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lindamarieansonsnaps · 6 months

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#fall #autumn #autumnal #autumn foliage #hooded crow #maple trees #acacia trees #birch trees #nature #nature photography #original photography #photographers on tumblr

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daisukitoo · 3 months

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Many species have more or less a spite reaction to being eaten. Very few species gain an advantage from being eaten. It is not a recommended career path. A common evolutionary path is developing some form of penalty for eating them, from the famous but biologically expensive "be poisonous" to lower levels of "taste bad."

The giraffe and the acacia tree are famously engaged in biological warfare, and one of the tree's tools against this tall predator is to signal downwind branches to pull out the tannin reserves. This makes the leaves taste bad. Tragically for the tree, giraffes have learned to dodge this tactic by eating into the direction of the wind, but you do what you can when you are a tree. The smell of freshly cut grass is also feebly trying to kill you, as anyone with bad allergies will explain.

Animals have a similar tactic. Those chemicals that flood us during panic also taste bad. "Fight, flight, and/or not be worth eating," as it were. This is a known factor in meat production. Painless, efficient kills lead to better meat; letting a fish suffocate in the air is bad for the fish, both in the usual sense of "bad for the fish" and also for the quality of the meat one presumably plans to eat.

Some of these tactics have drawbacks. Caffeine, nicotine, and capsaicin are natural insecticides. If a coffee bean can get your heart pumping, imagine what it does to a bug. But it turns out that humans like mild neurotoxins, so those make the plants more attractive to us. That ends up being an evolutionary advantage when we farm them massively. The better their evolutionary programming tells them to deploy weapons and kill the predators, the more we say, "Mmmm, spicy," and keep breeding hotter peppers. Some other species have been noted to enjoy mild neurotoxins, but they rarely engage in industrial-scale agriculture.

So when you read a story with a vampire or demon who feeds on human suffering, this should make perfect sense. They just happen to be a species that likes the flavor of our panic chemicals, and their torture dens are like coffee shops. Hunting humans for sport is just a natural, organic method of farming their equivalent of nicotine.

#evolution #poisons #vampires #demons #grass #giraffes #spite #acacia trees

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textless · 7 months

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Lappet-faced vultures, the largest vultures in Africa, have a wingspan of up to nine feet.

Masai Mara, Kenya, July 2023.

#vulture #lappet-faced vulture #bird #kenya #photographers on tumblr #textless #amadee ricketts #flying #grass #tree #todaysbird #acacia

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minecraftbookshelf · 5 months

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Apparently my most controversial Minecraft Opinion is that there are no ugly blocks and that any block can be pretty in the right context and environment.

#rain rambles #minecraft #minecrafting #acacia is gorgeous on mountainsides #the orange looks so pretty next to the shade of the grass there #as long as you don't overdo it #and the leaves are such a nice shade too #i have several acacia trees growing in my front yart #that i originally grew for wood for sticks #and then they were too pretty to cut down

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theroadtofairyland · 7 months

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Wandering

Watercolor and Glitter On Black Cotton Paper

2023, 22" x 30"

Mimosa, Wattle, Acacia retinodes

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jillraggett · 24 days

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Plant of the Day

Saturday 6 April 2024

Covered in fragrant flowers is the relatively small and slow-growing tree Acacia rubida (red-stem wattle). This is an ideal tree for a warm sheltered garden where space is limited.

Jill Raggett

#acacia #red-stem wattle #yellow flowers #fragrantblossoms #small tree #flowering trees #plants #horticulture #gardens #garden #essex #RHS Hyde Hall

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motions-of-tenderness · 2 months

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