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Catherine

@mistymaple.bsky.social
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Love animals/nature Avid reader/love to walk I care about the planet Happily retired/vegan Enjoy growing plants and creating art No dms/no politics

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george-1788pow @george-1788pow.bsky.social · 18h
Cotopaxi (1862) by Frederic Edwin Church
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 56m
A chilly 38 degrees fahrenheit this morning here in northern Minnesota!
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 1h
Have a wonderful day!
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 4h
Native to Africa, Elephant Shrews or sengis, are surprisingly more closely related to elephants than to true shrews or rodents. While they are in the same major evolutionary branch as elephants, they are still quite distant relatives genetically. IG: @ hertfordshirezoo
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another photo of the Friendly Forest.🐻🌳
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Elephant twins are born just 1% of the time. After a 22 to 24 month pregnancy, carrying two 100 kilo calves takes a huge toll, so the herd steps in to help raise them both.
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy October! Getting colorful around the forest. Enjoy the afternoon Bluesky!
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
3 iconic animals show the value of the US Endangered Species Act – and the harm in stripping it away theconversation.com/3-iconic-ani...
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3 iconic animals show the value of the US Endangered Species Act – and the harm in stripping it away
The stories of a whale, a panther and a butterfly help explain why new interpretations of the Endangered Species Act could be catastrophic for species’ survival.
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Coastal Golf Course Turned into Vital Wetland Habitat for Seabirds www.goodnewsnetwork.org/coastal-golf...
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Coastal Golf Course Turned into Vital Wetland Habitat for Seabirds
With an eye towards making room for native wildlife, a pair of golf courses are looking an awful lot more green. Along England’s coastline, a golf course has been transformed into a wetland nature res...
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Vietnam Swiftly Protects Forests Containing the Last of the World’s Most-Endangered Monkey www.goodnewsnetwork.org/vietnam-swif...
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Vietnam Swiftly Protects Forests Containing the Last of the World's Most-Endangered Monkey
Around 7,500 acres of karst limestone escarpments and pristine forests are set to make up the Kim Bang Delacour's Langur Conservation Area.
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"It was a beautiful bright Autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it." Diana Gabaldon
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A fine t-shirt design honoring the Tasmanian tiger. THYLACINE teepublic.com/user/rck-folk-art
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Guillermo Esteves @allencompassingtrip.com · 21/09/2026
Bighorn sheep, National Elk Refuge, Wyoming. November, 2021. 📷 Fujifilm X-T3 + XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR 🎞 400 mm – 1/500″ – f/8 – ISO 5000 🏷️ #Wildlife #BighornSheep #Photography
A bighorn ram standing in sagebrush at the National Elk Refuge.
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Guillermo Esteves @allencompassingtrip.com · 24/09/2026
Trumpeter swan, National Elk Refuge, Wyoming. March, 2018. 📷 Fujifilm X-T2 + XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR 🎞 280 mm – 1/2200″ – f/8 – ISO 200 🏷️ #Photography #Wildlife #NationalWildlifeRefuges #Birds
A trumpeter swan on the snow at the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming.
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Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Timeline cleanse-A once in a lifetime experience of seeing a baby giraffe and it’s mother sharing a tender moment in Kenya, Africa #ProtectWildlife #Africa @nospaceinmypasport
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Happy Monday! A little color for everyone.🍁
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A beautiful Sunday afternoon, from me to you!
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Australian Biologists Livestream A Remote Desert Waterhole and All its Wild Visitors www.goodnewsnetwork.org/australian-b...
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Australian Biologists Livestream A Remote Desert Waterhole and All its Wild Visitors
Dingoes, wallabies, frogs, occasional feral cat, and even a wedge-tailed eagle who have so far been recorded stopping for a drink.
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pete3d @peteddd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Redpoll looking exceptionally sweet. #Redpolls #RedHeads #BirdOfTheDay #nature #wildlife #photography 🪶
A Redpoll poses in profile in welcome low warm morning sunlight.
