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Toledo Zoo first to record biofluorescence in Tasmanian Devils

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Quick background for people thinking to themselves "Toledo? What?" Toledo OH used to be a fairly wealthy industrial city (second tier to cities like Detroit, Cleveland, etc.) with a fairly wealthy business class. As a result, the city zoo and art museum is better than expected for a city of its size and current economic status.

I still think of Toledo as the place Klinger came from. Im sure is a great place with a culture of its own, but that's where my minds goes to when it is mentioned.

I wonder how many nightshift zoo keepers are searching for blacklights on amazon right now.

Just a little bit of MASH trivia for you, then: Tony Packo's is a real place.

https://www.tonypacko.com/

Also Willard from Apocalypse Now. But anyone from Toledo asked "how far [is Toledo] from the river?" Would probably not be thinking of the Ohio river.

Robert Ghrist of TDA fame did his undergrad at UToledo I think.

Much like Detroit and Cleveland, the Toledo suburbs are quite affluent even though the city itself is on hard times. Very cool to see my hometown on HN :D

Ohio has to be one of the best zoo states in the country.

and roller coasters.

The art museum there is also pretty good. I lived in Toledo for most of high school.

My first thought was Toledo in Spain, the "original" one.

The zoo was a WPA project!

We used to make the trek from Ann Arbor to Toledo with the kids just to go to the zoo. It's solid. Lots of great WPA architecture, too.

I've been to both, and I can confirm this. I think the art museum is definitely leagues above what you'd expect, and the zoo was named Best Zoo in America in 2014 by USA Today, according to Wikipedia. IIRC, they were also the first zoo in the US to exhibit giant pandas, which no zoo in the world can get ahold of except on loan from China.

Note: This is biofluorescence (absorption and reemission of light from living organisms), and not bioluminescence (biochemical emission of light by living organisms such as fireflies).

So basically they were just really excited? (sorry)

I wonder if this discovery is related to the similar recent discovery in sugar gliders:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/01/flying-sq...

I believe the article says it was prompted by the recent discoveries of these characteristics in platypuses and wombats

I like the idea that zookeepers are now walking around shining ultraviolet light on their animals to see which ones light up

First thing I thought of was Gears of War and lambent wretches.

No offence, but the Toledo is in Spain. I would like to see a photo but I see the site blocks my EU IP entirely.

It's a local news site from Ohio. It's completely reasonable that they would refer to Toledo by name without specifying Ohio, America.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CIbgfuolTeH

https://instaxyz.com/viewmedia/CIbgfuolTeH

https://teddit.net/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/k7h99c/toledo...

Probably more than half of US placenames have oldworld equivalents. Paris is in texas. Bagdad is in florida. London is in Ohio. Canada is actually a town in Kansas. Not every city can be New Somethingorother.

Athens, GA is named due to having seven hills like of the famous cities in antiquity.

like San Francisco! "Spanish settlers distinguished just seven at the time of their arrival. Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Twin Peaks, Mount Davidson, Telegraph Hill, Rincon Hill and Mount Sutro make up the seven original hills of San Francisco."

No, that's Toh-lay-doh. We're talking about Toh-lee-doh here.

Toledo in the US is far more populated than Toledo in Spain

Yes, but which one is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and has records since 59 B.C.?

and now this is my current wallpaper:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Toledo_%...

What makes one Toledo "the" Toledo? Which is "the" Springfield or "the" Newtown?

I think Loony Tunes captured this perfectly with the whirlwind/tornado effect around the Tasmanian Devil (Taz).

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