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Here's me trying to interpret how Danny's hazmat suit would look like if it were more realistic, based on my experience with biohazard PPE.

Absolutely! She doesn't always look terrible I just happen to adore when she does :3

Proboscis Bat Rhynchonycteris naso

It is found from southern Mexico to Belize, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil, as well as in Trinidad. The bats are nocturnal, sleeping during the day in an unusual formation: most of them line up, one after another, on a branch or wooden beam, nose to tail, in a straight row.

In the photo, the two bats on the lower left are carrying young.

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

hearth - chapter 11. You should eat. You've helped catch this.

a botw & totk zelink AU. In which Link was raised as Ganon's right-hand man and is sent to kill Princess Zelda.

[ T-rated; rating subject to change // chapter 11 of ? // AU-canon divergence, temporary amnesia, slow burn ]

> Read chapter on AO3 Or start from the beginning >here

Chapter excerpt:

“I’m sorry,” Link started, his voice sounding flat. “I should have held onto it. I shouldn’t have let go. If I hadn’t fallen…”  Urbosa furrowed her eyebrows, suddenly confused. She studied his hunched figure. “Are you hurt?” He shook his head. His knuckles had turned white against his own arm. His breathing deepened into something harsh and slow.  “I— I’ll do better next time. So please…” Urbosa stared, and somehow that made things worse. Link’s eyes shifted away, the grip on his arm tightening. “I’m sorry. Really. I’ll do better.” It was the most Urbosa had heard from him in one breath. But his voice was flat and absent, like he had become nothing but a shell, repeating a mantra of apologies. A desperate plea for something Urbosa didn’t understand. 

Twilight Princess Zelda in boyfriend tunic

for @hurricane105 !!

Communal behavior is extremely rare among spiders, but this species (Stegodyphus dumicola) is one of the few known examples of a true "social spider." The females live in communal nests that can contain up to 2,000 individuals, and they work together to hunt, forage, build their webs, and raise their offspring.

Above: this photo shows an African social spider feeding some of the young spiderlings in her colony by regurgitating food into their mouths

African social spiders can be found in the arid regions of southwestern Africa, where their dense silk nests are often built in the branches of thorn trees and shrubs. Most of the spiders in these colonies are female (more than 85%) and they are often closely related to one another.

This species also has a female-biased primary sex ratio, with female embryos developing in more than 80% of the eggs that the spiders produce. The male offspring leave the nest just before reaching maturity, and each male lives alone after that.

Above: a group of African social spiders working together to subdue their prey, which will be taken back to the nest and shared with the rest of the colony

The entire colony works together to complete a variety of tasks. No spider is exclusively assigned to a single role, but some of them spend more time participating in certain tasks than others, depending on their physical size and condition. They subdue and retrieve any prey that gets caught in the web, repair, maintain, and expand the web itself, engage in foraging, and tend to the colony's offspring.

There is no evidence that any social hierarchy or caste system exists within these communities. There are no queens, and none of the roles are assigned at birth.

Above: close-up of Stegodyphus dumicola

African social spiders are particularly devoted when it comes to their maternal duties. They engage in extreme allomaternal care, which means that they share the responsibility of caring for the colony's offspring. Maternal care is provided by both mothers and non-mothers. They tend to one another's eggsacs, regurgitate food for the spiderlings, and even engage in matriphagy, which means that they eventually allow themselves to be eaten by the growing brood.

As this article describes:

... some proportion of females do not reproduce – sometimes as much as 60% – but remain as helpers, contributing to foraging and brood care (allo-mothering). Both breeding females and virgin allo-mothers regurgitate food for colony offspring and eventually let the young consume their bodies. Even subadult females provide regurgitation feeding to colony offspring.

Young that are raised with both mothers and allo-mothers show higher survival and growth than young raised by their mothers alone, suggesting a clear fitness benefit of cooperative breeding.

This species can be found in Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini.

Sources & More Info:

Science Direct: Social Spiders

Current Biology: Quick Guide to Social Spiders

Phys.org: Untangling the Social Lives of Spiders

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: The Age & Evolution of Sociality in Stegodyphus Spiders

Entomology Today: Social Spiders Divide Labor According to Body Size & Condition

Animal Behaviour: Extreme Allomaternal Care by Unmated Females in a Cooperatively Breeding Spider

National Geographic: Baby Spiders Eat their Mothers

University of Portsmouth: Social Spiders Have Different Ways of Hunting in Groups

Behavioral Ecology: Spider Societies Mitigate Risk by Prioritizing Caution

Behavioral Processes: Warring Arthropod Societies

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.

ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys

ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food

the starling got home safely

the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.

at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.

"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"

"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."

"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."

"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.

"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."

"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."

"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.

"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."

"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."

Last year I finally had an excuse to illustrate this simple little Tumblr story I've had bookmarked forever for class.

too much recursion

ALRIGHT this was something I drew for Fab’s INCREDIBLE, LIFE CHANGING resbang which you can find here