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Some coastal wolves for you all!!

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Mammoth Lakes, hiking between Lake Mary and Duck Lake Pass

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Eurasian wolverine (Gulo gulo gulo) on the branch of a birch tree Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East

© Sergey Gorshkov / naturepl.com

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It's always so weird to come down from the biology heavens to see what the average person believes about animals, plants, ecosystems, just the world around them. I don't even mean things that one simply doesn't know because they've never been told or things that are confusing, I'm talking about people who genuinely do not see insects as animals. What are you saying. Every time I see a crawling or fluttering little guy I know that little guy has motivations and drive to fulfill those motivations. There are gears turning in their head! They are perceiving this world and they are drawing conclusions, they are conscious. And yet it's still a whole thing if various bugs of the world feel pain or if they are simply Instinct Machines that are Not Truly Aware of Anything At All????? Help!!!!!! How can you look at a little guy and think he is just the macroscopic animal version of a virus

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Charging forward.

[ID: an illustration of a bison running to the right on a grassy field. There are blue mountains in the background, and a cloudy sky. End.]

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yeah shoutout to pleasures of the flesh

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*remembers*

*gets sick to my stomach*

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this unique ‘blonde’ canada goose shows off one of a kind coloration due to leucism, a genetic mutation that results in a partial lack of melanin. the condition is frequently confused with albinism, but albino animals have a full lack of melanin; albino birds will most likely display all-white feathers, pink skin, and red or pink eyes.

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the gender performance of dolly parton and bruce springsteen (sources: x x)

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star wolf

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Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.

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Vintage Wool Fish Rug by Canvello

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beginning vs end of the cycle

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i realized i never posted this on tumblr??? anyways here ya go tumblr

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”pdf file” “unalived” “grape” “corn” what if i killed myself right here right now

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Reached out to a biologist to request some info about an extinct species of freshwater shrimp and the email she sent in response was not only lovely and helpful but also kind of poetry to me? People who study invertebrates are actually the most hopeful and compassionate scientists that we have.