The Alpacalypse

A sure sign.

people think 'no children' by the mountain goats is exclusively about a bitter divorce but i think a compelling reading is the relationship between you and your randomly assigned project partner in a college class

like it's due tomorrow and you haven't added your part to the doc or replied to my texts for a week. i do hope you die. i hope we both die.

new fave reaction image just dropped for me

self-awareness check, list five things you like that aren't media pieces in the tags now ‼️

a leucistic greater prairie chicken. normally these birds are barred grayish-brown. leucism is a reduction in different pigments, not just melanin, that causes either an overall paler look or pale splotches (“pied”). greater prairie chickens are found in north america, though in only a fraction of their former range.

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Bison herd By: Unknown photographer From: Walt Disney's Vanishing Prairie 1955

It feels so gross to call this group of 20-something bison a "herd" but I didn't know what else to call it.

Before bison were wiped out (as a deliberate tactic to starve the Plains Indians), small bands like this would only exist in the non-breeding months, throughout fall/winter. But as spring approached, they would join other bands on their migration, eventually forming herds that could number up to 4 million heads.

So numerous were bison, that it's estimated a herd could lose 20,000 individuals in a single river crossing without making a dent in the population. For comparison, this is the Atka Bay emperor penguin colony, numbering 20,000. Imagine this many bison corpses, solely due to one river crossing, without impacting the population:

(Photo by Bertie Gregory)

Diary entries by colonizers describe in graphic details how dead bison would cover the river banks for miles upon miles:

(Excerpts from The North American Buffalo (Frank Gilbert Roe, 1972, 2nd edition), one of my favorite books)

With no exaggeration, the American prairie was covered in bison during the summer. There's no other migration today that can match its size. The closest thing we have are the wildebeest migrations of East Africa:

(Left photo stock, right photo by Gail Woloz)

But even that doesn't come close. The greatest wildebeest herds 'only' number a little over 1 million. A wildebeest herd of that size may live behind 4000 drowned bodies. Imagine the size of this bison herd that left behind over 7000 bodies:

They piled bison skulls three stories high, and turned the prairie white with death, but it should've made no difference. There were millions of bison.

But somehow it did. The bison population was brought down from possibly as much as 60 million to a mere 600. So today a gathering of 20-something heads might as well be called a herd.

litany for the animals who run from me by Hieu Minh Nguyen

I used to enjoy Pokemon games a lot, but lately some of the newer entries have been kinda controversial due a variety of issues.

But instead of focusing on that, i'm here to bring you back to the past to the Nintendo DS era of Pokemon, where many (myself included) would say that the quality and care of the series was at it's peak!

Games included in this collection:

EVERYONE IS HERE!! Every single Pokemon game released for the Nintendo DS is featured in this pack. Two emulators are included in the set, just download and play

Download here!! (1.25 GB): https://www.4shared.com/rar/8b6dtnJ3ge/Pogeymon_DS_Collection.html?

Mirror download: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7kedgj4dmfqscry913n6a/Pogeymon-DS-Collection.rar?rlkey=exdei8jyugeqq8qo12xutq2m2&st=7jkyk0pa&dl=0

Hooray for 65k notes!!!

Once again, if someone was shitty in the past, but is now trying to do better, rubbing their face in their past misdeeds and refusing to accept that they've changed helps exactly no one.

Pronghorn Antilocapra americana

With greater sage-grouse Centrocercus urophasianus

Observed by isaac_boardman, CC BY-NC

he always be staring with those big eyes

// Bengal shorthair with green eyes. //

Credit: Christiane Heßler [source] [license]

Songs for a dark manor falling slowly into decay. Love and evil, shaped like a ghost — torn lip, a ricochet of light, a voice only you could hear.

i don't WANT to drink water I WANT a bard to draft a eulogy for me to criticise!!!!!!!