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Leigha wrote:
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My brother wanted to work for the department of fish and game for the longest time. He still wants to be a park ranger or something.
How’d you get into that Zorse?
Those trout are beautiful
My dad’s a fisherman, he’d love to be there 😈
How did I get into it?
Well. First was a hell of a lot of luck. Second was going to school for wildlife biology. Third was a very helpful Forest Service person that put it out there that there was a wildlife biologist for hire with lots of qualifications and field experience. Throw in a job-bid war, and wha-BAM! Hired by the Department of Fish and Game. Personally, I am having a BLAST working for them. 😀
The orange-ish fish are a rare strain of Pit River albino rainbow trout. These are commonly mistaken for golden trout, but they are unique to this run of rainbow trout. The blue fish you see in there is not a mistake – it’s really blue. The darker fish in there are the normal colored trout. This blue-ish trout is also a very rare strain of trout – a color aberration that shows up rarely in trout populations. Because they are genetic mutants, they aren’t really called anything but “blue trout” – and as a result of their genes, are often stunted, or malformed (as those are).
Dark Zorse – Professional fish wrangler, California Department of Fish and Game.
…I smell fish.
…or maybe it’s just me…
(freeze branding rainbow trout)…or maybe it is the fish after all!
Definitely the fish!
GO EAGLE LAKE RAINBOW TROUT!
…my job is so cool.
Dark Zorse – California Department of Fish and Game.
“Silly boys! Trucks are for girls!”
[/i]Greater Basilisk wrote:I still think I’d trade. How did you get into that line of work anyway?
I’ve always liked animals, for starters. Then I went to school, and got my bachelors in Wildlife Biology. As for getting into Cal Fish and game… that was an uphill battle the entire way, and I am glad to be in.
To answer someone else’s question about job perks…
-State issued 4×4 truck
-State issued boat
-State issued ATVNeed I say more? 😀
Dark_Zorse, roosting in a bunkhouse.
purpledragonclaw wrote:OOH! I love sushi!! 😆 What a great job, being outside with the wildlife! What kind of fish are you holding?
The top picture features a tui chub. An important prey species of the rainbow trout. The bottom picture is a golden shiner – a very common invasive species.
And while it is great getting to work outdoors, the part you don’t get to see is the part where you are freezing your you-know-whats off crunching through snow, or slogging through mud, or getting eaten alive my mosquitos…
Personally, I love every minute, being a masochist for the great outdoors. But it is not for the weak-of-heart, or those afraid to break a nail or two.
So. This new job? There’s something fishy about it. I just can’t put my finger on it…
… But the great news?
…is I get all the fresh sushi I want.
-Dark_Zorse, official Scientific Aid for the California Department of Fish and Game.
This is how you know when you are standing way too close to a wildfire. When a water-bomber the size of a 747 buzzes you at a mere couple hundred feet.
I think this qualifies as one of those moments okay to utter “OH S***!!”.
-Dark_zorse, directly on the Norcal fire front.
Hows it going?
In short.
Egg-cellent.
(For those of you wondering, these are killdeer [Charadrius vociferus] eggs. I took this picture. 😀 )
Dark-Zorse, busy wrangling alligators!
So. Working with wildlife.
I gotta say, this job is a real hoot.
Never feel like I’m barking up the wrong tree.
Chicks. Hooters. A (typical) guy’s dream job.
Gratuitous wildlife pictures brought to you by Barcode-butt. (Not my pictures, sadly. Just wanted to show what I was working with.)
-Dark_zorse, roosting up a tree with a callback recorder. HOOT!
Bowhead Whale wrote:Yes, they are! Do you know Jacqueline Saburido? She is a victim of a drunk driver. Here is a link about her story:
http://www.jacquelinesaburido.freeservers.com/
No, I do not know her, but I am not surprised.
There’s a lot of people killed every year on the freeway due to drunk driving. For my part, while I cannot describe here what I would like to do physically to the man (being a PG-13 sort of place), my family will make sure that he is legally hung up by his toenails. As will the families of the other girls that were involved in the accident. My sister got off lucky – badly battered and bruised. The other girls weren’t so lucky – concussions, broken legs and arms, and internal injuries.
Don’t drink and drive. Ever.
I’m going to be even scarcer than usual.
My mother had surgery to correct her badly broken arm. She’s working on recovering at home.
Our family friend, Judy, passed away less than month and a half of being diagnosed with cancer.
Yesterday, my sister was involved in a head-on collision brought about by a drunk driver.
I know that when it rains, it pours, or that misery supposedly comes in threes. But I am very quickly hitting my full-up point for misery. Needless to say, if you PM me, you might be waiting a few days for a response.
Sorry, guys.
Lupin wrote:Umm Hate to be nitpicky but a Mule is a Donkey/Ass crossed with a Horse, and so’s a Hinny, Depends on which is Mom, and which is dad. Donkey and Ass are for the most part an interchangeable term, however the Asiatic Ass is separate from that general gene pool, like the Prezwalski is separated from “Horse”.
Sorry I’m in a bit of a mood, and oh apparently not all Mules are Male, or sterile!!! just the majority, and very few Mules have ever Sired, and ion the last 100 years apparently there’s been 2 females that have foaled. If I’m remembering that correctly. (I watch/read/study too much since stuffs 😯 )
A mule is derived from a male donkey crossed with a female horse. A Hinny is from a male horse crossed with a female donkey. Asses, on the other hand are viable populations of donkey-like animals, but are not donkeys. Examples of this include the Somalian Wild Ass (highly endangered), Onagers, and Kiangs ( also endangered).
And I also suspect there were far more viable mules than people know. I know of at least one fertile mule that wasn’t ever officially on the books. Unless people can constantly monitor who breed with who, and keep a record of birth along with DNA testing for parentage… it’s really hard to say officially how many mules have sired or foaled young. As humans, sometimes we ourselves aren’t exactly great at guessing or policing parentage. 😛
Pam Thompson wrote:T’aint nothin’ bettr’n bein able ter hunt from teh cumfert an’ wermth of yer own livin’ room… Easy as 123!
1) Open window
2) Aim
3) Shoot🙂
*cackle!*
travistie wrote:So what does the diet of a wolf-horse consist of besides beer? 😆
Wolf-horses have very wide and varied diets… But the best things to feed a wolf-horse (to get on it’s good side) are beer, steak, carrots, kalmata olive bread, raw oysters, strawberries, and game meat of any kind.
If you really want to get on a wolf-horses good side, you can easily bribe with dark chocolate, or tequila.
travistie wrote:I’m pretty sure DZ said that it is a wolf-horse, and it is a she. She has claws and fangs.
Not sure where the stripes come from. Maybe it’s a combination of all 3 animals?That would be a wolf-horse, and she is a creature of my own creation, as well as something I use to signify myself. She is an unholy cross of large feline, and disgruntled horse all topped off with a set of partial stripes. She is a bright coppery brown with black points, and green eyes. Why then “wolf-horse”? She’s called that because she has fangs originating from teeth that actually exist in a horse – basically elongated tushes, or “wolf’s teeth”.
Plus, wolf-horse sounds better than cat-horse.
As far as why exactly she has stripes… is another story entirely.
