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reminder that terfs are not welcome here

reminder that i've got that nifty little extension that shows those blogs as red so i can block you immediately

reminder that people's pants bits are none of your business unless you're about to touch them.

reminder that life on our planet is infinitely more complicated than bioessentialists will admit.

♡loop

2025 update: i'm still using that nifty little extension, but these days i see not just terfs but also a lot of people who are just being trans (in a way someone else didn't like) marked as red. just so y'all know, atp i personally check every user that follows this blog for bigotry of any kind. if you think there's a group of people who don't deserve the same rights, i think you don't deserve the right to this blog.

remember that we never have to tolerate intolerance. ♡

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"For the first time, a team of filmmakers capture an extraordinary behaviour never seen before: two tiger mothers sharing and caring for each other's cubs."

©BBC Earth

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No vulture other than the lammergeier has a diet consisting of 85-90% bone. It's capable of swallowing and digesting bones as large as a sheep's vertebrae, and if it encounters a bone that's too large it will drop the bone onto the rocks from the sky until the pieces are small enough to eat.

© Canal Natura

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King Vulture or Lammergeier? I love vultures in general but either of those will do ^^

firstly i apologize for making you wait so long for a reply! you caught me the very day i went on vacation ^^' but now i'm back in the vicinity of my computer and here are your fantastic birds~

i went with the lammergeier because they're one of my favorites too! they're wonderfully unique, and also one of our best wildlife comeback stories!

♡loop

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eepy mourning dove cupping its wings under its belly for cushion ©Ella

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Two tiny shrimps battle each other on the back of a sea cucumber, filmed at a depth of 15m. Seacrop Diving School | Japan

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titanic beasts clash on the hills of an alien planet shaking the ground 30,000 lightyears from earth filmed at a height of 17000 feet

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hi, i can’t stop thinking about the incredible energy of this post so i did some bad fanart🦐🆚🦐

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Gray foxes are known as mesopredators because they occupy the middle of their local food chain. They feed mainly on smaller animals while avoiding nearby apex predators like coyotes and bobcats. One of their techniques is to climb trees using their powerful hooked claws. They're capable of climbing branchless, vertical tree trunks up to nearly 60ft (18m). ©Texas Backyard Wildlife

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eepy mourning dove cupping its wings under its belly for cushion ©Ella

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🌲🪶Western Tanager🪶🌲 ©Alyssa's Nature Sanctuary

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[Video of venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough standing amid vegetation.  On a near-horizontal branch above his head is a brown and yellow greater bird of paradise, about the size of a crow, with big floaty yellow plumage puffing out along its back.]

Bird:  Pwuk.  Pwuk. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  This, surely – Bird (hopping along the branch):  WUKWUKWUkwukwukwukoooh.  Oooh.  Oooh.

[Cut.  Same shot.]

Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  This, surely, is one – Bird:  Kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  This, surely –

[Cut.  Same shot but the bird is on the other side now and venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough has his hand on the branch.]

Bird (hopping up and down on venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough’s fingers):  Eh-eh.  Eh-eh.  Eh-urrrr.  Eh-urrrr. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  Close up – Bird (hopping away from him):  Tiktiktiktik.  Tiktiktiktik. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – the plumes – Bird (hopping around):  Huek. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – are truly – Bird:  Huek. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – exquisite. Bird:  Huek.  Eh-eh. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  The gauzy – Bird (hopping and spinning on the spot):  HukWUKWUKWukwukoooh.  Oooh. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  …

[Cut.  Same shot but the bird is back on the original side of the branch.]

Bird:  Aark. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  Of course, by the eighteenth century – Bird:  Ehhh. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – naturalists realized that birds of paradise – Bird (hops across to the other side of the branch) Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – did have – Bird (hopping back again):  Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – legs.  Even so – Bird:  WUKWUKWUKWukwukwukooh.

[Cut.  Same shot.] Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough (apparently trying to tickle the bird’s tummy):  – by about the eighteenth century – Bird (hops away and spins round) Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – and so – Bird:  AAAAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK aaak. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough (wearily):  …  Very well.

[Cut.  Same shot.]

Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – but Karl Linnaeus, the great – Bird (vibrating rapidly on the spot and then flapping its wings):  PWAAAAAAAK. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – classifier of the natural world – Bird:  AAAAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAUUH. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – when he came to allocate a scientific name – Bird:  … Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – to this bird – Bird:  … Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – called it – Bird:  Wooo-ooo. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – wooo-ooo – Bird (surveys the surroundings with a dignified turn of the head) Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  ‘paradisia apoda’: the bird of paradise – Bird:  Hoooo. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough:  – without legs. Bird:  Eh-eh.

[Close-up of the bird.]

Bird:  WUKWUKWUKWUkwukwukwukwukoooh.  Ooh. Bird:  Ooh.

[Fade to black.]

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Just found your blog on my dashboard via a reblog and it's an instant follow! Keep up the good work!

that's so kind, thank you so much!~

♡loop

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Rize Village, Jiagenba Town, Sichuan Province

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Hey, just wanted to say how much I love your blog! That's all :)

that's so kind, thank you! doin a little manakin dance for you~

♡loop

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"It's easy in this place to say every second day 'this is the most amazing thing I've seen...' but honestly, there is more chance of a jaguar doing the fandango through our camp than finding a harpy eagle." ©BBCEarth

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The spotted tail of the tiger quoll distinguishes it from all other Austrailan mammals, including other quoll species. ©Brett Vercoe

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(From Wikipedia) "Between species, muntjacs have a wide variation in number of chromosomes; in fact, the southern red muntjac has the lowest recorded number of chromosomes of any mammal. Females have a diploid number of 6, while males have a diploid number of seven. In comparison, the similar Reeves's muntjac (M. reevesi) has a diploid number of 46 chromosomes." ©Frankfurt Zoological Society

also with great thanks to @uncharismatic-fauna for bringing this delightful creature to my attention! their post and the replies to it have a lot more interesting information about the muntjac and its unique genetics. ♡loop

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🧀🐈🍕TOTO, the magical cat stretching like cheese🍕🐈🧀