I get that the changing weather might change their habitual latitudes but there was and is always some "boundary" between the two, no? So there was always a boundary but it moves north or south depending on warming or cooling climates (these birds have been around for millions of years). How did they only mate now?
why don't simply name "bluegreen jay" clearly from the colors we observe? As one of the users in comments said, it's ignorance (improper education reference) and we are only doing "mocking" if coming with such nicknames.
>“We think it’s the first observed vertebrate that’s hybridized as a result of two species both expanding their ranges due, at least in part, to climate change,” said Brian Stokes
> the range of blue jays, a temperate bird living all across the Eastern U.S., only extended about as far west as Houston. They
I get why the green jay’s habitat would have expanded northward (from more tropical areas) in a warming climate, but I don’t get why the blue jay’s habitat would have expanded west of Houston.
Like many places, central Texas is warmer than it used to be, and maybe drier, but I wouldn’t think you could call it more “temperate” now.
Ah yes, the elusive grue jay. As blue jays are corvids—relatives of crows and ravens, the grue jay, known for its habitat in colossal caves, is a relative of the similarly chthonic Deep Crow: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/03/21/the-crevice
Obsolete/dialiectical English: to shudder with fear, or a shudder (related to "gruesome")
Computer games: in Zork, a monster that eats adventurers in the dark [0]
Linguistics: an English translation for words that cover the entire green-blue part of the spectrum (in languages that don't distinguish blue from green) [1]
Philosophy: a color name that is equivalent to green until a specific future time, at which point it becomes equivalent to blue (used to raise questions about how to validly extrapolate into the future) [2]
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 42.7 ms ] threadIt seems we have failed to properly educate our children.
It is ignorance like this this makes me believe that civilization is doomed.
But we only have ourselves to blame
I get that the changing weather might change their habitual latitudes but there was and is always some "boundary" between the two, no? So there was always a boundary but it moves north or south depending on warming or cooling climates (these birds have been around for millions of years). How did they only mate now?
When all you have is a hammer…
I get why the green jay’s habitat would have expanded northward (from more tropical areas) in a warming climate, but I don’t get why the blue jay’s habitat would have expanded west of Houston.
Like many places, central Texas is warmer than it used to be, and maybe drier, but I wouldn’t think you could call it more “temperate” now.
Obsolete/dialiectical English: to shudder with fear, or a shudder (related to "gruesome")
Computer games: in Zork, a monster that eats adventurers in the dark [0]
Linguistics: an English translation for words that cover the entire green-blue part of the spectrum (in languages that don't distinguish blue from green) [1]
Philosophy: a color name that is equivalent to green until a specific future time, at which point it becomes equivalent to blue (used to raise questions about how to validly extrapolate into the future) [2]
[0]: https://zork.fandom.com/wiki/Grue
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue–green_distinction_in_lang...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_riddle_of_induction#Grue_a...