Tag: animals

magenpies:

quecksilvereyes:

thistherapylife:

aergiaaa:

@muslimfinn

After this week, this gives me faith

he’s mirroring! cats do that to be social that’s also why they will lie on laptops or books. they want to do what their humans are doing because they enjoy being in the same room and socializing that way. getting him his own prayer mat was a really good idea bc now he gets to mirror without being in the way!

The other thing is that cats have a very good sense of time and tend to like regular schedules. If OP’s family members pray every day at the same times, in the same place, the cat knows the drill and probably considers this an official Household Activity which requires Feline Supervision.

thegestianpoet:

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when you’re a gay lion and you accidentally tried to introduce your lesbian lioness friend to one of her own exes at a gay bar and she goes into the bathroom and bitches you out for not being able to tell her endlessly rotating cast of girlfriends apart which isn’t really fair because first of all they all keep dyeing their hair different colors and second of all she keeps getting back together with different ones at different times and meanwhile you’ve been “single” for like 8 months but are spending a lot of time with one specific guy who works at your old co-op and were going to excitedly tell her about it tonight but now you’ve ruined the whole subject of dating by trying to introduce her to her own ex at a gay bar (which is a watering hole. because you’re lions.) 

the-real-seebs:

the-darkest-of-souls:

thecybersmith:

cyanhyena:

pika-brew:

mrv3000:

sonneillonv:

underhuntressmoon:

voidbat:

explainervideo:

What happens to cats in zero gravity ?   more educational gifs«

OH GOD THOSE POOR BABIES i am sobbing i am laughing so hard

In the last pic the cat is all “oh thank god I found ground NO WAIT COME BACK GROUND”

THOSE POOR BABIES OMG WHY AM I LAUGHING AT THIS

Astronaut: We need to fund 1.4 billion dollars.
NASA: FOR WHAT?!
Astronaut: We want to put kitties in space and have them float around in zero gravity.
NASA: Here is all the money. God bless.

Those cats are just ?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!

Cat: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

NASA: fascinating…

@bennygal16

what’s really interesting is, you can see the cat trying to do the thing, but it can’t figure out which way to turn. in that third gif, the legs moving in and out, that’s part of the thing.

jennytrout:

symmetraismygf:

warriorsatthedisco:

tinycodingkitty:

azzandra:

am-i-the-last-dreamer:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

pain-and-missouri:

tilthat:

TIL a 19 year old man dove 85 feet into the ocean to wrestle an 80 pound octopus with a 9 foot diameter to the surface in a 25 minute epic battle in which he punched the octopus subduing it after it turned red and lunged at him tearing off his respirator. He drove it home, cooked it up, and ate it.

via reddit.com

This is the man you must fight at the gates of Valhalla to prove you’re worthy of that mighty hall

It somehow gets crazier. this teenager trained for months. he staged fights in his parents’ swimming pool to train for this epic match. he choose halloween night for the final showdown. and it was for a school project. he could have chosen any seafood, but he decided on, in his own words, “that big fucking octopus.” magnificent bastard. 

Y’all missed the part where he dragged it ashore and divers saw him, got upset and sent some pretty rough stuff to his family. Then, at the Washington Fish and Wildlife meeting, he showed up and was like “yeah, it should be protected.” 

Except that the giant pacific octopus is nowhere near extinct and actually doing just fine.

So not only did he wrestle, kill, and eat a giant octopus– he got it protected from hunting in several locations even though the species doesn’t need protecting. 

Fucking legendary indeed.

So the only person they need protection from is this guy.

…what sort of school project requires you to wrestle sea life?

That’s just how Washington is

to be clear, the school project was to “draw something from nature.” nobody asked him to wrestle an octopus.

…now, I have misunderstood the spirit of a lot of art projects before but

feedeeadventures:

butmuhgains:

meco-official:

loafed-beans:

meco-official:

gaypunching:

It’s that time of year again!

You’d think it’d be 32 because he’s got a slight weight advantage, but 856 is the underdog.

but where’s my boy 480 Otis?

480 Otis got out-fatted by 409 Beadnose this year.

My prediction that 856 would be 32 Chunk was wrong.

