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Such an important project for science, our environment and art! I wish all school children can view Stefan’s photographs and be inspired to explore and preserve our treasured forests.

Great discussion and video. As an almost daily walker on forest trails and as a painter, I connect with what Stefan says on what inspires him to photograph a forest scene - the forest’s wonderful 7complexity and chaos

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Very cool to see an Osprey nest on the top of a piling in the bay from the Richmond Bridge today!

Thank you for this glimpse of seal's lives on the Farallons, and your ongoing research!

Excellent talk, much appreciated from a Marin photographer and bird lover.

I love iNaturalist! I’m always snapping pictures of bugs, birds and other critters in our front and backyards and finding out about them. So addicting! I also love the Merlin bird song app which I discovered recently. So much fun!

Intriguing. I wish I had heard this live! (to ask questions) Regarding the first experiment, which seemed to show no correlation between calls of high- vs low-burden of fungal disease males on female choice, I really wonder if the laboratory setting would skew the results. Based on what I've learned about differences in behavior between dogs in shelter environments and dogs in home (natural setting) environments, I wonder if female frogs placed in an artificial laboratory setting very unlike their natural one might be stressed enough to not be responding to what the researchers were trying to find out. I mean, maybe in that setting the frog might not be responding to any sexual signal at all, but rather simply to the signal of "Frog over here in this direction!" as a signal of a safer place to go. In that context of a strange new and alien setting, mate selection might be well on a back burner, and simple survival or finding one's way "back home" might be the dominant goal, even during breeding season. If so, it would be 50/50 whether the female frog headed toward the 'sexier' call or not, if her only or primary motivation is to head to wherever she heard ANY frog (as a marker of a more frog-friendly place, at least, whether or not Pacific Chorus frogs tend to be social). To me it might well be worth repeating the experiment, but A: using a more natural-seeming environment, and B: acclimating the frogs to that environment for a longer period before (several days at least) before playing the recorded calls and documenting female choice.

I live in Mendocino county and the hill behind my house is full of these! Glad to learn more.

squirrels can eat Amanitas.

thank you, nancy, heron lady 😊

Males don't survive much more than 3-5 year's

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If you see tarantula walking uphill its going to rain.

Of course none of this has nothing to do with tooooooo many people?

Just picturing a tarantula playing the xylophone

They're absolutely ruthless hunters. Thank god they're just little guys.

Hes lookin for love

Beautifully informative - thank you!

Great discussion of an issue where there are no easy answers but there is determination by both crab fisheries and scientists to collaborate as co-conservationists. Thank you, Victoria/Bay Nature,, John C, Dick, and Anne!

Thank you for posting this excellent talk!

Such a shame

I'm really trying to work on my fear of spiders, so I've been watching videos like these. Thanks for uploading it.

I live in a city, and we see foxes regularly foraging right outside our back yard. It's the most amazing thing, and we're always excited to stand quietly and watch them. They're usually seen between midnight and 4:00 a.m.

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thanks for doing this.

Thank you for facilitating this timely and important conversation.

I can't wait to see the film!!

So glad there is video of this! I couldn't make it!

I will DEFINITELY be watching this doc! I watched Janet's fascinating presentation a few months back, ruclips.net/video/mr8XmM1bi70/видео.html and really enjoyed it. I studied a breeding pair of Coyotes in Ontario Canada for 3 years, in an area where they're generally shot on sight, sadly. Incredible animals, and the object of so very much ignorance fueled hatred. My thanks to the filmmaker Nick, and all involved.

Talks so much about how great their native species is but NEVER mentioned the name of it!!!!

i took a hike in china camp park about 2008 or so, went off trail almost walked into a giant web, was from one tree to the ground to another tree, probably 12-15 feet tall about the same wide. white with red tiger stripes, i think horizontal stripes, about the size of my fist. maybe a tiny bit of hair. any idea what species?

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They're so cute. I was doing my lil' 3-mile jog and came across one. Initially, I got scared, but then I tried to touch one. I poured a lil' bit of water on one and she loved it. I ended up rubbing her head and then she ran away.

Theres like a 100 in my backyard

HI Katie, do you know exactly which species of Aphonopelma (I'm presuming here) it is please?

...said Lora Young, spokesperson for the Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District (regarding ticks) : “Overall the risk is not huge, but it is not zero either.” Some of the credit goes to the blue belly lizard species, which contains a blood protein that kills the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, she said. “When the tick feeds on the lizard, they have a chemical in their blood which makes the bacteria no longer viable,” Young said. So the tick no longer has the ability to spread the disease, she said.

Mount Diablo is another place to see male tarantulas out and about in their natural habitat looking for a female during mating season

I think they are amazingly beautiful creatures. They are so interesting and fascinating to observe. We have 7 tarantulas. They stop being scary as you get to know the behaviors and how they live.

They definitely have them in the Amador and San Joaquin County area. You can see them coming out in October, probably mating season for them.

I've got one of these lovely ladies living with me and she is the sweetest girl I've ever met!!

Mom were moving pack your bags were moving out of LA ima live in a fucking pool float in the middle of the ocean. 👋

Great video. I think Mima rhymes with dime-ah, though, right?

My ex told me he had an encounter with one of these in concord, ca! He said he found one in his bathroom and killed it :( I didn’t believe it was a tarantula at first I just thought it was a regular spider and that he was exaggerating the size. But turns out I googled and they are native to the Bay Area and foothills of California, especially since he lived quite close to Mount Diablo.

Such a wonderful place, great educational programs, solid people!

Thanks for this! It deserves more thumbs up.