good morning to everyone except these long neck freaks
NATURE, y’all.
For those wondering, many herbivorous mammals will chew on bones to get additional minerals, and the behavior is especially common in giraffes because they need a lot of calcium. They’re also known to play with scavenged carcasses.
TIL a cave goat that went extinct approx. 5,000 years ago is the first known mammal to have become cold-blooded. Their bone growth rate is unlike any other mammal, and more similar to crocodiles in showing slow and adaptive rates to environmental temperature.
The goat’s binomial name is Myotragus balearicus. It was kind of an oddball in a lot of other ways, too, an example being that it had forward-facing eyes, giving it stereoscopic vision, which was pretty odd for an ungulate.
It hides it’s deceit as it grows. Under its lemon exterior it is only muscles and hate
See that little white line on the adult’s tail? That’s a tiny knife made out of bone. There’s one on each side, and the knives can be used to cut competitors and potential predators.
A short comic about the way we view animals. Vultures are typecast as cowardly scavengers, often seen as a thing of evil, where eagles are seen as a symbol of freedom and courage.
Nevermind that an eagle will willingly eat carrion itself- the most common prey for these birds are things like trout or rabbits or squirrels- hardly a fight for the ages. The vulture however? May have to contend with other scavengers many times its size.
Don’t think that it doesn’t ‘work,’ just because it doesn’t hunt.
This was an experimental page done to test my paneling abilities in inDesign. I like how it works a lot. I just need to figure out some proportions a bit better and set up a template.
Eagles are also known to steal prey from smaller birds, mostly by bullying them until they drop their food to escape.
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