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"You think you're informed just because you read a bunch of grainy PDFs?"
Yeah man. Reading scholarly works on a topic informs you on that topic. That's how this works.
Romans will see a mouse and eat it
Merry 2000 Trained Rats, everybody
i ate a sentinel berry and became watchful
predators are more conflict-averse than prey - a herbivore can get into a territorial dispute, get gored by a horn, and spend the next while weakened but still easily able to regain its strength from grass and tubers or whatever. a hunter that gets scratched by prey it still manages to kill might not be able to get a kill afterwards, and slowly starve. an ambush predator will back down if you stare at it, but a plant-eater will try to kick you to death.
me: i wish there were a convenient way to separate elements in a file path...
the stalwart Backslash:
hey um. this is very awesome and well crafted
3D Model Commission
Character belongs to murdermuffin666 on twitter
damn, karl ramsdell is small as hell but he looks like a chill guy
karl ramsdell
Bird of the Week: The Kori Bustard! 🪶
I just wanna yap about these guys I really love them.
The kori bustard (Ardeotis kori), is the heaviest flying bird, with adult males weighing anywhere between 25-42 lbs. However, they tend to spend most of their lives on land.
While emitting a deep booming call, males will puff up their neck plums and tail feathers for a mating display.
They are native to grasslands, savannas, and wooded areas throughout southern Africa.
These beasts are omnivorous, with diets made up of insects, reptiles, small mammals, small birds, and plant matter such as seeds and berries.
okay, to the average person's credit, prairie dogs and marmots at least share a tribe: Marmotini. this tribe also includes chipmunks and other ground squirrels, including some wacky characters like the distinctly patterned Ictidomys family:
...and Sciurotamias, the rock squirrel* family!! rock on, little dude!!!!
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now groundhogs, as we all know, are marmots (family Marmota), the family which shares its tribe's etymological root.
a prairie dog resembles a marmot (vaguely), but they have their own family!! and it's Cynomys!! Which is derived from Greek for dog mouse. you gotta admit, that thing is pretty dogmouse.
anyways, i'm trying to assess the subspecies of the guy from the meme. it's not the White-Tailed Prairie Dog, who has a nifty dark coloration on its face and stuff.
my guess would be... Black-Tailed? idk, someone smart and observant help. ok bye
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(*not to be confused with the rock rats... they are entirely different guys)
just saw this clip and i think itd make a funny reaction image what do u think... does it have potential
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[ID: Two photos of a gray squirrel sitting in a tree with a cookie half the size of its body held in its mouth. End ID]
Oh to be a squirrel with a big cookie...
Eastern gray squirrel (sciurus carolinensis)
November 1st, 2024
Bagley Nature Area, Duluth, Minnesota
and is your shame helpful? is it inspiring goodness and change? or is it keeping you frozen in time unable to move on and be everything you have expanded to be?
speculative biology/fantasy/fictionalized large predators that kill indiscriminately and don't eat what they kill drive me up the fucking wall. it is so, so dangerous and exhausting to be a large predator. you don't want to get into a fight, you don't want to exert too much energy, because if you fuck up you can die. and once you manage to kill something, you eat it. you don't go and kill the rest of the herd, you scare off the rest of the herd and eat the thing you killed until something scares you off.
did you know tigers only have a 10% success rate as hunters? TIGERS.
I FUCKING LOVE GRASS
I LOVE GRASSLANDS BIOMES
I LOVE PRAIRIES
I LOVE STEPPES
HOUSE FOR BUGS
FOOD FOR HERBIES (short for herbivores)
CAMOUFLAGE FOR CARNIES (short for carnivores)
GRASS IS GOOD, BIODIVERSITY IS GOOD, STOP MOWING YOUR FUCKING LAWNS
Senators are going to vote on whether or not we should continue to send aid to Israel on Wednesday, November 13th. Call them, bombard their phone lines with calls. Every fucking day. We have a chance of doing something about this.
sorry for lashing out at you dude. in my rage i mistook you for a piece of shit
I'm starting a collection
for the art prompt "mouse world" - necromantic scions & cavaliers primary of the eighth and ninth mouse houses
aka op suffers from chronic symptoms of "read way too much redwall in middle school"
so this has been sitting in my drafts for quite a while now because i’ve been scared to post it.
i made this short comic for a class back in april. it’s called “midnight phonecalls (but at 4am)” and it’s sort of about that depression that hits when it’s late at night and you don’t know why you’re alive. it’s also about running away, maybe. and worrying your friends. and phone anxiety. and a tree,
i tried to split it up for legibility lmao let me know how that worked. and thanks for reading, if you did!
reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a fucking break
wowww!!!!! okay!!!
and also what is a lichen
Top 5 SpOoOokiest lichens!
5. Thamnolia vermicularis, aka whiteworm lichen, deadbone lichen
4. Pseudevernia cladonia, aka ghost antler lichen, light-and-dark lichen, phantom psuedevernia
3. Pilophorus acicularis, aka devil's matchsticks
2. Alectoria sarmentosa, aka witch's hair
1. Letharia vulpina, aka wolf lichen
it's important to remember that most 'invasive species' did not change the region and habitat to which they have adapted by their own accord; stowaways on cargo vessels, changed migration patterns due to human settlements or a changing climate; animals formerly used for furs or other animal products being released after those goods were no longer in demand... these animals are displaced. it's very sad because often the best solution is population control.
we made the problem and the best solution feels pretty ugly, but the alternative is often ecologically much worse.
Not only do we have the rich elite releasing millions of non-native birds for sport shooting, and shooters and farmers campaigning against efforts to re-wild parts of the UK, we also have animal rights groups sabotaging conservation efforts.
Grey squirrels are highly invasive in the UK. They spread disease, outcompete the native red squirrel, and also predate native bird nests and damage trees. Culling them is vital to helping to restore ecosystems and threatened native wildlife. Yet there are groups of ARAs dedicated to saving these invasive squirrels. UK wildlife just can't win.
This is how bad the situation is btw:
has anyone seen this thing!!!
Black Herons (Egretta ardesiaca), family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, South Africa
Bttm photo - Using its wings to create shade, which may attract some small fish, but also reduces the glare over the water making it easier to find prey.
photograph by Frikkie Bell
going to Fantasy Google to look up how to cast fireball, and having to scroll past no less than 3000 words on how the author's grandma used to cast fireball to keep them warm in winter and how fireball is a great way to spice up a Fantasy Superbowl party, before finally reaching the spell components which are just a pinch of sulfur and two downfeathers.
Ive seen people be like in modern fantasy like "oh the pritagonists can just look up spells on their phone how do you solve that"
Imma be honest most people who go on recipe websites and book every recipe they see don't even use them lmao why would with be different
Prompt number 4 of the Monstergarden "Trenchtober" challenge.
Promt 4: Rodent
Quite happy with how this one turned out, perfect prompt for one of our favorite creatures in the project, the giant capibara-like "barabas".
Note: yes, they are ridable