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Hey, whenever you’re in the mood would you like to tell us about doves, pigeons, or toucans? Those are my favorite birds!!! I would really love to adopt a rescue dove or pigeon someday 😭💕

Hi!!!!!!!! i answered this late cuz i needed to compile my information and i learned a lot thanks to you asking so i appreciate it :) I’ll talk about toucans since those are the ones I researched first!!

So! Toucans, or ramphastidae, are a family composed of five genera, so there’s a lot of information in that one word. The most commonly known one is the toco toucan, which is the largest of the typical toucans, genus ramphastos. something fun about toucans is it was originally thought that they were carnivorous and mostly ate fish because they have serrated beaks! It turns out they mostly eat fruit, but are opportunistic omnivores - eating eggs, insects and small birds when they chance upon them. Also they have six inch tongues :)

Another REALLY interesting thing: The bills of the toco toucans are what makes them so special, having (iirc) the biggest bill relative to body mass of any bird! It’s been theorized that they evolved these huge bills because:1. It’s easier to get food with a bigger bill2. Perhaps to attract a mate3. AND! Body heat control! Toucans are VERY VERY efficient in this regard thanks to their large, light bills made of spongy bone! According to a paper i read during my research, they can modulate how much heat is radiated out of their bill, thus improving the efficiency with which heat is released, and this method rivals the elephant’s method - their huge ears! Juvenile toucans are not as good at this, probably because their whole system and blood vessels in their bills aren’t fully developed yet.

Also, Toucans have a couple of joints in their tails, and their tails are connected to their backsides by a ball joint, allowing them to snap their tails up. This is how they sleep:

so cute...!

One last note, most ramphastidae are not obviously sexually dimorphic, except for selenidera, or dimorphic toucanets, the six species that are clearly sexually dimorphic.

Moving onto pigeons.Surprisingly, pigeons and doves aren’t actually different. They’re both columbidae and in English, “dove” is more often applied to smaller columbidae, whereas “pigeon” is applied to bigger ones, but this isn’t a consistent difference at all.

so , columbidae have been domesticated for... SO long. We have sculptures depicting humans holding pigeons from the 5th century BC. and thanks to various information including Darwin’s famous experiments with cross-breeding pigeon breeds, it’s commonly accepted that all (known) domesticated pigeons(doves) originate from the rock dove, and were selectively bred to create fancy, racing and utility breeds. there are literally SO many it would take me WEEKS to chose maybe 3 i really really like. there are 800 fancy breeds alone. EIGHT HUNDRED. but that post about lahore pigeons here on tumblr is true, lahore pigeons are really cute and apparently known for their gentle dispositions ! I’m definitely going to read up on some of these breeds, but for now all I can tell you is pigeons can be bred to be QUITE a lot of things. Pigeons are selectively bred for voice, color/pattern, face shape, beak length, etcetera, there’s a breed that has a fan tail i mean that’s pretty intense. there’s also

these guys, pouters. woah, right?

anyway yeah.. there’s SO MANY pigeon breeds.. that is what i learned today. I also did not know pigeons were actually bred to have inhanced homing capabilities. sexy. we still dont know what homing is, do we.... anyway yeah

#long post #fauna tag #bird tag #thankyou ! images all from wikipedia as usual!#friendoffelidae

I AM SO GLAD YOU’RE A FELLOW PIGEON APPRECIATOR WILL!! 😭💕 Pigeons are LITERALLY just doves with a different coat color and it pains me that people love doves but not pigeons! I’d love to have a pet pigeon if I didn’t have so many cats!

YES!! i love columbidae!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they’re super interesting ..... a while back for some reason i kept thinking about crop milk....... all birds are lovely and unique but pigeons are kinda thought of in a negative light.... so i love them

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Popping in to say….

I LOVE YOU SO SO MUCH AND YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL AND AMAZING AND KIND AND SUCH AN AMAZING FRIEND 🖤🖤🖤

I hope today is amazing and that you have time to do something for you this week because you deserve it. I love you endlessly

Ps I love your haircut, you look so beautiful 🥹🥹🖤🖤🖤

@faunxa

Omg FAUNA I love you!!!! You are the light of my life. Thank you so much! I hope that today and every day is filled with love and joy [even if the bad things have to creep in sometimes, know that I am always sending you so much love!!]

Thank you 💕 you are so sweet.

Stu will be here on Friday!!! I'll keep you posted on that! That's why I had to get my hair cut 😭 🤣

I love you my angel 🩷 I'm here for you always. That extends to your beautiful family as well! I can't wait until I can give you big hugs forreal!!!!

#save #save tag #rainy day #fauna tag

Since you so sweetly asked how I was doing, I wanted to ask how you were doing too 😺🌼💛

Aw I appreciate it fauna............. Im doing really well actually! Im attempting to draw but my tablet’s all messed up and im excited cuz tomorrow im going to get bubble tea with my siblings and sometime soon me and my sister are going to a cat cafe which you probably alreay know cuz i broadcast many things right h ere on tumblr. OH THE DRINKS LOOK SO GOOD WTF any way yeah thats how im doing.

#fauna tag #asks #IM REALLY EXCITED FOR THE CAT CAFE I HAVE A SWEATER WITH CATS ON IT #BUT WOULD THAT BE TOO ON THE NOSE #friendoffelidae

YOUR NEW URL OMG!!!!!!!!! 💖💖💖

YES!!!!!!!!!!!! ITS EPIC!!!!!

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Alright, but can we talk about pangolins for a minute?

I mean...

Seriously.

They're like adorable little dragon-anteater-sloth things.

Silly lil' artichokes.

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