#jennifer ackerman

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Indie Bookstore Day 2024!

I can hardly be expected to have shelf control if Indie Bookstore Day and my birthday are within, like, a week of each other, right?? ESPECIALLY not if one of them was doing a Buy 3 Get 1 Free on paperbacks (evidenced by the bottom row), and if ARCHANGELS OF FUNK and TRANSLATION STATE were Birthday Gifts To Myself (pre-ordered in December and everything!)??

Anyway! Great week for books! Good thing we gave up on the moderated book buying ban, huh.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

As I continued reading Jennifer Ackerman's new book, I can confirm What An Owl Knows is a pretty great popsci read! Great photos, lovely scientists Ackerman's interviewing. Right now, I'm on the chapter called "Owling," which is dedicated to owl research and tracking. I've reached the point where Ackerman discusses groups that have trained dogs to scent for owl pellets in order to track them. They've even trained shelter dogs for this! And it's way less invasive than playing back hooting to get territorial owls to show up.

So Meig hasn't read the book yet because grad school is very very time consuming, but I have and I agree wholeheartedly. She does a great job showing the variety of people working with/around owls, and so much about what we know and don't know about owls and how they live. It's really interesting to me just how much of it is recent research enabled by new technology and innovative techniques. I'm considering it my book of the year unless it's dethroned, and would recommend it to anyone who is at all interested in a good quality pop-sci book about birds.

~Max/plokool

[bibliophilecats]

July 08 2023: The Sky

[sapphicautistic]

You know how at the end of every informational nature book, the author talks about human-caused ecological collapse and then tries to give you a reason not to despair?

Like usually it's something like "these people have succeeded at these very narrowly focused projects, and these other groups might be getting somewhere pressuring a specific government."

The one I just finished though? After talking about our rapidly accelerating ecological collapse it's like.

"Well, after we die off maybe corvids will evolve greater intelligence and remember us someday when they invent archaeology 🙃"

I'm not kidding.

It's maybe a little depressing that I actually did find that a bit comforting??

[reddy-reads]

January book of the month: the Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

What "book of the month" means in this context: I pick a book, and if I don't finish it by the end of the month, it goes to the library donation bin. As usual, I'm allowed to say "nah this isn't for me" at any time.

This has been on my "to read" list for years but I haven't gotten around to it. But you know what? I'm reading it now and it's awesome. I'm having a great time. I like Ackerman's writing style and I love this topic. I also grabbed one of my old notebooks and am using it to take notes and jot down thoughts and feelings as I read. (Writing in a notebook is less likely to distract me than trying to type it on my phone... there's no tumblr on my phone, for one thing)

Do I expect to finish this one before the end of the month? Yes. Is it guaranteed? Sadly no! But I am having a great time so far.

PS did you know New Caledonian Crows use pandan leaves to make tools to get grubs, but the style/design of the tool varies from region to region? There is evidence of cultural transmission of tool design in this species, if I'm reading this properly. How cool is that?

[thelifeelsewhere]

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[gardenofbookworms]

week #1 recommendation: bee

The Bird Way by Jennifer Ackerman

▪︎ bird centered reference book ▪︎

some of the things in this book will SHOCK you.

okay, maybe that depends on how much you know about birds. there are five different sections, one each for talk, work, play, love, and parent. having been published fairly recently, only about four years ago, this book opens up a wide range of theories about bird behaviors all over the world (and especially in australia). focuses shift between morbid and gruesome, impressive and awing, to clever and mischievous thinking in the brains of birds on all spectrums. old and biased theories are debunked, contrasting evidence is brought to light, and the variety between bird species and individuals is insightfully discussed in ackerman’s reference piece.

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me, i considered myself someone who knew a decent amount about birds. after reading this book, though, there was this humbling sort of feeling of just how much i didn’t know. the constant idea of “but that’s not all” that persists throughout the book really gives you an idea of how much like us birds are—they play, they collaborate, they kidnap, e.t.c. i had my computer open almost the entire time i was reading this, just to look up the birds mentioned and to see what they looked like; i think the oilbird and greater ani were my favorites.

