How do ground, wild animals survive in a drought?

Just ordered a bird watering jug and plan on putting out a bowl of water for the night time critters.  Worried about the frogs, I don't hear them at night anymore, they will probably dig into the dirt to stay cool. 




This post was edited by Art Lover at September 18, 2024 6:11 PM MDT

Bro...the rest of us got it.  Oh...I forgot you are from CA.

 

  I’m not from California.
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( I didn't.)

Confused me too - is she ruling out land based animals that are arboreal, like koalas and possums?

 

  I didn’t know if she meant ground beef, ground pork, ground chicken, etc.  



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My first thought was ground beef etc, too. Thought the question was a funny humorous question.

Land = ground 

Have you lacked imagination your whole life?

 

  She used the wrong word. Defending her doesn’t curry favor with me, you should be doing your utmost to remain on my good side. Don’t you remember the warnings the judge gave you at the last hearing you dragged me into? Grrrrrrrr.

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That's only because my regular judge was on vacation. Next time will be different. 

I just worry about the little guys, I put water out tonight.  One year a Fox had a heat stroke in my yard, I thought he was dead.  I went in to get some water and when I went back out he was gone.  Poor little guy he sure looked like he had gone over the Rainbow Bridge.  Glad he survived. 

I am sure the animals in your neighborhood will appreciate it.   And you will likely get to see more of them. 

We had a koala wander into our front yard during a heat wave, disoriented and dehydrated. As a general rule, koalas obtain sufficient moisture from the leaves they spend most of their time eating, but this fellow was very distressed - so I filled the dog's water dish and set it at the foot of a nearby manna gum tree, one of the specific species that they live on. He took a drink and climbed the tree. We heard him grunting his mating call that night, so he'd obviously recovered.

Sweet little Koala, you did a good thing. 

 

  Interesting.

  How might you assist your ol’ mate Randolph D to get his mating call back into grunting order? It might come in handy the next time Minneapolis is on the tour rotation. (Cough, cough.)

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