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Happy World Wildlife Day!

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Hello, fellow eukaryotes! It's March 3, which means it's World Wildlife Day! It happens on the same date every year. I decided that I'd give you a little behind-the-scenes update and share a few facts about wildlife.  ⬆️The avian co-hosts and I had a chat today. Here's a picture of it.  So, the next episode is going to be biome-focused. Unfortunately, I deleted the draft for it, accidentally and irreversibly. Thankfully, the guest stars and I are willing to re-record/rewrite it. It's going to be more scientific than previous episodes.  Now, here are the facts.  "Wildlife" doesn't just mean "animals". Bacteria, archaea, fungi, plants, and other eukaryotes also count.  Most animals are arthropods! This is because insects are successful. And beetles alone comprise 40% of insects.  Speaking of insects, flycatchers aren't named that because they catch flies. It's because they fly to catch prey (flycatching).  And that's all...
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Makar Sankranti

PIED: This episode was brought to you by realising the date. I had a short chat with the sunbirds, and this is an excerpt from it.  P: Happy Makar Sankranti!  MR BLOOMSIP: 'Happy'? I was scared that a kite string would BISECT me all day!  P: Sorry. Also, did anyone get hurt today?  HIBISCUS: No. You warned us all last year, so we stuck to the trees today!  P: Didn't you get hungry?  B: Yes. And when Newmoon and Myra came back alive to tell us that the strings weren't a threat any longer, we flocked to the trees beyond!  H: I never thought nectar could be that tasty!  P: *chuckle* Anyways, did the tree grow back?  B: Yes, now that you've armed Newmoon. He got the house crows on board, who told the pigeons to help us, and now nobody can even get a ladder close to the tree!  P: *laughter*  H: A parakeet flew down here to join our club. We were all concerned. At least, the other keets were.  P: Their name?  H: Banyan. Also, sp...
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Fast-fire fun facts about nature

P: This is Pied!  B: And this is Bloomsip!  H: And I'm Hibiscus!  N: Starring Corvid Chef Newmoon.  P: And today, we come to you with a new episode, and hopefully a new format, of Survogel Asks the Biosphere. Cue intro.  P: I'm Pied, a pied urvogel!  N: I'm Newmoon the large-billed crow!  B: I'm Mr Bloomsip!  H: And Hibiscus!  B&H: We're the sunbirds on the show!  P: I use my other name for the title here!  All: We're the hosts on this show:  Survogel Asks the Biosphere!  ----- PIED: Okay, so welcome back to our show! It's been a while, what with me moving to a less tree-filled place and Mr Bloomsip's Nintendo Switch was nearly reclaimed by the company when they discovered that neither he nor Hibiscus were human.  BLOOMSIP: I missed you! But I didn't miss your secret co-host.  HIBISCUS: We don't talk about him that way!  B: He nearly ate you!  H: Fair, but still.  P: So, shall we start? I'll sh...
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Khar, Tsagaan, Shuvuu, Mangas - IS - Prologue 2

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Hello again! Here are two new pages of my webcomic, ready to read! Mr Bloomsip (preview alert) may or may not feature in this comic in future pages, so stay tuned!  For more frequent updates, here's the Scratch link:  https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/881818483/   This chapter is set in the Los Alamos laboratory in an unspecified year, featuring Richard Feynman and Enrico Fermi. They're poring over a paper by Albert Einstein, and no dinosaurs feature here (yet).  The main arc should be coming soon!  -Pied Survogel  P.S. A regular blog article and a once-a-month posting schedule should happen soon. 
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Khar, Tsagaan, Shuvuu, Mangas - IS - Prologue 1

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Dear readers:  I promised you a very special treat in the last post. These are the first few pages to a WEBCOMIC! A FRICKING WEBCOMIC! This post occurs in the real world, and as such, no Mr Bloomsip here today. No Hibiscus either, and Firecracker the purple-rumped sunbird, named for the firecracker plant in my balcony they visited, doesn't seem to be anywhere nearby.  These characters are Roy Chapman Andrews and his wife Yvette Borup Andrews. As this is a little bit of exposition and the first appearances of Tsaagan mangas ,  Citipati,  and Shuvuuia , enjoy.  Do not expect regular uploads.  -Pied Survogel  P.S. The cover text is in Cyrillic Mongolian and it's read "Khar Tsagaan Shuvuu Mangas", which means "Black White Bird Monster". 
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Lunch Break!

   INTRO: I'm Pied, a pied urvogel, or an Archaeopteryx!  I'm Mr Bloomsip!  I'm Hibiscus!  We're sunbirds with LEGO bricks!  I use my other name for the title here!  Pied!  Bloomsip!  And Hibiscus!  On  Survogel Asks the Biosphere!   NOTE: This blog uses the method of combining fonts to create the illusion of different voices speaking together. It may get harder to follow along soon. Handbag the crow speaks like this. And to avoid confusion, Hibiscus speaks this way.  The actual publishing date was 08/08/2023 at 18:48. Enjoy!  This episode was brought to you by Newmoon, star soup chef among crows, who we call Handbag because of an inside joke between me and my mother about him looking like a black handbag.  At 5 reads, likes, or comments, we'll repay Handbag for his services to this podcast by not poisoning the water we leave out in deep Biryani By Kilo handis that only the crows can drink from and a special...
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Cancelling Deepak Dalal

 INTRO: I'm Pied, a pied urvogel, or an Archaeopteryx!  I'm Mr Bloomsip!  I'm Hibiscus!  We're sunbirds with LEGO bricks!  I use my other name for the title here!  Pied! Bloomsip! And Hibiscus! On  Survogel Asks the Biosphere!  NOTE: Each speaker has a font/emphasis modifier they talk in. A combination of multiple of these, like this , represents many speakers speaking together. As I can't combine fonts, imagine that bold speech is Sitaaren and Survogel speaking with everyone else.  Hello, readers. I come with some bad tidings. Double bad tidings. First, unlike what the intro says, Mr Bloomsip and Hibiscus are both on a vacation. I wholeheartedly support them going to sip blooms instead of yammering on about nature, which is tiring at times, but I'm not making this a one-avialan show, so I've called Ryba back on set. They also got a friend with them!  Nice to be back in your studio, Survogel! I see you've revamped it a bit! :D  Ehe...
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