#wyrmwords

[wyrmracks]

I don't know if you remember your post about the stairs in the woods, from the searchandrescue blog. But do you know where they're located?

The author of the stories is right here. As for the stairs? Dear Anon, they’re everywhere.

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kiseichew replied to your post:Why do people delete and then re-write my...

I… think it’s a Tumblr update glitch. I’ve been seeing textposts that get completely deleted upon reblogging, so…

Well that’s rather annoying, I hope it gets fixed soon! Good to know it’s not something unwanted on my part though.

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Why do people delete and then re-write my comments? Is my icon too scary? :c

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Sorry for lack of updates! I’ve been having computer issues, but I’ll try and queue up some stuff now!

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snuffed replied to your photo:The impressive casque of a rhinoceros hornbill…

im mobile so I can’t do research right now- if something happens to the male while the female and lilhornbills are packed away, is she driven to chip them out and feed them herself…?

I did some sleuthing around the ‘net, and managed to find this: “Female hornbills remain trapped inside the nest for three to five months, while their eggs are incubating and the chicks grow up. They molt while in the nest, casting out their flight feather shortly before laying the eggs and regrow them before emerging from the nest. During their time in the nesting, the female and her young are totally dependent on the male for food. If something happens to him, often the whole family perishes. Among species that form nesting groups, the entire group gathers food for the nesting female.”

However I assume that if the male dies towards the end of the nesting period, when the chicks are readier to leave the nest, the female would indeed break them out herself - provided she had her flight feathers. I also found that in some other species of hornbill (including the rhinoceros hornbill previously posted), the mother will only stay with the chicks for their first few vulnerable months, after which she will break out of the tree, re-seal her babies inside, and work with the male to feed them and bring them food.

[wyrmracks]

This blog looks great! Just a question, will you be tagging high contrast/rapidly flashing gifs for seizure sufferers? I'm grateful you won't be posting jump scares. I love weird biology, it's great to see an accessible blog dedicated to it.

Hey there! Thank you so much for the compliment. I’ll always tag anything I think may trigger seizures, be it gifs or any other sort of eye-straining image, but I’m going to do my best to avoid that content entirely, so people browsing the blog itself without blacklists don’t have to worry about it.

Also! In addition to weird biology, this blog will also feature creepy cryptids, myths and legends, and pretty much anything I think fits into the niches of “informative, intriguing, and maybe a bit unsettling”. These will be tagged as well and added to a sidebar list, for ease of access (once I have enough posts, that is!).