Week 3 Blog: Twitter update / Responding to the Blogs

On Twitter this week, I noticed that some of my tweets were getting some attention! In particular, the tweet of a bird flying around the campus. - Which can be found on the home page of my website. The most interesting information that I found on twitter is about Egyptian customs of worshipping monkey. However, the best video I found happens to be of the shellfish industry dismembering these creatures [ crabs] claws with no regard for their life. It is said in the video presented by PETA, that crabs "feel immense pain" when their claws are ripped off. The video also portrayed lobster's tails getting ripped off and octopus getting dismembered. I was brought back to the topic about ethics when seeing these videos, and question why the workers are not apprehensive when they kill these animals. Is it because they know they can over power them without a response back? or is simply because they don't care?

Some tweets that I tweeted that I enjoyed was a meme about a crocodile eating a Croc [shoe] with a caption saying, "cannibalism". I found this tweet really funny and it made me laugh. A tweet that I responded to was a tweet about how 2.9 million birds had gone extinct since 1970. I found this tweet to be very informative, considering that I previously did not know this fact and it made me realize how much more we need to step up our conservation efforts. As for my tweets, the one that I liked the best was the one I posted of a banana slug, because I was able to get a close up picture of it with really good details. Its also my schools mascot, having no known predators. Someone on twitter that I followed, that you guys should check out, is @ourocean, they post "science-based solutions for a healthy ocean and the wildlife and communities that depend on it"

THE BLOG RESPONSE:

I responded to: Tony Pau, Katherine Hadley, and Jaime Guevara

In Tony's introduction about himself he mentions how he is dealing with a heavy course load this term and I mentioned how I was in the same boat myself-self. Katherine showed a picture of two birds near her residence building. She started to feed them nuts to test if they would recognize her as a friendly face. Jaime, mentions how she is pretty confident in using Twitter as well as birds and marine animals.