[prncessjaeger]

jennifer’s body ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚

ღsypnosis:' pranking' your bestie gone wrong (right!)

ღan: heavily inspired by one of the best thrillers ever, happy halloween!!

ღcw: mentions of death and blood, semi-descriptive smut or sum idk (first time btw so don't laugh), finger-fucking, oral (fem to fem obvi), manipulative tactics used, semi coercion, cussing, everyone’s 18+, and uhh i think that's all.

the moon was full tonight, and the blood you thought you rinsed off with a hose was still coated on your hands. you took a good look at them and licked your fingers dry, then looked up seeing mikasa’s light being the only one off. huffing, you saw the ladder next laying on the back of the house, and groaned, knowing you had a full fear of heights, but huffed and moved it closer towards her window. “fuck i hope your window’s unlocked miks.”

when you reached to the top, you juggled with her window and ‘ahh’ed when it opened for you, “bingo.” you saw mikasa’s figure sleeping soundly and sighed, taking off your jackets and pants while also checking yourself out in the mirror. you snuck in the her bed quietly and laid for roughly 10 minutes waiting until she turned around and once she did, you saw her eyes peek slightly open looking directly in yours.

“hi.”

“AHHH WHAT THE HELL?!!” a blood-curdling scream roared from her lips. she ran to turn on her lights, wondering who was in her bed this late at night, “enough with the screaming mikasa, damn you’re such a cliche-”

“GET THE HELL OUT!” you saw her holding her chest with one hand and pointing towards the door with the other, the fear evidently shown on her face “but we always share your bed when we have slumber parties?” you could still see the anger on her face, "but i didn’t invite you over…?"

"oh my god, when's the last time you've physically invited me over? since we were what, 12? we're past that stage now..." mikasa huffed loudly to show that she's irritated but you noticed she let her guard down, so you slid over the bed towards her and hesitantly slid her glasses off, “calm down…I won’t bite...”

“tell that to jean-”

“watch it. he was hitting on you, you know i don’t like that.. besides, he was a little salty so you're not missing out...” she saw your eyes turn from flirty to irritation in 2 seconds but brushed it aside knowing you'd be back to normal in no time. she stared down at the shirt you wore, something that was definitely not owned in your closet, as she felt you run her hands through your hair,

“where’d you get that shirt?” you looked down at the shirt, smirking, “it makes my boobs look great, don’t they mika?” mikasa rolled her eyes at your redirection the conversation to something else and gave you a long hard look, a total comparison to the soft, lustful look in your eyes, “c’mere,” you grabbed her cheeks and pulled her into a small kiss, the feeling of her soft lips caressing her made her feel something she couldn’t put in words.

she hesitated at first, but because you were so persistent, she leaned back in and kissed you back, hard. her soft breaths exhaled slowly, feeling your tongue wrestle against hers. abruptly, you backed away and laid down flatly on her bed, silently inviting her with a distinct look in your eyes.

“y/n, this is…so wrong-”

“of course it’s not wrong, best friends kiss all the time! i mean, we’re still best friends, right?” you sat up to meet her eye as she sat on the bed, nodding at you slowly. “but i’ve never kissed anyone.”

“you mean to tell me you 'n eren never kissed? as long as you've both dated? or anyone??" she shyly shook her head no, “well now you have! so let’s get to learning, shall we?” mikasa still had a fearful look on her face and sighed, knowing you’d probably had better kissers before her, “what’s the long face? you’ll be fine, mika, trust me.” your eyes captivated her and saw them roll obnoxiously when you weren’t budging, “you know what, i’m gonna find someone else to kiss if you don’t-”

mikasa instantly feels a burst of confidence and shuts you up, kissing you more passionately. pushing you back on that bed and crawling on top of you, neither one of you broke the kiss not once. heavy moans and breaths came from you both and you moved your hands to push her down on your crotch area, feeling and kneading through her ass through her black thin night shorts. she tilted her head then moved her hands to your tits, massaging them softly which erupted a long whiny moan coming from your throat. “fuck you’re so hot,”

