Glacier Mice

Huh

> they have been observed in Alaska, Chile, Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, Uganda and Venezuela

Well, today I learned, Venezuela has glaciers.

Then I googled that, and…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/...

And so today I learned, Venezuela used to have glaciers.

Always love seeing a link to wikipedia.org on the front page. Pretty much guaranteed to make me go "oh, neat" :)

huh funny name that. When I hiked a glacier in Norway, dead mice (and other things) were everywhere under the ice. I assumed that's what the title was referring to.

I did a bit of searching, and couldn't find a single timelapse of glacier mice movement. Time for a trip to the mountains with some cameras!

I have found a video (under a minute long) of a backpacking group walking through a herd of glacier mice in Alaska: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4fHfDrfoJw. I'd love to see a timelapse of glacier mice moving.

Here in Switzerland when children order shrimp at a restaurant I tell them that they come from the shrimp mines in the glaciers.

I clicked the picture first without reading any of the article and was wondering "where are the mice? they must be well camouflaged!"

Slightly related, ice worms

https://glaciers.nichols.edu/iceworm/

jökla-mýs is a wonderful name, you gotta love icelandic. A swede might also associate it too "jäkla mys" - god damn cozy!

TIL. Life never ceases to amaze.

reminds me vaguely of "Sailing Stones"

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_stones

Dunno about you, but I was really hoping to see mice not moss :/

Remember seeing these in Iceland

...Poppa was a rolling stone...

Am I the only one who immediately thought of tribbles?

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