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‘ur quiet’ i am gatekeeping my personality from u

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La vecina de abajo dice que se le llueve el balcón porque prendemos el aire. Señora quéjese con la lluvia no con nosotros

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mutuals please do this to me

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It’s that time of year. Reblog with how many you’ve heard of.

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Drew that new creature from Avatar 3 again because we got some new images! Original piece i made is linked here . Idk i think i got it pretty well on the first try, especially considering the quality of the reference image lol!

The dorsal view is pretty speculative, since all the angles we've seen so far haven't been great. I'm excited to learn more about this critter!

New official image is below :)

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Redditor discovers slugs for the first time

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Ethiopian wolves feed on the sweet nectar of a local flower, picking up pollen on their snouts as they do so – which may make them the first carnivores discovered to act as pollinators.

The Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) is the rarest wild canid species in the world and Africa’s most threatened carnivore. Endemic to the Ethiopian Highlands, fewer than 500 individuals survive.

Sandra Lai at the University of Oxford and her colleagues observed wild Ethiopian wolves lapping up the nectar of Ethiopian red hot poker (Kniphofia foliosa) flowers. Local people in the mountains have traditionally used the nectar as a sweetener for coffee and on flat bread.

The wolves are thought to be the first large carnivore species ever to be recorded regularly feeding on nectar.

“For large carnivores, such as wolves, nectar-feeding is very unusual, due to the lack of physical adaptations, such as a long tongue or specialised snout, and because most flowers are too fragile or produce too little nectar to be interesting for large animals,” says Lai.

The sturdy, nectar-rich flower heads of the poker plant make this behaviour possible, she says. “To my knowledge, no other large carnivorous predator exhibits nectar-feeding, though some omnivorous bears may opportunistically forage for nectar, albeit rarely and poorly documented.”

Some of the wolves were seen visiting as many as 30 blooms in a single trip. As they lick the nectar, the wolves’ muzzles get covered in pollen, which they could potentially be transferring from flower to flower as they feed.

“The behaviour is interesting because it shows nectar-feeding and pollination by non-flying mammals might be more widespread than currently recognised, and that the ecological significance of these lesser-known pollinators might be more important than we think,” says Lai. “It’s very exciting.”

Lai and her colleagues at the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme now hope to dig deeper into the behaviour and its ramifications. “Trying to confirm actual pollination by the wolves would be ideal, but that would be quite challenging,” she says. “I’m also very interested in the social learning aspect of the behaviour. We’ve seen this year adults bringing their juveniles to the flower fields, which could indicate cultural transmission.”

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Forgive me.

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a lot of you bitches don’t understand that i’m coming wait for me. i hear the walls repeating. the falling of our feet and it sounds like drumming. and we are not alone. i hear the rocks and stones echoing our song. i’m coming

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its really telling where you learned about lapis lazuli. put yours in the tags

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just saw a sign on the side of the road that said “you misunderstood: bring back my lawnmower” that six word story goes crazy

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Help. Is this a hear me out?

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you can't just not talk to babies after they're born to see what little fucked-up language they develop. you can't do that anymore. if you try to not hold a baby after it's born to see what happens they'll say "hey! hold your baby!". and if you wanna just put a bunch of babies alone on an island together, to see what happens, they'll stop you. you can't do any of that anymore. because of woke

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Once the results are done, I'll multiply 255 to the decimal version of the percentage, and see what color we make!!

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I’m at class but got tired of listening to the professor because she’s always repeating the same shit and it’s the last class. I’m tired let me gooooooooo.

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when you’re out at a restaurant or a coffee shop or a target or whatever with your friends and you overhear/eavesdrop the same snippet of some stranger’s conversation, and you look at each other for a second to check that you both heard this stranger say the same weird/funny/baffling thing and just break out in knowing grins and quiet laughter… that’s a love language