#africa continent

[honestlyangrypeace]

Church of St. George, Lalibela, Ethiopia: The Church of Saint George is one of eleven rock-hewn monolithic churches in Lalibela, a town in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Originally named Roha, the historical and religious site was named Lalibela after the King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela of the Zagwe dynasty, who commissioned its construction. Wikipedia

[dream-world-universe]

Girafe Manor hotel, Lang'ata, Nairobi, Kenya: The main feature of Girafe Manor hotel in Kenya is the opportunity to have breakfast in the company of giraffes that come to the windows of the rooms... Giraffe Manor is a hotel in the Lang'ata suburb of Nairobi, Kenya which, together with its associated Giraffe Centre, serves as a home to a number of endangered Rothschild's giraffes, and operates a breeding programme to reintroduce breeding pairs back into the wild to secure the future of the subspecies. 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

[slitheringghost]

the white supremacist deleted their blogs… god bless

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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.

...

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.

[honestlyangrypeace]

Todgha Gorge, Morocco: The Todgha Gorges are a series of limestone river canyons, or wadi, in the eastern part of the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco, near the town of Tinerhir. Both the Todgha and neighbouring Dades Rivers are responsible for carving out these deep cliff-sided canyons, on their final 40 kilometres through the mountains. Wikipedia

[ashadowofburnedoutstardust]

I am officially convinced that the Trump administration is reading my Tumblr blog...👀

Don't get me wrong I realised that this is most likely on behalf of Israel and the situation with the ICC because netanyahu was due in the states right about now to meet with Trump but seriously though.......

Don't tell me that's not suspicious

🖕Hey Trump, fuck off 🖕

[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

[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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