POV: You are here for your Geography Class ( this is a direct copy of another comment )

3-5 billion not million

Great presentation Maxwell!

Don’t grab poison ivy. You can run faster than it does! 👏😆

Thank you Maxwell. Well researched and presented!

Thanks. A very interesting talk. I've share some of the Citizen Science and bat house information with my grand daughter.

This is honestly one of the best youtube videos I've ever seen, I feel so lucky that I got to see it! Thanks for putting this together!

You did a great job presenting, you are very smooth and articulate. I got lost trying to follow a couple points, perhaps you can clarify, specifically the gender binary points. 1. Are you suggesting the concept of gender applies to non-human life forms, as in other animals? This itself seems to be a big leap. 2. There are certainly common behavioural characteristics which are unique to a given sex in a species, with humans we seem to anchor this to gender and use it to explain non-conforming stereotypical, culture-based, behaviors. This leads to variability across human "tribes". The characteristics of the categories, as different as they maybe given religious practice (as an example), do not transfer across over or in any way related to other species. It is here where they seem entrenched but subject to evolutionary change. Bees would be a great example. A rather large Queen is served by many drones. The matriarchy lives on in melittology! The continued existence of the varies species of animals and plants certainly seems to rely on a sex binary. The point being - this has very little in common with humans. When we look at bees there is a vary noticeable physical size difference between sexes and the life span, role and limited purpose of the poor drone. For most animals they have a certain order to their existence. Meaning the "roles" are pretty much set - but I would not try to draw lines across species and suggest this is something remarkable that "could" apply to another species. That would be illogical and actually rather disingenuous if that is the intent. The roles are very instinctive, clown fish is an excellent example regarding just how deep this genetic coding can go. To the point of "becoming female". Again, I would not try to draw a line to humans. My mother died very young - I remained a male. I am not sure species are always framed within a dominance hierarchy but it certainly seems alive and well with bees. .It seems humans are the species that try hard to avoid any concept of order to the roles, I would suggest this is what makes us so unique to any other living species. 3. I found the hermaphrodite mixed birds fascinating. I was completely unaware. Thank you for that, It clearly demonstrates that genetic abnormalities exists in other specifics but they manifest in different ways. You see it in albino animals and other genetic mutations in the animal kingdom. Much like we have Intersex humans you can have genetic coding errors in what are typically the dimorphic sex categories with birds. As it is with humans, this isn't a revelation regarding a new sex category for birds or that the birds are somehow transgender. Simplistically, you can call what has happened with the birds unfinished business during maturation during a stage of development, much like we have Down syndrome,. The errors may also be some hereditary "bonus" passed down in the lineage like cystic fibrosis or, as is the case in my family, thalassemia. I suspect given the complexity of human DNA we are prone to greater genetic error. In the end you left me a little confused. I wasn't sure if you were trying to draw a parallel to humans with some of your examples? Humans aren't clown fish, we also aren't an I think its clear animals and plants can reproduce in their own unique way. What you helped demonstrate is the need for the equivalent of two sexes to make that happen.

This was really interesting, thank you!

This is a legit great talk, like honestly top-tier. I just kept getting more and more excited at all the amazing things I was learning for the first time, and most of all, it's so fun that this is right here in Ontario!! Maxwell is a great presenter, thanks to them for making it! 🧡

Great presentation.

Thank you for this! Very well done. Happy Pride Month!! Demolishing anti-queer propaganda one cool eco/historical fact at a time heck yeah. So tired of our community being censored and erased

Cool talk, I love the lesbian seagull story

Im a trans masc from Maine and I really enjoyed this! I knew about cardinals having hermaphroditism but finding out my favorite birds, red winged black birds could too was really cool! I love the red wing black birds’ calls because they sound so ridiculous XD I live by a bog and I love gardening to their song of “waaAAAAAAAA” XD

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Great presentation! Thanks for excellent overview of Queer Ecology and I loved the Ontario based examples!

Thanks for this!

wow, great work!

POV: You didn't understand enough of what PJ Barnett was saying in his paper for your GEO 110 essay

Such a good talk! Thank you for sharing your work and your beautiful photos!

Thank you for this wonderful webinar!

An app like iNaturalist is so handy. We used to do nature watching with guidebooks, which had serious limitations. Often I would figure out eventually that the guidebook was for a different part of the country, bird guides would only have one color morph or only breeding plumage. The apps have some trouble with closely related species, but I've found that that's often because all a person has photographed is the foliage and bark. If you can get the flowers, cones, fruit, etc. the app does way better. Thank you both for an excellent presentation!

Naturalist is amazing ❤

Highly informative! Thank you very much. Charlevoix, Michigan here.

So the Common and Hoary Red Poll are almost like grey squirrels, which have their famously melanistic alter ego? Fascinating!

LOLOL!!!! Join H.O.A?!?!😂😂

Love your message. Doing what i can on my piece of ground.

Looking to optimize native selection in our perennial food systems and this hit the spot! Thanks Oak Ridges Moraine Trust and Doug!

Your work is SO inspiring. Thank you, Professor Tallamy!!

Very good information!

This is an excellent presentation. I did notice something, though, Kim. You used the same Jonah Evans photo for both Muskrat (3 times at about 45:11-45:51) and for Groundhog (at 1:40:29).

Wado! So good. That owl, though. LOLOL. Brilliant and good stuff all the way around. #IndigenousBirders

Aaniin, nanaboozhoo. Gichi miigwetch for this, it’s essential in not only revitalizing the language but the anishinaabe themselves as well. I genuinely look forward to more content like this and promise I will continue to not only learn the language but practice more sustainable ways of living harmoniously with our Mother Earth. Chi miigwetch again, hope for a round two! Baamaapii miinwaa kaawaabmin!

ALL ANDEAN S AMERICA LOCALITIES HAVE 1000 BRYOPHYTE SPECIES HELP

Detailed and informative presentation. Thank you

I enjoyed every minute of this webinar. Thank you so much.

This was the best class - highly informative with very comedic presenters.

Thank you for this!

46:45 this is probably a bad idea as far as using invasive species to put down as they can reroot through branches and other live material. The Christmas trees aren’t a bad idea if you don’t have all the plastic tinsel and glitter all over. Just be careful is all I’d say but otherwise good ideas. Also promise to continue doing all I can in picking up litter and restoring our natural habitats. Thanks for all the work you do as well.

The legend himself. It’s always such an honor to hear Doug speak. I give my word that I’ll continue to do all that I possibly can in order to restore our forests and wilderness areas right in our own backyards. I hope everyone will aim to do their part and slowly but surely we’ll create a better world not only for the pollinators and insects, but ourselves as well. Thanks for the great talk.

I support these kinds of movement because they're vital for the continuation on human kind, I would also like to volunteer some how,

Fully grown trees are still valuable no matter what kind they are because they are sequestering carbon. It’s better if you can add natives on top of what you have, if you have the space. Seems counterintuitive to chop down fully grown trees when there is too much carbon in the air. I could see people going overboard with removing all their ornamentals overnight.

Wonderful info. Track’s is so fun 😂

Thank you for sharing this information with everyone. I am so excited to see that nature and indigenous people are being recognized for their importance.

Thank you. The presentation is so informative and helpful because I’m trying to leave my garden better and healthier for flora and fauna.

I'm not seeing any birds for days here. Getting depressing.

Bumble bees go into the dunks and I think it might be the color of the bucket. So maybe there should be a study to make sure of the best color to protect bees.