thebootydiaries:

me: i like wearing a hijab

some random man appearing out of the shadows, breathing heavily: um excuse me sweaty :)) i think maybe u dont know but u are oppressed 🙂 it oppress u 🙂 its an inanimate object? u fool!! *spit flying everywhere* u know nothing about ur own religion!!!!!! it is symbol of bad!! i learn this in my ninth grade english class so shut up ur hell mouth 🙂 it take ur rights sweatheart :)))) it kill people 🙂 when u sleep it strangle u 🙂 it came 2 my house and slapped me in front of my bare children :)) i googled femimesisnm once so i know 🙂 *reaches into fedora and pulls out a tank top* here sweaty, take this 🙂 u can thank me later, my poor sweat sweat little grape 🙂

lavendersucculents:

fuckyeahshezza:

madlori:

1. There are several ways to classify the large cats, one of the more useful ones is into the roaring cats (tigers, lions) and the purring cats (bobcats, lynxes). The puma (also known as the mountain lion) is the largest cat that purrs. I’ve heard it up close, it’s amazing. A cheetah’s purr sounds like an idling motorcycle engine.

2. Kangaroos cannot move their legs independently of each other, they have to move them in sync – when they’re on land. When they’re swimming, they can move them separately. Hopping is their most efficient way to move – a walking kangaroo is awkward as hell. They swing both legs forward using their tail as a third leg to prop up while their legs swing.

3. People often think that flamingoes’ knees bend the wrong way. They don’t – the joint you’re seeing in the middle of their leg isn’t their knee, it’s their ankle. Their knee is up by their body, and it bends the same way ours does.

4. Giraffes only sleep 1-2 hours a day.

5. Bald eagles’ vocalizations are not what you expect. When you see a flying bald eagle in the movies and hear that majestic caw sound? That isn’t an eagle, it’s been dubbed over with another bird, usually a red-tailed hawk. Bald eagles actually sound…not majestic. Kind of like if a kitten could be a bird.

6. Elephants are one of only a handful of animals that can pass the mirror test – in other words, they can recognize their own reflection (and not think it’s another animal, as dogs and cats usually do). They tested this by placing a chalk mark on an elephant’s forehead and then showing it a mirror. The elephant investigated the mark on its own forehead, indicating it knew that it was looking at itself.  The only animals that pass this test are the higher primates, the higher cetaceans (orcas, dolphines), elephants, and weirdly, magpies.

7. One-fifth of all the known mammal species are bats.

8. A kangaroo mother can have three joeys simultaneously at different stages of development: an embryo in her womb (kangaroos can do what’s called embryonic diapause which means sort of putting the development on pause until she’s ready for it to develop further), a joey in her pouch attached to one nipple, and a joey out of the pouch on the ground who nurses from the other one. The amazing thing? Each of her nipples make different formulations of milk for each joey’s different nutritional needs.

9. Bonobos, our closest genetic relative (they are more closely related to us than they are to either chimps or gorillas) are almost entirely non-aggressive, matriarchal, and use sex to solve all their problems. They engage in both same and opposite sex interactions, non-penetrative sex (oral, rubbing, manual) and with any age. That’s an interesting area to work in, lemme tell you.

10. Tortoises have super loud sex. Like, really loud.

11. All grizzlies are brown bears, but not all brown bears are grizzlies (grizzlies are a sub-categorization of the brown bear).

12. Reindeer are the only deer species where both males and females grow antlers. The males shed theirs the beginning of December, the females shed theirs in the spring. So all of Santa’s reindeer are girls, heh. I love telling little kids that.

13. If a rhinoceros knocks off its horn, it grows back faster than you’d expect. One of ours, Rosie, has knocked hers off twice.

14. Gorillas get crushes on each other. And on the humans that take care of them. Male gorillas also masturbate. I don’t know if the females do, I’ve never seen it. Sometimes it’s like a soap opera up in there.

15. Langur monkeys are silvery-gray in color – their babies are bright orange. Like Cheeto orange, I do not exaggerate.

16. Polar bear fur is not white, it’s transparent, like fiber optics. Also, their skin is black.

This is all excellent and awesome and I am a happier, better person for this knowledge.

Also, you go badass lady reindeer. Sleigh.

This was really cool to read actually.

dimetrodone:

I’ve heard about this before but it’s still weird as hell.

Look at this little space man

i-had-a-halo-once:

So recently I read a couple of different posts, one that questioned exactly what sleep is, and the other discussing aliens (who don’t sleep or have any idea what it is) reacting to humans falling asleep, mostly at random times, and it got me thinking.

What if sleep for humans was the alien equivalent of death?

Not only that, but what if our capabilities to survive in blazing heat and insane cold, among other insane abilities like our endurance and stamina, were not unheard of, but simply possessed by gods?

For example! Our ability to endure drastic temperature changes, which would kill or seriously harm any other alien, is legendary. Even other animals on our own planet can’t adapt to new temperatures at all, or at least as quickly as we do. And to aliens, that’s a skill that’s possessed by gods and heroes of old, so the day that alien researcher happened to look out the window and see one of the humans twirling around and giggling while condensed precipitation particles fell all around them, the alien’s things dropped to the floor and the alien, terrified for the human, waved frantically at them, trying to get the human in — did it know what it was doing? — but the human just laughed and picked up some of the particles to make into a round thing they called a ball. Afterwards, the aliens began wondering what other godlike skills humans possessed.

The answer was a lot.

The ability to bond with almost anything. Their perseverance. Their willpower. Speed. Intelligence.

But the most confusing of all was their nightly ritual, a ritual that even spilled into their “waking hours”, a term one of the humans used in reference to this thing called sleep.

The first time a human tried to explain this new phenomenon that occurred, calling it “sleep”, the aliens in the room freaked out. One even shrieked something in it’s native language, Gora’Gax (it was later translated to “No! Don’t sleep!”). The humans were startled by the sudden panic. “What’s wrong?” One of them asked, the one who had started to explain only to be interrupted by the panic.

How did they not know?

One of the aliens rushed forward. “Sleep is not good, John! Sleep takes you away! You do not come back from sleep!”

The human stared for a minute, before realization dawned on him. And then he started to laugh. The other humans started to chortle too, quieting down the aliens who were mystified by this casual attitude towards something so horrible.

“No, no, Qor’Ax,” the human John chuckled. “You mean death. Sleep is not death. It’s something we do, just for a couple of hours, to recharge our energy. It helps us.”

None of the aliens understood. For sleep, in most alien languages, was the word for death. Once Quatil, the researcher who had witnessed the human playing outside in the cold, had explained to Human-John what “seralapath”, which translated to “sleep” in most human languages, meant, Human-John simply laughed it off, understanding. He then proceeded to explain that for them, sleep was not death but a nice way to regain energy.

The aliens understood the literal translation as “a time in which one spends unconscious, their mind creating distractions from the knowledge of not being completely conscious during this time”. It was later discovered some humans were aware that they were sleeping when they were “dreaming”.

From there on out, aliens mostly just regarded humans as a weird form of immortal who had for some reason chosen to come hang out with them and help them. Whatever “humans” really were, the aliens on the good side were just happy that these humans hadn’t decided to be their enemies.

@space-australians