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Animales en fotos 📸 @animales.pro · 07/08/2026
Mochuelos europeos (Athene noctua) 📸 Javier Aznar
Mochuelo europeo
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Animales en fotos 📸 @animales.pro · 26/08/2026
Hoy 26 de agosto es el Día Internacional del Perro en varios países (en España fue el 21 de julio) 🐶 Comenta este post con una foto de tu o tus compañeros caninos 🐩
Día del perro
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Animales en fotos 📸 @animales.pro · 14/09/2026
Oso de anteojos (Tremarctos ornatus) 📸 @birdtrips_ecuador
Fotografía en plano entero frontal de un Oso de anteojos (Tremarctos ornatus) parado sobre el suelo boscoso húmedo de la selva. El mamífero posee un pelaje denso y negro en todo el cuerpo, con finas marcas pálidas alrededor del hocico y los ojos. Su mirada está dirigida hacia la cámara mientras apoya sus robustas extremidades entre la vegetación baja, follaje verde y hojarasca.
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Animales en fotos 📸 @animales.pro · 17/09/2026
Zorro rojo (Vulpes vulpes) 📸 @dickvanduijn
Fotografía en plano entero de tres cuartos traseros de un Zorro rojo (Vulpes vulpes) mirando directamente hacia la cámara por encima de su hombro. El mamífero destaca por su frondoso pelaje rojizo en el cuerpo, pecho pálido, orejas erguidas y una cola espedida y esponjosa muy gruesa que cae verticalmente. Se encuentra sobre un prado verde de vegetación baja, con un fondo verdoso suavemente desenfocado bajo una iluminación clara y natural.
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Animales en fotos 📸 @animales.pro · 18/09/2026
Una familia de guepardos (Acinonyx jubatus) 📸 @lcohenphotography
Fotografía en plano general de una hembra adulta de Guepardo (Acinonyx jubatus) echada en reposo sobre una formación rocosa en la sabana junto a sus cuatro cachorros. Los felinos exhiben un pelaje amarillento cubierto de manchas negras redondeadas y las características líneas de lágrimas en el rostro. Las crías se encuentran sentadas erguidas y alerta observando el entorno sobre un fondo despejado de cielo azul pálido.
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Animales en fotos 📸 @animales.pro · 21/09/2026
Lince rojo (Lynx rufus) 📸 Bruce Dale
Fotografía en plano medio de dos linces rojos (Lynx rufus) echados juntos sobre la hierba verde alta. Los felinos muestran sus rostros alerta dirigidos hacia los costados, con pelaje mermado en tonos pardo grisáceos y pálidos, patillas o mechones faciales característicos en las mejillas y orejas erguidas apuntando hacia arriba.
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Raccoons Hourly @raccoonhourly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An adorable raccoon.
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Raccoons Hourly @raccoonhourly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An adorable raccoon.
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Raccoons Hourly @raccoonhourly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An adorable raccoon.
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Raccoons Hourly @raccoonhourly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An adorable raccoon.
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ksarshelter @ksarshelter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Breakfast time for our baby bunnies 🐇 Tiny bunnies, big appetites, and the sweetest way to start the day. Nothing beats a healthy breakfast of fresh greens and veggies with your little bunny family. #animalrescue #allpawsmatter #rabbits #animalsofbluesky #charity
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ksarshelter @ksarshelter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And one more for good measure! Look at Eleanor's tail go! 🥰 #animalrescue #allpawsmatter #dogsofbluesky #charity #WednesdayWisdom
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Cordoba Luis Photographer @cordobaluis.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
Vibrance of the Andes #Sietecueros #Tibouchina #lepidota in its 6th month of continuous blooming A study in botanical resilience and chromatic contrast #flowers #nature #botany #garden #bloom #magenta #naturephotography #plants #blossom #Tibouchina #Colombia #luiscordobapharchive #photography
Macro photography of a flowering Tibouchina lepidota (Sietecueros) shrub. Clusters of pentamerous flowers in magenta and pale lavender hues with prominent yellow stamens. Deep green, lanceolate leaves with characteristic 5-7 longitudinal veins. High-resolution visual record documenting a 6-month continuous flowering cycle, optimized for botanical, phenological, and horticultural indexing.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Moba Geographic Photography captures a sand cat with its kittens; the only cat species considered primarily adapted to true desert habitat. Their paws are covered with dense fur that helps insulate them from hot sand and makes their tracks surprisingly faint. #AGoodPlace
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wombats are marsupials with backward-facing pouches. This design keeps the pouch and the little joey clean while mom is digging. When threatened, wombats can run approx. 25 mph. WONDERFUL WOMBAT t-shirt teepublic.com/user/rck-folk-art
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NASA helps giant tortoises return to a Galápagos island earthsky.org/earth/giant-...
