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I feel personally wronged by the fact my body language is so limited. No pointy ears to flatten. No tail to wag. No hackles to raise. No sharp teeth to bare.

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it's amazing how ordinary objects can become so significant to only the owner

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the second lavender farm had white lavender and mmmm it was so pretty and it smelled nice

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An 8-mile long “canvas” (wall of a cliff) filled with ice age drawings of extinct animals was discovered in the Amazon rainforest in 2020

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I think it’d be a good idea to let people from the Middle Ages use tumblr

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Absolutely obsessed with same sex relationships in animals, I’ve seen it most often in birds but *never* in reptiles!! Could you talk more about this?

Absolutely!

So, same-sex relationships can be a little hard to pin down in snakes because they're not really social animals. But we do have definitive evidence that some snakes engage in same-sex courting and mating behaviors! A few species of rattlesnakes and gopher snakes are especially known for this. Important to note here: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, it's likely that many other snake species engage in same-sex courting and mating behaviors, but they're hard to observe in snakes who are less social and for whom these behaviors take like five minutes total.

But garter snakes are the standout here! They're easily one of the most social snake species out there, and are unique in that they will form "friend groups" of snakes they like to hang out with. And we can observe that some snakes prefer the company of the same sex, and some snakes exclusively court and mate with the same sex!

Because garter snakes can form these complex social relationships, where they actively choose to hang out with friends and pick the snakes they want to spend time with, we can also observe the thought they put into choosing the snakes they court! We've been able to see garters who consistently choose to court the same sex exclusively, and some who don't seem to mind the sex of their partner too much!

Garter snake social behavior is so interesting, and it tells us one thing pretty clearly: they're more than capable of putting thought into which snakes they partner with! It's a strong indicator that same-sex courting behaviors aren't at all uncommon in the snake world.

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This pride I will once again kindly ask you guys to at least skip-read the intersex wikipedia page and learn what that word. You know. Means.

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humbled

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Marigold WIP by Cam Rackam

This artist on Instagram

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tumblr users will reblog a poem thats like "i love your teeth, your throat // we will consume each other and become one // you taste like blood and winter" and then two posts later be like "EWW VORE" like THE EROTICISM AND INTIMACY OF CONSUMPTION IS VORE BITCH

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Actually being an atheist DOES make you a better person, actually is IS more objectively and logically correct, and actually I'm tired of not saying it because awww we have to protect the widdle religious feelings.

you are a deeply unpleasant person.

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monoculture forests are deeply unsettling in a way that is hard to explain to people who do not spend a lot of time looking at forests

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listen. listen. the consumption of animal products is about mutually beneficial relationships Not domination and that's why prioritizing animal r*ghts over animal welfare is an absolutely brain fungus take to have

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monoculture forests are deeply unsettling in a way that is hard to explain to people who do not spend a lot of time looking at forests

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got really mad (over personal stuff, nothing related to this blog) and made this. I feel better AND it fucks