Plenty of beavers here by the river Meuse in Belgium (Namur-Dinant), they found their own way recently. They are fun, emerge mainly at night when few people are looking. But they do fell big trees on the riverbank - I read that lets them eat the bark in the winter.
I clicked on it expecting just a simple “they’re genetic clones and they’re susceptible this same disease”, but this is quite a bit more depth about things. Thanks for sharing!
Not just may, does. It’s less species to hop to, but smaller genetic pools mean that within a species it’s more likely to spread with less immune response, or has less to mutate against.
Leucistic animals happen naturally all the time. The reason there are so few is because they get eaten pretty quickly.
Although the mutation can be intentionally bred for, it likely isn’t what happened here. It’s a gator farm, and if you mass produce any animal you’re going to eventually see interesting color variations pop up.
I dunno about you, but I want more pinkish-white gators. Perfect valentine’s day gift for your Floridian girl/boyfriend. Because they’re pink and they’re white, they make great wedding gifts too!
… Cooper said, adding that “no cetaceans have mobile thumbs.”
Didn’t imagine them with thumbs in the first place. So, their fins are hands, with fingers, but the tissue connecting them remains, forming the fin. In humans the connecting tissue dies off.
Patrick Duffy had fin hands in that 70’s Aquaman? series. Saw that as a kid and absolutely wanted that.
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