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via gracespelman

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whenever i get low on money i start thinking really irrationally like what if i hadn’t spent that $10 back in 2004 

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how do manatees even survive as a species if they're way too peaceful. somehow nothing wants to eat them. not gators or sharks or whales

it's quite simple, they're their ecosystem's version of a megafauna grazing mammal! they're simply too large for most predators to bother. they are, in fact, fucking huge.

see, manatees don't actually live out in the open ocean. they live in rivers, estuaries, and shallow seagrass bays like this:

so the thing is, large macropredator sharks and superpredators like killer whales don't go here! they stay out in open deep water, so they never really cross paths with manatees in the first place.

there ARE sharks here, but they're small! adult manatees are completely out of their prey size range, and they're more interested in fish anyway.

alligators do live here also, but even a very large alligator can't really dream of preying on an adult manatee! again, they're simply too big.

so, yeah. this is just another case of "this mammal is able to get away with being a gentle giant by simply growing too large for any predator in its area to touch" and I think that's beautiful.

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i wish i were a crow then i could count to four

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occasional posts from users

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had a dream that instead of Vanessa being his daughter that William aftons daughter was a 12yo Zendaya who worked as a hair stylist at Ulta beauty and William Afton was arrested for cyber crimes and forced to wear apple vision goggles for the rest of his life

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had a dream that instead of Vanessa being his daughter that William aftons daughter was a 12yo Zendaya who worked as a hair stylist at Ulta beauty and William Afton was arrested for cyber crimes and forced to wear apple vision goggles for the rest of his life

#fnaf #fnaf movie #five nights at freddy's #five nights at Freddy's movie #william afton #steve raglan #vanessa afton

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i hope you write (i hope we both write)

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Various stars & moon details from my gouache paintings 🌙✨

#not my art

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Holy shit. The Israeli whistleblower story CNN just broke is insane. I cannot believe what I’m reading

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I shaped my cat into a supervillain