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you won't even know that you're dying
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i have to go see boston. for irish-american-chan
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love when ppl ask to see pics of my axolotl and are expecting something cute + pink + all smiles and instead with genuine fear in their eyes, and in their heart, say WHAT the fuck is that.
demon
“aw she’s cute 💕” you fool. Average 7inch Adult Axolotl for scale
everyone in the comments : STOP calling The Leviathan adorable you’re making her insecure!!!!!!!!!!!! She’s a wicked, malevolent creature of darkness and you WILL show her some respect!!!
*delighted gasp*
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it’s ween
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Hey. How does hibernation work for bears?
oh boy, there is a lot to cover here!
First things first: everything i say here is specifically about the brown bears in katmai national park. Other bear populations -- including other brown bears that live other places -- may have different behavioral patterns regarding hibernation.
The brown bears at Katmai National Park leave for hibernation generally within the month of October. Sows who are pregnant or caring for cubs are usually the first to leave, and the largest boars are usually the last. They generally will leave the Brooks River area to dig a den somewhere in the surrounding mountains -- this is why we sometimes spot bears in late fall and early spring up on top of dumpling mountain.
once they are safely sealed away within their den, some physiological changes occur. Their body temperature drops slightly, from about 100f to about 88f. Their heart rate slows significantly, down to 8-10 beats per minute. Their breathing slows to just 1 breath per minute. And, they won't eat, drink, defecate, or urinate until they emerge again in several months.
they are still burning a lot of calories during hibernation, which is why they lose about 1/4 - 1/3 of their body weight by the time they emerge. Also, they don't lose bone density or muscle mass when they hibernate, which is really cool!
Sows who are pregnant gestate until roughly late January or early February, when they wake up a bit to give birth. newborn cubs weigh roughly one pound (0.45 kilograms) when they are born, and they immediately begin nursing. the sow then returns to her hibernation while her cubs nurse and grow.
Around March & April, bears begin emerging from their dens, and they take about 2 weeks to re-adjust to their non-hibernating metabolism.
sources:
Starvation Time and Bear Hibernation, blog posts by former Park Ranger Mike Fitz
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not to rag on vegans bc I am kind of one of them on and off but I love when their "ethical alternatives" are just
- product of slave labor
- critically endangered plant
- product of slave labor
- product of slave labor that had to be shipped in from overseas farting out co2 the whole way
- plastic
what critically endangered plants? ive not heard that before
agave
And don't forget other vegan classics! Such as:
- product of slave labour
- staple crop in its country of origin that local people can no longer afford to buy for themselves
- vital food source for critically endangered animals
- product of slave labour
- crop that had huge swathes of rainforest cleared to grow it
- crop that requires gallons of environmentally disastrous chemicals to cultivate successfully and also to process into useable materials
- product of slave labour
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stimutax
I’m legally required to post this every Halloween
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i made a slight miscalculation in my last juggling lab tixl setup and accidentally invented a new juggle technique: got stabbed
ALT
help is on the way!
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Comedians in the '70s and cartoons in the '90s: weird how your kids can watch violence and murder on TV but the FCC wants us dead if we say the word nipple.
Internet users in 2025: you didn't warn me that there would be erotic themes in the game you just mentioned which is fucked up because I thought it was going to be a normal "morally struggle with killing people" game but now it's gone too far :-/
A lot of you are playing into a lot more reactionary of hands than I think you would like when you act like tits are more shocking than gun violence.
We need to call people posers again. We gotta. We just gotta. No you aren't a countercultural weirdo because you made a battle jacket, you get tangibly viscerally uncomfortable if someone is breast feeding in public and that is incredibly square of you.
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Welcome to a new age of predictive text.
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pureslime-deactivated20191020
this girl ate only purple go-gurt for 10 years of her life and this is what happened.
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what if i wore contacts with the complete wrong prescription and then wore glasses to correct the contacts
love hearing this
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My dog's really a study in Buddhism. He can see my muffin wrapper and he's miserable. Crying. He needs to eat my muffin wrapper so bad.
I get up and throw it away. He forgets about it immediately and happily goes to sleep.
You are not sad because you do not have a muffin wrapper, my beautiful boy, you are sad because you want the muffin wrapper.
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