draft of the Naked Mole Rat Genome.

Will Global Climate Change lead to a wetter, colder Bay Area?


Arizona camera trap images of an ocelot.

I have compiled the link dump over the week adding links as the days go on. I will see if I can manage to post one going into each weekend three weeks in a row.  So some of these stories may be a couple of days old and you may have already seen them.

Plus a pretty picture at top to make these link dump posts look a little more interesting.  This was a picture I took in 2010 during a really epic wildflower bloom.  Bad luck gave me an overcast day the day I was down there, but it was still a sight to see.

On another note you are going to have to wait a bit longer for more Mojave pics.  I shot everything in Raw but my computer is having a heck of a time running lightroom right now.  Hopefully I will get this rectified soon.

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A very rare sighting in Washington State:  Cell phone pics of a Grizz.

Only $36! for a personal one year subscription to Nature.

TED talk on making a dinosaur out of a chicken.