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A woman explaining how to pet a Mongolian mastiff. According to OP, this is Muyu and Mufang's first Dahan (大寒; "Great Cold"; Jan 20 - Feb 3), which is the final term of the 24 solar terms in a year according to the Chinese calendar. English added by me :)

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Sperm whale mimics a spinning diver.

Earth’s largest carnivore, with a brain that weighs almost as much as this naked beach ape*: SPIN!

I THOUGHT THEY ATE KRILL AND STUFF LIKE OTHER WHALES

I know that in US waters, it’s illegal to intentionally come within 300 yards of any whale or dolphin, and if one appears closer you should turn off your engine or stop paddling to avoid accidental injury to you or it.  This human is doing something dangerous and ill-advised, but it’s still hopeful that we can love something like a 130,000 lb deep-diving, squid-eating Oceanic former ungulate.

You always hear a factoid like “the biggest animal in the world eats one of the tiniest!!!” but it’s kind of hyperbolic, most animal life, in the ocean and otherwise, is still smaller than krill!

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Motunui ➤ SAMOA  Belle’s Village ➤ ALSACE (France) Sultan’s Palace ➤ TAJ MAHAL (India) Atlantis ➤ ANGKOR WAT (Cambodia) Paradise Falls ➤ ANGEL FALLS (Venezuela) Elsa’s Ice Palace ➤ HÔTEL DE GLACE (Canada) Eric’s Castle ➤ CHÂTEAU DE CHILLON (Switzerland) DunBroch Castle ➤ DUNNOTTAR CASTLE (Scotland) Beast’s Castle ➤ CHÂTEAU DE CHAMBORD (France) Kingdom of Corona ➤ MONT SAINT-MICHEL (France) Snow White’s Castle ➤ ALCÁZAR DE SEGOVIA (Spain) Aurora’s Castle ➤ NEUSCHWANSTEIN CASTLE (Germany)

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Photo by @koulamelachrinaki via Instagram.

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It’s always fun to be reminded how recent European national identities are. Peasants in 1860’s Sicily had never heard the term “Italy” before, the majority of people in France didn’t speak French at the time of the French Revolution, etc.

[when one asks the avarage peasant farmer in the ukraine about his nationality, he will answer, he is "greek-orthodox"; when one pushes him to say whether he is a russian, a pole, or a ukranian, he will answer, he is a farmer; and when one demands demands to find out which language he speeks, he will say that he speaks "the language from around here". ... i.e. when one wants to find out which state he would like to belong to – whether he would rather be governed by an pan-russian or a specifically ukranian government – one will find out, that in his opinion, all governments are a plague on the land, and it would be best, if the "christian peasantfolk" were left to themselves.]