“am i?” your hand went down to cup her cunt, moving your fingers against her clothed clit slowly which made her hips stuttering against you, “fuck, d-don’t stop, please,”

“wasn’t planning on it,” you hastily pulled her pants off, deciding to keep her cute pink and white panties on instead since it complimented her skin…

…oh! and they were pink too.

you continued to rub her clit through her panties, feeling a wet patch starting to form and mikasa’s moans were perfect, something you’d want to hear forever. they were loud, but not too loud to travel from the room and wake up her grumpy ass mom, and they were sooo high pitched, contrasting from her deep voice. “‘ts feels sooo good, y/n, shit.”

“mhmmm…” you pulled her panties down with your teeth while keeping eye contact with her, and when your cold middle finger slowly slid in her cunt, she fell over continously moaning aloud, “aww fuck!”

flipping over so you're the one on top and her beneath you, you saw the tears threatening to spill from her eyes, thrusting your fingers inside of her and kissing along her neck, feeling the need for blood, but shook that thought out, wanting to keep giving your best friend the pleasure she definitely wasn't receiving from eren,

“tell me how it feels baby,” hearing your raspy voice, she felt like she wanted to cum right then and there.

you noticed mikasa leg shaking, the crescent shaped marks embedded in your arm from her sharp nails which piqued an interest in something, “you wanna cum?”

“yesss i wanna cum, please let me-!”

“if you don’t tell me how you feel, i can’t let you cum baby,” you could hear the irritation in her sigh, and you moved from her neck to her face, “b-but i alre-ready told you how i felt--OH FUCK!”

you pushed another finger inside of her, feeling her cunt squeeze your fingers which restricted your movements for a hot second, “relax, baby relax,” seeing-well more like feeling that she wasn’t letting up, you moved down to her glistening pussy, and licked a stripe up to her clit, feeling mikasa tremble under you.

continously thrusting your fingers, you began to eat her out simultaneously and mikasa felt like she was seeing stars. the feeling from your two fingers and your tongue was too much for her, and when you sucked her clit, she couln’t even warn you when she came, her wetness dripping all over your face and down her thighs…but you didn’t stop sucking and slurping, removing your fingers and stuck them insider of her mouth once mikasa sat up, overstimulation hitting her hard. “w-wait wait wait-.”

“why would i wait, mikasa? huh?” you looked up at her, seeing her drool all over your fingers, going down your arm. with a small bit of strength, she pushed your head back away from her, closing her legs which were still shaking from how hard she came. “woah…you’re so wet right now fuck.”you rubbed against her thighs wanting to pry them open and slurp her sopping pussy up all over again. “oh shut up,” you quirked one brow up, and smirked, waiting for her to put her guard down, and as soon as you saw her exhale slowly, you slid open her legs and attached your mouth to her lower lips once again, "hold on y/n, wait-" even though she was steadily telling you to stop, her hands continuously pushed your head further into her pussy. "right there, baby right thereee," she grabbed your hair and moved your face basically up and down against her cunt, her legs continuously spasming.

your hands went inside of your panties, flicking your fingers inside of your own gushing core and rubbing your thumb against your clit, as you licked and sucked onto her clit once again, "you're such a bitch for this, y/n,"

you stopped your motions, not liking her choice of wording and in comes a brilliant idea in your brain, an idea that could instantly make her lose this sudden attitude she had and use her mouth for something better.

you immediately pulled your panties down, pushing her laid back once again and sat right on top of her mouth, facing your back towards her, “let’s put this mouth to good use, hm? or are you too scared to do something,” mikasa couldn’t lie, you were acting real cocky and knew that she needed to do something to shut you up.

