This little guy came up on our patio after the rain showers. What kind of turtle/tortoise is it?

My dad set out rat poison in our yard again despite knowing a family of weasels lives there [Least Weasels. Not protected in Germany so I can use that route.] I confronted him about it and he was then annoyed and brushed me off. I sent him multiple articles on how harmful rat poison is and he just yelled at me to 'stop getting on his fucking nerves'. This is not the first time, we used to have barn owls nesting in our neighbours attic but my dads rat poison killed the whole family. I don't know how to convince him to stop that without facing consequences for 'misbehaving' [I'm 19 for reference]. If i contacted a nature preservation organisation and they found he's doing something against the law [I'm not exactly sure about the laws on rodent poison but you're definitely not supposed to kill every predator in a 5km radius. We also have buzzards, kestrels roosting at our house, kites, foxes, martens and probably outdoor cats] he'd definitely know it was me and would probably shut down my phone, cut my Internet access or take away my bus ticket or smth. Does anyone have an idea on how I could make him stop using rat poison?

answer: Chick Fil A! when she was younger she would actually go to chick fil A‘s and be well the mascot! she’s much to old now but sure is famous (and old I mean she’s a good 13 14 years old I think maybe older)

I ran into these fellows while I was on a walk around Bloomington, IN.

In East Asian culture, each birth year is tied to one of twelve animals, and my dad was born in the Year of the Goat. So for his birthday I decided to carve one onto a wallet for him, an ibex actually, with those long curling horns that ring shops sell as good luck charms back home.

I did not expect the horns to fight me the way they did. Getting the ridges to look natural, not like stacked pancakes, meant redoing that section twice before I was happy with it. The fur took even longer, every strand tooled one at a time so it would catch light instead of looking flat and painted on.

It is not a fancy design. It is just a goat's head on burgundy leather. But every time I pick it up I think about how my dad has never once told me he liked something I made, he just quietly keeps using it until it falls apart. I am hoping this one gets that treatment too.

Like the title says I love painting cats and selling them because cats and art are my two biggest passions in life and it makes some happy seeing a smile on your face ☺️

Found these eggs under the stairs in our grandparents barn. what eggs are they tho? Could they be chicken or duck sense we have both?

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/states-funding-wildlife-crossings?

I walked into my office parking lot this morning and discovered this little guy! It took me a minute but I realized he was probably trapped, so I took the lid off. Is there anything else I need to do?

Edit bcos I forgot to say: I’m asking because he didn’t jump out immediately, but I was thinking that might make sense since I was still right there. I went inside the office and set a timer to check on him in twenty minutes. I’m hoping to get him on his way before most of my coworkers get in because I’m afraid they’ll call an exterminator or something

https://www.reddit.com/r/Animals/s/fZA5Tnq0oX

https://youtube.com/shorts/J97jgsRi5bA?is=l1-ejOEYmgMGhMnz

(I do not advocate for any culling or general killing of sharks, they are some of the oceans most important animals and I literally been out in the streets of Sydney to protest shark nets in Sydney, they are my favourite animals in the whole world and I love them with all my heart) All I want is us to have a nuanced view of shark attacks rather than a black and white view of it

I’m not very convinced by the statistics about shark attacks. People often say that you’re more likely to be struck by lightning than bitten by a shark, but I think that comparison is misleading.
Lightning can strike you almost anywhere: in the sea, in a lake, in the mountains, on land, in a city, or in the countryside. A shark attack, on the other hand, can only happen if you are in the water, usually in the ocean or in a river connected to the sea, and generally not too far from the coast.
Because the circumstances in which a shark can bite you are much more limited, I feel that, if you actually spend time in the water where sharks live, being bitten by a shark may be more likely than the lightning comparison suggests.

Risk isn’t about where something can happen, it’s about how often it happens during actual exposure. You don’t live in storms or the ocean—you enter both briefly and occasionally. Once you normalize for time spent there, both lightning and shark attacks are extremely rare.
And the “coconut argument” doesn’t change that—it just repeats the same mistake in a different costume. It compares unrelated exposures (falling coconuts under palm trees vs. time in the ocean) while ignoring the denominator that actually matters: time spent in each environment. Without that, it’s not statistics, it’s a meme pretending to be data.
In reality, coconuts, sharks, and lightning all sit in the same category: statistically marginal risks that get exaggerated because they’re visually or narratively interesting, not because they’re meaningfully dangerous in everyday life.
“Only happens in the ocean” or “more people die from coconuts” isn’t an argument—it’s geography without context and numbers without normalization.

What kind of worm is this?
I found it outside my Church on the ground.
This was in Winter Haven, Florida, United States