babies! – BettSplendens Tumblr Evac

robomalus:

bc ll25 made me sad i decided to draw something sweet/good

salvo hugging sticks!! the wheels get in the way but that won’t stop salvo

catsofinstagram:

From @whiskersnpurrs: “The kitten lovers have spoken!! By a landslide, the “white kittens want birthday cake” video was the most requested ☺️” #catsofinstagram [source: https://ift.tt/2zCRv6P ]

seatrench:

Discus and Fry

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Source: seatrench

rorby:

Commission for @herzspalter

bettsplendens:

why-animals-do-the-thing:

sammiwolfe:

thehotgirlproject:

Poor bbs need mental simulation

@why-animals-do-the-thing
So. I know absolutely nothing about bird care. And this seems really harmless and cute. But I was wondering why these chicks are flocking to a dangling key chain like this? Is this just an instinct or have they associated humans with food coming in, or all they all just adorable dumb babies like when you dangle keys in front of a human infant? Why are the chicks flocking like this?

According to @crisscrosscutout, this is super normal chicken behavior. It’s not a result of lack of stimulation or anything, they just really do go ‘ooh shiny’ and flock to check it out.

Definitely looks like a typical “ooh shiny” response from baby animals, there just happens to be a heck of a lot of them in one spot all piling up on each other.

Now please picture a flock of velociraptors doing this.

bobcatmoran:

Favorite image of the day: A photo taken by Brett Cizek of a common merganser with a massive brood of over 50 ducklings trailing after her. Biologists guess that she picked up at least a couple dozen who got separated from their mother, and maybe a few more pre-hatching since ducks often lay a couple eggs in other ducks’ nests as a way of not…er…putting all their eggs in one basket. So big broods are not uncommon, but this is definitely larger than usual.

Apparently since this photo was taken, she’s picked up another two dozen and is now wandering around Bemidji, MN, with over 70 ducklings in tow.

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taz-quails:

So rather than spend $80+ on an “electric hen” I just made one myself for about $15. Basically, it’s a heat mat (facing down) built into a sloped stand creating this little pocket of heat so chicks can get in under it to get warm. Just like they do with a mama hen.

Added a bit of cardboard over the top because their birds, they will poop on it. And replacing that bit of cardboard is easier than cleaning the heat mat.