Tag: toes

Toes

On By CarynIn photography, Wildlife

I have to share another pic from the zoo, because it is both fascinating and disturbing. This is a tree frog on glass, and the bizarre looking polyps are its toes all tucked up underneath. All those toes! But they look vaguely like slime mold, but toes!

Photo description: tree frog on glass with yellow translucent toes tucked under its body but very visible through the glass

Orthographic satiation is when you look at a word too long and it stops making sense. I currently have that with the word “toes”. I mainly get the written word variety of satiation, probably because I reread what I write many times over, and spelling isn’t my friend. The same effect but auditory is called semantic satiation.

There will be a new rabbit hole tomorrow.

Rebanded

On By CarynIn chickens

The chicks are really growing! Today we inspected everyone’s colored bands and replaced those that were getting small.

Tigger’s new orange band

All but three bands needed changing out. The chicks escaped the barrier we put in the brooder, so we laid out the cut ends of the zip ties to see who else needed checking.

Cuticle trimmers work well to clip small zip ties

While we were doing band switching and health checks, we noticed that Seashell has a little something extra; namely two toenails on one toe (both feet). From a quick Google search, and browsing some chicken forums (oh my, I’m browsing chicken forums), it seems that the gene that causes extra toes sometimes throws extra nails too. We learn something new everyday!

I nearly forgot to take a video today, so the poor babies were upset about my bright video light. Luckily they settled down quickly after the lights went off.