Paul Hetzler
@paulhetzler.bsky.social
Helping connect folks with the planet through my quirky nature and science-y essays. Dad, arborist, writer, former homesteader. Find my books in Canada at https://www.amazon.ca/Birds-Happiness-Arent-Blue-educational/dp/B0CCZSY8N9
i'm really proud of this essay, just published this morning. hope you enjoy it! #nature #author #birds #writers #pigeons 🇨🇦 🌎 🧪 🌍 🌏 ❤️📖 #homing www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/08/our-...
Our Better Nature: Impressive Pigeons | The Saturday Evening Post
Pigeons can hear earthquakes before they can be felt, locate signs of cancer in medical imaging, and tell a Monet from a Picasso. They are also being studied to see if they can teach drones how to fly...
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Atlantic puffins typically live between 20 and 30 years in the wild. They are monogamous and mate for life, returning to the exact same burrows and partners each year. They perform a tender billing ritual by topping and rubbing their beaks together, reinforcing their bond
BREAKING: ENVIRONMENTALISTS & FLYING BEAVERS CAUSE MOSS OVERGROWTH! (true story) www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/05/our-...
Our Better Nature: Of Moss and Men (and Beavers) | The Saturday Evening Post
A tale of beavers on chartered planes and lichens killing evergreens.
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my homage to katydids, just published #inverts #katydid #writingcommunity #author #nature #folklore #insects 🌎 🧪 🌍 ❤️📖 🇨🇦 www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/07/our-...
Our Better Nature: Maybe Katydid, Maybe She Didn’t | The Saturday Evening Post
Katydids are native to just about everywhere, with more than 6,000 species in all. You almost certainly heard them last night.
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😂🤣 Yesterday’s wind blew the smoke away and our AQI has dropped down to 30 (good). 🌬️
Immortal Zombie Cucumber Legs, my latest essay. #nature #oceans #seacucumbers #Echinoderm #immortality #writing #authors 🧪 🌎 🇨🇦 www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/07/our-...
Our Better Nature: Immortal Zombie Cucumber Legs | The Saturday Evening Post
If mice can regrow toes and dismembered feet of sea cucumbers can live forever, what’s on the horizon for humans?
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The refrain to superior “culture” always brings to mind this 1949 testimony from DuBois. Here in @drcbs.bsky.social’s classic Black Scare, Red Scare. @beaubaumann.bsky.social @evanbernick.bsky.social @adamserwer.bsky.social
There is no WiFi in the forest, but I promise you will find a better connection.
This is a Pom-pom crab. No, really 😄 🦀 (Also Boxer crab or Cheerleader crab) The pink structures are actually living sea anemones that the crab holds in its claws for defense and to help mop up food particles. If one anemone is lost, the crab clones another by tearing it in half to regenerate.
The IDF is not an army it's a barbaric terrorist force full of rapists racists murderers psychopaths pedophiles and war criminals 👿👇🏼
This is our extraordinary 🌎 Why do we destroy their habitat? pollute it? Warm it ? #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis #WarOnNature #nature #Oceans
"Over the next decades" sounds far away, but the collapse is happening right now. At least 172 wild bee species in Europe are on the path to endangerment, with over a quarter of known species already in freefall. We cannot afford a silent spring. 🛑🐝 #Environment
The pufferfish of happiness has visited you.
