just watched a dove struggle with the concept of gravity and weight distribution as it tried to eat from the bottom of a suet block that it was pushing away from itself
hi i just learned that axolotls can metamorphose into terrestrial salamanders and my mind is fucking blown. like the way these kind of salamanders work is they hatch into little tadpoles, grow legs quickly, and then as adults they go through metamorphosis, their gills shrink and they grow lungs, their whole body changes, and they venture onto dry land.
except. if the aquatic environment is really nice, sometimes they can just say "mehh, i don't wanna, what if the outside is bad. i have everything here." and stay baby-shaped forever. individual salamanders can do it or not do it, but for the axolotl, the entire species did that. (i guess they had some amazing aquatic environments)
but, again. they didn't LOSE the capability to metamorphose. they just don't do it anymore. but sometimes, for some unknown reason, a dormant gene might activate... and the axolotl sheds its eternal baby-look, and becomes something entirely different.
#scavengersreign is a rare bird, a shooting star. I was lucky enough to see it inside, work on it. Now it's re-released, let's keep this anomaly shining.
yeah okay probably enough Tumblr for the morning; probably time to do directed deep dives into either the ventral pallidum in terms of perseverative behavior or the known parameters of molecular dynamics re: leptin transport and production within the brain. ready set go