Day 1,587: grub, spoor, pristine

If you want to measure the biodiversity of a piece of land, listening out for animal calls is much easier than grubbing about in the undergrowth looking for tracks or spoor.

Some sites were relatively pristine, old-growth forest.

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/10/25/ai-can-catalogue-a-forests-inhabitants-simply-by-listening

AI can catalogue a forest’s inhabitants simply by listening

Artwork of the day 
Return from Grubbing
Corneliu Baba
Style: Post-Impressionism
Genre: genre painting

Word of the day 
grub: to search for something by digging or turning over earth 
spoor: the marks left by a wild animal as it travels
pristine: new or almost new, and in very good condition

Quote of the day
“I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.”

― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane