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Anonymous asked:

Could i please get a small mammal cursed bio fact if u have one

the grasshopper mouse of the southwestern United States looks like a standard house mouse but is almost entirely carnivorous and is known to kill and consume everything from less homicidal mice to goddamn rattlesnakes, which they kill by jumping onto the snake’s back and gnawing through its spine

bunjywunjy

behold…. a Bastard

lectorel

Cat OS running on mouse hardware.

xekstrin

they also howl!

okami-zero

Wolf OS running on mouse hardware.

bunjywunjy

I’m glad you all love this tiny rodentious bastard mammal, but I can see we’re going to need to have the conversation about hiding things in the tags

bunjywunjy

Anonymous asked:

How come a badger would fuck up a coyote

bunjywunjy answered:

you wouldn’t necessarily clock this from just looking at one, but all species of badger are basically just little fucked-up biological TANKS with hearts full of murder.

adorable murder.

to start with, badger skin is so tough that it can resist most attempts by other predators to bite through it, and is also very loose so that even if it’s grabbed by a larger creature, the badger can still turn around and bring its own claws and teeth into the situation!

which is very bad.

and on top of this, badgers are STUPID strong and ridiculously hardy- badgers can shrug off just about any injury that doesn’t kill them outright and will immediately seek retribution by attempting to open you up with those big ol claws like a can of beans being fed into an industrial shredder.

badgers can even 1v1 fucking BEARS and walk off without a scratch, they’re that op.

no, I was not kidding.

the coyote, a fragile creature built for speed and maneuverability, would stand NO chance if it tried to start shit with the badger, and they both know it.

spontaneousmusicalnumber

My favorite quote: “Badgers are what happens when evolution wants to make an alligator, but all it has to work with is a weasel”

stitch-n-time

Badgers can also outrun horses in a sprint. They give zero fucks and are just amazing critters.

cipheramnesia

We could have just let badgers have this planet, why didn’t we do that?

weaselle

the thing about make an alligator but used a weasel is that otters are weasels evolved for water and… they will 100% destroy an alligator

weaselle

I’m not done, actually, because they in the weaselle family and I can’t not.

Badgers are in the weasel family right along with otters, mink, ermine, stoats, and honey badgers (tho, interestingly, the honey badger is not in fact a badger).

So firstly, to address the q in the op directly, let’s look at what happens when a coyote decides to tackle the much smaller cousin of the badger, a mink (skip to 30 seconds in)

okay, so, that mink idk which species it is off the top of my head but it weighs pretty close to two pounds. Three and a half pounds if it’s huge for a mink. An american badger averages 20 lbs. So imagine how the above would have gone if the mink was ten times larger. And twice as mean (and mink are already vicious).

I have seen footage of TWO large coyotes making a try for an american badger, and they even get him in their mouths from either end and try to tug-a-war him, but they can’t actually injure him much because his hide is too thick and loose. One coyote takes a strong hit and gives up and the other thinks about it for 20 seconds and in that time (i swear to all gods it only took literally 20 seconds on the video) that badger dug himself some damn fortifications: a tunnel in the icy dirt that he could retreat out of reach into, or threaten with his teeth from the entrance while the rest of him was under cover. He stuck his head out and let the coyote realize his new position, then he came slowly out and stalked toward the coyote until the coyote’s nerve broke and it ran, and that badger scored one final bite on its ass.

Altho it is worth noting, in case anyone reading this was unaware, american badgers and coyotes have been observed in cooperative hunting, as in teaming up to hunt together, which I assume was the context of the implied exchange in the op.

I keep saying american badger because that’s what is pictured, and that is what is likely to interact with a coyote.

European badgers are like the very polite cousin of the american badger. The european badger lives in communal burrows where they dig a separate bathroom to use, and they eat a lot of earthworms and tubers and some lizards or whatever. Civilized.

American badgers live alone in burrows they’ve taken over by murdering and eating the previous occupant, and they eat literally anything they can bite enough times to kill. They will bury an entire cow carcass to save it for later.

