If I didn’t remember actually reading this in an actual Calvin and Hobbes book as a child I’d think it was ironically photoshopped like those comics where Mickey Mouse and Goofy talk about how reality is an illusion but this comic strip was actually just……. already………… like that……………
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never too early to start reblogging this
^^^ well, Halloween candy was on shelves like 7/31 so this is right on time.
What a wiggly strawberry macaroon !
I’m gonna cry
The spell makes me great, but great enough? If I lose, forget me. All of you are dead or imprisoned. Why didn’t I see how huge this is? I’m scared… for all of us.
this is literally your mum at the start of every pokemon game
6 zoo myths that arent true
Most behaviors that you see keepers demonstrate at the zoo or aquarium are natural behaviors that the animals do in the wild. When the animals do them, the keepers give them a treat and pair it with a gesture or a word, so that they associate them, and eventually the word or gesture is enough to elicit the behavior because the animal knows that there’s a reward. But here’s the thing: most of those behaviors are encouraged because they help veterinarians and keepers do health checks.
Yeah, its cute when they nose boop the stick, but also keepers need to check their vision and depth perception and mobility. Sea lions are so cute when they wave! But vets and keepers need to check under those flippers to make sure that they’re healthy and that they don’t have any restrictions on their motion or cuts on their skin. Why do they ask animals to jump? Again, to make sure that they’re healthy, and also because its fun and animals LOVE to move around and jump and have fun, its mentally stimulating.
This is the most important thing I will ever reblog and anyone who is still ignorant enough to think zoos are awful can fuck off my blog. Zoos are necessary. If you think otherwise please unfollow me because I don’t want you here.
This is super important for people to see. I have worked at a zoo and I can not tell you how many times I’ve had to defend the zoo for the good they do. People need to learn that zoos are actually helping save endangered species.
Remember: Sea World is not a zoo and doesn’t really care about animals unless they can make a profit. Fuck Sea World.
Alternatively, Busch Gardens does care for their animals.
A new species is evolving before scientists’ eyes in the eastern United States.
Wolves faced with a diminishing number of potential mates are lowering their standards and mating with other, similar species, reported The Economist.
The interbreeding began up to 200 years ago, as European settlers
pushed into southern Ontario and cleared the animal’s habitat for
farming and killed a large number of the wolves that lived there.That also allowed coyotes to spread from the prairies, and the white farmers brought dogs into the region.
Over time, wolves began mating with their new, genetically similar neighbors.
The resulting offspring — which has been called the eastern coyote
or, to some, the “coywolf” — now number in the millions, according to
researchers at North Carolina State University.Interspecies-bred animals are typically less vigorous than their parents, The Economist reported — if the offspring survive at all.
That’s not the case at all with the wolf-coyote-dog hybrid, which has developed into a sum greater than the whole of its parts.
At about 55 pounds, the hybrid animal is about twice as heavy as a
standard coyote, and her large jaws, faster legs and muscular body allow her to take down small deer and even hunt moose in packs, and the animal
is skilled at hunting in both open terrain and dense woodland.An analysis of 437 hybrid animals found that coyote DNA dominates her
genetic makeup, with about one-tenth of its DNA from dogs, usually
larger dogs such as Doberman pinschers and German shepherds, and a
quarter from wolves.The animal’s cry starts out as a deep-pitched wolf howl that morphs into higher-pitched yipping — like a coyote.
Her dog DNA may carry an additional advantage.
Some scientists think the hybrid animal is able to adapt to city life
— which neither coyotes or wolves have managed to do on their own —
because her dog ancestry allows her to tolerate people and noise.The coywolves have spread into some of the nation’s largest cities —
including New York, Boston and Washington — using railway corridors.The interbreeding allows the animal to diversify her diet and eat
discarded food, along with rodents and smaller mammals — including cats,
which coywolves eat skull and all — and they have evolved to become
nocturnal to avoid humans.The animals are also smart enough to learn to look both ways before crossing roads.
Not all researchers agree the animal is a distinct species, arguing
that one species does not interbreed with another — although the
hybrid’s existence raises the question of whether wolves and coyotes are
distinct species in the first place.But scientists who have studied the animal say the mixing of genes
has been much faster, extensive and transformational than anyone had
noticed until fairly recently.“(This) amazing contemporary evolution story (is) happening right
underneath our nose,” said Roland Kays, a researcher at North Carolina
State.Watch this report on coywolves.
