#borzboy

[petcareawareness]

Do you have any posts/article that talk about why monkeys/primates should never be kept as pets? from time to time theres a "funny video of a monkey in a home/on a leash/doing human stuff" and i want something to refer people to when they ask why its bad

You can search the term “primates” on the blog, but there are also a few articles discussing this particular subset of the illegal wildlife trade: 

1) The International Primatological Society’s statement on primate ownership summed up as:

“The International Primatological Society [therefore] opposes the holding of nonhuman primates in captivity by individuals for any non-scientific, non-certified educational or non-registered/accredited sanctuary purposes, including the possession of nonhuman primates as pets or companion animals as well as engaging in breeding and trading for these purpose.”

2) Primarily Primates, a primate sanctuary in Texas, discusses the American private primate ownership phenomenon: 

Approximately 60 percent of the animals at Primarily Primates are discarded pets. Typically the animal starts to bite and become aggressive, or picks up a nervous habit, like self-harming or feverishly pacing in the cage, or screaming. Non-human primates are most often abandoned by their owners between the ages of two and eight (depending on the species), after they have started maturing, and sometimes after their owners have had their teeth removed in an effort to restrict their assertive personalities.

3) A very thorough article from the American Journal of Primatology;

4) A New York Times article discussing the primate trade with several heartbreaking passages (cw for descriptions of violence and rape):

Apes are big business — a gorilla baby can cost as much as $250,000 — but who exactly is buying these animals is often as opaque as the traffickers’ identity. Many times, researchers say, they can only begin to track where the apes have ended up by stumbling across the Facebook posts and YouTube videos of rich pet collectors.

“This is sick,” Mr. Stiles said as he pulled up a picture of a small chimpanzee wearing lipstick. “You got this poor animal, without its mother, without any other members of its own species, totally bewildered and terrorized, all for human amusement.”

[…]

Many illegal wildlife transactions start online, specifically through Instagram or WhatsApp. Mr. Stiles has made several trips to the United Arab Emirates, which he considers a new hub for the illegal online wildlife business. Dealers in the Middle East have posted many pictures of apes for sale, sometimes advertising them as friendly pets for children.

[…]

International wildlife regulations prohibit the trade of endangered apes for commercial purposes. While zoos and other educational institutions are allowed to acquire apes, they need permits showing, among other things, that the apes were bred in captivity, not captured in the wild. (All great ape species are endangered; most gibbons species are as well.)

I will also be taking the time to type up a post detailing ape/primate aggression and the rather infamous case of a certain chimpanzee later. 

--mod Nick

[slavicafire]

This is my own thing, Everytime I cross the Wisła i have to look at the water. Just because

I wonder if she has to look at you every time you cross her, too.

[lesbianlizard]

borzboy ha risposto al tuo post “That mogai comic is like absolutely heinous but she also does comics...”

This characters name is Olive. And her deadname was Oliver. Get it. Cos she's trans. And that's how (genderbending) trans works

[kokkuri3]

What do you think of Sharon?

I don’t have a ton of feelings about her just because her arc is so completely overshadowed by Break’s/Reim’s despite the fact that she is a Main Character. It sucks because, like a lot of female PH characters, she had a lot of potential... but it never gets realized because Mochizuki’s Internalized Misogyny. She doesn’t really do much aside from be a daughter figure to Break.

And then the whole “adult woman in underaged girl’s body” trope is always just kind of shitty. It could have at least been interesting if Mochizuki had remembered to make it clear this was a legitimate point of insecurity for her prior to the final fucking chapter, but she didn’t, so it just feels kind of Unnecessarily There. 

Her only moment of real emotionality outside of her interactions with Break are at the beginning of the Headhunter arc, when she loses the ability to access her Chain and is incapacitated because of this. At that point she’s set up to have an arc about looking for sources of strength outside of being protected by others but that... never actually happens. She just goes back to being someone Break can have cute familial interactions with and that’s kind of it.

Ultimately Sharon is written like a character who Mochizuki was pretty hype about at one point and then just kind of forgot about once she actually started writing the story.

[foulserpent]

What precautions do you use when you have both rats and a snake? I once had ferrets while having rats and they would bite me if they smelled rats on me. Do snakes do the same?

idk if other species of snakes or even other individuals would understand a rat as a prey item without being fed them, but biscuit just does not recognize rats as food like at all (even the ones she actually can swallow). i got her a rat pup for her food once since theyre approximately the same size and shape as adult mice, and she barely recognized it as food. she gave it a half assed strike and then let go of it and stared at it for like 5 minutes before trying to eat it. (and she couldnt figure out how to swallow it and eventually managed to get it down backwards)

id assume is that a snake thats fed on rats would probably strike at you if they smelled them on your hands, but biscuit only gets mice so the scent must be different enough she cant recognize it as food. if i hold her near the rat cage (safe risk free distance away but near it) she’ll sniff at it a little bit but is about as interested in them as she is in my bugs, which is like pretty much just investigating something that moves and then moving on.

actually next time i get a mouse in one of my traps ill wave it around near her and see if she reacts to it the same as she reacts to the f/t feeder mice, bc i wonder if she’d even know what to do with a wild mouse at this point..

[rickylafleurs]

HOW DID BOONE EVEM WATCH CARS?? DO CARS CINEMATIC UNVIERSE EXIST IN FALLOUT UNIVERSE? I need anwsers

yeah the yhave cars on holotape 

[ihatecispeople]

Yes, I know Nate, you said don't go to that blog and I didn't listen and holy shit, terfz are making a fucking ZINE talking about how much trans women traumatized them... This is the only tumblr post that actually made me physically sick 😖

i don't know how to answer this properly so that my disgust is clear. this is horrendous. i didn't linger on the blog because blogs like it ruin my day, but learning this, it's absolutely horrible. i really do want to urge my followers that we need to blacklist and ignore and actively shut out t*rfs and their supporters from our immediate communities because it's clear they are set to do everything they can to paint a marginalised and oppressed group of women in as bad of a light as they can

[leatherbars]

Pistachio????

the ice cream debacle is gonna follow me for the rest of my tumblr life, IT’S A GOOD ICE CREAM FLAVOR and some people r just wrong :/