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how do manatees even survive as a species if they're way too peaceful. somehow nothing wants to eat them. not gators or sharks or whales

it's quite simple, they're their ecosystem's version of a megafauna grazing mammal! they're simply too large for most predators to bother. they are, in fact, fucking huge.

see, manatees don't actually live out in the open ocean. they live in rivers, estuaries, and shallow seagrass bays like this:

so the thing is, large macropredator sharks and superpredators like killer whales don't go here! they stay out in open deep water, so they never really cross paths with manatees in the first place.

there ARE sharks here, but they're small! adult manatees are completely out of their prey size range, and they're more interested in fish anyway.

alligators do live here also, but even a very large alligator can't really dream of preying on an adult manatee! again, they're simply too big.

so, yeah. this is just another case of "this mammal is able to get away with being a gentle giant by simply growing too large for any predator in its area to touch" and I think that's beautiful.

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i forget baby bugs don't really exist not in the way i want them too anywYs. i was like how come ive never seen a baby beetle i bet theyre soo cute and then i googled and i was like oh right. grub

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the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

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Anthony Machuca

Doppelgänger

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gonna post a controversial take alright are y’all ready??

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actually typing out emoticons like XD and :D and :V never should have gone out of fashion and you can pry them out of my cold dead hands okay I know emojis are fun but THEY DON’T CAPTURE THE EMOTION IN THE SAME WAY

so like

…yeah that was basically it, thanks for reading

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Under Candlelight, watercolor. — John Butler Yeats (Irish, 1839-1922)

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First Post! Maybe I’ll be more active here since Twitter went to shit.

Ghost pokemon! I’ll be finishing this project as soon the new game is released! I hope you like it!

Music by the musical ghost!

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Folle journée - Théophile Alexandre Steinlen - 1900 - via Internet Archive (detail)

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Cecropia moth By: Unknown photographer From: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animal Life 1961

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she's so small and her backpack is so full of . Explodives

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This actually made my entire week already today.. 🥹❤️🥰

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the need to animate pokemons

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Todays beanie of the day is Lips the Fish

Birthday- 03/15/1999

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WATERSHIP DOWN (1978) dir. Martin Rosen, John Hubley

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Rules: tag "9" people you want to get to know better. (If you'd rather not participate, or you've received it already, you're absolutely free to ignore this!)

Tagged by: @umbraastaff ^-^; Thank you, Peri. Nobody's tagged me in anything before, I'm excited.

Last Song: "Unfortunate Soul" by Kailee Morgue

Last Show: "The Last of Us," if you can't tell 9.9; Oh, we've also been watching Ryan and Shane, so I guess "Are You Scared?" too. XD;

Last Movie: Oh, this is tougher. I... ...genuinely don't know. ~.~;; I can't remember the last time I was out for a movie. I wish I could, it's really bothering me... Oh, well.

Currently Reading: Trying to read "A Series of Unfortunate Events" again from the beginning... It's been a while since I've picked it up though. I really love reading and I need to do it more.

Current Obsession: "The Last of Us." It's just really important to me. I've never really gone through something like this with a character, but Ellie is basically me and... I don't always know what to do about it. Maybe I should make a kinblog.

Okay, I'm going to tag @cerebralrepeat because Lynn always likes to do this stuff, @moonlitdandelionrain, @bonewhiteglory, and my friend Stolas who I don't think has a Tumblr. u.u;; But anyone can do it or not do it if they want, it's not like it's a big deal.

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Baby Shimmer 🥰

THE LAST OF US (2023-) • 1.06: Kin