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[terkaterr]

walkin my pet moose jaw #mypetjaw

[qwertythepopstarian08]

No more spirit potions!

I may not have spirit potions but if you keep that up I'm about to snatch a spirit right there /lh /nm

Edit:

It's a fenton thermos-

[mne-bolno]

and also, that scene where ander is seating in front of the fireplace and it's exactly like the last scene of cmbyn?

[66scarsandcounting]

trying again pls show up in the tags

i need more blogs to follow!! everyone i follow just poofed i mean understandable but

like/rb if you post about

uncharted + its many branches such as

rafe adler specifically

elena fisher specifically

rafe x sam (or tbh just ship them)

sanrio + cinnamoroll specifically

jellyfish

music boxes??

grand chase

[terkaterr]

hey! came across your reblog about your mummified bird, the info about crossbills is fascinating! i can’t seem to find anything about it online do you have any source where i could read up on it?

hi hello thank you so much for asking this! for you see, i found that i have spread misinformation there. apparently, tales of incorruptible crissbills are a legend spread through almost exclusively russian sources! that's likely why you haven't found anything of that accord. I heard this being repeated in academic settings, that's why i shared it as a fun fact, but from what i've found there is in fact no actual scientific corroboration on this fact

the original source of such claims can be traced to a 19th century book Brehm's Life of Animals, volume 4 (Brehm's Tierleben, Die Fögel, page 325), available to view here. I couldn't find that specific volume in english so here's a translation from original:

The body of the crossbills, which for a long time ate exclusively coniferous seeds, is so permeated by the resin content that it resists decay for a long time after death. "The meat," says my father, "acquires its own unpleasant odor, but it does not actually decay. Only one must beware of the flesh flies; for when they come to it, they lay their eggs on it, and those who come out of it rummage through and eat the flesh. I have made several attempts on this and always had the same success; I have one lying before me that was shot in the summer in the greatest heat, and yet has retained all its feathers; I also saw a 20-year-old mummy." That only the resin absorbed into the body is the cause of this peculiar finding is evident from other observations; for when the crossbill has fed itself for some time on insects, its body decays as quickly as that of other small birds.

as you can see, even here it doesn't exactly say they are fully uncorruptable: insects still can get to them, and diet affects this greatly, because crossbills can be quite apportunistic in their feeding and snack on all kinds of seeds and even insects. there are several similar stories attributed to russian zoologists as well, but i've spent enough time looking for this book alone and im too eepy to check out the rest... besides, it's already clear what i've said in that other post is wrong

now, it is possible that some trace amounts of resing might help dead crossbills to mummify more easily than other birds their size. but it seems like the observations made by Brehm and others are merely cases of successful natural mummification and don't speak to crossbills' unique proclivity for postmortem preservation

again, thank you for bringing this up, cause despite some part of me being skeptical the most parts pf me are. extremely gullible for a scientist, making me quite a target for spreading falsehoods. but we learn and move on!!

[octav4rium]

Suffering.

[terkaterr]

how did thou get footage of my apartment??

concerning.

[phoenixlooper]

i wrote that ramble between painting a staircase with oil paint and now my hands are super fucking gross