me at half the animals on the post: “BITCH THAT’S H U G E”
THAT COW IS A HORSE.
That first maned wolf is a model.
ayye, I love this but that’s not a Steller Sea Lion up there, that’s a Southern Elephant Seal.
THIS is a Steller Sea Lion (still fucking huge):
and that’s not a White-Tailed Deer, either. the one in the picture up top is a Key Deer, a smaller adorable subspecies native only to the Florida Keys.
THIS is a White-Tailed Deer:
thanks for your time
I always thought Fiat 500s looked weird and now I know why. They’re part of the seal family and not actually cars. It makes perfect sense, and this also means more people are opting for mounts instead of machines
Found in a vintage succulent book. I’ve seen the pebbles at the bottom for ‘drainage’ but without the tube so it leads to mold. This makes much more sense and I’m totally gonna do this.
WATCH: Rare corpse flower blooming at Tucson Botanical Gardens
TUCSON, AZ – For the first time in its history, Tucson Botanical Gardens has a blooming corpse flower.
The corpse flower, which gets its name from the “rotting flesh” odor it emits, is extremely rare and unpredictable.
“Corpse
flowers are considered rare in the world of botanic gardens,”
said Michelle Conklin, executive director of TBG. “There have been about
100 recorded cultivated corpse flowers around the world. The first
recorded flowering in the United States was at the New York Botanical
Gardens in 1937.”
The plants can take up to a decade to bloom for the first time and the bloom only lasts for 24-48 hours.
happy Friday everybody, it’s time for another installment of Weird Biology! and today, you’re going to learn about a goddamn dinosaur.
(yes, I know all birds are technically dinosaurs, but this one is… dinosaurier? dinosaurien? DINOSAURIEST than the rest)
meet the Hoatzin, relic of ages past
*raptor screech*
the Hoatzin is the only member of the family Opisthocomidae, an ancient line of birds that branched off from the rest some 64 million years ago. this would have been just shortly after the event that murdered the shit out of all non-avian dinosaurs. to death.
Hoatzins are the very last survivors of this ancient line. (I wanted to make a joke here, but that’s actually really fucking tragic)
shit I made myself sad, MORE JOKES
Hoatzins are common pheasant-sized birds that live in the riverside forests of South America, where they survive on a diet of *drumroll* leaves. yum.
seriously, they are one of exactly two known bird species to specialize in leaf-eating, having evolved past their shame trait some 30 million years ago. (the other one is the Kakapo, who mostly just seems confused)
Kakawho?
their love of delicious delicious leaves gives them a very… distinctive odor, shall we say. this is due to their fermentative digestive process. it has earned the Hoatzin the local name ‘Stinkybird”, which for any Hoatzins reading this, is really more of an affectionate nickname. honest.
but what truly sets Hoatzins apart, and proves their saurian nature, is this.
HOLY SHIT A DINOSAUR
the hatchlings have fucking claws on their wings. remind you of anything? like maybe, oh I dunno, this guy?
HOLY SHIT A BIRD
Archaeopteryx up there bears a striking resemblance to our Hoatzin friend, which did not go unnoticed by the scientific community (who was actually paying attention this time, they swear). in fact, this uncanny resemblance helped finalize the theoretical link between dinosaurs and birds, which we now know are the same fucking thing. (more or less)
but anyway, the baby Hoatzins use those scientifically-groundbreaking claws to scramble around in trees and avoid predators. also apparently the claws just kind of… fall off?.. when the bird becomes an adult. like, imagine if your fingers all fell off at puberty, how weird would that be? jesus.
(Hoatzins definitely aren’t the only birds with wing claws, but DON’T TELL THEM THAT. they like to feel special.)
thankfully, it looks like these evolutionary weirdos will be with us for some time to come, as Hoatzins continue to be plentiful in their range. we hope they and those weird dinosaur claws stick around for a long, long time.
They literally just posted this sldbsosbajzb
Also aparently theres more than just the clowns ughh
Damsel?? And shrimp and crabs and snails like wow.
I’m gonna reply with the exact same thing.
The inverts alone would be fine. You have to be careful with a tank that small to keep the parameters stable, but inverts have a low bio-load. A 13gal with a couple hermits, a few snails, a shrimp, and some coral would be just fine.
About the only suitable saltwater fish would be some of the smallest gobies. A neon goby would be OK, or some of the tiniest shrimpgobies, or a clown goby. Basically, no fish over an inch and a half, and no active fish that size.
This person has three territorial fish in a tank that doesn’t provide enough swimming space for any of them. I’d imagine it’s OK now because the fish all look young, but once they get older, especially once one of those clowns changes sex and they try to breed, it’s going to be massively overstocked and full of aggressive, stressed fish.
In saltwater, tanks under about 30 gallons are considered nano tanks, and the list of fish suitable for nano tanks is very short. Keep in mind that these are ocean fish- in the wild, they have no barriers. Their space needs are different from those of freshwater fish.
Just a head’s up, when meat eaters say things like “I’m glad you’re not like most vegans you’re cool about it” what they really mean is “I’m glad you’re silent about animal cruelty so I can eat animals without having to think about it.”
No actually what they likely mean is “I’m glad you’re not like PETA and compare women’s bodies to beef and pork” or “I’m glad you’re not the type of asshole who blames poor people for not being able to afford healthy vegan foods instead of getting upset at the grocery chains who throw out tons and tons of perfectly good produce”
see also: “im glad youre not one of those vegans who compares the meat industry to the holocaust”. anti-semetic, sexist, racist, and classist rhetoric is unfortunately quite common among vegans and it’s disingenuous as hell to act like having an issue with that is silencing vegans.
Also “I’m glad you aren’t one of those vegans who thinks I should put my health on the line”
“I’m glad you don’t harass me over my life choices because you’re a decent fucking human being who realizes that throwing humans under the bus so you can have an ego trip is a shitty thing to do”
Also: I’m glad you’re not one of those vegans who lies about what’s in food they’re feeding me when I ask about my allergens so that I don’t have to risk literally dying
“i’m glad you’re not literally blaming global climate change on me, personally, for liking cheese while corporations dump pollution directly into the ozone by the ton because it saves them a few dollars”
“i’m glad you’re not getting on a moral high horse about animal cruelty while ignoring the human rights abuses that go into farming your vegan faves like quinoa”
“I’m glad you value our friendship and have the decency to know there’s a time and place for advocacy and that’s not when I’m in the middle of eating.”
Like you can place Finn and Kylo Ren side-by-side and show them both the exact same tableau and they will each get something completely different out of it
For god’s sake, this happened in canon
Kylo and Finn were BOTH ON JAKKU at the EXACT SAME TIME and were looking in the EXACT SAME DIRECTION
Kylo Ren saw a destroyed village burning to the ground and didn’t think anything of it
Finn saw a destroyed village burning to the ground and saw it as abject, like actually fundamentally Wrong, like Offensive To All Senses, even more than being simply cruel and evil (bc remember, he has no reason to believe that this is anything other than normal; expected even)
Like Finn has been conditioned for this, spent his whole life being trained for it, never considering that it was wrong, and it still looked wrong: wrong to the touch, wrong to the eye, wrong in concept and thought and feeling
It was wrong enough to make him flee
Like even beyond the common Nature vs Nurture questions, Finn 100% embodies the concept of justice and goodness sprouting from places where it had no right to live (and conversely, Kylo embodies the concept of having all the required ingredients for greatness [growing up in peacetime, having heroes for relatives, increased access to ideas etc] , and ends up bad anyway)
Finn is the perfect foil for KR and their dynamic yields more than any other, is what I’m saying
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