Tethered to the world by a glass doorknob

I've been here far too long

[plounce]

me trying to comprehend anything anyone says to me

[imp-deactivated20171219-deactiv]

salvador dali that wild son of a gun he loved Bendy clocks

[swurp]

What if you looked in the doctor office fish tank and it was just filled with rats swimmin around

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

With swim trunks and snorkels

[stealthrockdamage-deactivated20]

fuck it

rats in da fish tank

[kyleblackpaw]

Visit Original Link

Well as long as we’re talking about the ancient internet, who remembers this.

[drphaffot]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

… I just realised that some of my mutuals are Too Young to get flashbacks from this. I hate the internet.

[thebelchers]

[tchaikovskaya]

[cottonkhaleesi]

Finally finished!!!

The medina tiles blanket is blocked and ready for its closeups. I absolutely adored making this, the colours are spectacular; even King Cole themselves said “wow!” on Instagram.

[cannibalchicken]

[fish-celestialbody-adjective]

[bentrollio]

Hold on I’m Jewish I gotta look some things up

[bentrollio]

Yeah this is pretty funny

[thesassyducks]

These ten ducklings were found orphaned and they were brought to a pet duck called Stella who had just hatched nine of her own two weeks prior. She immediately claimed the ten as her own. 

via @thesassyducks​ instagram

(Source)

[kindness-and-sunshine]

she released those babies like a ramen flavour packet

[kelssiel]

love how stella swims over like “oh shit i must’ve misplaced these ten whole babies!”

[azzandra]

Love how the li’l ramen flavor packets swim over like ‘oh shit that must be mom, she’s mom-shaped’

[lurlur]

[flipocrite]

found-family speedrun

[scrubjayspeaks]

New offspring just dropped.

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[thyrell]

?

[dragongirlknot]

?

[malewiferobbie]

[the-prince-of-tides]

[babyanimalgifs]

Dog’s secret exit. 

(via)

[myheartisafish]

howl: has a 24 step skincare routine

sophie: washes her face with dish soap

[myheartisafish]

HDJDKSKS this is a good addition thank you

[homunculus-argument]

I love how both corvids and parrots are in general highly intelligent, but where corvids generally have strict hierarchies, solve disagreements in the pecking order by fighting, and have a strong dislike for anything new or foreign until they figure out how to make use of it, parrots are just here to party.

The New Caledonian crow, who knows how to specifically build a tool in order to build another tool, never engages in play. These motherfuckers are smarter than some people with the right to vote, and they are Extremely Serious Birds. They don't have time to play, they got work to do and kids to raise.

And then there's the kea, straight-up titled "clown of the mountains", that has a specific vocalization for "playtime!". Scientists decided to try what happens if they play the Play Call for two fully-grown adult keas that are together in an area and can clearly see there is no other, third kea to make the call, and they just go "great idea, disembodied voice! it's TIME TO FUCKING PARTY!" and start wrestling.

Imagine working really hard in order to make it into a top university to study astrophysics, making it to your first Very Serious Class, sitting down full of serious determination, and the dude next to you is taking notes without using his hands, with a glitter pen he's shoved up his nose. And his notes are good.

[homunculus-argument]

It's your first day of Bird University and you already fucking hate this guy.

[trixree]

So there's this gene in humans called PLXNC1 or "Plexin", right? So Plexin is associated with increased neuron function and is generally thought to be correlated to human's increased cognitive ability for the use of language, i.e., "language learning". Super cool, right?

Humans aren't the only animals with advanced language learning that have Plexin in their genome. We can actually find homologous plexin between humans and PARROTS!

Using genomic alignment search tools, we can actually break down the sequence of human Plexin and directly compare it to the Plexin found in parrots. (This was actually a project I ran for an upper division genomics class, and running the program literally takes like... ten minutes.) I wanted to see how similar the plexin gene was between humans and parrots, so I queued up the human sequence against all of the available records from parrot genomes and sorted by greatest percent identity (i.e., which bird species had the closest plexin to ours?)

It was this funky dude right here:

THAT'S RIGHT BABY! The kea, notorious for being a straight up motherfucking prank god, carries Plexin with a 79.42% identity comapred to humans'.

THIS LITTLE ASSHOLE HAS A HOMOLOGOUS LANGUAGE LEARNING GENE WITH US!!!! A GENE THAT IS THOUGHT TO BE CORRELATED TO HIGHER LEVEL LEARNING AND INTELLIGENCE!!!!! AND THEY USE THEIR INTELLIGENCE TO WREAK HAVOC ON TOURISTS

Also these guys have been found to literally have predictive reasoning skills, which we consider REALLY FUCKING ADVANCED for a lot of animal species. They pass the Aesop's fable test with flying colors. They're so goddamn cool, I love them so much. The kea really said: "I will use my superior intelligence to have a good fucking time" and that's so powerful honestly

[birdghost]

current emotion: lumpy bird drawn with touchpad on ms paint at midnight

[unintelligibledifference]

18+

[birdghost]

This Friend Is Available To All Ages You Fool

[quantumarvel]

[grumsal]

[plum-soup]

Average New Yorker after experiencing a minor inconvenience