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— June 19, 1916 / Franz Kafka diaries

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A baby rattle snake following its mommy ❤️

Definitions of parental behavior differ, but Shine points out that mother snakes seem to go to some trouble for their offspring. For instance, python moms will often stay coiled around their pile of eggs for about 2 months, even though they haven’t had anything to eat for 6 or 7 months. At first glance, it might seem hopeless for a cold-blooded animal to try to incubate its eggs. When the temperature drops sufficiently, though, the python shivers, thereby warming the clutch with heat derived from muscle activity. Many rattlesnakes and their pit viper cousins don’t lay eggs but instead give birth to ready-to-wriggle offspring. Back in the Chiricahua foothills of Arizona, the black-tailed rattler mother that so excited Hardy and Greene stayed near her youngsters and the sheltering rocks of the birth site for more than 9 days. The scenes that the researchers described in 2002 might apply as well to a mother dog and her pups. On day 4 after the birth, Hardy observed superfemale 21 near the birth site as five of her newborns crawled around. They had worked their way out of the shelter’s entrance, over the mother’s body, and a little way into the surrounding grass. An hour later, several youngsters had piled on top of her. When one wriggled over her head, she tolerantly rearranged her coils. Thus, the days went by with the family basking just outside its rocky den. About 9 days after birth, the little snakes shed their skins as their mother watched from a few inches away. The youngsters then disappeared, presumably crawling off on their own. Greene and Hardy’s detailed monitoring of black-tailed rattler life had convinced them that the females typically don’t eat during winter hibernation or the spring pregnancies that follow. Greene paints a heroic picture of the mother, who further delays her return to hunting. “She hasn’t eaten for about 10 months, but she stays around for 10 more days,” he says. He and Hardy have since observed similar behavior in several females.

Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/social-lives-snakes

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I only have two moods

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An ode to my weird recurring dream in which an unnaturally tall wave towers over me.

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Frog and Toad Cross Stitch Book | Noriko So | English Translation by CozyCraftCafe

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sorry to "Earring (one of a pair)" at the Met Museum, but I desaturated you a little bit. mostly because, unlike herodotus's indian ants, I do not have free and easy access to gold.

mine on the left, argentium and pearls. the original on the right, gold and pearls.

(the other one of the pair is not pictured due to me not having made it yet.)

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For 153 days, we’ve seen Palestinians taking care of not only fellow humans by sharing food with each other, helping save people from under the rubble, carrying random bloody strangers to hospitals, and lending a helping hand at any given, but we’ve also seen them, constantly, taking care of animals during the genocide.

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Gold finial with bird helmet figure, Tairona culture, Colombia, 1000 - 1400 AD

from The Yale University Art Gallery

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I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair. I sit beside the fire and think of how the world will be when winter comes without a spring that I shall ever see. For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green. I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and people who will see a world that I shall never know. But all the while I sit and think of times there were before, I listen for returning feet and voices at the door.

J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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i painted Astarion hehe :3c prints here

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ー 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 🍂🕯️

cr. the artists of the photos

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Dagger and Shield Midi Gold Ring with Salt & Pepper Diamond Shield by SwankMetalsmithing

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ohmy-guy

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I often see people worrying about Piccolo living a boring life up there on the Lookout ...but how could life be boring when you're three people in one body and you can sing the whole The Plagues all by yourself

and you even have a GOD with you and he can happily sing about burning down your cattle and your sheep and your oxen and your whole world while you and your buddy shout THUS SAITH THE LORD

and Dende, being one person in one body, sadly doesn't share the enthusiasm and just suffers in silence

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This big rock looked very lonely so I said we could be friends