#animals are weird

[toxicrevolver]

He gets chicken in the morning and at night. But he has dry food down 24/7, two bowls of it. But yeah 🙄 he's starving. When I'm taking a part the chicken to shred, he'll come up on the table and chew and eat on the whole chicken and my parents are always like "have you been feeding him? he's starving" He is, in fact, NOT, he LIES.

He also has multiple water bowls, except he doesn't like the water fountain, because... It's too cold for his likings 🧎🏼‍♀️

Cats still believe they’re gods I swear. Sherb also screams for any food he likes and I’ve had people ask if he’s starving. Obviously he isn’t. He’s a chonk. He’s okay. Jsut dramatic.

I have the same struggle with water dishes! Sherbert prefers to drink out of the toilet or if the turtle is having a soak he wants the water they’re sitting in (which the turtle has most likely already used the bathroom in). Like bro. You have at least 2 water dishes around the house and I know they’re filled regularly. I’ve been told he sometimes sits in the kitchen sink and just screams for the faucet to be turned on just so he can get a drink.

[aziraphaleisbaby]

Animals are so funny. Like everyone's pets respond to different behaviours and find different activities acceptable/favourable. Like your cat had to actively choose to enjoy being cradled and having its butt lightly smacked. Your dog chose to find the fun in the weird noises you make. Everyday these small creatures look at our super weird and goofy maneurisms and go "Yeah, that's what I like about you" and I just...AHHHHHH

[middymod]

I was trying to save an earthworm the other day (it was sunny and the soil was pretty hard in that location). After moving it, digging around it to make going into the soil easier, wetting the worm and the soil, the worm slowed down a lot. Thinking it had given up or was taking a breather, I tried to poke it with dead grass to make sure it understood that it was not safe. And then it just... severed itself?! Like when a lizard severs its own tail! No blood! And the tail was wriggling like crazy! And it worked in distracting me, because I did not see where it went. Hopefully underground.

But why do they not tell us this in school? I am kind of glad they didn't, because the surprise made it so much more fascinating! It's been a week and I still think about it every day.

So enjoy nature while you can because it is very weird!

[53v3nfrn5]

Artist: Lindsey Marie

[dracl-dragon]

So apparently falcons are in the same animal family as parrots??

Like??????

How????

*looks at parrots*

Yeah no that checks out actually

Falcons are battle parrots

[dutchs-blog]

Hamster's In Dungeon And Dragons

[piratedllama-art]

Quarters only, please [x <- prints here]

(done in procreate)

[dingbatsy]

Guys stoooop you're giving away his feelings!

[datcravat]

what are you scared of?

[saltmalkin]

metastasis

[egophiliac]

he did it! 🐍 and it only took...uhhh...well, there probably could've been less punches, but why hold back!

PUNCHES FOR EVERYONE

[marzipanandminutiae]

"most allegedly haunted houses turn out to have gas leaks!"

no they don't. you are merely skimming the surface of mundane shit that can be wrong with old houses with your one puny little explanation that only fits a very small number of cases. try harder

[maggotmuncher0]

THIS IS NOT A FISH THIS IS NOT A FISH

[lionfloss]

Dozens of sheep spent 12 days in a row walking in a nearly perfect circle on a farm in China’s Inner Mongolia region.

[53v3nfrn5]

Eyes that will be used by a taxidermist

[pansy-placebo]

Have any of you ever heard of the hummingbird moths we get in Britain?

So, I thought I saw a hummingbird last year. It was much bigger than a bug could be, I thought, and it hovered around flowers and looked like it had feathers.

I got pretty close but it was never still enough to see clearly. Then, when I told my parents they said "oh! it was probably a moth!" and I was baffled for a long time. Like, how could a moth look like and act so much like a hummingbird?

Until I googled "hummingbirds in the UK" and this fucker comes up:

Everyone, meet the hummingbird hawk-moth; one of the weirdest and coolest cases of convergent evolution on this planet.

This is the kinda thing I'd see in fiction and go "oooh cool, bug hummingbird! Wish we had those on earth!" But we do. We really do have them on earth!! Isn't that nuts?!?!?