My head has thoughts,

I'm Toxy. she/her. ♑ . --------------------------- I'm a loser with an affinity for cats, coffee, hair dye and the internet. I love my boyfriend a lot. Homestuck's my jam through and through. I'm very aware of my sins, dw. --------------------------- babes this gal

[ampervadasz]

[wherda-cat]

Slow-mo bunny binky

[petermorwood]

Binky = action of a happy rabbit, or demonstration of bun fun… :-D

[ianvs-deactivated20241214]

@sleepybitchcity

[bulbasaur-propaganda]

Me at 4AM trying to sleep:

[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!

[catchymemes]

[since-the-900s-deactivated20190]

oh 

[kaddie]

[kitty]

[ftcreature]

A very good hoverfrog 🐸

[echomortis]

[avvocarlo]

[rooks]

The best moments of this show are where Eric has realized they’ve gone too far

[roaringstream]

They deadass got a live bear….

[tropiuz-deactivated20200618]

LKAMFKLSNASJKLFNJKASBFSAFKLAS

[knifefightscene]

[thisisalsoyou]

we saw a seal

[meetthehelper]

Do any of you wanna see a picture I took of some extremely powerful items

[meetthehelper]

Your fates are sealed

[meetthehelper]

The Elixers

[meetthehelper]

[threebigolsausages-deactivated2]

please listen to this kitten I met today

[naamahdarling]

TRANSCRIPT:

Kitten: BEEPBEepbeepbeepbeepbeep.

People: *surprised and delighted laughter*

[princesstigerbelle]

@mostlycatsmostly

[paper-tweets]

Little gryphletts I have been selling on my deviantart: https://www.deviantart.com/nybird They are all based on existing birds.

[krishnath]

Gwyffin!

[nightbringer24]

@candiceirae

[theironwarsmith]

@gemtern MICRO-GRIFFIN

[lobodascolinas-deactivated20150]

[ninoport]

WOW

[supamuthafuckinvillain]

I’m pretty sure you’ve reached Legendary Status when the God of Skating, Tony Hawk looses his shit

[eveltal-deactivated20151217]

That’s literally the move Christ Air from the first tony hawk pro skater game

[nosdrinker]

HE REALLY DID IT

[tuesdaey]

holy

FUCKING SHIT

[rilgon]

so wait

someone literally had the balls of vibranium it takes to attempt christ air

in front of Tony Hawk

AND STUCK IT

jfc

[insomniac-arrest]

late night cashiers at 24-hour convenience stores are the holders of our greatest secrets and most intimate selves

[insomniac-arrest]

not my mom, not my partner, not God himself has seen me no-make up in line to buy a choco-pop and panty liners while on the brink of a heart felt meltdown

no one has given me the empty stare of complete indifference that fills my anxious nerves with relief

there is nothing like the sweet freedom of complete nihilism experienced at a 7/11 at 2am, God lives in church, the randomness of the unfeeling universe lives at aisle 9 of CVS 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

what a fabulous and also philosophically horrifying tumblr post, thank you so much

[viredae]

That’s a very scathing critique of our modern consumerist, neo-capitalist culture… I think.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

just let it be, let it be

[unfortunately-awake]

[jillsteinfuneralcity]

did u kno that if you put a bell collar on an outdoor cat they will learn to hunt around the bell’s sound and then when you take the bell off they will be 1000x better at hunting

[totally-not-toby]