Posted on 11/27/2017 10:49:27 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
New research by McGill University biologists shows that milder winters have led to physical alterations in two species of mice in southern Quebec in the past 50 years – providing a textbook example of the consequences of climate change for small mammals.
The findings also reveal a stark reversal in the proportions of the two mice populations present in the area, adding to evidence that warming temperatures are driving wildlife north.
At McGill's Gault Nature Reserve, about 40 kilometres east of Montreal, biologist Virginie Millien for the past 10 years has been studying two similar, coexisting species: the deer mouse and the white-footed mouse. Both are common in eastern North America. But while the deer mouse can be found in Canada's northern reaches, the white-footed mouse is a more southerly species, rarely found north of the St Lawrence River.
By comparing data from the past decade with specimens collected by McGill researchers as far back as the 1950s, Millien's team discovered that the skull shapes of both mouse species have changed over time. The changes in the two species paralleled each other, but have been more pronounced in the white-footed mouse—with the result that the cranial shapes of the two species have become more distinct.
At the same time, the white-footed mouse has been moving farther north as winters get milder – at a rate of around 11 kilometres a year, the researchers estimate.
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One more tale in the seemingly endless saga of the global-warming hoax.
So why does a website devoted to PHYSICS run articles on biology? Oh, right, globull warming propaganda!!!
Totally believable since these mice were studied in their natural habitats...
Darn. I was hoping to read about the attack of the fifty pound mouse!!!
At any given region, the climate may get warmer or colder by amounts far in excess of the amount of variance in the global average. And yet these articles talk as if it was getting uniformly warmer everywhere. Its neither science, nor basically honest, nor informative. Its pure propaganda.
And in other news, the dinosaurs who once inhabited the tropical Gunison Valley are... still dead.
“The difference today is that you won’t see dinosaurs, erupting volcanoes, or lush tropical terrain along the banks of the Gunnison. The climate is not the only thing that has changed.”
https://www.nps.gov/blca/learn/nature/pasttopresent.htm
Do you suppose the wildlife was different in the area of Chicago 30,000 years ago when it was covered in ice?
Queue the Rats of Unusual Size from “Princess Bride”.
They tell us “evolution” takes millions of years. Yet all of a sudden it only takes 50 years! Zowie Batman!!!
Errors in replication are always replicated.
After Creation nothing at all changed on the earth for 4.5 billion years.
Now, in just the last few years, puny mankind is changing everything.
Islands are sinking, mice are packing up and moving north, Polar bears can't find ice floes.
A Complete List Of Things Caused By Global Warming:
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
George washington noted alligators spotted in the swamps of southern Virginia. Aren’t we just getting back to ‘normal’ temps when these critters were living a bit more north?
they were miceicles
WARNING!, WARNING!, ZULU!!—
50 pound FLESH EATING mice are invading Canada.
They require 50 times their own body weight per day in HUMAN FLESH to survive.
Someone needs to consult Mr. Garrison.
Yes, and (SPOILER ALERT) they’re still mice.
Send to Congress.
Might as well do something useful.
I do think they have gone big on global warming, though.
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