#elephant shower

[littlepawz]

Lining up for a communal shower Safari style 

[daffodilfool]

Music and Intelligence

i made a followup / correction of this post

go read that instead, please I worked so fucking hard on it and people are STILL flocking to this version

I'm gonna preface this by saying I am by no means a professional biologist, I am just a biology student who nerds out about art and biology sharing an interesting thought I had this morning.

We don't know where music comes from. That is the very disappointing answer I got to a very interesting question I had this morning. The best answer science can come up with is ...eh, it's kind of just an evolutionary hiccup that developed out of nowhere.

I don't buy it.

Hypothesis: Music isn't an evolutionary hiccup but actually an integral aspect to developing sapience.

Think about this: One of the very first things we'll hear as human beings both now as we're born and in the ages past when we first evolved is birdsong. We associate birdsong with two very important things:

Winter has passed.

Dawn has broken.

Both of these give us a lot of valuable information like it is no longer dark, it is no longer cold, it is no longer dangerous, it is safe.

Early hominids with the ability to correctly identify birdsong and associate it with safety would thus be at great evolutionary advantage as they would be much more likely to survive the winter and the night, but that ability requires 3 major steps:

The ability to pick out distinct rhythms and melodies to correctly identify something as birdsong.

The ability to correlate said birdsong to the idea of the sun coming out.

The ability to make said connection through an abstract emotional response.

In other words, it requires pattern recognition, problem solving and complex emotion. Sapience. Music is not a coincidental fluke byproduct of sapience, it is the catalyst for developing sapience.

Granted this is largely speculation on my part; there's nothing I can do to prove that this is why our sapience evolved.

However.

We are not the only sapient life on earth, there are others, some debated, some not. Besides us there are dolphins, whales, corvids, parrots and elephants, and do you know what we all have in common? We deliberately communicate through melodic and rhythmic sounds, and we derive a particular pleasure from doing so. We all enjoy music.

If music was an evolutionary fluke in our development, how come it's a commonality among all sapient life? There are many animals that sing to mate and sing to intimidate and yet they lack any signs of sapience, but the ones that sing just because they can all happen to be the most intelligent creatures on earth.

Food for thought.

[teenidle111]

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[kacievvbbbb]

Okay so I had skipped forward to zou briefly before so I saw the drawings Kanjuro did to climb the elephants. Only to go back to Dressrosa and discover that this dude has been able to make things that can fly the whole time 😭

Like babe what even. What was the recipe? you just ain't want to see that dragon win.

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[that-one-girls-blog-posts]

a week by the ocean and my skin looks flawless✨️

[anguscolorcraft]

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[fauvester]

is julians baby photo collection like blackmail in the garak-bashir family?

omg i was so immediately charmed by the idea of amsha visiting i had to drop everything and do that instead. cardassians are such sluts for big families and the kids have TWO living grandparents! a wealth! a superfluity of venerated elders!

the bashirs are very confused and a little privately dismayed about the direction their son's life has taken him, at least until Garak is elected the castellan of the planet. and they are making their peace with their lizard grandkids

[loodness]

M o i s t Eric alt~

I'm not even into sweat or anything I just find it fun trying to draw and render wet skin I SWEAR

[latenightsinpemberley]

can't believe the internet is forcing me to give a fuck about the mattel movie oscar noms

[sethmmdakatsuki]

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[bloomandbutterbakery]

[kittythekitkatkitten]

i present to you biblically accurate donatello

[thesketcherat]

Baby elephant 🐘 watering the plants ☘️ in the garden 🏡 #thesketcher #drawing #shorts Full video : https://youtu.be/hS7gAlEZYgA In this drawing video, i will draw a cute little elephant or a baby elephant showering on the heart shaped flower using its trunk. At last will fill the drawing with brown, green and red color. I will use pencil shading to color the baby elephant.

[spicyspinda-blog]

Elephant Trunks. Literally the perfect apparatus for making out. Sensitivity of a mouth, manipulation skills of a mitten with added suction to sub for a thumb, succ & blow, 2 orifices, mobility of a tentacle without the need for suction cups leaving hickies involuntarily nor need for the tentacle to completely curl in on itself due to the succ-mitten tip, the possibilities are endless and frankly I'm disappointed I have yet to hear of any sexy elephant leads.

[the-august-one]

Every once in a while I will randomly remember that elephants have nose arms and we just decided to collectively ignore how ludicrous that is by naming it something mundane like 'trunk' in a bid to distract us from what an absolute mad lad Nature is. Like, who is the bigger lunatic? Nature for its crimes against itself or us who, largely, sit placidly by saying 'everything is normal; nothing amiss'.