so, she grabbed your hips to plant your warm pussy fully agasint her mouth and she began copying the motions you did to her previously, feeling you scrunching up the ends her tank top, “ooh, for once, you really know what you-you’re doing, you’re taking me so well princess…” mikasa didn’t let your hips go, instead even tried to ground them further, and you were lowkey scared the fat of your ass was gonna suffocate her.

you moved your hips against her mouth and nose, feeling her tongue go flat, and since you were faced back towards her, she reached up with one hand and pushed you down to her cunt, and you knew what she wanted so you began licking and sucking her pussy again, feeling her moan against you. “mika this- fuck- that feels sooo good, keep going keep-” your hips kept grinding against her mouth, softly moaning against her sex.

funny enough, you got the sense that she was trying to overpower you, and you could not let that happen so you shakily hopped off her face and spread her legs wide open, fully connect your pussy on to hers, the feeling of your grinding ontop of her clit made mikasa see stars. “ohh my…goddddd,” you held her leg in the air, feeling the wetness slosh together, “i’m-’m gonna cum again, you’re so good-

“the best?”

“the best everrr…” you moved just a tad bit faster, her moans that were so pitchy, soft, and so loud, you had to cover her mouth, “you don’t want your mommy dearest coming in, do you?”

her head shook no, a tear rolled down her cheek and she felt like she was about to cum even hard than before, and suddenly she fell out, relaxing with a blissful look on her face, unlike you who was still chasing your well needed high after today’s…events and finally came down right on her cunt, letting out a loud gasp turned into whine…

⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚

now you both were laid out in only just a shirt, cuddle up together when mikasa suddenly woke up and jumped from you, “what the FUCK is happening with me?!”

“wow mika, i never knew you could say the f-bomb so much now,” you giggled at her, watching her pull her panties up fastly, “i-i- saw you, did w-we-we just-!”

“w-w-we fucked? yeah it’s too late for you to be all shocked now, especially when you did your tongue like-“

“oh my god SHUT UP- MMMFHG!!” your hand clasped against her mouth, “god calm down…” she removed her hands from her ears and stared real hard at the shirt you were wearing, furrowing her brows, “isn’t that..eren’s shirt?” “

”hm? this old thing?? it might be, why?” she ignored your giggles and hurriedly called eren’s cell, hearing it ring and ring and ring, “come on eren pick up baby please-”

“baby?” you jerked your head and muttered, seeing her call another number, “hi ms.carla, have you seen eren tonight?”

“uh, no he says he was meeting a girl from his class for a project…y/n i believe, you know her right?” the phone slid from mikasa’s hand and she saw your eyes widen just a bit, then saw your infamous smirk grace your features when she knoes you’ve done something- well more like feasted on someone, “s-sorry ms. carla i-i have to go..” she hung up the phone and finally noticed the small splotch of blood splattered on the side of your jaw, something she swore she didn’t see the entire night. you giggled at her fear-distruaght face, licking the remnants of her off your fingers,

“oops.’

ღan: omg i’ve been gone for a bit but school has its priorities- but that don’t even matter rn🎀

[schonheit-ist-in-alles]

MMC, WHO'S GOT THE FLAVA?

- YM, November 1993

[yo-sostenible]

