This is actually really awesome enrichment for intelligent fish like bettas. Even just putting a novel object outside the tank can give them some entertainment, and when it moves? Get the lil fishy neurons going.
Hi, dude on this TV show. I feel bad about you getting attacked by a grizzly bear.
BUT, if you were planning your Alaskan moose hunting trip for 2 years, shouldn’t you have read that you do NOT try to scare a grizzly away by shouting at it? Especially not when you’re only armed with a bow. You sit really quiet and hope it doesn’t notice you, and if it does, you move slowly away from it. Also, you carry bear-strength pepper spray when going into bear territory LIKE ALASKAN MOOSE TERRITORY.
my requirements for sleeping at night: is the pillow cool enough? are my legs positioned so they don’t put too much weight on each other? are my arms tucked in nicely and not at odd angles? can I stop thinking about the day’s events? is enough of my body out from under the blanket that I won’t overheat? are my toes safely tucked in to hide them from monsters?
my requirements for sleeping in the morning: is the surface vaguely horizontal and not made entirely out of hornets
I like the implications that OP could sleep on a bed made halfway out of hornets.
I didn’t know about that – that’s actually really interesting, since Carnotaurus actually did have very mobile shoulder joints.
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Having worked with emus, seen them running, and gotten a real good
look at their wings and the underlying anatomy there, I’m confident in saying they are far too limp and
vestigial to be honestly used for anything. They are not stiff at all, rather they’ve actually seen a dramatic reduction in all the associated muscles compared to other rattites, therefore they are unlikely to be strong enough to use as a rudder. The only supporting literature I can find for emus flapping their tiny, useless wings or using them as a rudder is a 1969 book by Eastman that kind of whimsically postulates it as a possibility. Here’s an emu running flat out, note that the wings are back against the body, hidden in the fluff of their chest:
Here’s about as prominent as the wings get, and I can tell you they are very limp. This girl is displaying so she’s puffed her neck fluff up and let her wings hang forward:
The ‘flapping’ is just the wings moving as the animal moves. Emus tend to use their head and neck more than anything to steer, resulting in a lot of hilarious throwing of their head about as they attempt to turn around – usually they have to slow and lean their entire body, it’s an entirely ungraceful affair! The reason the wings persist is that they haven’t been selected against in any way, and have just persisted because they have no negative impact on the fitness of the animal. I’ve got no idea how muscled/rigid Carnotaurus forelimbs are, but emu limbs are most certainly not rudders!
I’m pretty sure you could genetically modify emus to remove the wings and it would make absolutely 0 difference to general emu operation.
Lovely large ladies on the alpine mintbush! Both these insects are big, for bugs, and both are flightless, flashy coloured, and female.
On the right is the spotted mountain grasshopper (Monistria concinna), who’s delightful spots are an aposematic colouration warning of her toxicity. She’s grazing voraciously on the mintbush to build up weight before winter, where she won’t die like other alpine insects but rather, she will freeze solid, awaiting the thaw of spring to live and eat another year!
On the left, the flagship species of my lab, the mountain katydid (Acripeza reticulata), doing her deimatic display. She has lifted her wing cases to reveal her colourful, curled abdomen covered in foul tasting secretions, as well as inflating her orange throat patches. She too is eating the mintbush, possibly to sequester the toxins in its leaves for her defense, like the grasshopper does.
These gorgeous girls are but a small part of the fantastic array of Australian alpine invertebrates that make fieldwork a real treat.
Kangaroos are animals that seem like they should be cryptids but it’s an entire species.
God: What if we just made a really horrible man? Give it. Give it lots of things. Tail leg. Belly sack. Talons. Abs. taste for flesh. Valid driver’s license. Fur.
the ability to beat the goddamn piss out of you.
and taunt you afterward
excuse me, this is an actual kangaroo? not a cunning-edit furry joke? you’re telling me this is what literal live kangaroos look like in real life?
yeah kangaroos are actually pretty mean looking. The cute ones are wallabies.
kangaroo^
wallaby^
kangaroo^
wallaby^
this is just so fucked up
As an Australian I can attest that our national symbol is indeed a jerk.
Kangaroos are fuckin terrifying
kangaroos look like they’d send me an out of focus dick pic at 4am with madoka magica scale figures on the shelf in the background that are badly hidden behind a tub of whey
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