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#373. In the Hoenn based Pokémon games, if the Player enters Slateport City’s Oceanic Museum before Team Aqua/Magma leaves, and with less than $50, the receptionist of the museum will not charge the Player the entrance fee, mistaking them for a member of Team Aqua/Magma. (X)
MY ASS!!!!!
we can all learn something of resiliency from these beautiful, deeply stupid creatures
sunfish are intelligent actually, they're active swimmers and dive and hunt during the day while hanging out near the surface at night. that's right, they're actually predators.
read this: (source)
sunfish are even strong enough swimmers to breach, (insane considering they average 540 – 4,400 lbs!!!) which is a much different image than the useless floating dummies that everyone seems to think they are :[
all this sunfish disparagement drives me wild. you can learn so much from the ocean sunfish because its actually an ingeniously evolved fish that's perfectly adapted to migrate between depths.
here's some additional reading: (Tweet) (Informational article)
People tagging like gore or animal death need to know the one in the first image is possibly just fine! That entire area of the body is pure muscle and it looks already healed. It will just be living its life like a bitten cookie.
Looking at sunfish yes there is some muscle there, but the tail(called the clavis, as it's actually a fusion of the anal and dorsal fin) is mostly cartilage
So it wouldnt have a lot of blood to bleed and have a decent chance of healing over, though id worry about it's diving ability. That being said the clavis is a rudder, not propulsion(which comes from the still separate parts of the dorsal and anal fin) so maybe it's steering is just a little wonky. The type of mola mola looks like a hoodwinker sunfish, though it could be a young mola mola/ocean sunfish too. My personal favorite is the slender sunfish. Added the baby because there just such odd things. They have a vertical mouth and mostly eat squid!
What do you mean a vertical mouth?!?
Oh my god
there's still a week left for the funniest possible thing to happen (charles dying before the coronation) like to charge reblog to cast or whatever
Bro wake up its 2002, lets get a gamecube for $49
Tufted pygmy squirrel vs tufted ground squirrel, opposite ends of the head to ass slider
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There’s a nasty winter storm that’s going to hit most of the central regions of the US tomorrow (21 December 2022), especially tomorrow night. Please check your local forecasts if you live anywhere west of the rocky mountains, even down as far south as Texas. In some areas of the Plains region, windchill is likely to be -50F to -70F. That is so cold that you will develop frostbite in minutes. You will lose extremities without protection if you are exposed to windchill that cold. -70F is “surface of Mars” cold.
My part of the US is going to be below freezing all next week. This is normal for some. Not so normal for others.
If your area is likely to be impacted by the storm, please prepare now. The most important thing is staying warm and staying inside until things warm up outside. Specific tips I can offer, as somebody who regularly deals with cold winters are:
Put blankets over windows and doors. This will help your house retain heat.
Stay well-fed. Buy food now. You will get hungry faster because your body will burn calories to stay warm.
Stay hydrated. If your lips are chapped you’re probably dehydrated.
Stay dry. Remove wet clothing as soon as possible. It is better to be naked than wet when it is cold.
If it is going to get below freezing for more than an hour or two, run your water at a trickle or drip to prevent your pipes from bursting. The colder it gets the faster your pipes will freeze.
Here’s the weather forecast for this storm:
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A sudden, terrifying thought
When you see an animal with its eyes set to the front, like wolves, or humans, that’s usually a predator animal.
If you see an animal with its eyes set farther back, though—to the side—that animal is prey.
Now look at this dragon.
See those eyes?
They’re to the SIDE.
This raises an interesting—and terrifying—question.
What in the name of Lovecraft led evolution to consider DRAGONS…
As PREY?
I know this isn’t part of my blogs theme but like this is interesting
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The eyes-in-the-front thing (usually) only applies to mammals. Crocodiles, arguably the inspiration for dragons, have eyes that look to the sides despite being a predator.
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This isn’t a mammalian thing. When people talk about ‘eyes on the front’ or ‘eyes on the side,’ they’re really talking about binocular vision vs monocular vision. Binocular vision is more advantageous for predators because it’s what gives you depth perception; i.e, the distance you need to leap, lunge, or swipe to take out the fast-moving thing in front of you. Any animal that can position its eyes in a way that it has overlapping fields of vision has binocular vision. That includes a lot of predatory reptiles, including komodo dragons, monitor lizards, and chameleons.
