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Fight AI and Protect Endangered Cozumel Raccoons!
Remaking this post with better info on how you can help the critically endangered Cozumel raccoon from your own home by BULLYING AI INTO SUBMISSION.
The issue: There is a critically endangered species of raccoon known as the Cozumel/pygmy raccoon. Among a shitload of other threats, the Cozumel raccoon also has to deal with the fact nobody knows it exists. This issue has gotten worse with Google's new "AI Search Overviews." Unfortunately, when people search things like "Mexican raccoons" or "What species of raccoons are in Mexico," all the results show coatis. Which are not raccoons (they are more closely related to Olingos.) Mexico actually has two species of raccoon, the common raccoon (Procyon lotor) and the Cozumel raccoon (Procyon pygmaeus.) If people can't even find the Cozumel raccoon on google without using the actual species name, how tf are folks supposed to know they are endangered and need help?
Anyway, here is a way you can fight back against Google's bullshit AI and search algorithms that are limiting pygmy raccoon conservation efforts:
Method 1: Report Incorrect Google AI Overview Results
1. Google phrases like “Mexican raccoons,” “what species of raccoon are in Mexico," "types of raccoons in Mexico," “what kind of raccoons live in Mexico," etc.
2. If coatis appear instead of actual raccoons in the Google AI Overview, scroll to the bottom and click the thumbs down.
3. Click “Report a problem”
4. Click “Not Factually Correct” or "Unhelpful."
5. Type something along the lines of: “Mexican raccoons are not coatis. The two raccoon species in Mexico are the common raccoon, Procyon lotor and the critically endangered pygmy raccoon/Cozumel raccoon (Procyon pygmaeus)” or "Bro, I searched for raccoons, this is a coati. Show me the raccoons."
6. Click “Include a screen capture” and submit.
Method 2: Report Individual Search Results
Find any search result that refer to coatis as Mexican raccoons
2. Click the three dots next to the listing.
3. Scroll right and click “Feedback.”
4. Select “Inaccurate content” or "Irrelevant content." Again, whatever floats your boat.
5. Explain the error by typing something like I mentioned above.
6. Click “Include screenshot.”
7. Submit your report.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!!!!
For more information about the pygmy raccoon and the threats they face, feel free to visit my site here! I still have a lot of work to do there, but that is where I will be posting updates about my research as well.
Also, if you are interested in learning more about how AI is impacting wildlife conservation issues, I actually have two youtube videos about the topic! How AI is Hurting Critically Endangered Mexican Raccoons (And How You Can Help)
You've Been Lied to About Canadian Marble Foxes
The shape of a fish's caudal tail can tell you a lot about how fast the fish moves! A rounded tail is the slowest and a lunate tail is the fastest! The lunate tail has the most optimal ratio of high thrust and low draw, making it the fastest.
Ichthyology Notes 2/?
if i was an animal and i knew i was being observed and researched i would do something super fucked up. but only once. never again. ruin their lives. keep them guessing.
Conquer the world!
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go my isopods!!
It's amazing how much of our knowledge of "animal behaviour" is based on very old studies that just went "we half-starved these animals and put them in a tiny box together and just assumed that whatever they did reflects their natural behaviours and social structures"
Wild animals are wild animals. Leave them alone.
Snowy's Fight the Uwu-ification of Wildlife Masterpost
Wikipedia Articles & News Articles:
Timothy Treadwell
Night of the Grizzlies
Travis the Chimpanzee
Roar (film) - Injuries section
Marius Els
Videos
Sea lion pulling child into water
Bison tossing girl in air [Look in suggested videos for a LOT more "Bison helps tourist FAFO" videos, more than I can list here]
Man gored by elk [Photos of incident, non-graphic]
Deer fighting a man (my best guess deer was sick, as doesn't appear to be a male in rut)
Rabid fox attacks woman
Hawks dive-bombing to protect nest (Shows picture of man with bloody head)
Groundhog bites mayor after being held up to his face
Toddyboya's video "Please Stop Touching Wild Animals"
Not Attacks, But Leave Them Alone
Bison calf dies after tourists load it into car
Tourists remove bear cubs from tree, resulting in their separation from mother
Other
Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park by Lee H. Whittlesey (Book)
Please reblog, and feel free to share any other videos or incidents you know of.
Dolphins doing cartwheels with an aquarium guest.
(via Ant.Giovanni)
Cocodrile mun-dee
Spy crab too... (I go to the zoo I couldn't let this opportunity go-)
i just learned from animal crossing that pondskaters stay on top of the water by secreting an oil from their feet
that seems kinda obvious in hindsight. i always figured they were just, like, light enough to not break surface tension
Iphiclides podalirius
back view
𝔓𝔬𝔭𝔲𝔩𝔞̈𝔯𝔢 𝔑𝔞𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔤𝔢𝔰𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔱𝔢 𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔡𝔯𝔢𝔦 ℜ𝔢𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔢
𝔙𝔬𝔩. 1 ℨ𝔬𝔬𝔩𝔬𝔤𝔦𝔢
Malayan Tapirs 5-6-23
Hell is a place where you have to draw a tapir’s head at ¾ view.
I didn’t end up drawing any baby tapirs, but it's important for you all to know they have markings like a watermelon.
The unken reflex is a posture that toxic amphibians will take to show off their bright colors. It’s their way of saying “stay back! I’m dangerous!”
In California, the California Newt (Taricha torosa) will do the unken reflex to show off their bright orange bellies. These newts produce tetrodotoxin.
Spotted skunks do handstands when trapped or startled! Here’s a skunk I drew 🦨
Porcelain crabs aren’t actually crabs! They’re another one of those freaks who has achieved the ideal body shape and gone through carcinization (becoming crab-like)!! All hail the crab!
Caught some strange guys over the weekend! This is a deer mouse. PSA!!! Be very careful handling some little guys because there may be possibilities of them carrying hantavirus!
Moss’s guide to catching a little guy (safely and without traps):
1. Spot a guy, probably running around in a little field or perhaps in an underbrush.
2. Slowly and quietly get as close to the guy as possible.
3. Lunge for the guy like a volleyball player going for an out of bounds ball.
4. Lightly and gently (very important!) flatten the guy with the palm of your hand against the ground.
5. Grab the scruff, or the loose skin on their back of their neck, gently and firmly with two or three fingers.
6. Take a picture with the guy, then place him back on the ground.
To all wondering, scruffing is the safest way to hold a rodent for both you and them! It’s the technique often used by researchers!
My all-time favorite snail move is when a baby ends up on an adult’s shell. They’re literally piggybacking.
what is your all time favorite predator? and prey animal?
Idk if I have any absolute favorites, but I have some I think are funny. For predators, I think archer fish are pretty funny because, like, wdym a fish learned how to nerf its prey? For prey, I have an unwavering obsession with beavers.
Also, I’m scared of seagulls because I had to fist fight one for my food once and I lost.
I love shrews because they’re such strange little guys. They have the largest brain-to-body ratio of any vertebrate and some species can even be toxic. Anyway, give it up for these weird little guys!
Also, shoutout to anyone else that loves rodents and other strange little guys. Let’s be friends.
Garlic snails are snails that smell like garlic, if you even care.
Love that one of the America's most important keystone species is a fucked up rat with anxiety
(Beavers are the world's second largest rodent and I could probably talk abt then all day)