Just 'kitten' around

Hello come one come all to my personal blog, here for fun, here for entertainment, feel free to explore my tags. And hit me up if you have somethin to say!

[whitepeopletwitter]

[daddyhiccup]

This was too brilliant to not share with you all.

[bob-artist]

I bought this extremely soft mat for the ferrets, and it blew Kit’s mind.

[wowofu]

my cat makes this noise whenever she yawns

[wowofu]

molly passed away yesterday thank you everyone for making her so famous and giving her your love…

[literallyjustanerd]

obsession??? what obsession? the McElroys are just a hobby. a hobby I’ve gotten, like, really into lately...

[thevoidfish]

Just imagine you're Clint McElroy. You have three sons, and you are very proud of them. They start a successful podcast which is influenced by your career in radio. One day on a lark they invite you to play D&D with them while your oldest son needs time for the birth of his first child. Your oldest son is a father now, too, and you're very proud of him. The audio you record of that play session becomes so popular that you're able to retire and make your living working with your three sons who you are very proud of (all three who are fathers now.) You get to spend your time creating something with your boys that you are so proud of and love so much.

[everythingfox]

The best vibrating bed money can buy

[carrionkid]

about to fail my gender presentation 😔😔

[lyinginbedmon]

Man I did so well at the midterms but I am completely flunking the final exam.

[purrapurplelion-deactivated2020]

I’m not failing my gender presentation, the standardized testing for gender is failing me :3

[holyhotpantsbatman3]

My therapist asked me to create something “motivating” so I made these.

lol.

[vvank3rshim]

I really love these, and I reblog them every single time. Some of you don’t realize how easy it’s to forget to do some of those stuff or how hard they can be some days.

[bdgunravelme]

is patrick okay

[sketchy-replies]

It’s worrying how few changes I need to make to Izzy to turn her into Midna… Easy costume at least!~

[intriga-hounds]

can i interest u in a box of friend??

[snoozy-red-panda]

It is The Earl himself

[z-t00n-deactivated20240811]

[ripe]

thedragonwoodconservancy on ig

[cryptidsydario]

laser gun gator boys

[peniswakt-deactivated20210717]

oh my god i didn’t realize this video had audio

[actualaster]

Okay as adorable as this looks, I’m pretty sure that’s a distress sound?  A “mommy help me I’m scared come save me!” sound?

@why-animals-do-the-thing

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

This video is from Dragonwood Wildlife Conservancy, and they are yearling (last year’s babies) Cuban crocodiles. Good news for you, this isn’t actually a distress call! According to @kaijutegu​ (and her giant bookshelf full of reptile resources), the laser sounds are an affiliative social call that young Cuban crocodiles use to communicate with their parents. They normally stop making the noise at around two years old, which is approximately when they start dispersing from the family group.

See, Cuban crocodiles are a super social species - and one of the few where the fathers stick around and provide paternal care for the babies! In the wild, babies would regularly interact with both parents, including when they provide food. This call is basically the type of vocalization that the babies use to communicated with their parents.

These crocodiles are being hand-raised as part of a private-sector breeding and reintroduction program (because the parents are so protective of their offspring that if you left them the babies to raise, you’d never be able to safely get close to them), and so they’re responding to the guy in the video the same way because he’s constant known safe individual and also the provider of food. He’s not a threat - his presence is a good thing, and he’s worth interacting with because it normally means food. You can also tell from their behavior and body language that they’re not stressed: some of the crocodiles are actively climbing on him and interaction of their own volition, but the ones that aren’t don’t show any indicators of hyper-vigilance. If that were a distress call, every crocodile that heard it would be alert and on edge looking for the threat. Distress calls tend to only happen once or twice, because in the wild continuing to make noise makes a baby more vulnerable: so these crocodiles wouldn’t be continually vocalizing if they felt threatened. There’s no snapping or gaping or freezing, all of which would be behavioral indicators of distress or discomfort. (Here’s a video of a baby nile crocodile being harassed by photographers which will give you a visual reference for both freezing and gaping.)

So, hey, this is certifiably cute - and good for conservation!

[farlee-wander]

Raven makes mistakes sometimes.

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[vacuousbacon-deactivated2021032]

Frick I love this

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog if you feel bad and good and very confused

[sartorialadventure]

[discount-supervillain]

I think this one was funnier in my head