Favorite thing about television is how every time you have sex with someone for the first time you black out immediately afterwards and wake up the next morning in a blind panic. What a terrifying way to live
The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) is a close relative of the much more famous pileated woodpecker. It occurs in mature forests across the palearctic. It’s a non migratory bird with an expanding range and the sole representative of its genus where it occurs.
Its populations used to decline, and in some few areas they still struggle today, but overall the species is doing fairly well. The restauration of forests in Europe is helping them, and many other animals, to come back and increase in population size.
Much like other woodpeckers, the black woodpecker has an adapted neck with strong muscles, which allow for endless hacking on tree bark. Due to the size of its large bill it can access prey fairly deep within a tree. The prey it hunts for is relatively consistent and predictable in this species. Usually it’s carpenter ants or wood-boring beetle grubs.
She’s due literally any moment. If she whelps less than 12 i will be shocked. She’s also the best lab on the planet.
Every single staff person at the shelter and the foster parent as of 12/3/20: HOW ARE YOU STILL PREGNANT???
She’s finally starting to nest a bit, and appetite is decreasing. I promise, I *promise*, as soon as I learn of puppies happening I will update this!
HOW has she not exploded from those puppies?????
Puppies are happening right now! No pictures yet but she just had a little girl puppy as her first.
Peecture from the foster parent!
Most recent picture :
… Catahoula baby?
(12/8/20 am)
Final color count: 5 merle, one black & tan, one solid gray, one buff/cream, one red-brown and white, and one pup that isn’t showing up in the video for a total of 10.
