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Blue-footed boobies By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

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Wizard and Unicorns by Adrian Chesterman

(2014 or earlier)

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THE TERROR - 1x05 “First Shot a Winner, Lads”

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do you ever tell people you’ll be going to sleep but then you don’t and you have to not do anything noticable online for the sake of it seeming as if you didn’t lie to them

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This counts as vent art.

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@theterrorbingo fill: francis crozier + contact

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One of those situations where, 'you're turning into your father' is the furthest thing from a insult possible.

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people are really fucking clueless about generative ai huh? you should absolutely not be using it for any sort of fact checking no matter how convenient. it does not operate in a way that guarantees factual information. its goal is not to deliver you the truth but deliver something coherent based on a given data set which may or may not include factual information. both the idolization of ai and fearmongering of it seem lost on what it is actually capable of doing

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Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Bush dogs are living proof that team work makes the dream work! When these small canines hunt half of the pack will pursue their prey over land, while the other half waits in water for the target to try to swim away. Bush dogs are particularly adapted to this style of hunting, as their partially webbed feet make them excellent swimmers.

(Image: A bush dog (Speothos venaticus) by Josh More)

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More on the Mountain Beaver

Despite its name, the mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa) is not actually a beaver, and is actually more closely related to squirrels! They also don't typically live in high mountain environments; instead they prefer deciduous and coniferous forests in the lower levels of the Cascade mountains in western North America.

As a member of the rodent family, A. rufa shares many traits with rats and squirrels. They have a small, but compact body, small ears, large central incisors, and a small nubby tail. They are covered with thick brown fur, with a small white spot at the base of each ear, and have a number of long whiskers around their muzzle. Males and females are nearly identical, averaging 800 g (28.19 oz) in weight and 50 cm (19.65 in) in length.

Mountain beavers spend most of their time alone, and only emerge from their burrows at night. They feed almost exclusively on ferns, and can even consume bracken ferns, which are toxic to other animals. Their diet is also supplemented with pine needles, deciduous leaves, grasses, and mosses. Due to their small size, A. rufa are prey for many species including coyotes, foxes, weasels, racoons, and birds of prey.

Breeding for mountain beavers can start as early as February and extend to May. It is unknown how males and females find each other, or whether they exhibit any courting behaviour, but females typically give birth to two or three young about a month after conception. The pups are hairless, blind, and deaf, but grow quickly and are weaned after 6-8 weeks. At this time they leave the burrow and venture out to establish their own territories. They reach full maturity at about 2 years of age, and it is believed that they can survive for up to 6 years in the wild.

Conservation status: Mountain beavers are classified as Least Concern by the IUCN. However, they are threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation; one subpopulation in particular, the Point Arena mountain beaver (A. r. nigra) is considered endangered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

Photos

John M. Reagan

Tim Donner

Chris Wemmer

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Yet another thing I love about Trillian as a character is that she knows and practices the adage of "if it sucks, hit da bricks". Your home planet? Guy not treating you right? Some asshole drags you off to see the ruler of the universe? You can always leave! Real winners quit, and so she does

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does one not bring one's habits to terror?

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you ever see a picture of The Character and feel your HP bar fill up

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A group of cheetahs relax in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania

Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images