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Happy Fuck the Supreme Court Friday

useless cunts in the tags saying "um actually idubbz and kurtis connor are american/canadian" yeah we KNOW. what u dont know is that this is an invasive species of man running rampant in all major australian cities. this is the type of man who does an acknowledgment of country before gaslighting u. this is the type of man who thinks buying local zines featuring comics of national animals smoking weed is anti-monarchist praxis. think before u speak

stupot

when i was a freshman in college i wanted to dress up for halloween because i thought surely college students would have the spirit. so i elected to put a whole entire Skull Kid from legend of zelda majora’s mask cosplay together and wear that fucking ensemble to college on halloween.

i step on campus and realize immediately that not one other person is dressed up. not so much as a cat ear headband. so imagine this fucking dude sitting in a class of otherwise normally dressed people looking like this. that was me. this was my 9/11

kiwi

this happened to me but i was this bitch

adurot

I have just learned that Mountain Goats are NOT, in fact, actual Goats.

adurot

I have never heard of this band. I AM in fact referring to the animal.

adurot

But wait, there’s more!

bluesturngold

over-sleep

petermorwood

Not sure whether this is a massage or a demonstration of breadmaking…

stupidpetface

saintbullart

Today is the only day you can reblog this 😔😔😔

sqgtdevpersonal

tockthewatchdog-deactivated2020

i cant stop laughing

alidragoncat

I can say that this is 100% true for baby goats!

A moment of silence…

haHA ha ha HA HA

thedragonwoodconservancy on ig

cryptidsydario

laser gun gator boys

peniswakt-deactivated20210717

oh my god i didn’t realize this video had audio

actualaster

Okay as adorable as this looks, I’m pretty sure that’s a distress sound? A “mommy help me I’m scared come save me!” sound?

@why-animals-do-the-thing

why-animals-do-the-thing

This video is from Dragonwood Wildlife Conservancy, and they are yearling (last year’s babies) Cuban crocodiles. Good news for you, this isn’t actually a distress call! According to @kaijutegu (and her giant bookshelf full of reptile resources), the laser sounds are an affiliative social call that young Cuban crocodiles use to communicate with their parents. They normally stop making the noise at around two years old, which is approximately when they start dispersing from the family group.

See, Cuban crocodiles are a super social species - and one of the few where the fathers stick around and provide paternal care for the babies! In the wild, babies would regularly interact with both parents, including when they provide food. This call is basically the type of vocalization that the babies use to communicated with their parents.

These crocodiles are being hand-raised as part of a private-sector breeding and reintroduction program (because the parents are so protective of their offspring that if you left them the babies to raise, you’d never be able to safely get close to them), and so they’re responding to the guy in the video the same way because he’s constant known safe individual and also the provider of food. He’s not a threat - his presence is a good thing, and he’s worth interacting with because it normally means food. You can also tell from their behavior and body language that they’re not stressed: some of the crocodiles are actively climbing on him and interaction of their own volition, but the ones that aren’t don’t show any indicators of hyper-vigilance. If that were a distress call, every crocodile that heard it would be alert and on edge looking for the threat. Distress calls tend to only happen once or twice, because in the wild continuing to make noise makes a baby more vulnerable: so these crocodiles wouldn’t be continually vocalizing if they felt threatened. There’s no snapping or gaping or freezing, all of which would be behavioral indicators of distress or discomfort. (Here’s a video of a baby nile crocodile being harassed by photographers which will give you a visual reference for both freezing and gaping.)

So, hey, this is certifiably cute - and good for conservation!