Kanten (ab-Linten-ab-Siqul-ul-Nish) @faginsforest - Tumblr Blog

This little female Canada Goose hangs around my neighborhood lake. She’s got no mate and is constantly under threat from the rest of the flock because of it. She can’t fly well, enough to help her escape. She has some flight feathers that were broken on her wing. I’m guessing that the damage is from another goose. I’m hoping that she can make it to molting season but I could use some input. I’ve never tried this but could the science side of tumblr give me some

(tightens the bonds of summoning circle)

constructive advice? Do I call my local rescue? Let her be?

wylltingtrees

This little female Canada Goose hangs around my neighborhood lake. She’s got no mate and is constantly under threat from the rest of the flock because of it. She can’t fly well, enough to help her escape. She has some flight feathers that were broken on her wing. I’m guessing that the damage is from another goose. I’m hoping that she can make it to molting season but I could use some input. I’ve never tried this but could the science side of tumblr give me some

(tightens the bonds of summoning circle)

constructive advice? Do I call my local rescue? Let her be?

wylltingtrees

This little female Canada Goose hangs around my neighborhood lake. She’s got no mate and is constantly under threat from the rest of the flock because of it. She can’t fly well, enough to help her escape. She has some flight feathers that were broken on her wing. I’m guessing that the damage is from another goose. I’m hoping that she can make it to molting season but I could use some input. I’ve never tried this but could the science side of tumblr give me some

(tightens the bonds of summoning circle)

constructive advice? Do I call my local rescue? Let her be?

transparentgentlemenmarker

Dernier jour de travail 2020

awfullynice-hq

gaslighting 101

jaubaius

Mynah bird answers the phone in Japanese.

sixpenceee

The stabilization of a hawk’s head. Via u/SuggestAnyName

snailsneedpatience

I wish I was this stable.

everythingfox

Friction is for losers

(via)

everythingfox

Did someone call an ambulance

(via)

thatswhywelovegermany

tikkety-tok

POV: Ethel brings you a leaf

official-lucifers-child

do you know how thrilled i was to realise this has audio and the audio is gorgeous???

1995lahaine

im gonna shit

stankyleg-deactivated2918973

ask-maxie-boy

The prophet… he tried to warn us. He told us it was too much power, and yet we all laughed. We made a joke of him.

Moreos Guy, if you’re out there, I would like to personally apologize for not heeding your warning to us.

m1911s-mile22

Can’t fathom how I’ve been on this site so goddamn long that there’s a whole new generation of people on here that don’t know who Moreos Guy was.

briarin

Omfg so I made a friend who actually knows who the moreos guy was, and I’m gonna try and find his Twitter and see if he’ll give a response

angel-kiyoss

Octopus filmed changing colours while sleeping.

fierceawakening

i wonder what they are dreaming about

plum-soup

Changing colors duh

max1461

What’s really cool about this is that cephalopod (octopus, squid, etc.) intelligence evolved completely separately from intelligence in tetrapods (which includes primates, dolphins, crows… basically any other intelligent animals you can think of). Cephalopods are very, very far away from us on the tree of life. For context, you and a starfish are more closely related than you and an octopus. The last common ancestor of humans and cephalopods was the so-called Urbilaterian, the hypothetical first animal with a left-right symmetric body. This animal almost certainly had, at most, an extremely simple nervous system, without anything resembling a brain.

All this is to say that the fact that this octopus appears to be dreaming means one of two things. Either

a) dreaming is a very, very old thing indeed, going directly back to the Urbilaterian. This would mean that almost every animal, from insects to starfish to sea slugs to newts, is likely to have the ability to dream in some capacity or another (unless they have specifically lost it by evolutionary simplification).

or

b) dreaming evolved entirely independently in cephalopods when they developed greater intelligence. This would suggest, at least, that there’s something very fundamental about dreaming related to intelligence itself, which causes it to emerge independently when sufficient intelligence arises.

Needless to say, either of these outcomes would be really very cool.