A sparrow slogs through the snow with the rest of us….

the ross’s gull (rhodostethia rosea) is a small gull and the only member of their genus. they primarily breed in siberia, living through most of the year on ice packs distributed throughout the arctic. they are known for the soft pink coloration they take on during summers. like other gulls, they primarily feed on aquatic prey like fish and crustaceans. they lay clutches of 2-3 eggs; within a few days, chicks are rarely fed and become independent quickly. they are considered vulnerable, with a population of less than 10,000 birds.

This was supposed to be a super cute photo of baby peeking out from behind mom, but instead I ended up with a couple of the ugliest faces I’ve ever photographed. I love them so much.

is this even funny i dont think its funny im not putting it in the tags

How has this comic made such a groundbreaking cultural impact without getting over 40k notes

In a previous post you told us that Barbourula kalimantanensis is the only frog that does not posses lungs. So I take this to mean Pipa pipa has lungs. Somewhere. How does it eat, breathe, and so forth, while being so flat?

Yup, Pipa pipa has lungs in there somewhere. In fact, if you keep them in captivity, I think the main time you probably get to see them is when they nip to the surface to gulp some air and then dive down again. Of course, they probably have substantial oxygen exchange over the skin, but they have not yet done away with lungs altogether like B. kalimantanensis.

As for how they eat, P. pipa use suction feeding, and the mechanism is very cool: they are suction feeders. A very nice but unfortunately paywalled article by David Cundall and colleagues explained the muscles involved in this. The gist is that they use basically the whole body, increasing the depth of the body (becoming less flat) and shifting many of the organs back to make a large vacuity that food (e.g. fish) gets sucked into.

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You can see a pretty good video showing the shape change here.

As for other parts of their life…well…perhaps we should save those for a rainy day.

I took care of these at an aquarium, and an important addition is that they are very bad at eating. They would swim up to the surface, gulp in the piece of food, and then sink back to the bottom—without closing their mouth. The number of times I watched the food just float back out of their open mouth would embarrass them if they could feel shame.

Yes, very worthwhile to mention that frogs are, in general, Not Great® as predators go, and that pipids are Particularly Not Great™. They use their very weirdly oriented forelimbs to try to help get the food, or break pieces off, but it is painful to watch.

Disco Elysium out there with the real artist experience

game companies should be fucking EMBARRASSED about being inaccessible. it should be mortifying to ship a game with shit captions or no UI scaling options or no option to disable flashing / strobing effects. games lauding their character customization should be laughingstocks for not including hearing aids or congenital disorders or prosthetic limbs. EA should be publicly fucking humiliated for the sims series being 23 goddamn years old and include cats and dogs and horses and werewolves and zombies and mermaids and star wars and not FUCKING WHEELCHAIRS.

visual novel games should be screen reader compatible and controls should be fully re-mappable by fucking default also.

You love to see it. (Not the destruction of trees, obvs, but shitheads meeting their oncoming comeuppance at the hands of trees.)

This meme is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy

I don't speak French so thank you to the many, many, many people in the notes going "Wait that's not 'can it' that's 'Shut the fuck up'"

oh seems very suspicious to see the barbie movie tumblr pop up on my dash after the strike. maybe it was made before, but I’m actually seeing it now

remember:

there’s no boycott on going to see new media

but there is a promotional blackout

don’t do the studio’s marketing work for them

I just checked their archive. They created it Today, July 17th.

prior to the strike they did not have an official tumblr lmaoooo

don’t reblog their shit

What I need is something that comes in a corked glass jar with a brown paper label and a woodcut portrait of a guy whose first name is apparently "Professor" on it. I think that would fix me.

Just start trying them in order, see what happens.

I wonder what it tastes like with Sprite

The person I reblogged this from is someone I enjoy seeing on my dashboard.

This is a map of the range of all giraffe species. By my count that puts them in just 16 countries out of the 54 in Africa (of which 5 are island countries with no territory on the continental mainland). That's 30%, quite a long way shy of all, and as you can see many of those countries that do have giraffes only have a tiny portion of their territory within giraffes' habitats

Wow, I knew they weren't in "every African country", but I didn't realize just how restricted their range was

Good teachers don't mind saying "I don't know" or that they need to look it up and will get back to you.

Not only that but giraffes in different areas have different patterns and it's so cool

Masai giraffes look cool af

The Masai giraffes are stuntin’ on the heauxs!

Masai Giraffe:

Reticulated Giraffe:

The last summer baby. The latest aestival joy.

Amsel 🐥 (blackbird) in Stuttgart-West.

Blink!