■ Jennifer Ackerman, escritora y divulgadora científica ► En algunos países los búhos se consideran portadores de mal presagio y muerte, en otros, animales sabios y misteriosos. Estrellas de películas de animación, compañero mágico de Harry Potter o un replicante más en Blade Runner, estas aves son las protagonistas del último libro de la escritora Jennifer Ackerman, donde se entrelaza arte y ciencia La escritora Jennifer Ackerman. / Solai LeFay Por Eva Rodríguez Jennifer Ackerman, autora del best seller ‘El ingenio de los pájaros’, lleva más de 30 años dedicada a escribir sobre ciencia y naturaleza. En su último libro, La sabiduría de los búhos. Una historia natural de las aves más enigmáticas del mundo (ed. Ariel) desgrana los aspectos más desconocidos de estos animales. Desde por qué parece que sus ojos miran de la misma forma que los nuestros, a por qué nos fascinan tanto estas rapaces misteriosas, símbolos de sabiduría e incluso vaticinio de la muerte.   Para The New York Times esta obra es uno de los libros destacados de 2023, “una guía cálida y agradable, tan entusiasta con su tema que sospecho que incluso los indiferentes a las aves quedarán encantados con sus encuentros con los búhos”. Ackerman abarca temas tan diversos como su evolución, historia natural, sus relaciones románticas y estilos de crianza, así como aspectos relacionados con su instinto, emociones y anatomía. En el imaginario colectivo existe una idea muy uniforme de los búhos: nocturnos, de gran plumaje y con esa especie de antena parabólica en la cara. ¿Por qué cree que se desconocen detalles como que también pueden cazar de día o su gran diversidad? Creo que es porque los búhos son tan escurridizos, tan difíciles de ver, que tenemos esa idea equivocada. La mayoría de la gente nunca ha visto un búho en libertad, y si tienen la suerte de ver uno, a menudo es solo un atisbo fugaz. Me sorprendió el número de especies y la variedad de su tamaño, aspecto y comportamiento. ¿Son tan inteligentes como creemos? Esta es una de las preguntas que quería responder en el libro. A menudo pensamos en los búhos como símbolos de sabiduría, pero ¿son en realidad inteligentes? Solíamos pensar que los búhos actuaban solo por instinto, que su comportamiento era simplemente genético, y que sus cerebros eran tan pequeños y primitivos que solo eran capaces de los procesos mentales más simples. Ahora sabemos que los cerebros de los búhos son grandes para el tamaño de su cuerpo, como el nuestro. Como los de otras aves, están repletos de neuronas, lo que los hace muy eficientes y tener capacidades mentales bastante sofisticadas. Las aves nos han enseñado algo: hay más de una forma de conectar un cerebro inteligente. Portada del libro ‘La sabiduría de los búhos’. / Ed. Ariel ¿A qué se refiere? La ciencia de la comprensión de las mentes de otros animales distinta a los seres humanos está aún en pañales, y todavía tendemos a ver la inteligencia a través de nuestra propia lente. Pero cada vez somos más conscientes de que en el mundo animal existen distintos tipos de inteligencia, diferentes formas que son difíciles de concebir. Es posible que los búhos sean muy inteligentes, pero de una forma que no podemos apreciar plenamente y nos cuesta medir. Lo que sí conocemos es que aprenden a lo largo de su vida y tienen un comportamiento muy flexible —responden a nuevos retos de maneras también nuevas—, lo que es una medida bastante buena de su inteligencia. Esta dualidad de la que habla, de imagen tierna y demoníaca a la vez, ¿les ha traído muchos problemas en su relación con los humanos? Algunas culturas, como los ainus del norte de Japón, veneran a los búhos y los consideran protectores. Pero otras los ven como emblema del mal, augurio maligno relacionado con la muerte. No es difícil entender que una lechuza común, de un blanco fantasmal, con sus extraños gritos nocturnos fúnebres y su costumbre de rondar los edificios vacíos, puede dar lugar a l...

[reefer-reelz-n-reviews]

Elektra (2005)

Smoking: Horus

I don’t know about you guys but I love subtitles. Helps me make sure I don’t miss part of the dialog.

I love Jennifer Garner in this movie. Growing up watching her in this movie as well as Alias I always wanted to be some kind of super ninja spy. But now, I think I’d throw up from seeing the blood all the time lol. Plus, I don’t think I could handle the thought of ending someone’s life when they have a family and such. Also, too lazy to workout lolol 🤣

And I thought I had bad OCD. Lmfao. Even put all her fruits in specific places.

Of course, we have a daughter, Kirsten Zien, trying to hook up her single father, Goran Visnjic, with the beautiful JG.

JG is really good at just disappearing when she wants.

And the paid assassin has a heart and doesn’t want to kill the girl, but instead has to save her from the other killers that are coming.

