oh shut the hell up

frank. 31.

[rylandgracie]

eridians being forced by rocky to invent the lightbulb so his freak alien mate he brought home can see at night

[mammalianmammals]

Chinese Mountain Cat (Felis bieti), family Felidae, endemic to grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau of western China

Vulnerable.

photos: Shul Conservation, Scottish Wildcat Fdn, Wild Cats Worldwide

[herpsandbirds]

Satyr Tragopan (Tragopan satyra), male, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, Bhutan

photograph by Anish Mukherjee

[pomgore]

i love learning about animals ive literally never seen or heard of before. what amazing diversity of life on this planet earth. what the hell is a japanese serow

[pomgore]

goat dog

[avianawareness]

Wild Lovebirds of Maui

[httpshayley]

quick study

[valentinsylve]

Try to Praise the Mutilated World

By Adam Zagajewski Translated By Clare Cavanagh

Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June's long days, and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine. The nettles that methodically overgrow the abandoned homesteads of exiles. You must praise the mutilated world. You watched the stylish yachts and ships; one of them had a long trip ahead of it, while salty oblivion awaited others. You've seen the refugees going nowhere, you've heard the executioners sing joyfully. You should praise the mutilated world. Remember the moments when we were together in a white room and the curtain fluttered. Return in thought to the concert where music flared. You gathered acorns in the park in autumn and leaves eddied over the earth's scars. Praise the mutilated world and the gray feather a thrush lost, and the gentle light that strays and vanishes and returns.

[maryfitzroy]

Have you seen Gracie? Officials in Texas search for missing giraffe

Gracie the giraffe is described as having rounded ears. She went missing from a ranch in Real County.

im crying dude

[fandomsandfeminism]

Yeehaw yall. Gracie is on the run.

[fandomsandfeminism]

To answer some common questions in the tags:

1. How do you lose a Giraffe? She apparently scaled a cliff that served as part of the enclosure (which the other giraffes in the herd had shown no interest in climbing.)

2. Well it should be easier to find her, she's a whole ass giraffe? Yeah, you'd think, but Texas ranches are fuckin huge. The man has apparently hired a helicopter and several drones to aide the search, but no luck yet. She's been seen on some game cameras on the nearby ranches though. But she's sneaky.

3. Why does a random guy in Texas have a herd of giraffes? Because it's Texas and we have basically no exotic animal regulations. No really. If you have enough land out in the hill country, you can just own stuff. It's fuckin nuts.

[asexual-thot]

[expressions-of-nature]

by Sergey Butorin

[nobrashfestivity]

SANYU (CHANG YU)  1930-45s. 

more

[frankie31]

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[frankie31]

lrb there are some older than my country!!

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[frankie31]

it was cool to see how many people remembered animal ark. Apparently there’s a “for adults” series set in the same world when the main little girl, Mandy, is an adult who has returnes home as a vet to help her parents out. It’s called “hope meadows”.

[90s-2000s-barbie]

Animal Ark Book Series (1994 - 2008)

[thatveganwhiterose]

THIS SHIT WAS MY JAM