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this post could be automatic . . . systematic . . . hydromatic . . . WHY IT COULD BE GREASED LIGHTNIN’ (gets run over by a 1948 Ford Deluxe convertible)

she grease on my rizz til I o or whatever (runs you over with a 1948 Ford Deluxe convertible)

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Altai Mountains by Sergio

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I like being in the gender state of “not sure if a man or a woman but definitely some form of homosexual”

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Obsessed with these frames

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she grease on my rizz til I o or whatever (runs you over with a 1948 Ford Deluxe convertible)

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the shape of your wings determines the success of those trying to hurt you in the dark

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Hello my beloved tumblr mutual @little-mephistopheles absofuckinglutely.

The Aotearoa Moa is an extremely fucking large bird endemic to Aotearoa ("New Zealand"). Of all of the species of moa, the largest ones ranged to be as tall as 12ft and weigh over 500lbs. They were all flightless. Today the largest living flightless bird is the ostrich (just under 9ft, 345lbs approx). They were among the amazing megafauna to exist during the Pleistocene, including giant sloths, mammoth, and mastodon!

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Something neat I found surprising about them is according to all available skeletal remains, they have no vestigial wing bones of any kind - unlike an ostrich, and even kiwi. Some bird they are, amirite? Also, no need to worry about them eating you - they were vegetarians, actually!

(moa skeleton with no wing bone at all total stud behavior versus ostrich skeleton with its stubby vestigial wing bones)

Prior to the arrival of the Maori people (which eventually led to their extinction by overhunting and egg foraging because big chicken big tasty), their only known predator was the Haast's eagle. The Haast's eagle was the largest known eagle to have ever existed. It weighed about 30lbs and had a wingspan of over 8 and a half feet.

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The largest living eagle now is the Stellar's Sea Eagle, which boasts a similar wingspan but a slightly lower weight (females averaging 21lbs and males 13lbs). This means the moa an eagle might be hunting on a given day could have been up to 15 times it's own weight. What!!!

It's very fun to see these two in museum displays:

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The Haast's eagle was eventually outcompeted by the Maori people, and declined to extinction after moa went extinct. Two birds . . . One stone . . . (I say, sobbing).

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who up stokin that fire

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men when the man at the grill says "the most tender meat is usually right against the bone"

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the sarcophagus

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The native dogwoods are opening up 💚

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Gender mood

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in nature we are taught that all things are in competition, but the ones that cooperate have progressed through evolution stunningly. cooperation can mean many things, like symbiosis, respecting simple boundaries, or making your enemy my enemy. we see this in the forest clearly, when we consider relationships and ecology: below the ground is a network of resources and communication, and above are careful gaps between branches in the canopy wherein below sunlight still beams. we can have it all if we wanted, if we cared and shared and said something. humans wouldn't be here without each other, and with all the things the world has put before their many hands as one to create. we can do it all together. here. please. take my hand and come with me.