Anyways everyone should watch The Good Place
Watch every Zelink fanartist ignore Link being shorter than Zelda for the second game in a row
what is your all time favorite predator? and prey animal?
Idk if I have any absolute favorites, but I have some I think are funny. For predators, I think archer fish are pretty funny because, like, wdym a fish learned how to nerf its prey? For prey, I have an unwavering obsession with beavers.
Also, I’m scared of seagulls because I had to fist fight one for my food once and I lost.
I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.
Back to posting funny animals. Here’s a patrick star I drew during my paleo class!!!
I am covered in hickies how am I supposed to be a respected scientist looking like this!?!
I love shrews because they’re such strange little guys. They have the largest brain-to-body ratio of any vertebrate and some species can even be toxic. Anyway, give it up for these weird little guys!
Also, shoutout to anyone else that loves rodents and other strange little guys. Let’s be friends.
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I once almost got hit by a car at night because I was trying to follow a juvenile opossum.
Naturalists have got to be one of the groups of people most susceptible to being tricked by the fae. Travellers these days are much less likely to follow a mysterious light or the smell of roast beef into the forest. Meanwhile, find me a naturalist who would not completely lose themself in pursuit of:
An unidentifiable bird call
A butterfly that's slightly off-color
An opossum with its head stuck in a yogurt tub
A really big woodpecker
A list of some beaver facts:
1. There are currently only two species of beaver: the North American beaver and Eurasion beaver. However, there's an extinct genus of beaver that existed during the ice age called the giant beaver and they could get as big as a black bear.
2. Some Eurasian beavers have been found to hold sticks and jump up and down (stick display) to communicate to and warn others about territory boundaries.
3. The basic social unit for beavers is a family consisting of the parents and several children and they live in and maintain lodges made out of logs. One family can maintain one or more lodges in their dam.
4. The entrance to a beaver lodge is underwater and is made by the beavers chewing tunnels into the bottom of their lodges. The inside of the lodge is elevated above the water. Oftentimes,the lodges will have to platforms—one for eating and grooming and one for sleeping.
5. Not only do beavers chew down trees for their dams and lodges, but they can also eat the inner tree bark and twigs.
6. Beavers will build and repair dams when they hear running water. Researchers proved this by playing recordings of running water to beavers.
Love that one of the America's most important keystone species is a fucked up rat with anxiety
(Beavers are the world's second largest rodent and I could probably talk abt then all day)
I study ecology and conservation and I love weird little guys!
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