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buddha-buddy-the-beardie:

karagloverbillhardt:

Part two of my encounter with the prettiest beetle in the land. #getlow #entomology #flowerbeetle #nature #beetles #magic #invertebrate #beauty #closeup #instagood #beautiful #wildlife #outdoors #instanature #bugslife #close #wild #happy #green #copper #sixlegs

I absolutely love the way it walks!

someidiotontheinternet:

steve-spaghetti:

renirabbit:

pizzalecki:

pkmnbreederbrianna:

togamijail:

chandra75:

im-sherlocked-in-my-mindpalace:

socially-awkward-supervillian:

Fun fact: Cheetahs only attack prey that runs

jesus that is good to know.

Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten. 

REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit

my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies

Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs.

So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly – not spazz themselves into miscarrying.

So what’d they do?
They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs!

The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!

AJHHHHFDDGHH SO PRECIOUS

this post just got so much better

THIS IS OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE POST

aNOTHER FUN FACT: in nature, jackals will fill the roll of the service dogs. they protect the cheetahs by yipping when predators approach such as hyenas or lions. it’s a symbiosis of sorts. in return, the cheetahs will leave like half of what they kill for the jackals since they’re so light weight and can’t eat very much all at once.

persverso:

thatll-do:

lickkaballs:

the loveliest meowing of them all

A BABY

[a wonderful milkmaiden]: Mrrmeow?
[the milkmaiden]: Mrrpmeow?
[an entity of the shadow]: (emerges from the shade)
[the delightful maiden]:Mrrp?
[the entity]
]:

(bravely breaks the boundary of the shadow, bravely impeaches it and passes the border of the realm of light in order to be joined with the brave milkmaiden.)
[the entity]: (A high-pitched “mmrp!” of delight)
[the wonderful milkmaiden]: (She decides that this footage is sufficient. The camera man is instantly murdered upon impact.)

The ongoing saga of Harker and the stapler

trilllizard666:

sabotabby:

thatawkwardtinyperson:

falloutphanboyz:

kaijutegu:

kaijutegu:

kaijutegu:

My ball python, Harker, is really scared of this one stapler.

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Every time he sees it, he balls up.

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I was grading today and sure enough, the stapler was still scary.

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However, for the first time, I introduced a second stapler!

He was nervous at first… 

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But it didn’t take him long to warm up to it.

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Pretty soon it became his best friend!

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There was nothing the new stapler couldn’t do!

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Including protecting him from the other stapler.

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The moral of the story?

My snake is a weirdo.

Update: Today I took Harker to my office, where he met another stapler.

He was fairly apathetic at first, but eventually they got on pretty well!

This stapler was smaller than either of the others, but one thing was sure: this stapler was definitely not scary!

Am I any closer to understanding my snake’s strange relationship with staplers?

Absolutely not.

UPDATE: it’s 2016 and I’m pleased to announce that he’s FINALLY gotten over his fear of the stapler!

He likes it now!

Tell him I’m proud of him

This post is so pure!

This is the best story.

Character Development