Like, please do not mess with a european badger, they are still weasels and not to be trifled with, but oh my goodness what a demon the american badger is.

And whatever ancient weasel evolved into the american badger also went up north and became the wolverine.

And if you want to know what a wolverine is like, you should know three things.

One: this is the live trap biologists use to tag and study wolverines. Only you don’t really trap a wolverine with this, more like inconvenience it; once set, biologists have to check it often. That’s because when a wolverine digs it digs in frozen earth and when it eats a goat or an elk, it eats all the bones, hooves and horns — their claws and teeth will just saw right through that wood.

Two: They can dig into the frozen earth like I can dig in sand. They can climb a tree as fast as I can run. And they’re much better swimmers than I am. Btw I love climbing trees and I was on the competitive swim team in school. Oh, and while they can’t fly, they have been known to hunt and eat eagles. Nowhere is safe.

Three:

though it is extremely rare, wolverines have been observed killing both grizzly bears and adult moose.

they hunt alone or sometimes in pairs and are this size

which is terrifyingly large for a weasel, but SO small compared to moose and brown bears. And yet they can and will murder those animals. r.

wolverine

american badger

I bring up the wolverine because, a case can be made that an american badger is to a wolverine what a coyote is to a grey wolf. And wolverines have been known to kill and eat wolves.

So yeah, badgers and coyotes actually make great hunting partners and sometimes cooperate, and otherwise tend to leave each other alone, but if it came down to a 1v1 coyote vs badger… either the coyote runs away or the badger takes it out.

Oh and, one very last important point

this is my dog, whose name is Badger, and who is the same general size and shape as a coyote

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tbehartoo

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"Fluffy and puffy like a cat in heat."

food

dopegrandma

canadiangold

I don't WANT my laptop to be the Thinnest Model Yet

I want a battery that will outlast the sun, a screen big enough to blind the person behind me, more USB slots than there are apple fanboys in the bay area, a fucking disc reader/writer

sweetoothgirl

food

mindblowingscience

sciencealert.com

Scientists Unearth The Ancient Bones of The Largest Jurassic Pterosaur Ever Found

Pterosaurs (which are not dinosaurs) are the first known vertebrates to have evolved powered flight – a feat they accomplished about 50 million years before birds did.

Laura Geggel, Live Science

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During low tide on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, a graduate student hunting for dinosaur bones looked down at the coastal rocks and made the discovery of a lifetime: the remains of the largest pterosaur on record from the Jurassic period.
Since collecting the specimen in 2017 – an eventful excavation that involved cutting out the pterosaur chunks with diamond-tipped saws and almost losing the fossil when the tide returned – researchers have studied its anatomy and determined that it’s a previously unknown species.
They gave the beast the Scottish Gaelic name Dearc sgiathanach (jark ski-an-ach), a double meaning of “winged reptile” and “reptile from Skye,” as Skye’s Gaelic name (An t-Eilean Sgitheanach) means “the winged isle”.
D. sgiathanach would have sported a wingspan of more than 8 feet (2.5 meters) long, a wild size for a pterosaur dating to the Jurassic period (201.3 million to 145 million years ago), the team said.

Continue Reading.

Science paleontology pterosaur Biology

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watching this youtube video about victorian haircare wherein the woman testing the products out inhales so much alcohol fumes she gets tipsy and that’s joining lead in everything, corsets, and doctors who cured hysteria with vibrators in “reasons why victorian women loved fainting”

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me walking out of my fainting room after getting my back blown out by a medical professional face covered in lead makeup walls emerald green (also containing lead) high on the cocaine i was prescribed for allergies, tightening my corset: archibald darling i am seeing ghosts

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sciencedaily.com

A star in the world of ceramic engineering

Facing the challenging task of developing lightweight, high-strength ceramic materials, an engineer has turned to an unexpected collaborator for design inspiration: the knobby sea star from the tropical Indo-Pacific. By investigating the complex and highly ordered mineralized skeletal system of this unusual marine species, the research team discovered an unexpected combination of characteristics that may lead to developing an entirely new class of high-performance lightweight ceramic composites.

