World's first octopus farm proposals alarm scientists
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A plan to build the world's first octopus farm has raised deep concerns among scientists over the welfare of the famously intelligent creatures.
The farm in Spain's Canary Islands would raise about a million octopuses annually for food, according to confidential documents seen by the BBC.
They have never been intensively farmed and some scientists call the proposed icy water slaughtering method "cruel."
The Spanish multinational behind the plans denies the octopuses will suffer.
The confidential planning proposal documents from the company, Nueva Pescanova, were given to the BBC by the campaign organisation Eurogroup for Animals.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64814781
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Had the pleasure of visiting Key West recently just beautiful unfortunately I don't think any of us could afford to live in the old town I saw a very modest house up for sale for $2.5m...
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Interesting since I have not seen Key West have such beautiful water like this. Still prefer the West Coast since you can actually surf and you need to know how to swim there. It is nice for variety because even when the seaweed does not hit the South East Coast the water still looks like trash.
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Taking monkeying to the next level.
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That time I lived La Dolce Vita
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Nice pics, but these might be better in Cities, landscapes and interesting places.
"Life on Earth" = animals, plants, i.e. organisms.
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Saiga antelope
The saiga antelope (/ˈsaɪɡə/, Saiga tatarica), or saiga, is a critically endangered antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in the southwest into Mongolia in the northeast and Dzungaria in the southeast. During the Pleistocene, they also occurred in Beringian North America and the British Isles. Today, the dominant subspecies (S. t. tatarica) is only found in one region in Russia (in the Republic of Kalmykia and Astrakhan Oblast) and three areas in Kazakhstan (the Ural, Ustiurt, and Betpak-Dala populations). A portion of the Ustiurt population migrates south to Uzbekistan and occasionally Turkmenistan in winter. It is extirpated from China, Ukraine, and southwestern Mongolia. The Mongolian subspecies (S. t. mongolica) is found only in western Mongolia.
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The saiga antelope (/ˈsaɪɡə/, Saiga tatarica), or saiga, is a critically endangered antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in the southwest into Mongolia in the northeast and Dzungaria in the southeast. During the Pleistocene, they also occurred in Beringian North America and the British Isles. Today, the dominant subspecies (S. t. tatarica) is only found in one region in Russia (in the Republic of Kalmykia and Astrakhan Oblast) and three areas in Kazakhstan (the Ural, Ustiurt, and Betpak-Dala populations). A portion of the Ustiurt population migrates south to Uzbekistan and occasionally Turkmenistan in winter. It is extirpated from China, Ukraine, and southwestern Mongolia. The Mongolian subspecies (S. t. mongolica) is found only in western Mongolia.
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Albino Spider
I had one of these crawling on my laptop bag, a few days ago in my bedroom and after i caught it I let it out of my window. Then today, possibly the same one was outside on the kitchen window.
I had one of these crawling on my laptop bag, a few days ago in my bedroom and after i caught it I let it out of my window. Then today, possibly the same one was outside on the kitchen window.
“In the quantum multiverse, every choice, every decision you've ever and never made exists in an unimaginably vast ensemble of parallel universes.”