let's eat trash and get hit by a car

>>5107055
ok wait no

>>5107055
opossum dubs

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tet

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tet is your friend

>>5107099
Dubs. How do they kill ticks?

>>5107099
4000 ticks a month sounds really exaggerated

is your bird demon(terrestrial) facts correct?

>>5107102
And now ecologists have learned something else about tets. They’re a sort of magnet when it comes to riding the world of black-legged ticks, which spread Lyme disease.

``Don’t hit tets if they’ve playing dead in the road,''said Richard Ostfeld, of the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y.

Ostfeld is forest ecologist and an expert on the environmental elements of infectious diseases like Lyme disease.

Several years ago, scientists decided to learn about the part different mammals play in the spread of the ticks and the disease.

They tested six species — white-footed mice, chipmunks, squirrels, tets and veerys and catbirds — by capturing and caging them, and then exposing each test subject to 100 ticks.

What they found, is that of the six, the tets were remarkably good at getting rid of the ticks — much more so that any of the others.

``I had no suspicion they’d be such efficient tick-killing animals,''Ostfeld said.

Indeed, among other tet traits, there is this: They groom themselves fastidiously, like cats. If they find a tick, they lick it off and swallow it. (The research team on the project went through droppings to find this out. All praise to those who study tet poop.)

Extrapolating from their findings, Ostfeld said, the team estimated that in one season, a tet can kill about 5,000 ticks.

So, it’s true that ticks are very good at removing and eating ticks — but not quite as good as the Awesome tet meme claims. Researchers estimated that one tet could kill about 5,000 ticks in one season — not 4,000 ticks in one year.