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Compared to metal and polymer-based materials, ceramics can better withstand high temperatures and corrosive environments, but their brittle nature often makes them susceptible to breakage. This behavior potentially causes problems for innovators trying to create lightweight porous versions of these materials, explaining why ceramic foams are not typically used as structural components.
Facing the challenging task of developing lightweight, high-strength ceramic materials, Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Ling Li has turned to an unexpected collaborator for design inspiration: the knobby sea star from the tropical Indo-Pacific. By investigating the complex and highly ordered mineralized skeletal system of this unusual marine species, Li and his research team discovered an unexpected combination of characteristics that may lead to developing an entirely new class of high-performance lightweight ceramic composites.
Going light by going porous
Industries such as those in automobile and aerospace manufacturing have a strong interest in designing both strong and lightweight materials, combining the economy of better fuel efficiencies with strength. Industries find this balance difficult to strike, since stronger materials commonly possess high densities, and thus weigh more.
Nature, through millions of years of evolution, has come up with an ingenious way of solving this problem: using porous materials. The introduction of internal porosity potentially creates both extremely lightweight and mechanically efficient materials.

https://twitter.com/pariszarcilla?lang=en heres his twitter is here there is also additonal cat photos of his children.

strangeracrossthestreet

CAT DAD IS BACK

jackslenderman

aww, the kids grow up so fast. ;-;

aquilacalvitium

HHHHHHHH I LOVE CAT DAD!

starrynight35

This is, by far, the single most adorable fucking thing I have ever seen.

trishmishtree

update:

watchfor

I love that he kept …. All of them.

petermorwood

I’ve reblogged the earlier part of this thread before, and the new stuff makes it even better.

This is the Tumblr equivalent of a warm hug on a cold day.

teashoesandhair

You’re welcome.

askfordoodles

I remember this thread, but I never saw the grown-up pics ❤

theminingengineer

@every-n-anything

karmic-punishment

fierceawakening

All hail Catdad

daisy-rivers

I saw Catdad for the first time today, and my day instantly became exponentially better.

muriels-wife

I’M CRYING!?

aheadfulloffollies

CATDAD HAS REVIVED MY WILL TO LIVE

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I live for cat dad-

seductively-eats-a-bagel

Cat dad has saved us all

one-time-i-dreamt

inferno-sytem

CAT DAD!!

thekristen999

I had not seen the updates. I am so happy that the Cat Gods smiled upon this person and their new family :)

lmaodies

He’s got more recent pictures (and is also an INCREDIBLE artist), but this is the fam circa May 2020 :>

tbehartoo

dianasofthemyscira

You are Superman, aren’t you? Lois, look, we’ve been through these hallucinations of yours before. Can’t you see what you almost did? Throwing yourself off a building 30 stories high? Can’t you see what a tragic mistake you almost made? I made a mistake? I made a mistake because I risked my life instead of yours. Lois! Don’t be insane! And don’t fall down ‘cause you’re just going to have to get up again!
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)

estebanwaseaten

This scene features one of the best things about Chris Reeve’s portrayal, which is that he physicalized his different choices between playing Clark and Superman. Like, look at the difference:

He could go from Rick Moranis to Chris Evans with just his posture. It’s like his glasses are weighing his entire body down. Here it is, in motion:

Acting.

mcgregorswench

This is a perfect example that proves that the Clark Kent disguise actually does work….and how it works….

intjint

Christopher Reeve was the best Superman and still is

geekinglikeaboss

Are we gonna discuss that Lois Lane rationalized that Superman wouldn’t even feel a bullet, thus wouldn’t even know he hadn’t been hit, causing Clark Kent to reveal himself for who he truly is without her having to risk anybodies life?

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Scientists Unearth The Ancient Bones of The Largest Jurassic Pterosaur Ever Found

A star in the world of ceramic engineering

https://twitter.com/pariszarcilla?lang=en heres his twitter is here there is also additonal cat photos of his children.