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Fave part of the day… Befriending the aggressive chihuahua with snacks! 🤗 I do not own rights to the music. 🎶 credit to #LMFAO #liljon 🎶 #chihuahua #pillpockets #shotsshotsshots #snapchat #tiktok https://www.instagram.com/p/CfPp864uZnHNkM3o4KNNvSwa7GNQzoKdfgvhCk0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Ok here’s the second post for all the videos we took this #nationalfunatworkday 😂 #vca #vcaemployees #nerf #nerfwar #vetmed (at VCA Victoria Animal Hospital) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZTGgEZM3PQ0kMiU7pQfL-88AhfKVs7Dz8uOQw0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Today was National Fun at Work Day and how did we celebrate??? Nerf war style! 😎 This was so much fun! My opinion is biased, but I truly believe we have some of the best people working on our team. 🤗 I have some vids just gotta make a 2nd post. Keep an eye out!   #nationalfunatworkday #vcavictoria #teambonding #nerfguns #nerfwar #nerfornothing #vetmed (at VCA Victoria Animal Hospital) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZTCwUoMQB7yora2LcqwCB1FUXdpfj0bf7purU0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Sleep talking mantra from my 9 year old kid while pushing on my leg:

Kid: “This old crusty thing needs to go out…”

Me: 😶

Girl bye 👋

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Today Sophie woke up to find her elf Riley waiting with some goodies. 🎄 #elfontheshelf2021 #happykiddo #cookies #SophieGirl #christmas2021 https://www.instagram.com/p/CW8Wz6GFwk7RUOWwouwrUOxkrL_4vrvbmsQais0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Happy Thanksgiving!🍁🦃 #Thanksgiving #familytime #kittykitty #doggo #dogsaidnopictures #fullbelly https://www.instagram.com/p/CWtvoWRl0oPgkHJ-PQ7fovmqAtaME0mBCPrkRk0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Shocking how many people don’t know that hens lay non-fertilized eggs and think the yolk they’re eating is a baby chicken

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Cheechers

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Cheechers 💕 #kitten https://www.instagram.com/p/CVMSUIuse364wTLlfoYKsrzA1fLNVTOdJBpE8g0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Hilarious

They really should teach people how to cook in school.

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Meet the silliest, craziest, cross-eyed little guy. Les presento a Chicharrón! (Cheech or Chi-Chi for short) 😃

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Milkweed Butterflies Are More Murderous Than They Look

This behavior by the fluttering insects was so unusual that scientists had to invent a new word to describe it.

by Annie Roth via The New York Times

Butterflies seem gentle as they flutter from plant to plant. But some may be more murderous than you imagine. Naturalists recently witnessed several species of milkweed butterfly harassing, subduing and subsequently feeding on milkweed caterpillars, presumably to get their fill of toxic alkaloids inside the larvae.

This behavior was described in an article published Wednesday in the journal Ecology. The authors of the paper say they are unaware of similar behavior being documented among other butterflies, or any insects for that matter, that are so closely related. Although butterflies had previously been observed feeding on grasshoppers that harbor toxic alkaloids, no one had ever documented adult butterflies stealing such compounds from their own kin.

Scientists did not have a word to describe this toxic behavior, so the study’s authors came up with one: kleptopharmacophagy.

The discovery was made in December 2019 when two friends traveled to the Tangkoko Batuangus Nature Reserve on the northern part of Indonesia’s Sulawesi island. Yi-Kai Tea, a graduate student studying ichthyology at the University of Sydney and the Australian Museum Research Institute, and Jonathan Wei Soong, a naturalist from Singapore, share a passion for macro-photography and butterflies and had decided to spend their holiday photographing the reserve’s stunning array of fluttering insects.

Mr. Tea and Mr. Soong spent hours photographing the insects. It wasn’t until the end of the day, when they were going over their pictures, that the two men realized they had documented strange and sinister behavior.

After making the initial observation, Mr. Tea and Mr. Soong spent the next two days at the site doing their best to document the gruesome gorging in greater detail.

“We thought it was really cool,” Mr. Soong said, adding that he finds milkweed butterflies “kind of metal.”

Mr. Soong and Mr. Tea spent hours watching seven different species of milkweed butterfly, including Blanchard’s ghost and the ismare tiger butterfly, scratching caterpillars, both dead and alive, so violently with mighty claws on their feet that the caterpillars’ internal juices oozed out. They said the behavior can’t be described as predatory because many caterpillars survive the encounters.

Read the full article here (including photos of the behavior).

Photos above: Blanchard’s ghosts, Idea blanchardii by mehd and ismare tiger, Danaus fulvus by gancw1

Special thanks to @pleasespellchimerical​ for sharing the article with me!

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Happy National Cat Day! Let me show some love to one of my fur babies Sprinkles ❤️ #mylittlesprinkles #happynationalcatday #kittiesofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CG72jweB7hPY_H1KcPhMRxzdwYqBN42nIhK-tM0/?igshid=1nfgbz8jrjp4c

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Look at my new stabby-thingy! (I know it has a proper name, but idc 🤣) #stabbythings #readytodosomedamage #notreallythough #thankstomyfriend https://www.instagram.com/p/B8c25E7lLYLRVpaPiePx-bBvpxbaysou1SHobo0/?igshid=1r51jhlbsj1c2

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Look at Mrs. Grumpy Granny 👵🏼 100 day of school for munchkin today 😊 #100thdayofschool #torreselementary #grumpygills #granny #2ndgrade #petfox https://www.instagram.com/p/B8G_ae5FXHiMCyrYrls1JdhMKtlIb_SQNfwM6M0/?igshid=ndb6uzwgco69

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