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I love birdwatchers they’re like “I just saw my ALL TIME FAVORITE BIRD SPECIES! I’ve always dreamed of seeing one in the wild! I am ECSTATIC!” and it’s the most boring looking little brown bird you’ve ever seen.

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"My favorite local pigeon, Lovey dove, named for the heart-like splotch on their back."

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love love love how tactile palamedes's expressions of affection are. hugging harrow so wildly he lifts her off the ground. touching his forehead to camilla's. holding gideon's hand after she recounts her traumatic past. kissing harrow's forehead, cam's knuckles, dulcie's hand. he might be the only man ever

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so this is the world. I'm not in it. It is beautiful.

Mary Oliver, from "October" in Devotions

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Although vertebrates settled on paired, chambered eyes with lenses, invertebrates species can have multiple, non-paired eyes and eyes in remarkable locations. For example, certain butterflies have light detecting organs located such that darkness signals successful copulation [Arikawa et al., 1996].

Well obviously I had to check out this citation, and it's exactly what it sounds like. At least this one species of butterfly has "eyes" on its penis, so that it knows to only ejaculate once it's properly penetrated the female when things go dark. Scientists painted over or destroyed the "eyes" and found that male butterflies had much less success during sex than unmodified ones.

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some bird commissions from april!

[ grey catbird, atlantic puffin, australian pelican, and big gulp the california condor! ]

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idk what creature you are but you need to be studied surely

step into my office

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Dogs on rooftops are a common sight in places like Mexico, Guatemala, and Cuba. Often, it’s a practical solution for security and space, giving dogs a high vantage point to protect the home. It’s a unique way these communities keep their pets safe and part of daily life.

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Abandoned buildings are a type of Whalefall

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母から天然記念物が届いたので、とりあえず煮込んでみる https://twitter.com/Hakusi_Katei/status/1335547182598955008

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A Roman Bronze Romping Dog Circa 1st Century B.C.-1st Century A.D.

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Vultures hover in slaughterhouses in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, March 2005.

Stefano De Luigi

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you wake up on the forest floor. you wipe the blood off of you and go home.