(The eyes-in-front = predator / eyes-on-sides = prey thing holds true far more regularly for birds than it does for mammals. Consider owls, hawks, and falcons vs parrots, sparrows, and doves.)
But it’s not like binocular vision is inherently “better” than monocular vision. It’s a trade-off: you get better at leap-strike-kill, but your field of vision is commensurately restricted, meaning you see less stuff. Sometimes, the evolutionary benefit of binocular vision just doesn’t outweigh the benefit of seeing the other guy coming. Very few forms of aquatic life have binocular vision unless they have eye stalks, predator or not, because if you live underwater, the threat could be coming from literally any direction, so you want as wide a field of view as you can get. If you see a predator working monocular vision, it’s a pretty safe assumption that there is something else out there dangerous enough that their survival is aided more by knowing where it is than reliably getting food inside their mouths.
For example, if you are a crocodile, there is a decent chance that a hippo will cruise up your shit and bite you in half. I’d say that makes monocular vision worthwhile.
Which brings us back to OP’s point. Why would dragon evolution favor field of view over depth perception?
A lot of the stories I’ve read painted the biggest threats to dragons (until knights with little shiny sticks came along) as other dragons. Dragons fight each other, dragons have wars. And like fish, a dragon would need to worry about another dragon coming in from any angle. That’s a major point in favor of monocular vision. Moreover, you don’t need depth perception in order to hunt if you can breathe fucking fire. A flamethrower is not a precision weapon. If you can torch everything in front of you, who cares if your prey is 5 feet away or 20? Burn it all and sift among the rubble for meat once everything stops moving.
Really, why would dragons have eyes on the front of their heads? Seems like they’ve got the right idea to me.
Worthwhile cryptozoological discourse
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April 20
For all the jokes about coinciding occurrences on 4/20, there really is a huge range of events that have happened at some point on some 20th of April. Here's a sampling of just a few:
In 1748, the composer Georg Michael Telemann was born. I might reblog this with a mediocre meme I made about him that probably only I find amusing. Apologies in advance.
The French Revolutionary wars officially begin in 1792.
Wisconsin Territory is created in 1836. It was a mistake.
The ultimate nerdy power couple, Pierre and Marie Curie, refined radium chloride in 1902.
Lionel Hampton was born on 4/20 in 1908 and vibraphones rejoiced.
There's a kinda concerning number of mass shootings and plane crashes.
Last year, in 2021, my state actually did something right for once and convicted a uniformed murderer. Minnesota also did things very wrong, using the trial as an excuse to spy on civilians and journalists and creating a baby police state (which was disappointingly ironic). Somehow, the mayor that supported all that got re-elected. I hate my hometown.
And finally.....
~weed day~
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Sesame Street predates PBS by nearly a year, with Sesame Street airing in November 1969 and PBS beginning operations in October 1970.
April 20
For all the jokes about coinciding occurrences on 4/20, there really is a huge range of events that have happened at some point on some 20th of April. Here's a sampling of just a few:
In 1748, the composer Georg Michael Telemann was born. I might reblog this with a mediocre meme I made about him that probably only I find amusing. Apologies in advance.
The French Revolutionary wars officially begin in 1792.
Wisconsin Territory is created in 1836. It was a mistake.
The ultimate nerdy power couple, Pierre and Marie Curie, refined radium chloride in 1902.
Lionel Hampton was born on 4/20 in 1908 and vibraphones rejoiced.
There's a kinda concerning number of mass shootings and plane crashes.
Last year, in 2021, my state actually did something right for once and convicted a uniformed murderer. Minnesota also did things very wrong, using the trial as an excuse to spy on civilians and journalists and creating a baby police state (which was disappointingly ironic). Somehow, the mayor that supported all that got re-elected. I hate my hometown.
And finally.....
~weed day~
April 19
Happy Birthday, Tim Curry!
April 18
On this day in 1930, the BBC opened their evening news broadcast with an announcement that "there is no news" and played piano music from the remainder of the broadcast.
