sometimes a poll blog

The eclipse: (goes on)

The birds: (go quiet)

Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis). Family Passerellidae, order Passeriformes.

Simplified bird #88 - brown thrasher

Savannah Sparrow • Passerculus sandwichensis

and this species has never eaten salad before. and we show them salad and they eat it and they’re like holy living fuck this is tasty. and suddenly they’re offering us huge houses with all kind of advanced technological shit and incredible medical care and all the amenities and everything, with the only condition that we keep making salad for them.

and like, salad isn’t even hard to make. grab some plants, dump em in a bowl. it doesn’t have to be fancy salad, they’ll fall all over themselves for the most mediocre salad in the world. we can make so much salad that we’re practically drowning in it, even if we eat some of the salad ourselves. and in exchange we’re protected from danger, we have great living conditions, it’s basically paradise compared to life on earth

F1 grey wolf x poodle crosses bred by Erik Zimen as part of a study on dog domestication. 

The report was published in 1987, while the study covers puppies born from 1967 to 1980.

Extract of the paper’s discussion under the cut, however, I found the individual behavior of every litter and puppy very interesting and I suggest reading the entire thing if you like this kind of stuff.