Hakuna Maturtle

what a wonderful reptile

[zipstick]

it should be mandatory for every pc game that has absurdly high resolution graphics and monstrously large filesizes to have a "dogshit version" that you can play on any old pc cause i've had it up to here with getting excited for games only to discover that my laptop doesn't meet the minimum system requirements and i will never be able to play them. i don't care how realistically the windows reflect light. i don't need to be able to distinguish every available hair on the player character's head. i just want to play viddy game :(

[moonlitmartyr]

I hate ruminating on what could have been. Out here thinking "if only I locked in when I was 13" are we serious

[delphinidin4]

[bigpoppypuppy-deactivated202412]

i think lobsters would gain a lot more novelty as an animal if they were about as big as a horse and made really loud guttural sounds. just thinking of some improvements

[todaysbird]

it irritates me to no end when people say north american birds are dull in comparison to other countries’ birds

blue jay

american kestrel

painted bunting

yellow-throated vireo

cerulean warbler

baltimore oriole

american goldfinch

northern cardinal

x

[mind-if-i-scream]

You’re forgetting the red wing black bird and the great and snowy egret. Best birds of the marsh!

[crewdlydrawn-deactivated2022072]

I love how they’re all looking into the camera like they’re modeling.

[brunhiddensmusings]

other beautiful featherbeasts include orb bird

stylish accessory bird

loud and delicious bird

bird that will kung fu your face while you are grilling in your backyard

overly dramatic fishwizard bird

demonic creepy noise duck

assorted sky-cats

screaming inflatable doofus bird

stump

not technically native but it poops on my lawn

toasted marshmallow friend

[imyrdungeonmaster]

How.. could you forget… MEEP… MEEP

[naamahdarling]

Screams in the parking lot during the day:

Screams in the parking lot at night:

Like, they aren’t spectacular on first glance, but grackles are iridescent, irrepressible, melodramatic, and sound like Satan’s ringtone, and killdeer are these dapper, tweedy little cottagecore critters who don’t look like much but are brave as fuck and fling themselves into the path of anything they think might be a threat to their chicks, pretend to be gravely injured, and lure it away. One did this to my parents’ JEEP.

Be nice to our birds, they’re good birds.

[sirfrogsworth]

(Audio recommended.)

So inspirational. 

[heypaulookitthis]

This took forever to load and it did not disappoint.

[babyanimalgifs]

A dream

[beemojis]

heartbreaking: local cat has never been fed in entire life, says local cat

[beemojis]

sources close to cat claim cat may have actually been fed between four to six hours ago. these claims are still under investigation.

[thelightofthingshopedfor]

additional sources allege that cat may have even been fed as recently as 15 minutes ago. cat vehemently denies these “ridiculous accusations.”

[acerotiburon]

Soup recently went viral.

We wanted to make sure he can still sing his song…ya know, in case Ellen wants him on the show lol

[ursminor]

nya

[1dietcokeinacan]

Happy Friday sluts let’s do nothing and die

[stormwaterwitch]

Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits

Reblog this on the first of the month for good luck all month long!

[dumbbbunnnyy-deactivated2021021]

[linderlost]

I really appreciate how many traditionally feminine crafts boil down to: “here, please stab this thing several thousand times.”

[yeahponcho]

please excuse my grandpa in the background but here’s poncho enjoying her thanksgiving superworms

[mineapple]

i will NOT excuse your grandpa he is INTEGRAL to my enjoyment of this video

[iwilleatyourenglish]

theory: the rest of the world in the Mad Max universe is totally fine and Australia just did that

[iwilleatyourenglish]

one lone wastelander manages to sail to new zealand only to find out everything there’s just like… normal

“how did you all manage to survive?”

“survive?”

“the nuclear war??”

“the what”

[clarkonly]

LMAO but wouldn’t the rest of the world send help or something like that?

[iwilleatyourenglish]

nah australians instantly switched over to leather fetish gear, frankenstein trucks, and machine guns the minute shit went south. the UN aid workers got there and saw this

and just turned right the fuck back around

[zarekthelordofthefries]

Not to critique evolution, but I would think orange and black stripes wouldn’t be as good for camouflage in a forest as, say, green and black would.

[acceptableduraz]

It turns out a lot of animals can’t see the difference between orange and green!  Elephants, for instance, have dichromatic vision (two types of cones, rather than three like most humans.) 

Check out this diagram from ResearchGate.  It deals with the color vision of horses, who are also generally dichromatic.  (I think, though I’m not sure, that zebras would have the same color vision as horses.)  See how orange and green look to them?

[zarekthelordofthefries]

Not to critique evolution but I think prey animals should be better at telling when their predator is dressed like a traffic cone.

[squeeful]

It doesn’t matter what zebras see, because tigers are not native to Africa and do not naturally hunt zebra.  Tigers are Asian and mostly hunt animals like deer, elk, and buffalo.  These aren’t animals with great color vision.  They don’t need to have it because they don’t eat fruit and so don’t need to know when the berry is ripe vs when it’s not.  Good color vision is too expensive to have if you don’t need it.  Deer put their vision stats in a wide field of vision that is sensitive to motion, low light capabilities, and possibly seeing UV light.  They don’t have great color and lack a lot of acuity, but have a great sense of smell and good hearing.  That’s way more useful if you’re prey.  Deer see well in the blue end of the color spectrum and less well in the red.  This makes sense because deer are most active in the dawn and dusk periods, when there is more blue in the light.  Tigers are taking advantage of deer eyesight by being orange.

We see tigers are being obviously colored because tigers are fruit colored to our tree ape brains.

[thelibrarina]

I don’t know what the best part of this is: implying that deer chose their attributes on a character sheet, or the fact that we get to see tiger colors because they look like a snack.

[authoratmidnight]

Ok but like, I think you underestimate just how well they blend in when actually in the environment. Like, just using tigers as an example.

or how about a leopard?

It’s called ‘disruptive colouration’ because the markings help to break up the animal’s outline against the grasses or rocks. And the rosettes on leopards and jaguars? Sun spots shining through the trees and leaves on the ground.

And this is how hard it is to spot them WITH colour vision. Now imagine the above images but with the limited coloured mentioned above?

[hecate-hollow]

I’m sorry but there is not an animal in that first leopard picture

[authoratmidnight]

Are you, sure about that?

[thecheshirecass-deactivated2018]

“Tigers are fruit colored” is my new favorite phrase.

[fakehistory]

President Donald Trump responding to Media outrage about detained children (2018)