My money is on 747, the dude is a straight MONSTER

FUCKING U N I T

This is the only bracket anyone ever needs to care about all other brackets are cancelled.

princessofharte:

lovedrugsandfanfic:

coffeeandufos:

cephalopodvictorious:

useless-zoofacts:

6 zoo myths that arent true

Most behaviors that you see keepers demonstrate at the zoo or aquarium are natural behaviors that the animals do in the wild. When the animals do them, the keepers give them a treat and pair it with a gesture or a word, so that they associate them, and eventually the word or gesture is enough to elicit the behavior because the animal knows that there’s a reward. But here’s the thing: most of those behaviors are encouraged because they help veterinarians and keepers do health checks.

Yeah, its cute when they nose boop the stick, but also keepers need to check their vision and depth perception and mobility. Sea lions are so cute when they wave! But vets and keepers need to check under those flippers to make sure that they’re healthy and that they don’t have any restrictions on their motion or cuts on their skin. Why do they ask animals to jump? Again, to make sure that they’re healthy, and also because its fun and animals LOVE to move around and jump and have fun, its mentally stimulating. 

This is the most important thing I will ever reblog and anyone who is still ignorant enough to think zoos are awful can fuck off my blog. Zoos are necessary. If you think otherwise please unfollow me because I don’t want you here.

This is super important for people to see. I have worked at a zoo and I can not tell you how many times I’ve had to defend the zoo for the good they do. People need to learn that zoos are actually helping save endangered species.

Remember: Sea World is not a zoo and doesn’t really care about animals unless they can make a profit. Fuck Sea World.

Alternatively, Busch Gardens does care for their animals.

vampireapologist:

vampireapologist:

one time on that same campus someone in the equine program didn’t shut a pasture gate and the pastures were just right there where all the classes were so when all the horses got out I just left class and saw first: a bunch of horses running

second: a bunch of equine majors chasing them on Foot for some reason

third: a group of students from the city just absolutely losing their minds laughing and recording it on their phones

fourth: a terrified work-study student parking authority who, when I asked, said “I don’t know anything about horses, but they told me to stop them if the come this way. what’ll happen if they do?? will they trample me???”

fifth: a group of boys in cowboy hats and flannels that I ended up standing with while the whole thing unfolded.

it took Twenty Minutes for someone to get on horseback to corral the herd.

I was like “is anyone on horseback?? what’s going on??”

and they said “no. we’re wondering when they’ll figure that out.”

and we all stood there like this

dear bird tumblr

roachpatrol:

jumpingjacktrash:

mmarycontrary:

jumpingjacktrash:

jumpingjacktrash:

do corvids have names?

i don’t mean, do humans give them names. of course we do. we name everything. we name frogs and fish. i mean, do corvids recognize names and answer to them?

and also, do corvids have specific sounds they use to refer to each other? that one’s maybe a bit more esoteric, i don’t know if anyone’s even done the research. but this is for a fantasy novel, so if it looks sorta plausible i can go with it. i just want to know if it’s within the behavior set, you know?

thank you for the responses! it seems crows do indeed have the concept of names, and use names, and distinguish between individuals that way. they reference people who aren’t present! that’s pretty dang advanced for an animal!

next step: figure out what crow names are like.

so far i’ve been writing casimir calling his crows ‘hey asshole’ and ‘you little pirate’ and ‘smartass’ and it occurs to me that those are pretty good crow names. but if crows give each other names he’d use those.

i feel like crows probably have names that sound like 1930′s gangsters. like ‘knuckles’ and ‘bugsy’. except crow themed. ravens have Very Dignified Names and then shorten them in awkward ways. like a raven called Steals Fire From The Clouds would get called Cloudy. there is definitely a raven that the crows named Moose.

I have to quote you a bit of The Raven and the Reindeer by T Kingfisher:

“Do you have a name?” asked Gerta.
“I do,” said the raven.
Gerta waited.
The raven fluffed its beard. “I am the Sound of Mouse Bones Crunching Under the Hooves of God.”
Gerta blinked a few times. “That’s…quite a name.”
“I made it myself,” said the raven, preening. “I stole the very shiniest words and hoarded them all up until they made something worth having. Sound and God were particularly well-guarded. Crunching I found in a squirrel nest, though.”
“May I call you Mousebones?” asked Gerta. “It’s…a lot to say all at once.”
It was hard for a creature with a beak to scowl, but the raven managed, mostly with the skin around its eyes. “I suppose,” it said. “If you must.”

that raven is a lot more dignified than the ones i’m writing. 😀

are you keeping in mind that crows hate ravens and will bully them wherever they can? it’s entirely possible that the only names crows give to ravens are variations on ‘hey fuckface!’