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would b nice to have a happiness that didnt turn out to be a horrible lesson in the end u know what i mean

Chinese giant salamander (娃娃鱼) a.k.a ‘baby fish’ due to the sound they make that sounds like a baby crying.

The Chinese giant salamander is one of the largest salamanders and one of the largest amphibians in the world. It is fully aquatic and is endemic to rocky mountain streams and lakes in the Yangtze river basin of central China.

The Chinese giant salamander is considered to be a "living fossil". Although protected under Chinese laws, its population has faced severe declined over the last 70 years and is currently (2022) listed as threatened. There are evidence indicating that the Chinese giant salamander may be composed of at least five cryptic species, further compounding each individual species' endangerment. It can reach up to 50 kg (110 lb) in weight and 1.8 m (5.9 ft) in length.

Here is a video of a 200-year-old Chinese giant salamander that was found in a cave.

Here is a video of it making the crying sound.

Here is another video

#they make THAT sound??????

girlblocker

get vaccinated so we never have to see CNN talk about an omega variant

kikokuso

An omega variant would be one of the last covid variants and the trend is that covid is slowly becoming more infectious and less severe with each mutation. This would mean that the omega variant would spread and multiply extremely easily, but would also be weak and mild in symptoms.

Therefore we can consider the omega variant submissive and breedable.

girlblocker

op here. i want a lobotomy

#oh i hate this but i kinda want it to happen

prokopetz

You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

calloutnevvegas

For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:

Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

Don’t fuck with flamingos

revretch

….. Didn’t know most of that

iamthekaijuking

Huh… so that’s why zoos don’t put them somewhere warm during winter.

revretch

Oh yeah, this leaves out what I *did* know about them–they can also survive hypersalinity. That is, water so salty it kills practically everything else–water so salty it burns your skin.

American flamingos just drink that shit

bogleech

(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.

When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.

It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:

stay cozy

#godzilla #bro….#relationship goals

donutdrawsthings

I still had these doodles laying around, but figured I should colour them with other people being interested in them too!

#extinct #oh! i love

0912408179182

Romanticizing your own loneliness and turning it into a cool girl thing only works for like a few months and then it just becomes a throbbing black hole i think. Not that ive ever experienced anything like that

snoopy-dyke

love is attained through embarrassing yourself by asking for it instead

#words #things to remember i guess :/

thenationalyrics

My head is a buzzing three star hotel

Lights VI: The Spa (1974), Micheal Andrews / Blank Slate (2008), The National

m1male2

A study published by the "Journal of Anthropological Archeology" reveals the oldest evidence of dogs in the Arabian peninsula through scenes on rock art panels investigated at two sites, at Shuwaymis and at Jubbah.

They represent hunting strategies with dogs in the VII, and possibly in the VIII, millennium BC, that is, more than 8,000 years ago, before the Neolithic and the spread of grazing. Notable is the inclusion of leashes in some dogs, the oldest known evidence in prehistory. Leashes demonstrate greater control over hunting dogs before the beginning of the Neolithic.

Scientists agree that dogs were domesticated from an ancestor of the wolf (Canis lupus) before the advent of agriculture, but it is unclear when or where.

https://historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/perros-atados-correas-unas-escenas-caza-mas-8000-anos-antiguedad_12099

#canine

rushthicket

I Keep Coming Back, 2021, Digital | Posted Individually Here

#oh? i love this #canine

glumshoe

I’d like to know what the first person to put human clothing on a dog was thinking

glumshoe

like were dogs even dogs yet or did someone manage to squeeze a particularly patient tamed wolf into a leather shirt and then howl with laughter as it trotted around the cooking fires dressed like Uncle Urg begging for food scraps

glumshoe

the wolf started running backwards in circles trying to get out of Uncle Urg’s shirt and everyone is laughing so hard that the sleeping children and young mothers and old folk wake and come out of their hide huts and observe First Funny Dog galloping around in the moonlight, and a tradition is born

youaresogoingtohell

There was a brief but decisive evolutionary bottleneck of canines that begrudgingly allowed homo-chimps to live after sticking them in a corset.

glumshoe

“Will you flush game for me, Wolf, when I go hunting the wild things beneath the trees?” asked Human.

“I will,” said Wolf, “If only you leave me the bones and scraps of meat from your kills.”

“That is well,” said Human. “And will you use your ears and eyes and nose to guard me while I rest, and warn me when lions prowl too near?”

“I will,” said Wolf, “If only you let me lie in the warmth of your cooking-fires.”

“But of course,” said Human. “And will you do as I command, and follow me wherever I go, and love my children and grandchildren as you would love your own?”

“I will,” said Wolf, “If only you scratch me where my claws cannot reach, and pet me, and heal my injuries when I am wounded.”

“Always,” said Human. “And will you let me dress you up in funny clothes, and dance around, and do little tricks for me to laugh at?”

Wolf hesitated, and eyed Human warily for some time, weighing its choices. “That depends,” it said. “Will you tell me I’m a good boy?”

Human smiled. “The goodest boy,” it said.

Dog wagged its tail, and Wolf was no more.

whatevercomestomymind

I’ve reblogged it before, and I’ll say it again: this prose is right up there with Kipling’s Just So Stories. A modern literary masterpiece. I feel compelled to make an illuminated manuscript of it.

#canine

dogdayafternoon1975

MILF: TERMINATED

BONG: TERMINATED

GIRL: TERMINATED

basicmom

the end took me out to pasture

#holy fuck!

ravens-play-exy-too

i saw the words “ur not the first person in your lineage to be queer” and it’s rocking me to my core. how many generations down the line did one of my ancestors feel the way i did, feel differently than i did and so damn queerly it was a crime? how many of us were there? did they have hope? did they find peace? i don’t know. at the very least, maybe i am proof their identity was never wasted. reincarnated.