Daughter of the Wind

I'm Nhasadi. Feathered ladydragon and shameless bird nerd with a love for the wilds of Colorado where she makes her home. Welcome to my nest. She / her • Twenty-something  • Professional floof  •  Flight Rising: Zaereph #69525 FurAffinity: Zaereph

[st-just]

The Months, by exellero

[atenebris]

redrawing

[hjarta-deactivated20260124]

just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

[scienceoftheidiot]

They existed *before beetles*

[somethingaboutsomethingelse]

[spacedandelions]

Why is this sad? Why am I sad?

[ignescent]

https://xkcd.com/1259/

Bee Orchid

[sepdet]

This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees' range has shrunk by 90%.

(my own photos)

Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.

Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would've penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you've observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.

You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:

The Trees That Miss The Mammoths - American Forests

Trees that once depended on animals like the wooly mammoth for survival have managed to adapt and survive in the modern world.



[modernvintage]

First quote from the linked article. Found it poetic.

[birds-and-friends]

Full Video: Riekko mukana hiihtoreissulla, Tolkuton Willow ptarmigan included in ski trip

[comixextra]

For the love of god, PLEASE UNMUTE!!!

[bombcollar]

ptarmigan: [in a deep, croaking voice] awow awow awow awow awow awow awow. awow. awow. awow… awow… bup bup bup bup bup bup. pow. pow. pow.

[creaturetooth]

Eyebrows,,,,,,,,,,,,,…….

[queerskittles]

@elodieunderglass a relative of yours???

[elodieunderglass]

Yes! My cousin Bognorton

[dankmemeuniversity]

[lolotehe]

[epic-games-official]

That’s valid

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[triapus]

This is how the James Web telescope works

[macleod]

A million little eyes staring into the cosmos to help paint a picture of our place in the universe.

[curiouslyhigh]

[feinseld]

i missed this post

[bombcollar]

this gifset or variations have been going around for at least a decade at this point, and I’m here to share the source!

it is from the Water episode of Look Around You, a British parody of dry educational videos. I watched it back in college in 2009 or so and it rewired my brain.

[tylenold]

it’s not you’re* or your*. it’s all Mine. everything is Mine

[andrewbelami]

That’s a cute foot fetish you got there, would you mind keeping it 25796323689432 feet away from me?

[pendejx-deactivated20200323]

25796323689432 feet you say?

[dadpat-tactual-deactivated20230]

This post turns 11 next month and it continues to be one of the funniest on this damn site

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

Installation by Maurizio Cattelan with text added by an anonymous artist

[southerlyns]

@sulienapgwien

[acreaturecalledgreed]

Never before has an art installation spoken to my very being like this.

[headspace-hotel]

The “text added by an anonymous artist” part is throwing me. Did some unidentified person just go in and add words below the installation and they decided “well, this is part of the art now” or what

[bala5]

[klaasje]

new fav wikipedia page

[professorsparklepants]

#Humans will pack-bond with goddamn anything up to and including weather formations

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Humans: Isn’t it charming and quaint how our ancestors gave spirits and personalities and godhoods to everything around them. Their primitive, unenlightened eyes must have seen things so differently to us, wise in their own way.

Also humans: That cloud group is named Hector and he likes to hang out at the beach for half of the year.

[mes0melas]

Aristocratic Assassin, Sesshomaru

[ragemovement]

[whitepeopletwitter]

I felt this

[whiteraven90]

Have a merry "I don't want to be dressed up as a reindeer"

[oneheadtoanother]

muscle-man contest at the JFK assassination

https://www.instagram.com/why.dot.ai