The scene where Natassia Malthe and JG kiss so that NM can infect her is so amazing. She just takes her down slowly and the leaves that are falling are all turning black as the form a circle around them. Just beautiful.

There is quite a lot of flashbacks in this movie.

Here we go, bad ass Elektra in her bright red outfit. She’s about to kill so many Hand members. And apparently blow up a part of her house lolol.

Hehehe, Will Yun Lee just quoted Jurassic Park, “Clever girl.” I know that it wasn’t meant to. It just made me think of it.

I personally think just having your hair down and long would be a bad idea in a fight. Like it would just get in the way.

I feel like Chris Ackerman’s roll is the best. He has these animal tattoos that come to life and do his bidding. First, he had a hawk to see things, then there were some wolfs to attack, and now we have snakes. LOTS of snakes.

I was always impressed with JG’s ability to run in heels. Like damn girl! Especially in 13 going on 30. Killer heels, and just full-on speed running in them!

Heartfelt ending.

Toke on 😶‍🌫️

-RRR

[door]

“Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to the timing of human activities). To watch a brown creeper as it inches up and down, peering into crevices and extracting bugs with its little dentist beak, is thus a way of catching a ride out of the grid and toward a time sense so different that it is barely imaginable to us. In Jennifer Ackerman's book The Bird Way, I learned that the male black manakin, a South American songbird, can do somersaults so fast that a human can see them only in slowed-down video. Some birdsong contains notes that are sung too quickly or are too high-pitched for us to hear. Veeries, a species related to the American robin, can predict hurricanes months in advance and adjust their migration route accordingly, and no one currently knows how. Birds own bodies and their movements are an entanglement of time and space: If a loon is in the higher latitudes, it's summer, and the bird is mostly black with a striking pattern of white stripes. If the same loon is near my studio in Oakland, it's winter, and the bird is almost unrecognizably different, a dull grayish brown.”

Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (emphasis mine)

[reasonsforhope]

Humans are so cute. They think they can outsmart birds. They place nasty metal spikes on rooftops and ledges to prevent birds from nesting there.

It’s a classic human trick known in urban design as “evil architecture”: designing a place in a way that’s meant to deter others. Think of the city benches you see segmented by bars to stop homeless people sleeping there.

But birds are genius rebels. Not only are they undeterred by evil architecture, they actually use it to their advantage, according to a new Dutch study published in the journal Deinsea.

Crows and magpies, it turns out, are learning to rip strips of anti-bird spikes off of buildings and use them to build their nests. It’s an incredible addition to the growing body of evidence about the intelligence of birds, so wrongly maligned as stupid that “bird-brained” is still commonly used as an insult...

Magpies also use anti-bird spikes for their nests. In 2021, a hospital patient in Antwerp, Belgium, looked out the window and noticed a huge magpie’s nest in a tree in the courtyard. Biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra of Leiden-based Naturalis Biodiversity Center, one of the study’s authors, went to collect the nest and found that it was made out of 50 meters of anti-bird strips, containing no fewer than 1,500 metal spikes.

Hiemstra describes the magpie nest as “an impregnable fortress.”

Pictured: A huge magpie nest made out of 1,500 metal spikes.

Magpies are known to build roofs over their nests to prevent other birds from stealing their eggs and young. Usually, they scrounge around in nature for thorny plants or spiky branches to form the roof. But city birds don’t need to search for the perfect branch — they can just use the anti-bird spikes that humans have so kindly put at their disposal.

“The magpies appear to be using the pins exactly the same way we do: to keep other birds away from their nest,” Hiemstra said.

Another urban magpie nest, this one from Scotland, really shows off the roof-building tactic:

Pictured: A nest from Scotland shows how urban magpies are using anti-bird spikes to construct a roof meant to protect their young and eggs from predators.

