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Beth Pratt

@bethpratt.bsky.social

Wildlife lover, advocate & author. Conservation leader for NWF. Loves wandering in Yosemite. Vegetarian. P22🩷.

497 Followers  |  149 Following  |  17 Posts  |  Joined: 13.11.2024
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Ping, You've Got Whale - bioGraphic A new artificial intelligence-powered detection system is giving ship captains real-time alerts when a whale is in their path.

Ping, You’ve Got Whale

A new artificial intelligence-powered detection system is giving ship captains real-time alerts when a whale is in their path.

by @ashleybraun.bsky.social

www.biographic.com/ping-youve-g...

12.03.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 7
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Hive Mind Chittka: For me, understanding the minds of bees and other animals inspires a new respect for nature. Many conservation effortsβ€”and there are a lot of people trying to rescue what’s left of the natura...

A delightful read- interview in The Sun Magazine with author of The Mind of a Bee, @larschittka.bsky.social

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09.03.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals . .They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth." Henry Beston

For World Wildlife Day

03.03.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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"Why do we want to risk our special places that most Americans agree we want to preserve and protect? Add why are we running our parks with a profit... | By Beth | Facebook "Why do we want to risk our special places that most Americans agree we want to preserve and protect? Add why are we running our parks with a profit...

Keeping it real, @bethpratt.bsky.social ! You're the best!
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25.02.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Living alongside mountain lions in LA with Beth Pratt Podcast Episode Β· Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith Β· 26/02/2025 Β· 36m

Living alongside mountain lions in LA with @bethpratt.bsky.social

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26.02.2025 09:21 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Yosemite Conservancy webcams views are glorious right now with this storm.

02.03.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Your Daily Pika: An ode to pika poop! These little peppercorn poops are as adorable as the pika. Pika also eat their feces and the second poop is denser and lasts a long time-years, even decades. Scientists even do carbon dating on it to learn about historic pika trends. The more you know!

01.02.2025 04:24 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy Lunar New Year! Here’s a beautiful California mountain king snake to celebrate Year of the Snake.

31.01.2025 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Elusive Californian mammal captured on camera for first time ever | CNN Momentarily pausing after eating some mealworms, an elusive shrew’s long snout pointed skywards, unaware of the historic portrait that had just been captured.

Yosemite’s rare Mount Lyell Shrew made @cnn.com Awesome work Vishal Subramanyan and team!

www.cnn.com/2025/01/28/s...

29.01.2025 05:07 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Your Daily Pika: A youngster saying hello at Gaylor Lakes in Yosemite in 2022.

28.01.2025 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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We might get some snow and rain this weekend, and we need it. The @yoseconservancy.bsky.social β€˜s webcam photo of the Yosemite high country on today’s date this year as compared to last year.

23.01.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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That’s no moon. It’s Venus! I can’t believe how bright she is shining tonight.

Second photo you can see both Mars and Jupiter.

Get outside, the stargazing is amazing tonight!

23.01.2025 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"The sight of cruelty,
The energy behind it,
Has always scared me."

Viggo Mortensen, "Recent Forgeries"

23.01.2025 04:53 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I just love the Douglas squirrels or chickarees as they are nicknamed-their loud chatter and playful antics are always fun to encounter in the Yosemite high country.

#SquirrelAppreciationDay

A chickaree I encountered at Gaylor Lakes in Yosemite.

21.01.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 73    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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To celebrate #squirrelappreciationday, going to share our Sierra squirrels.

First up: Meet "A Dapper Chunk of Spunkiness” or the Belding ground squirrel.

Photo of a Belding ground squirrel I met near Mt Dana.

21.01.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Your Daily Pika: Meet Sophie. She's a cute little pika that lived in Yosemite for three years. This was my first encounter with Sophie as a youngster in the summer of 2018.

20.01.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œβ€¦So few grains of happiness
measured against all the dark
and still the scales balance.

The world asks of us
only the strength we have and we give it.
Then it asks more, and we give it.”

Jane Hirshfield

I will keep walking forward. I will continue to give.

20.01.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Love Yosemite from above! My friend Jennifer Fearing flew over the Sierra yesterday and and shared some photos with me. I added some labels to help with orientation. So cool! Would like to see more snow.

20.01.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Badge of honor! Leader on @inaturalist.bsky.social for western gray squirrel observations. My backyard squirrels do like their picture taken :D

06.01.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Your Daily Pika: "...how can you not fall in love with this round little critter who trumpets a boisterous call… dashes and bounds over the rocks..after flashing you their itsy-bitsy furry pajama-bottom feet ..?"

From my book Yosemite Wildlife, w/ @yoseconservancy.bsky.social , coming this fall!

06.01.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0