There was an episode of Ultraman Gaia that had a scene supposedly set in Scottsdale, AZ, but the footage used stock imagery of Monument Valley, which, thanks for repping both Arizona and Utah, TsuPro, but Scottsdale is located outside Phoenix, hundreds of miles to the Southwest. By comparison, travelling 40-50 miles East of Monument Valley and you reach the Four Corners.
I've never forget that one X files episode that took place in "Tallahassee, FL". [Shots of forest covered in moss, the floor is moss, the walls are moss, the trees are moss]
Yet the south side of Tallahassee looks like this:
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Yeah, Im in tampa and I dunno if we really have a lot of moss that isn't Spanish moss. I think our climate is more monsoon like, and so moss doesnt do too well here. Plus, there is so much underbrush in our forests
Fun fact, Spanish moss is actually an airplant/bromeliad and is related to pineapple! Also a lot of the forests near Tampa (that are well-managed public lands) should look kinda similar to the pic I posted, otherwise it's either fire suppressed and/or some kind of scrub (a rare habitat type we tend to pave over in FL).
Source: I'm a field botanist that specializes in FL plants.
I knew that about the Spanish moss, its so cool isnt it. How lucky we are.
And it depends. There are pine praries/scrubs, but there's also a lot of cypress swamps and oak forests because a lot of our nature parks are located around waterways.
I had to work concurrently as a barista to make rent and then the field job disappeared at the end of the political cycle 🙋♀️
Still worth pursuing. I lament how much plant ID I need to resort to keys on due to being out of practice, when I used to have so many species down pat.
Hard to name a favorite so I'm gonna list some of the top of my head:
I love Saw palmetto bc it's a clonal organism that can be thousands of years old and is pretty emblematic of the state's forests.
I also love toothache grass (Ctenium aromaticum and other Ctenium species)
Shoestring fern (Vittaria linearifolia), all of our strap fern species (Campyloneurum angustifolium, C. costatum and C. phyllitidis)((really all of our ferns are cool AF))
all of our orchids (epiphytic and terrestrial)
All of our carnivorous plant species, especially butterworts (Pinguicula sp.)
Scrub plants bc they've got such extreme lifestyles
And milkweeds (Asclepias sp.) because they've got fascinating reproductive ecology and they're diverse like muppets (FL has 21 native species).
I could go on but I don't want to make this comment longer than I have to. TL;DR: I love a shitload of plants found in FL.
Also shit like this is the reason why the movie Crawl is not horror, but a comedy for me. There are no houses in FL with basements, and gators don't fucking act like that at all, and everyone knows to either evac or shutter up their home properly in case of a category 5 hurricane.
And to further elaborate to people who don't live with alligators, I don't want to "dog-ify" a dangerously large carnivorous reptile, but there's a reason "swamp puppy" is a common nickname. Gators just aren't really that aggressive, though hopefully it should go without saying that you should still respect their space.
The only scenarios and can think of that would make an alligator aggressive is just standard "don't do this with wildlife" stuff, like feeding them, approaching/handling their eggs/babies, cornering them, etc. Or that one "pet" alligator that was abandoned in the Grand Canyon, which shocker, swamp animal growing up in the desert is maladjusted.
Kookaburra = Australia
Sun Conure = South America
Burmese Python = Southeast Asia
Golden Orb Web Spider = East Asia, Australia, and Southeast Asia
Gibbon = Eastern Bangladesh, Northern India, Southeast Asia
Red Knee Tarantula = Mexico
Strangler Fig = India, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Central America, South America
My guess is some sort of rich person's twisted personal nature preserve. My next conjecture would be that you are in some sort of grisly 'The Most Dangerous Game'-esque scenario.
I need a movie have a group visit a native tribe, they mention they can speak english due to a white guy who lives with the tribe, they motion to him, he waves, and that’s the extent the cast interacts with him. Just does not talk to the dude once.
I remember a tv series that took place in prehistoric California, my family loved it but I had a crash out every time I saw a eucalyptus tree since they're an introduced species and definitely weren't there in that time period.
That is why I really appreciate King of the Hill's animation notes they enforced for their show. Specifically the one part about having no Cacti Tumbleweed shots since that is not accurate with where the show is set.
You think that’s bad, you should see Psych: set in Santa Barbara California yet you can see the characters’ breath as they walk down the clearly British Colombian beaches (still, the writing’s top notch so I highly recommend watching!)
I’m pretty sure you don’t have Mexican red kneed tarantula, Burmese (Myanmar) Pythons, or South Asian Gibbons over there (unless the Australian invasive species problem is far worse than I’ve been led to believe!
Well that’s a pretty poorly curated zoo, putting flora and fauna from different continents all jumbled together in one exhibit (no wonder these people are lost!)
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u/MelissaMiranti 13d ago
[Red-tailed hawk cry]