(I just learned about Transient and Resident populations of Orcas. Turns out whales? Sorta racist. Who knew?!? I'll come up with any excuse to talk about it. Transient and Resident Orca populations like carrots! Is billytea still here?)
I am, and have recently been reading about them too. (Apparently, in the northern Pacific at least, resident orcas like eating fish, while the transients go for mammals - sea lions, stray ungulates, whales. And sea lions can tell the difference between the two groups, and don't take evasive action from the residents.)
I see an opportunity for an enterprising young resident orca.
I am, and have recently been reading about them too. (Apparently, in the northern Pacific at least, resident orcas like eating fish, while the transients go for mammals - sea lions, stray ungulates, whales. And sea lions can tell the difference between the two groups, and don't take evasive action from the residents.)
Apparently resident orcas from opposite sides of the globe will get along fine in captivity as will transient orcas from opposite sides of the globe... but mix one of each? They'll know and they'll attack each other. That's hardcore.
Which to me is made extra weird by the fact that the two populations eat different things so they're not fighting over hunting rights. And its not territory, because only one group sticks around -- the other is passin' through, eating mammals nobody was eatin' anyway. They're just frikkin racist.
Alright, now I can't find the article about them fighting in captivity and I'm here at work 27 minutes after I could have left looking for it. It's a sickness.
My new boss, who's no longer that new, came by and saw a full sheet doodle. He shook his head as he complimented it, and asked about my materials. Turns out we were both Rotring fans back in the day.
I must do no more full sheet doodles, maybe.
Hey, you were throwing around the Sekrit Presbyterian Handshake and I wasn't invited! Fie! Fie!
Argh, I have something I could be working on except someone else has th efile open so it's Read-Only for me. Oh well, I leave in 5 minutes anyway.
I don't think I have anything to say about this alleged new pope. I only know about him from you guys, could be a conspiracy. Since I read that book about the Basque people, both Francis Xavier and Jesuits make me think "Basques!" I can't tell from the grumpy cat picture if Pope Francis has the long earlobes characteristic of the Basque.
The first pope wouldn't have been European, right? Probably a few after him, also, maybe?
Thanks to y'all's advice (and a nice conversation with my dad last night) I went and gave verbal notice in person at my training today, so they know I'm leaving. I'll finish out the shifts I have scheduled (it's approximately two weeks from now, so that all works out) and write them a nice resignation letter, so hopefully if things change for me and a part-time job becomes desirable again they would take me back.
Popes with birthplaces: [link]
The first pope wouldn't have been European, right? Probably a few after him, also, maybe?
According to Wikipedia, the last Pope before Francis I to have come from outside Europe was St Gregory III from Syria, elected in 731.
