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I feel like these images hold a lot of power lol look at Furby’s sinister little self

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Buttons

#button quail #quail #birds #birds of tumblr #we got them today at a reptile expo (not the rabbit lol)#so they’re kinda freaked out hence the photo through the bin #I’ll take better pictures of them when they’re settled in #(oh and dw they’re not feeders for our snakes LMAO) (the baby rabbits are fenced in away from our dog now too)#the dark one with the white-striped face is a boy and the other two are girls :]

Got a frame for Furby’s lovely art 🐥🎨

💬 0 🔁 5 ❤️ 3 · Guys i made my first art piece with Crayola washable paint! 🎨 💙 It was very messy but it was a masterpiece I also painted

#button quail #birdblr #traditional art #lil artist

today i return with more fucked up animal taxonomy/phylogeny facts.........

these ^ are button quails (genus Turnix). they are small and plump and run around in the grass and eat seeds. they are very quail-like.

HOWEVER.

they are not quail. in fact, they are relatively close relatives of seagulls!

not only are they NOT quail, but the clade they belong to (neoaves) diverged from the clade quail belong to (galloanserae) during the cretaceous period! they last share a common ancestor with quail about 85 million years ago (the exact number is disputed but they definitely diverged before the k-pg extinction event, and likely quite long before that, so somewhere in the realm of abt 70-95 mya)!

in other words

these two birds (actual quail (king quail, Synoicus chinensis) on the left, button quail (madagascar buttonquail, Turnix nigricollis) on the right) last shared a common ancestor around 20 million years before tyrannosaurus rex even existed!!!!!!!!

#birds #bird #quail #button quail #dinosaurs #aves