Birds had already been spotted using upward-pointing anti-bird spikes as foundations for nests. In 2016, the so-called Parkdale Pigeon became Twitter-famous for refusing to give up when humans removed her first nest and installed spikes on her chosen nesting site, the top of an LCD monitor on a subway platform in Melbourne. The avian architect rebelled and built an even better home there, using the spikes as a foundation to hold her nest more securely in place.

...Hiemstra’s study is the first to show that birds, adapting to city life, are learning to seek out and use our anti-bird spikes as their nesting material. Pretty badass, right?

The genius of birds — and other animals we underestimate

It’s a well-established fact that many bird species are highly intelligent. Members of the corvid family, which includes crows and magpies, are especially renowned for their smarts. Crows can solve complex puzzles, while magpies can pass the “mirror test” — the classic test that scientists use to determine if a species is self-aware.

Studies show that some birds have evolved cognitive skills similar to our own: They have amazing memories, remembering for months the thousands of different hiding places where they’ve stashed seeds, and they use their own experiences to predict the behavior of other birds, suggesting they’ve got some theory of mind.

And, as author Jennifer Ackerman details in The Genius of Birds, birds are brilliant at using tools. Black palm cockatoos use twigs as drumsticks, tapping out a beat on a tree trunk to get a female’s attention. Jays use sticks as spears to attack other birds...

Birds have also been known to use human tools to their advantage. When carrion crows want to crack a walnut, for example, they position the nut on a busy road, wait for a passing car to crush the shell, then swoop down to collect the nut and eat it. This behavior has been recorded several times in Japanese crows.

But what’s unique about Hiemstra’s study is that it shows birds using human tools, specifically designed to thwart birds’ plans, in order to thwart our plans instead. We humans try to keep birds away with spikes, and the birds — ingenious rebels that they are — retort: Thanks, humans!

-via Vox, July 26, 2023

[sukunasbow]

masterlist

attack on titan

armin arlert, connie springer, eren yeager, hange zoë, jean kirstein, levi ackerman, mikasa ackerman, porco galliard.

challengers

art donaldson, patrick zweig, tashi duncan.

criminal minds

aaron hotchner, derek morgan, emily prentiss, jennifer jareau, penelope garcia, spencer reid.

euphoria

cassie howard, jules vaughn, rue bennett, kat hernandez, maddy perez.

heartbreak high

anthony vaughn, amerie wadia, dustin reid, harper mclean, missy beckett, malakai mitchell, spencer white.

harry potter

blaise zabini, harry potter, lorenzo berkshire, mattheo riddle, theodore nott.

haikyuu

koshi sugawara, kenma kozume, kei tsukishima, rintarō suna, shoyo hinata, toru oikawa, tetsurō kuroo, tobio kageyama, tadashi yamaguchi.

jujutsu kaisen

choso kamo, kento nanami, megumi fushiguro, ryomen sukuna, shoko ieri, suguru geto, satoru gojo, toge inumaki, toji fushiguro, utahime iori, yuki tsukumo, yuji itadori.

saltburn

felix catton, oliver quick, venetia catton.

the hunger games

coriolanus snow, finnick odair, katniss everdeen, tigris snow, sejanus plinth.

miscellaneous

anakin skywalker, anthony bridgerton, brian o’conner, bellamy blake, dodge mason, kate sharma, logan howlett, wade wilson.

[noaasanctuaries]

There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home 👠👠

You said ruby brittle star, not ruby slippers? Oops. Well, this ruby brittle star's home is in Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.

This unique species adds a splash of vibrant color to the ocean floor with its striking reddish hue. Like all brittle stars, it has a central disk with long, flexible arms. This species of echinoderm, found in the Western Atlantic, can grow to a maximum size of 21 inches in diameter. When threatened, it can shed its arms as a distraction, allowing the brittle star to escape from predators. Remarkably, it can regenerate lost arms, showcasing an impressive ability to adapt and survive in its challenging underwater environment. Regenerative abilities differ greatly among sea star species.

📸: Jennifer Ackerman (2022 Get Into Your Sanctuary Photo Contest)