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Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administrat

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I’m never wrong

veryslowthinker

🖖🏻😱 He's wearing the Red Shirt of Death 😱🖖🏻

bellmanbessa

"hello avatar" - korra and pavi

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arowana posca in sketchbook

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great-and-small

Please enjoy this delightfully ridiculous mating display from a Snowy Egret in peak breeding plumage. That signature gurgling call you can hear at the start of the video is one of my favorite noises in the animal kingdom! This is maybe the best time of year to go birding where I live as the swamps and wetlands are simply electric with activity and life. Everywhere you turn your head there is something remarkable to behold.

kyri45

Avatar: The Last Airbender Fand-Home Prints by @Kyri45

These can be found in 3 versions both as prints and T-Shirt on my RedBubble!

devinellekurtz

Undersea Sleepover

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filmnoirsbian

It's fun reading writers who clearly grew up in suburban/urban environments as someone who grew up on a farm because they're always like "oh it was so creepy, woods at night, eerily breathtaking, something was living in there..." and it's like yeah that'll be the deer.

blackvelvetofnight

EXACTLY

cuprohastes

“At night there was the stentorian sound of breathing, and deep groans as of some creature lurking outside the window”

That’d be the cows. They do that.

“Unearthly screams”

Deer or foxes.

“Phantom cries in the woods.”

Cougar. Maybe lambs.

“A rustle as if some unseen hand had disturbed the plants, and a wet gasping gurgle”

Oh shit look down, no, further. See that? It’s a hedgehog. You just found out why they’re named hogs. They’re loud. Unless you see stripes, then it’s a badger and yeah, back the fuck up. I mean yeah enjoy their little snuffly routine but like, from over there.

radio-girl1

gallusrostromegalus

Ok but I love this for a lot of reasons:

1. Excellent pun

2. Wasn’t snow white kept in a glass coffin while she slept? Very vintage fairy tale aesthetic.

3. A few people pointed out in the tags that a full-sized glass coffin would be a terrific terrarium for lots of the already spooky critters you keep in terrariums- tarantula, toads, snakes, carnivorous plants etc. And the coffin shape would give them lots of space and take the spookiness to maximum.

veryslowthinker

Paradigm shift: Snow-white wasn't buried in a coffin – she was buried in a terrarium.

spockeveryday

airlocksandaviariesarchive

Looks like we can’t isolate, ignore, ibuprofen our way out of this one boys

singswan-springswan

improvise it is

iwait4youalexg

Oh!

zarekthelordofthefries

Not to critique evolution, but I would think orange and black stripes wouldn’t be as good for camouflage in a forest as, say, green and black would.

acceptableduraz

It turns out a lot of animals can’t see the difference between orange and green! Elephants, for instance, have dichromatic vision (two types of cones, rather than three like most humans.)

Check out this diagram from ResearchGate. It deals with the color vision of horses, who are also generally dichromatic. (I think, though I’m not sure, that zebras would have the same color vision as horses.) See how orange and green look to them?

zarekthelordofthefries

Not to critique evolution but I think prey animals should be better at telling when their predator is dressed like a traffic cone.

squeeful

It doesn’t matter what zebras see, because tigers are not native to Africa and do not naturally hunt zebra. Tigers are Asian and mostly hunt animals like deer, elk, and buffalo. These aren’t animals with great color vision. They don’t need to have it because they don’t eat fruit and so don’t need to know when the berry is ripe vs when it’s not. Good color vision is too expensive to have if you don’t need it. Deer put their vision stats in a wide field of vision that is sensitive to motion, low light capabilities, and possibly seeing UV light. They don’t have great color and lack a lot of acuity, but have a great sense of smell and good hearing. That’s way more useful if you’re prey. Deer see well in the blue end of the color spectrum and less well in the red. This makes sense because deer are most active in the dawn and dusk periods, when there is more blue in the light. Tigers are taking advantage of deer eyesight by being orange.

We see tigers are being obviously colored because tigers are fruit colored to our tree ape brains.

thelibrarina

I don’t know what the best part of this is: implying that deer chose their attributes on a character sheet, or the fact that we get to see tiger colors because they look like a snack.

authoratmidnight

Ok but like, I think you underestimate just how well they blend in when actually in the environment. Like, just using tigers as an example.

or how about a leopard?

It’s called ‘disruptive colouration’ because the markings help to break up the animal’s outline against the grasses or rocks. And the rosettes on leopards and jaguars? Sun spots shining through the trees and leaves on the ground.

And this is how hard it is to spot them WITH colour vision. Now imagine the above images but with the limited coloured mentioned above?

hecate-hollow

I’m sorry but there is not an animal in that first leopard picture

authoratmidnight

Are you, sure about that?

petermorwood

How Not To Be Seen meets How Not To Be Lunch.

challangerating

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The realization you actually couldn’t see a tiger will haunt you for the rest of your life.

ankewehner

That last one isn’t a tiger. It has spots. Most likely a leopard.

headspace-hotel

Animal camouflage is often super unintuitive when you’re not actually looking at the animal in its habitat.

The colors that seems most pertinent when you look at a forest ecosystem are the bright colors that pop out, however camouflaging animals are trying to blend into the background that you don’t even notice.

There’s a lot of brown, gray and black in this picture, but it’s harder to notice than the green.

That brown, gray and black lurking in the background is what gets you…

With some animals, if you’ve never seen them in a specific environment, you wouldn’t even guess that they ARE camouflaging

My favorite example of this is garter snakes. This lady looks pretty striking, right? Maybe those bold colors are to warn predators…

Spot the snake!

On that note I really wonder how many animals are using camouflage and we can’t even detect it. Like , how many animals have camouflage that can only affect predators that see ultraviolet light? How many animals that look bold to us have colors that their predators can’t see?

I wonder if this affects the evolution of colorful patterns and displays? It might be beneficial to evolve displays in new colors so a potential mate CAN see you, but predators CAN’T.

jodjuya

Okay @headspace-hotel I’ve been straining my eyes for like 10 minutes and I still can’t find what’s brown, grey, black, and lurking. HALP!? 😭

headspace-hotel

Oh it’s just a picture of the forest to demonstrate my point, it doesn’t have any hidden creatures.

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………….At least I don’t think it does.

jodjuya

i thought that must have been the case but i also couldn’t stop thinking that you had done a REALLY good job of making your point and i was about to get eaten by a wolf or something (cause those trees don’t look like the kind of trees I’d expect to see a big cat lurking behind)

I’ve gone ahead and added a dangerous predator so that future generations won’t have to suffer the way I did: