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Best Book Recommended to You

Round 1

Propaganda for Trickster's Choice :

"Honestly the best depiction of spy craft I’ve read, better than James Bond or Jason Bourne. It’s about the security in secrecy, the value of service workers, and the importance of optics and public opinion in revolution. "

Propaganda for The Hunger Games :

"My mom recommended it to me with zero context or description. To this day, it is easily my favorite reading experience. "

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working on early horses, i wanted to do a quick sketch to show how small Eohippus was compared to an extant horse (this one is about 150cm tall). as you can see, it wasn't big at all. a perfect little lap horse :)

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submitted by @hands-off-my-macaroni

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simply contemplating…

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On conservation and survival

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daine really was the first person to say you kill my boyfriend i topple your empire with dinosaur necromancy and a horde of rats

and she was right

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American Bison (Bison bison), mother with rare white calf, family Bovidae, Lamar Valley, Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA

photograph by Erin Braaten

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thinking about creatures.

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Orlov Trotter stallion Kumir Moego Serdtsa (”My Heart’s Hero”)

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a new life 🌖 another addittion to the early horses series - pliohippus mare with her newborn foal

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Description: [A video of a woman riding a galloping horse bareback while holding a large rainbow flag.]

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Time to be loving wolves!

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let’s glow serenely with mama

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resting on the grass with mama

Photo by Dallas Penner.

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I've always been fascinated by cooperation and communal living in the animal kingdom. There's so many reasons that species will live communally, and not all of them are because they particularly want to.

Maras, a large rodent species, are monogamous but will put their babies into a creche. One couple will stay to look after the babies whilst the rest of the parents go and graze for the day. If the sentries spot danger, the babies run into the burrows, safe and sound. It's a really effective system!

ID: A baby and adult mara touching noses with each other. They are rabbit-like in body shape, with fur that is a gradient from grey to reddish-brown.

The thing is, maras hate each other. They really, REALLY loathe being around other maras that are not their mate. They are NOT very sociable animals.

So when it's pickup time at the daycare, things can turn ugly very quickly. Whilst they may tolerate being in the same vicinity as another adult mara, there's only so much they can take before things go south. Punches. Kicks. Even the yeeting of babies. Their commensalism hangs by a thread, and they are constantly gnawing at it. But the creche system is so effective that they will continue doing this, litter after litter, year after year.

I think this is a really interesting example of how social behaviours can arise even when the animals are themselves not very tolerant of each other. It goes to show how useful working together can be, even if the thought of being in the same geographical area as someone else can send you into a blind rage.

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