Animal House

Kit | 24 | she/her @enthusiasticconsenttraining: animal behavior, training and operant conditioning

[kittiwake15]

First year of grad school officially finished! Thesis proposed and summer internships mostly sorted...

[crowboy-bebop]

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

[thesingingbullfrog]

Harvester (The only carnivorous butterfly in North America)

[antiqueanimals]

Cover art for Wildlife in North Carolina, July 1974. Illustration by Jay Johnson.

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[buffycaps]

Rest in peace to the incredible Anthony Stewart Head (20th February 1954 - 1st June 2026)

RUPERT GILES in BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003)

[slayerbuffy]

I've gone. Not one for goodbyes, I thought it best to slip out quietly. Love to you all, Giles.

Rest in peace, Anthony Stewart Head (1954 – 2026)

[kittiwake15]

In other news about things I'm peeved about, nature centers thinking their above citations because they're "experts."

[kittiwake15]

Slightly peeved that the articles about HPV and throat cancer are using headlines that just say that oral sex is the leading cause of throat cancer... Looks like it's not incredibly new statistic, but it came up on Seth Meyers (Jokes Seth Can't Tell) recently without explaining how the hell cunnilingus caused throat cancer so I had to go look it up. Arguably I'm being overly critical, just feels like the takeaway when you write that kind of headline is "don't go down on a woman" instead of idk "get vaccinated against HPV"

[herpsandbirds]

can you post gay mallards for pride month ?

IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT YOU SICK DELICIOUS FUCK?!?!?!

GAY ASS MALLARDS!!!

photographs by Brocken Inaglory

[dr3am-operator]

happy pride month to HIM

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

I just need a beautiful woman to tell me that my bizarre imitation of human social skills is alluring and sexy

[todaysbird]

this rose-breasted grosbeak was banded by powdermill bird banding during the fall of 2005, during a random wild bird banding of the area. participants were surprised to find the bird to be a bilateral gyandromorph - one side of the body is male, the other female. this is typically due to an event that happens in early mitosis, where one of the dividing cells does not split its sex chromosomes in a typical fashion. interestingly, most birds only have one functional ovary on the left side of the body, so this individual could still hypothetically produce offspring.

[mammalianmammals]

Brown Hyenas (Parahyaena brunnea), adults and pup, family Hyaenidae, Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa

Photographs by Marcus Westberg

[birds-and-friends]

Flying is effortless, landing can be a little bit harder, Cornell Lab / DoC (northern royal albatross) (part 1)

[taylors-a-goblin]

There’s so much about this. The tumble itself is so irredeemably funny. The child stops asking for food and just stares in silence as the adult completely beefs it. The adult, absolutely ashamed, wandering off screen, refusing to make eye contact with the baby.

Perfect 10s all round.

[kittiwake15]

American Tulip Tree

[kittiwake15]

In the cyclical nature of my life, I've moved from the two weeks of "everything is under control" phase where my hair looks good, the apartment is clean, and I'm shockingly ahead on my work to the "let's procrastinate myself into a deadline corner full of personal and professional-life nightmares" phase so I can finish everything at the last minute powered solely by self loathing. Excellent.

[politijohn]

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