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the internet is truly a magical place ❤️

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best r/shittyfoodporn post ever. this thing is like a son to me

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first night together :)

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someone tossed a hotdog onto the field hunger-games style at the mariners game

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The fact that animals that care for their young will sometimes adopt others' lost or orphaned young to raise along their own is just funny to me. I know that it's all hormonal and there's no conscious thought involved in it, but the internal logic of it is so funny.

"Baby = success. More baby = more success. I have one baby and I found four other baby. I have five baby. I am being so fucking successful right now."

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"this animal can be wiped out completely with no consequences" yeah, they said that about wolves too

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A friend of a friend is looking to purchase a French bulldog from a breeder and is unsure how to start. Cats are more my wheelhouse, so I was wondering if any of my dog-owner followers have any resources on how to find a good dog breeder?

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How it feels to be queer & disabled:

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His health has deteriorated very, very significantly. He has a bladder hemorrhage and is now in the hospital. The doctors said he needs an urgent operation and they are keeping him there under observation.

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Dear Bunjicus Wunjicus, what is the great American biotic interchange?

okay so, for the vast vast vast VAST majority of their time in existence as continents, North and South America have been completely separate continents, with oceans in between them.

135 mya (million years ago):

60 mya:

once they separated from Laurasia and Gondwana respectively and became their own thing after the Big Kablooie (66mya), they both started to evolve their own completely unique ecosystems with their own forms of life!

North America was a bonanza for big cats, proboscideans, bears, and canines:

<art src: Joe Venus>

while South America went big on giant sloths, terror birds, marsupials, and armadillos that could tow your car:

<art src: Gabriel Ugueto>

and so they remained, two houses alike in dignity, but rarely interacting except for swapping stormtossed refugees once in a while as they very slooooowly drifted towards each other.

and then, 2.7 mya, the two drifting continents uplifted the seafloor between them like a snowdrift in between two oncoming plows and made much of Central America and Panama.

AND EVERYTHING CHANGED WHEN PANAMA ATTACKED

and WHOOOOPS.

suddenly, the biota of both continents had freedom of movement into a totally new environment. terror birds pushed north into Central and Southern North America, only to be pushed back by incoming waves of smilodon, jaguars, and pumas.

<src: Life On Our Planet>

canines and proboscideans and bears and rabbits and predators of all shapes and sizes came roaring south into the body of South America, wreaking environmental change in their wake, while fleets of possums, armadillos, and giant sloths trekked north to find some new niches of their own.

when the dust had settled, South America was VERY different from how it had first looked, with many native predators supplanted by carnivorans and many small to medium herbivores supplanted by northern species. the terror birds were gone, ending the last legacy of the dominant predatory theropods.

<src: Mauricia Anton>

North America had picked up some new additions of its own, some that lasted (armadillos, possums) and some that didn't.

<src: Peter Schouten>

and we call this kerfuffle the Great American Biotic Interchange, because it sounds better than ECOLOGICAL WARZONE: ESCAPE FROM BRAZIL

(if you're a scientist, anyway)

<src: Guillermo Torres Carreño>

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never stops being existentially horrifying to realize that someone you're talking to thinks that there is any kind of biological basis for "race" like the amount of people who are like 'racism is bad, of course race is a real scientific thing it's just bad to treat people differently because of it' and it's like no there is no biological or scientific basis for race it's purely a social concept. a dark skinned black person and a very pale white person can share more dna than two black people or two white people like it's all made up you can't tell someone's genetic or biological makeup just by looking at them. it's all socially constructed and there are massive consequences for this construction but anyone who tries to say that there is any kind of scientific basis for race whether they're knowingly purposely racist or trying to be "progressive" is wrong and realizing that someone you're talking to in a completely benign situation dead seriously thinks that such a thing as a "white race" actually scientifically exists is so terrifying

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has this been done yet?

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We HAVE to figure out what's going on