vault—girl:

Orb weavers are so precious.

You should watch this to see how they build the web pattern, it’s not how you think. 

Spiders do this because they need to have pathways of non-sticky silk to walk on. First, they put down the basic ‘spokes’ of the web, the parts the spider is walking on here. Once that’s all in and sturdy in non-sticky silk, they put down the sticky spiral-pattern silk that’s used to capture things. 

And it’s all instinct. They’re programmed to do this, they don’t even know what they’re doing.

(Source: http://vault—girl.tumblr.com/)

Weird question (for worldbuilding on a thing): Do you happen to know if it is possible to run drugtests on shed reptile skin the way they can be run on human hair? (Question tax: Do you have a ‘theme song’ for vet work?)

drferox:

I honestly don’t know about drug residues in reptile skin. I know you can definitely find them in reptile meat, so I assume some would be detectable in reptile skin, but I have no idea which ones, or how accurately.

For a veterinary theme song, you’d probably expect me to say something meaningful or serious like ‘how to save a life’, But for some reason I really feel the lyrics of Fly Like A Butterfly. It’s absolute nonsense, but it’s nonsense with feeling. I mean, especially for emergency medicine. Look at these lyrics:

I don’t know how to do this
I don’t know how to DO THIS
I think I know, but I don’t really know
Where am I gonna go
Don’t know.. okay
Where am I gonna go
I’m flubbernucked anyway 

I just know that feeling, you know?

I don’t think it would work quite the way it does on hair. Drugs show up in hair because hair grows steadily, forming a chemical timeline. Reptiles grow scales intermittently, when it’s almost time to shed. I imagine chemicals would show up to some extent, but not in such a handy timeline shape, and I’m not sure what would get incorporated.

kelpforestdweller:

kelpforestdweller:

ranger-truth:

REBLOG IF YOU THINK WE SHOULD NORMALIZE WEARING SURGICAL MASKS FOR SEASONAL ALLERGIES.

I’m in Japan, and having the time of my life viewing flowers without feeling like I’m dying from the pollen (until the mask is off for me to eat). Everybody here wears masks for being sick, avoiding illness, or for allergies, and it’s honestly a great to have the choice without judgement. If you can stand the judgement, start wearing masks (it really helps in avoiding getting sick, too). If not, just reblog.

Please, let’s normalize wearing masks everywhere. Let’s stop making people with hayfever or compromised immune systems suffer!

right, like, most importantly: if you must be out and about with an infectious illness, please use a mask. people die from simple things like colds if their immune systems are over- or underactive or any number of issues. i understand it is awkward but you can save lives.

signed,

someone who has had a cold for a month and counting and is lucky it isn’t worse

also i wore a mask on a plane recently because of this same cold and got nothing but compliments from people admiring how responsible a choice it was.

When I see someone wearing a mask, I read either “I have allergies" or “I am containing germs”. Both are perfectly fine.

bin-of-gayness:

I’ve been cruising through the #OnlyInGotham tag, so I thought, why not contribute?

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I work at McDonalds and the, what does he call it? The Batplane? Batwing? The plane Batman drives comes by to pick up like, seventeen Happy Meals, and I only see Nightwing and Red Robin inside….. #onlyingotham #Imtellingbatman #theywerepulledoverbythebatmobile

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#onlyingotham does yelling “Nightwings butt is average!” earn you a mob at your door. Robin and Red Hood are leading them, and Red Robin in consoling a crying Nightwing in the corner. #whoops #imsorry #ijustwantedhelpwithmyhomework

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I got tired of vigilantes and rogues breaking my window, so about a month ago I replaced it with two inch thick plexi glass. After Red Hood figured it out, I guess he took it as a challenge to break my window. So now I just spend hours sitting in front of my window and drinking coffee as he throws multiple items at my window. Rogues and other vigilantes are not an uncommon site. Yesterday he threw a cat at my window. I flipped him off and he started banging his head against the wall. #itsquiteamusing #bestentertainment #onlyingotham #hejustthrewJokeratmywindow Update: He threw Red Robin and after faceplanting against my window he sorta just stayed there and stared at my coffee. #getrrhelp

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I just walked past Damian Wayne walking down the street holding catnip with a trail of cats following him. I think he’s going back to the manor…. #onlyingotham #imsorrybruce #savebruce2k18

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Some Metropolis tourist was standing next to me waiting for the bus and bragging all about how amazing Superman is and how their city is soooo much better than ours. Also about how us Gothamites are only cultured if we’re ritch and if we’re ritch we’re snobs. And me, being the small art school student I am who has grown up in Gotham, punched said tourist. Right in the gut. Nightwing high fived me. #onlyingotham

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#onlyingotham do you run into Red Robin at the cafe near your dorm and pass out from shear exhaustion, only to wake up to find his cowl wrapped around your shoulders and enough money to buy another coffee, along with a sticky note that says good luck. #thestrugglesofanartstudent #imkeepingthecowl #itssowarm

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I just watched Dick Grayson fall out of a tree and flip last second onto his feet while yelling “yolo” #onlyingotham #savebruce2k18

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I went to Wayne Manor for a gala only because I was a personally hired photographer, and I didn’t have fancy clothes so I showed up in jeans in a plaid shirt. Tim Drake took one look at me, and dragged me to his room to get me “proper” clothes. As he was doing so he told me that the snobs in that Ballroom would eat me alive if I went in there looking like that. When he was done he patted me on the shoulder and left. #onlyingotham #ithinkiminlove #TimsofficiallymyfavoriteWaynekid

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