The myth that panic, looting, and antisocial behavior increases during the apocalypse (or apocalyptic-like scenarios) is in fact a myth—and has been solidly disproved by multiple scientific studies. The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, a research group within the United States Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), has produced research that shows over and over again that “disaster victims are assisted first by others in the immediate vicinity and surrounding area and only later by official public safety personnel […] The spontaneous provision of assistance is facilitated by the fact that when crises occur, they take place in the context of ongoing community life and daily routines—that is, they affect not isolated individuals but rather people who are embedded in networks of social relationships.” (Facing Hazards and Disasters: Understanding Human Dimensions, National Academy of Sciences, 2006). Humans do not, under the pressure of an emergency, socially collapse. Rather, they seem to display higher levels of social cohesion, despite what media or government agents might expect…or portray on TV. Humans, after the apocalypse, band together in collectives to help one another—and they do this spontaneously. Disaster response workers call it ‘spontaneous prosocial helping behavior’, and it saves lives.
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Both parrots and crows are intelligent enough to be evil, but only parrots align themselves with it. Crows are culturally chaotic neutral.
Coopers hawks are chaotic chaotic. Herons are lawful evil. Vultures are neutral good.
I have never had an unpleasant interaction with a Canadian goose. I have charged at them many times and they have merely honked reproachfully at me and slowly waddled away. Apart from making a mess, I have not personally observed them acting like dicks… parrots, on the other hand, love to spread terror and will cackle evilly to express their sadistic pleasure.
When geese act like dicks, it’s usually out of an overabundance of protectiveness or territorial nature. Generally because they see you as a threat of some sort.
Parrots, though? Well. There’s a reason the parrots at my local exotic pet shop (surrenders only, no breeding/wild captures) all have signs on the cages warning people not to get too close. Parrots will bite you and laugh, or learn to call your various other pets over in order to bite them, or rip your keyboard up. Basically, they like to bite things and yell, and seem to find it fun to bite other living things.
what is it about teenage superheroes that just makes them imprint on tony like what does he DO ?? hes not even that dad-shaped, dads are rounder.
tiny. on their level.
thats fair he does know what its like to be short and dramatic
Chicken!
She’s a pet of one of the employees at my local reptile shop. Whenever that employee comes to work, so does the chicken. She runs around picking up the escaped feeder crickets, and seems to have absolutely no interest in escaping, even when both doors are open.
mermaids would have to be dark-skinned and chubby to survive in the ocean
water isnt a great means of protecting oneself from the sun theyd have to be very dark if they were shallow mermaids and they didnt want to be constantly sunburnt and they may be paler if they lived deeper in the water but theyd have to be buff and/or chubby as hell to resist the water pressure and cold of the deep sea
what im saying is pale-ass white skinny mermaids are just unrealistic
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Fat isn’t a defense against water pressure, it’s an insulator. So the colder the water, the fatter the mermaid.
Scandinavian merfolk would be tubby, evolving more for persistence hunting in the freezing coastal waters, possibly relying more on siren-song to lull prey into effective range. The less moving the better! Gotta keep the chub on to survive the winter.
Whereas Mediterranean/Polynesian merfolk would spend their time among the fertile reefs in warmer waters, competing with other predators. They would be built for speed and agility, buff like sprinters. Darker skin would be harder to spot under the surf, and more resistant to the glaring sun.
Also: it’s not hair, it’s scillia that they use to filter plankton out of the water, and it stings like a jellyfish if you touch it.
I would imagine that merfolk come in many different colors, maybe they even have the ability to shift their skin tone to assist in hunting? I guess that depends on how intelligent your mermaids are.
Tldr; cold water mermaids would probably be chubby, warm water mermaids would look like Serna Williams.
Another thing to take into account is Deep-Sea-Gigantism. It’s not fully understood why many animal species such as the colossal squid and whales typically grow to unimaginable sizes in high-water-pressure areas, but it’s assumed that it develops as some sort of defense mechanism. This would imply that deep-sea merfolk would be a sort of Leviathan-class eldritch horror.
Hell yeah hell yeah
Also, if a mermaid is pale and skinny? That’s not a mammal. That’s nowhere near a mammal. And if it’s not a mammal, the only reason it would look so humanoid is as a form of mimicry.
What I’m saying is, if a mermaid is pale and skinny, it’s bait. For you.
huh that sounds like a pretty nasty case of parasites. I’ve never dealt with that before but i’ll post it in case anyone else has.
Whatever that is, he needs an anti-parasite medication, pronto. One of the meds that goes in the entire tank and is meant to treat internal worms ought to do the trick. If the freshwater dip made some of the parasites come off, that’s probably worth repeating daily. If not, don’t.
This is a pike livebearer! The gals get about as long and tall as a banana, the boys stay the size of the one in that person’s hand, and their fry are born alive (no eggs) and about the size of guppies. This is the largest livebearer fish we know of, and they will strongly attempt to swallow anything that’s not at least their size.
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