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biologist here! why are plants green? well they suck up air from the sky (blue) and mix it with the sunlight (yellow) i fucking love science.

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hired a galapagos finch at my burger joint and after 2 generations it evolved to take peoples orders

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(me, my parents, my sister, and the baby are sitting at the kitchen table eating lunch)

baby, pointing at the light fixture over the table and signing "on": o.*

my sister: we actually can't turn that light on right now, because the lightbulb inside is burnt out! it needs a new one.

baby: ighbu.

sister: yes, lightbulb! granddaddy said after we eat he's going to climb up there on a ladder and change it, and then the light will come on!

baby: gadada! adda, uuu! ighbu o!

sister: exactly!

baby, signing "on" and pointing at the light and then my dad, with increasing urgency: GADADA ADDA UUUU. O.

my sister: we're going to finish eating first though, ok?

baby: nonono. O. gadada adda uuu.

[a split second goes by]

baby, pointing to himself: ba. adda uuu. ighbu.

me: you're going to climb the ladder and change the lightbulb yourself?

baby: dzyeah. *pointing to the buckle where he is buckled into the high chair* ububu.

me: unbuckle you? so you can change the lightbulb?

baby, highly businesslike: dzyeah.

*pronounced like "on" without the n

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strong contender for best book cover

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Velvet mite, unknown species, Microtrombidiidae

Photographed in Thailand by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

Photos shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

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master post of dogs celebrating passover

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lets appreciate geese ok? i love geese

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Fearsome predator

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would you a marry a swiftie with the same politics as you or a fascist with the same taste in art as you

this website has elevated suicide bait to an immaculate artform perfected like no other culture in history

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occasional posts from users

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Smeeking on my flower

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BEHOLD...

you're welcome ✨

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Hey, I’ve experienced something similar with sexuality! I’m a tall, straight woman who has always dressed like a tomboy, never worn makeup, and had the hubris and humor of a 14 yo boy, and I get mistaken for being queer all the time. Especially by men. I feel like there’s now some conscious effort I have to put in to be more feminine to date men, when really all I want to do is go back to wearing basketball shorts and baggy t shirts like I did in middle school. Tb to the old ladies in the optometrists office whispering loudly to each other “she’s wearing boys shorts!”

girl help I'm getting they/them'd by well-meaning people who don't know what a tomboy is

#and yes #this was simply a highly personal experience #and it is flattering when women hit on me #but I wish men would every once in a while

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“Cherry Blossoms” by Toi Derricotte

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I read somewhere that rain frogs are mostly muscle, is this true? Extremely curious about their anatomy so I'm wondering if you have any insight as to why/how they are so round!

Black Rain Frog (Breviceps fuscus), family Brevicipitidae, endemic to South Africa

photograph by Brittany Raine | Nature ~ Adventure ~ Photography | (@brittle_sees)

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Yes, you are correct, Rain Frogs are actually not altogether that fat... they're just shaped like that. They actually do have quite a lot of muscle mass for their size.

Having a round, compact body seems to allow for better, more efficient, burrowing.

You see, that "fat", round body again and again in different groups of burrowing frogs, like many of the Microhylidae and the Spadefoots. This group of frogs does seem to be the ultimate in roundness though!

For a more technical explanation of how they're structured, check out Mark Scherz's recent post about the subject...

The Travelling Taxonomist - Why are rain frogs so round? What's /inside/ of... (tumblr.com)

Desert Rain Frog (Breviceps macrops), family Brevicipitidae, South Africa

A few herpetologists are now including rain frogs (and their close relatives) in the family Hemisotidae, as the subfamily Brevicipitinae. I am not, though the 2 families are now considered to be very closely related.

photograph by Tyrone Ping Tyrone Ping - Exploring Southern African Herpetofauna