BIRD FACTS: [all facts have been redacted]

we just don't know

[arrgh-whatever]

Hi! I now have a Donatello page so if you enjoy my work and would like me to be able to draw more often please consider supporting me! Thank you!!

[the-east-art]

Useful image for when your internet friends have rain in their cities and you don’t

[felixcloud6288]

I could really go for a party platter of assorted sliced meats and cheese cubes right now.

[dogpuppy]

[detroitlib]

From our stacks: Title page illustration from Specimens of Ancient Furniture. Drawn from Existing Authorities by Henry Shaw, F.S.A. with Descriptions by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick K. H. London: William Pickering, 1836.

[audhdgoku]

Being Nefarious With Mama

[r2x2]

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

[cbarc]

Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

[lost-where-the-forest-would-grow]

I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

[daovihi]

reblog if you are an ad hating commie

[ladyshinga]

[slopforhogs]

Japanese boar (Sus scrofa leucomystax) with leucism

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[minecraft-sex-mod]

just you wait, dude. just you wait

[archivearchangelica]

Access for 10 ants only, 2006

[weirdplutoprince]

Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of someone else's actions that I am directly impacted and severely affected by

[anxietyproblem]

[pnglove]

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[great-and-small]

Americans take a second to thank the Migratory Bird Treaty Act that you can still walk into the wetlands to see (and hear) this scene