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▪︎ She/They ▪︎ Arospec Asexual ▪︎ Canadian ▪︎ Junkie currently obsessed with Marvel and Genshin Impact ▪︎ Artist ▪︎ Writer ▪︎ Got Tumblr for fun and because it looks cool. This is me either shitposting or drawing. Here are my other links: https://linktr.ee/baylecn

[toastbutteregg]

SO COLORFUL

it fascinates me that theres (probably) billions of species left undiscovered

[zoreta]

Here is an adult :)

The black-backed dwarf kingfisher is also very pretty!

[gyrrakavian]

the colors on that last one hurt to look at. Are we sure this isn’t a shop job?

[zoreta]

They’re real! The black backed dwarf kingfisher, Scientific name Ceyx erithaca.

They’re around the size of a medium hummingbird, 5.5 inch (13 cm) from tip of beak to end of tail. Which is why their prey looks so huge by comparison!

[jay-rayart]

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Coming soon: FLY : A Magical Black Boy Series - Pilot Animatic

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.

[raye-venn]

Varka ! Finally met him hehe

[indigosfindings]

how do you pronounce the honourific "Ms." in english

"miss"

"miz"

other

unsure/see results

Voting ended onMay 21

[mortalityplays]

really good "shocking number of people are confidently objectively demonstrably completely wrong" poll

[3liza]

i am losing my fucking mind

[avocado-moon]

#we dont use honorifics in my first language so whenever i have to select options (usually for flights) im always so confused#like what is actually the difference between miss and ms#i like miss bc it sounds more historical and im a historian so

"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)

"Ms." - prounounced MIZ, btw - is a third option popularized by gloria steinem in the 70s - mainly through her feminist magazine Ms. - which is meant to be a neutral term, usable for any and all women regardless of marital status (hence the soul destroying irony of the tags above). it gained wider general acceptance when geraldine ferraro, the first woman to be nominated as VP on a national major party ticket, started using it widely to avoid confusion, since she was married but used her maiden name professionally. eventually over the years it came into common use though i do think the brits are a little more critical of it than americans (as far as i'm aware lol)

[tuulikki]

And as a reminder of the contrast: Mister (Mr.) never changes depending on whether a guy has been married.

Traditionally, a woman would be Miss [father’s surname] or Mrs. [husband’s surname]. Her entire social named existence is reshaped by whether or not she’s been transferred from the custody of one man to another. That’s the origin. And that’s what Ms. is pushing back against.

If you care about the names people choose for themselves, you need to care about pronouncing “Ms.” correctly.

[tinartss]

legend says that if you outragebait the ragebaiter they fall madly in love with you

[ctrl-alt-cel]

my fav banana fish arc...the geometry quiz arc....

[undergroundwubwubmaster]

✨️ Twinkle twinkle little star, how the hell you draw an arm ✨️

[biorante]

[manlyplumsour]

Switcheroo

[i-slurp-noodles]

These chuds

[loveisinthebat]

Him

[loveisinthebat]

Him

[reactionimagearchive]

[vronoch]

they!!!! husbands!!!!!

[jazbell]

me when im in the fourth closet or something idk i havent read the books

[heartwarminganimals]

I wish we could teach each other how to love the way we can teach animals that aren’t supposed to be able to feel it.

[godmybackhurts]

@kaijutegu is this cute? I know you deal with tegus and not iguanas, but I didn't know who else to ask

[kaijutegu]

This is precious.

So, first thing you need to know is that is a very visibly healthy adult green iguana. Every part of the iguana is sharp. The claws evolved to haul a ten pound lizard up a tree. The spines are like tiny icepicks. The tail is a bullwhip. The teeth evolved to shred leaves, but they'll just as easily shred your flesh. Good luck making a healthy adult iguana do anything they don't wanna. That puts us on our first thing to look at- is the animal capable of defense and getting away, physically? Yes, definitely.

Next thing to know is what does a threatened or scared iguana look like? When an iguana is threatened, it doesn't stand on its hind legs like that; it stands on all fours and puffs itself up to look bigger, aggressively bobs its head (note: head bobbing is a behavior used for a LOT of things, it does need context- for example, they also head bob as part of mating displays), there is hissing, there is tail whipping- iguanas are not subtle creatures. None of this is the behavior of an iguana that feels threatened or is being a threat!

So what does standing like that mean? That's just simple reaching. The iguana sees something they want and is attempting to reach it, and what they want appears to be uppies, because they settle into the human's grip immediately.

Then, we see some GREAT handling from the human. There's really great communication happening between the two of them! The person picks up the iguana very securely- pelvis and pectoral girdles are well supported, and he doesn't grab. (Iguanas typically do NOT like being grabbed around the sides; many of their predators are birds and coming at them from above or gripping the sides is scary!)

As he goes in for the pet, he lets the iguana support their back half on his knee. The hold is secure but not tight; at any point, if the iggy was distressed, they could leave. But they don't- instead, you see them leaning into the pets, actively participating in the behavior. They're not even closing their eyes to block stimulus. They want this to happen.

This is the kind of bond that's possible when you can prove to a big lizard that you're trustworthy, and easily the best iguana video I've seen in a long time. Thank you for tagging me in!

Some green iguana body language resources under the jump!

Barten 2003. Green Iguana Management and Husbandry. Iguana: Journal of the International Iguana Society. I refer to this guy a lot when thinking about iguana behavior because even though the Green Iguana Husbandry issue of Iguana came out 22 years ago, Steve is a member of my herp society and has forgotten more about iguanas than any of us will ever know.

Burghardt 1977. Social behavior in hatchling green iguanas: life at a reptile rookery. Science.

Yes, Burghardt's iguana stuff is older. Yes, it's still highly relevant in the world of reptile ethology. If you can get your hands on a copy of Iguanas of the World, it's amazing how well it holds up.

Kaplan- everything on anapsid.org is at least 10 years old, but that doesn't change how valuable some of it is. Melissa knows her stuff, she just can't have iguanas anymore and unfortunately her health interferes a lot with what she wants to do.

Behavior article collection

Change-Related Stress in Green Iguanas and Other Reptiles

Interpreting Non-Breeding Behaviors in Green Iguanas

Testosterone, Aggression, and Green Iguanas

Köhler 2003. Green Iguana Communication. Iguana: Journal of the International Iguana Society.

Rice et al. 2022. Heads Nods and Boat Bobs: Behavior of Iguana Iguana Is Affected by Environment and Boat Traffic in Riparian Tropical Forest. Biotropica.

Darren Naish wrote a cool blog post for Tetrapod Zoology that's got a lot of social behavior observations! His blogs are always backed up with great sources and evidence.

[ponury-grajek]

haikaveh vs kavetham