Raw Story
THIS SHIT IS SO WILD AND IT’S ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING. If you’d like to watch the entire Nature documentary referenced in that “watch this report” link, you can find the whole thing on Youtube. It’s a terrific documentary and a really interesting look at an animal most people don’t even seem to realize exists. The extent to which coywolves have adapted to urban life and the ways in which they’re very distinct from the species they’ve sprung from is pretty incredible.
Ultimate Doggo
HOT DAMN I WANT COYWOLF DOGGL
See, I first heard about this a few years back, but I thought it was a mislabelling of the Carolina Pariah Dog. So it is actually a distinct breed?
What I had first heard is that they hunt like wolves, scavenge like coyotes, but will totally beg and butter you up for your fries like a dog. Like they’d much rather become your friend for food if they can, since it’s easier than eating your kids.
I unabashedly loved this scene.
My favorite thing about this is that Dottie is getting fucking object concealment tips from these genius food-stealing women and she’s probably using that knowledge to hide idek small thermonuclear devices in her bra or something. Probably went back to the Red Room afterward like “omg girls let me teach you what I learned in America. It’s vital we teach our tiny assassins to knit, I met a woman who successfully concealed a whole chicken in her sweater, they’ll need this kind of ingenuity in the field.”
I also really love that this is a large group of women who unabashedly like food and eating. None of them are going “oh no my diet, what if I get fat?”, they’re like “I CAN FIT A CHICKEN IN MY SWEATER AND THEN LATER, I HAVE A WHOLE CHICKEN FOR ME.”
I’ve reblogged this before and seen it at least a dozen times, but every time I see “AND THEN LATER, I HAVE A WHOLE CHICKEN FOR ME.” I start ugly laughing and can’t stop and frighten the dog.
Remember that these women grew up during the depression. A lot of them probably learned food hoarding tactics because they never knew when their next meal was going to be. So yeah, if you have the chance to shove an entire chicken in your sweater so later, when there is suddenly *no food*? You’re gonna take it.
Also, Peggy is British. She’s shocked and a little appalled at these food-stealing women, because Britain had such heavy rationing during the war.
British rationing did not end until 1954 (that’s still 8 years away from the time this scene takes place). Rations applied to all food staples, soap, clothing, fuel, and paper. In some cases, they became worse or more stringent after the war. In 1946, when this story takes place, Britain instituted bread rationing for the first time, food packages weighing more than 5lbs from foreign countries sent to private citizens were subtracted from that citizen’s ration book (so decreasing the amount of food they could buy), and gas was rationed again. While America also rationed during the War, the rations were never as severe as the ones in the UK and were lifted immediately after peace was declared.
Peggy’s reaction is “I would never betray my country by stealing food.”
Reblogging for history lesson. I feel like a lot of people don’t know just how bad things got in the UK for a while. Sugar, eggs and fat were so heavily rationed that there were recipes for cakes made with paraffin – in other words, mineral oil.
Rationing of meat actually continued until 1954, when my father was two years old. So there’s some food for thought, pun not intended.
For a good illustration of post-war rationing and poverty in Britain (with kick-ass ladies, too) I’d recommend both “Call the Midwife” and “The Bletchley Circle.” Rationing stayed in place for almost a decade, repairs to buildings were very slow and poor areas of London had rubble, barricades, and wire for years after the war ended. Also, you can find “The Supersizers Go: Wartime” on Youtube, where two people eat as if they’re on wartime rationing for a week to illustrate what it was like.
To most people, this is just a bit of comic relief, the idiot!Ron / MoRon trope that the films overused to the point that some people actually believe that canon!Ron is actually like that. (Ronbashers in fanfic have also done their bit to increase this perception.)
However, I see something else in this scene. I see the care and compassion in Ron Weasley’s heart. Ron lost himself in the part because the Cattermole family was in a desperate situation. Ron’s impersonation of Reginald could have cost Mary Cattermole her life. (It may have, canon does not tell us whether she escaped.) It’s only natural that a deeply caring person would lose himself in the part.
This is the Ron who was fanatically loyal to his family and best friends. This is the Ron who didn’t want the Hogwarts elves to risk themselves in the battle because of how Dobby’s death still weighed on his mind. This is the Ron that Hermione is deepy in love with.
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