If you think a consensual relationship between a 17 and a 24 year old is “paedophilia” then you really can just fuck off. I’ve no time for people whose world view aligns with the likes of James Woods for fuck sake
It’s definitely not pedophilia, there’s no children involved. It’s still… not so good, though. Even fully consensual, there’s a lot of potential for accidental manipulation with the huge difference in maturity. It’s possible for something like that to be healthy, but I’m not sure it’s all that likely, and it’s definitely not something I’d want to see encouraged by media. Way too much potential for predatory adults to use it as an excuse to go after teens.
the “___ change my mind” guy sitting at a desk is Steven Crowder who is literally a deep conservative “comedian” and the biggest transphobe of 2018 so can we NOT use that meme anymore thanks. he literally calls trans people tr**** in some of his videos and refers to caitlyn jenner (I may not like her but Christ) as a transgender f@scist because she transitioned and refers to her transitioning as “going full #sjw.” this meme is cancelled and not funny. use google if you don’t believe me. bye
yeah actually i did some research (googling. i googled) and this is what the the original image was: (as opposed to what i first saw it as and what other might have, and had assumed that was the real one)
he does stuff like that a lot;
so yeah Yikes.
Shit, I just looked him up as well.
Fucking YIKES, meme cancelled.
FYI. Don’t reblog or make any more memes from this guy. Fucking creep.
The day after I visited the Duke Lemur Center, the wonderful keeper who showed me around posted this great video of the Aye-ayes.
Aye-ayes are nocturnal animals, so they’re kept on a flipped light cycle at the Center (it lets staff clean while the lights are on early in the morning, but then observe / work with the animals during the day when it’s dark in their enclosures). The girls happened to be awake before the lights went off when this video was taken.
I wanted to share this video because it’s a great view of some of the adaptations that make Aye-ayes so special: their specialized “tapping finger” and super-sensitive ears. Here’s the great commentary from the DLC’s youtube channel:
“Because a significant percentage of an aye-aye’s diet consists of insect larvae that dwell inside dead or living trees, the animals have evolved a specialized method for locating the larvae. As they walk along a branch, the animals continuously and rapidly tap it with their middle finger. Cupping their huge ears forward, the aye-aye listens intently to the echoing sounds coming from the tapped tree. When the sound indicates they are above an insect tunnel, the animals begin to tear off enormous chunks of the outer bark with their impressive teeth, until the insect tunnel is revealed. Then the aye-aye inserts its slender and highly flexible third finger into the hole, and when the prey is located, it is hooked with the tip of the finger and removed.
Here, Ardrey and her daughter Elphaba use the same process to eat eggs from their technician, Mel: they tap, chew, then use their long flexible middle fingers to dip into and remove the yolks of the eggs 🙂 When they finish, the delicate eggshells remain fully intact, except for the small hole created by the aye-ayes’ strong front teeth!
I asked what the Aye-ayes were echo-locating to find in the egg, assuming it would be the air-sac, but it turns out an intern at the DLC studied them to find out, and they’re not looking for anything specific – they’re just tapping it because that’s what they instinctively do with food before they eat it.
Someone on the VCUK Facebook groups uses mealworms and they look like they are doing a really good job. I’ve never used them myself. Apparently they work great for anything larger than a jackdaw. Really small things like mice and shrews tend to get chewed up by them. They are a bit more rough on fragile bones than dermisteds.
Pillbugs/rolypolies will happily clean small skeletons for you, but they also might nibble on tiny bones.
Ants work for larger skeletons, but they’ll carry away smaller bones (squirrel toes) unless you confine the skeleton in mesh just large enough for ants to get through. They’re /fast/, too. Good for larger things like skulls. Best to use a wild batch of ants and put the skeleton near them rather than trying to keep ants in your house, though.
October 9, 2017: Meet some lovely fuzzy faterpillars, bring them inside to cuddle/pupate
Soon after: I come home and the enclosure is barren of faterpillars. I assume they escaped and the cats ate them and I vowed to never speak of them again
January 13, 2018: I discover a cocoon… in a purse… across the room from their enclosure…
March 20, 2018: It’s a boy 😭
Fun fact: in the 5th photo (of the pupa) you can see his old baby clothes. The pupa is on the *inside* of the caterpillar; they molt their old skin, the pupa is revealed, and it hardens and gets darker afterwards. Before pupating, moths will make cocoons out of any of a variety of materials depending on the species and personal preference. Hairy moths often spin cocoons with their hairs. When they are all safe and snug, they will pupate!
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