Vermin

The sun in the bg is inspired by the art of Alexei Leonov cosmonaut and painter. He was the first person to do a spacewalk, which lasted 12 minutes and he was also part of the Apollo–Soyuz mission. He brought paper and pencils to the spaceship and sketched the sunrise, which he painted once back on Earth.

Anyway Grace and Rocky take a stroll.

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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.

I unsubscribed from dropout a while ago because there is a lot of sexual situations just suddenly sprung onto people like that, also the amount of times sam makes dog fuxking jokes specifically, and then brought a real dog for players to "make out with" veered into poorly disguised fetish that is now involving an actual animal for me.

And the stuff on game changer isnt even the worst thing they have aired on drop out. Theres some kind of artsy robot thing idk I forget, some sexual performance the involved the audience, and the performer gave the audience a safe word. But then, an audience member actually safe worded, and the performer did NOT back off, and instead said "but it will be really funny", actively pressureing an audience member after a safe word had been called, in a situation where its already hard to safe word bc its in front of an audience with inexperienced to that situation people.

Which is why that episode feels like a victory lap around people who have legitmately been sexually harassed! "You cant sue us nanananana nah!" Not to mention when they brought in the random guy off the street withour having him prepared or sign anything, they didnt just brinf him onto a gameshow, but an extremely sexually charged situation without explaining THAT part first, which is flagrantly unethical, no matter what the law is.

I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:

He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.

Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.

Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.

When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.

Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.

Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.

As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.

His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."

Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.