#africa continent

[dream-world-universe]

Madeira, Portugal: Madeira is an autonomous region of Portugal. It is an archipelago situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, in the region of Macaronesia, just under 400 kilometres north of the Canary Islands, 520 kilometres west of the Kingdom of Morocco and 805 kilometres southwest of mainland Portugal. Madeira sits on the African Tectonic Plate, although it is culturally, politically and ethnically associated with Europe, with its population predominantly descended from Portuguese settlers. The capital of Madeira is Funchal, on the main island’s south coast. Wikipedia

[ashotasfireandasdeepastheocean1]

Beauty of our Planet ♡

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“ Mana Pools National Park “ // Solly Levi

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Someone: I mean in Africa-

The three tiny bitter anthropologists in my brain in tired unison: Africa is a continent where are you actually talking about

[augmentedpolls]

What continent do you live on?

-North America

-South America

-Europe

-Asia

-Oceania

-Africa

-Other/I don’t live on a continent/results/bald

Thanks anon for submitting! If you want your own question answered, feel free to submit polls via my ask box

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aabon35

[without-ado]

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[ladies-and-jennes]

Yassified Abe Lincoln. Babe Lincoln, if you will.

[craftingcreatures]

Alright, so I was thinking about Hammerheaded Bats (Hypsignathus monstrosa), as one does, and I just... have questions.

Obviously these things are absolutely ludicrous. The deranged-looking eyes, the goblin-esque ears, the lips that look like they got slammed in a car door a few too many times. And, of course, the gloriously fearsome schnozz. As far as creatures go this is one of the creaturey-est. 10/10. Brilliant design.

It gets better, as biology usually does. These bats are large, with a wingspan of almost a meter. Males and females display some rather extreme sexual dimorphism - the males are twice as heavy as the females, and it is only they which possess the extravagant nasal anatomy. That nose is an amplifying chamber, allowing the males to honk at their lady loves with a noise rather like a duck's quack played over a squeaky fence gate. Hammerheaded bats are the only bat species known to mate in a lekking system, in which the males all come together in one place to compete for the females' affections against each other. The males with the loudest, most obnoxious honks are the most desirable to the females.

Hammerheaded bats are one of a very few mammals known to have an XO sex determination system (For reference, humans have an XY system). This means that female bats, like humans, have two X chromosomes, but males do not have a Y-chromosome; instead, they have one X chromosome and that's it. This kind of chromosomal sex-determination is more often seen in insects like grasshoppers.

All of this is good. I love me some weird animals, and Hammerhead bats are no slouches when it comes to weirdness. But, fellas, we've only just scratched the surface when it comes to the weirdness of bat. And I do mean the surface, because the real weirdness is inside.

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OK so there's a lot to unpack here.

First off, the larynx. It's obscenely large, three times larger in males than in females. It's half the length of the entire spinal column. It's so big that it smooshes all of the internal organs - you know, important things like the heart and lungs - all the way down into the lower abdomen. AND it's connected to air sacs in the throat that amplify the honks even further.

Like. I know why these bats are like this. I know why their honk-producing apparatus is so over-engineered and dominant that there's barely any room for anything else. Biology will do crazy things in pursuit of reproductive success. But like... they still have to live. These are bats. They're endothermic and they fly. Their oxygen consumption is through the roof. HOW do they get away with squishing their heart and lungs that much?! Is there some kind of pocket dimension where the rest of their lungs are stored?! Sir, how do you breathe?!

In conclusion, Hammerhead bats break my brain and I want to know everything about them. I love living on this planet - there's so much bonkers stuff to learn.

Info from https://caitlynfinton.com/2022/05/06/meet-the-hammer-headed-bat/

[inquisitoradaar]

its not like the usamerican education system is some sort of unique level of bad either?? i don't remember learning about latin american or asian or african countries while i was in primary school (ages of 5-11) and i didn't just assume all of those people were living in huts. like at some point it's not the education system, it's genuinely just a personal issue.

[dream-world-universe]

Bab Boujloud, Fez City, Morocco: Bab Bou Jeloud is an ornate city gate in Fes el Bali, the old city of Fez, Morocco. The current gate was built by the French colonial administration in 1913 to serve as the grand entrance to the old city. The structure is a triple-arched gate that makes use of Moorish architectural forms, with pointed horseshoe arches and a crenelated top. Wikipedia

[socraticcryptid]

I've seen variants of this poll for US states, European countries, and Canadian provinces, but it's feeling a bit one-sided to me, so based on this quiz:

*polls like these often make decisions about what counts as a country or not, what names to accept for a country, and also what counts as being in a particular continent or not. I have just chosen to use the same quiz site as others have used for the other quizzes.

**by African I simply mean 'from Africa'.

(I'm also going to make a similar poll for Asia, but that's all I have time for - let me know if anyone makes similar ones for other regions of the world!)

[bohemian-nights]

The many judgements made upon Nettles

Fire & Blood 🔥🐉

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aabon35

[evilfrogcereal29]

Wanna ask before assuming and writing things I don't know about!! Im American, But i need some info about Russia for a small thing im writing to get back into the grind of it (I've been living in writer's block hell, don't ask) I will credit you in the piece when i post it cause like...ofc! if their not my orginal ideas and I know it, I would not claim them as so!!

1 - where do you genuinely think Nikto was born in Russia, its such a huge country but it feels disrespectful to just look up a place a go "yeah thats good enough" like NO! I imagine he grew up somewhere economically poor and VERY cold, so if u know any places like that in the country or have ur own ideas lmk ^_^

2- what animals do you typically find in super cold areas in russian, specifically mountainy areas, cause google litteraly told me tigers and idk a lot of stuff but that feels WRONG JDHSJSHAH? But maybe its a certain type of tiger?

Any suggestions would help, if multiple ppl comment helpful things I'll just tag multiple ppl for credit!! :) Tysm!!