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NASA helps giant tortoises return to a Galápagos island
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Don’t let their howls go silent. #StandUpForWolfProtections 📣Take action: bit.ly/4rnqe0P
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Prisoners Prove Unlikely Heroes to Monarch Butterflies Thanks to Wisconsin Correctional Program www.goodnewsnetwork.org/prisoners-pr...
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Prisoners Prove Unlikely Heroes to Monarch Butterflies Thanks to Wisconsin Correctional Program
This delicate, rather dainty work, has nevertheless been popular among the inmates, and this year the program oversaw 100 caterpillars.
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This Curious Bird Had Never Been Seen Before, and its Discovery Changed Ecuador–Perhaps Forever www.goodnewsnetwork.org/this-curious...
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This Curious Bird Had Never Been Seen Before, and its Discovery Changed Ecuador–Perhaps Forever
In the late 1990s, a group of scientists were birdwatching in a remote forest in Ecuador when they heard a call like no other.
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Autumn is... an artist who uses...an oak leaf on which...to paint a masterpiece. William Allen Ward
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I awoke to a Barred Owl duet this morning, proclaiming the first day of Autumn.🍁
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Dannyboy wildlife @dannyboywildlife.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
White porcupine #leucism
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 18/09/2026
Worried about AI Robots? All you need is more ram, and a dogged determination to overcome.
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Northern Pygmy-Owl is a tiny raptor 17cm British Columbia down through the US and into Mexico Nest inside a tree hallow. Female incubates for 28days Male diligently feeds her. Parents feed Owlets for 30 days in the nest They are fed 4 mores weeks while hopping in the trees until they can fly.
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A new t-shirt design with a cool theme! ARCTIC MUSK OX teepublic.com/user/rck-folk-art
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Some Fish in the Great Lakes Might Be More Than 400 Years Old, a Study Suggests, Outliving Around 15 Generations of Humans www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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Some Fish in the Great Lakes Might Be More Than 400 Years Old, a Study Suggests, Outliving Around 15 Generations of Humans
Lake sturgeon may be among the longest-living vertebrates, second only to Greenland sharks, according to recent research. However, scientists note that follow-up work is necessary to clarify the speci...
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fox Left For Dead After Being Run Over is Now Recovering Thanks to Swimming Lessons www.goodnewsnetwork.org/fox-left-for...
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Fox Left For Dead After Being Run Over is Now Recovering Thanks to Swimming Lessons
A fox cub that was left for dead after being hit by a car is making a miracle recovery thanks to hydrotherapy swimming sessions.
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Cataract Surgery Restores Sight for 54-Year-Old Chimpanzee–the First Such Procedure at Chimp Haven www.goodnewsnetwork.org/cataract-sur...
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Cataract Surgery Restores Sight for 54-Year-Old Chimpanzee–the First Such Procedure at Chimp Haven
The first cataract surgery performed for a resident at Chimp Haven, restored sight and allowed Pierre to quickly return to his life
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Catherine @mistymaple.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
LEAPING LEOPARDS! teepublic.com/user/rck-folk-art
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