#elephent

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[sealsdaily]

Today's Seal Is: Bird Observation Hour

[herpsandbirds]

Elephant Trunk Snake aka Javan File Snake (Acrochordus javanicus), family Acrochordidae, Malaysia

photograph by Bryce Trevett

[crawfishcomic]

Forgiveness

[darkendpotato]

My friends and I found this beetle on our college campus, we think it's a female elephant beetle. The photos were all taken by my friend (photography_dex on instagram).

https://www.instagram.com/photography_dex/

Go check him out.

[lowpolyanimals]

Elephants from Beautiful Katamari

[pizzashowgirls]

Over the Garden Wall by Julia Tveritina, via Cartoon Network

[gayestpiano]

i made a playlist of song titles in chronological order

update/disclaimer: not all of the songs on the playlist are in these screenshots! i think it would've been too many pics but the link is there if you want to see all of them. i've also added dozens of suggestions from other users since posting this so these screenshots are outdated

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

I remember discussing Tintin casting choices with a friend from Germany and remarked how it was odd he often has an English accent in adaptations rather than a Belgian one, and my friend just replied "that's because Tintin gives incredibly strong English boy energy (derogatory)"

Here in the UK there's a lot of weird classism tied into accents. Today accent diversity and representation in broadcasting is actively pursued but in Tintin's time there certainly was a preferred accent to have.

imagine this exchange happens between pages 28-29 in The Crab with the Golden Claws

[mindblowingscience]

Elephants call out to each other using individual names that they invent for their fellow pachyderms, a study said on Monday. While dolphins and parrots have been observed addressing each other by mimicking the sound of others from their species, elephants are the first non-human animals known to use names that do not involve imitation, the researchers suggested. For the new study, a team of international researchers used an artificial intelligence algorithm to analyse the calls of two wild herds of African savannah elephants in Kenya. The research "not only shows that elephants use specific vocalisations for each individual, but that they recognise and react to a call addressed to them while ignoring those addressed to others," lead study author Michael Pardo said. "This indicates that elephants can determine whether a call was intended for them just by hearing the call, even when out of its original context," the behavioural ecologist at Colorado State University said in a statement.

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[sealsdaily]

Today's Seal Is: Barrowed Outside Of The Premises

[gallusrostromegalus]

Sometimes you need to put the most annoying music known to man on loop because it jiggles some brain wrinkle just right and the words fall out again.

Anyway. RIP to my housemate who could apparently hear me writing to the original mix of The Macarena on loop for the last three hours.