Melancholy Panda

I'm Sierra and expect a lot of cats and other cute things.

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Small Friend, Large Friend

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Someone at my store talks about Goat tribal non stop

It’s a thing.

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When your friends start pissing you off

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When I grow up I want to be Ming-Na Wen.

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She’s the voice of Mulan, as if she wasn’t amazing enough.

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She broke it with her fingers. Not a fist, her fingers.

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Girl is 50 years old.

FIFTY. YEARS. OLD.

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fun fact: When you break things with your hands like that you have t break your fingers on purpose before so that they heal stronger. So basically this woman is so badass she broke her hands just to do this. 

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You asshat, you’re making it sound like she snaps her fingers in half. 

Martial artists like Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee (and yes, fucking Ming-Na Wen, that beautiful badass) will build up their bone strength by repeatedly (and fairly gently) striking sand, gravel, wood and steel - this creates tons of microfractures in their bones (smaller than even a hairline fracture) so the bones will heal over again and make the bones stronger and denser with increased deposits of calcium. 

This has to be done over long-ass periods of time, so the bones have time to heal, and none of the fractures expand into actual breaks. 

Oh, and she’s doing precise-ass kicks in HIGH HEELS. 

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she kicks ass like a coursing river

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Saw this post so many months ago and I still think about it from time to time lol so badass

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Had the absolute pleasure of meeting her. She’s indeed a kind-hearted and gorgeous badass.

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This is late since Kaladesh is over and all, but, in my defense, I forgot about it for like six months.

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Sweet, free printer

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chaotic neutral

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FTW

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How to train your sea otter

Selka, the newest member of our Sea Otter exhibit, is a rescued California sea otter pup that survived a shark bite and has contributed to important research into understanding her species.

Now she’s adjusting well to a busy life with her fellow otters and human trainers, and is on track to becoming our newest surrogate otter mother for stranded pups that we’ll return to the wild.

But, just how does that happen?

Christopher Quintos, senior sea otter aquarist, is training Selka on exhibit manners and routines, and guiding her entry into becoming a surrogate mother. Christopher explains that we’re not specifically training Selka to be a surrogate mother—that’s mostly up to her.

“Just the fact that she’s with other animals is really good practice for when she’s put with other unfamiliar or younger animals,” he says. “Her whole initiation into the surrogate program will be slow and at her own pace. We’re starting to see Selka show some material behavior toward some of her exhibit mates, so it’s very likely she will come to that maternal instinct on her own.”

Christopher adds that overall training is going very well. He says Selka’s very sharp and has incredible focus. She quickly learned standard exhibit behaviors, and seems to enjoy the work.

“Selka comes to us with a great foundation and behavioral repertoire already,” Christopher says. “She really engages in training sessions and learns very quickly.”

Read the full interview with Christopher about training Selka, and sea otters in general, in our online member magazine, Shorelines.

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Wizards: HOW DOES IT EAT? regards, Ithos

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