Nerd: Oh hey, whatcha eating?
Me: Oh, just having my G U M M Y S K U L L
Nerd: OH SHIT
white people’s roles and responsibilities when standing in solidarity with black liberation struggle (source)
Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) »by Kee Liu
I’m seeing some confusion about this one in the reblogs, and it is for my money one of the most interesting things to know about birds, so:
The big guy in this picture is the cuckoo - a young cuckoo. The little one is the momma bird, who is feeding the baby, even though the baby is now like five times as big as she is. That’s because the cuckoo is a brood parasite.
Cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of other birds. If the hosts notice the cuckoo egg, they will try to get rid of it - if they don’t, though, and the cuckoo chick hatches, they will raise it as their own, even though the first thing it does when it hatches is to murder all of their other children.
The question with this is always: why, at that point, do the host birds raise the cuckoo chick? It’s way too hungry, it’s way too aggressive, it hangs around way longer than a normal chick would, and it’s huge, for god’s sake. It’s obviously not theirs. There are a couple of theories. One is that the begging call a baby cuckoo makes sounds like an entire nest of normal chicks, and the parents are programmed to feed whatever makes that noise. I got some doubts about behavior models that are that deterministic, though. I like to think it’s some avian variation on the sunk cost fallacy - the parents put all these resources into making this nest and laying this clutch, and by god they’re going to get a baby out of it, even if it’s a giant monster baby.
There is absolutely zero science behind this but my impression has always been that the parasitized parents, upon raising a gargantuan monster child, are basically just thrilled to pieces, like, “fuck yeah my huge Gundam kid can beat up your honor student” and “gaze upon my feathered monster truck pride and joy and despair”.
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BOSTON HAS HAD 68.4 INCHES OF SNOW SINCE JANUARY 23
WHAT THE FUCK
NEW POST! “Violence of the summer” DIY skirt (人･ω･)♡
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How a beanstalk finds support.
#look at that fucking dumbass spinning around like an asshole
I also flail around wildly until I find what I need
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Nicki Minaj photographed by Francesco Carrozzini, Vogue Italia December 2014
- me: why can't we just lay me down gently in a coffin
- molly: relatable
HE KEEPS DOING IT IN DIFFERENT CLASSROOMS
HES DONE IT 4 TIMES
“its ok guys. happy black history month.”
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Okay you have ten seconds think of an rpg class thats never existed before
Ass devourer, they eat the asses right off of people
What the fuck
OP gave me ten seconds
heard y’all talking rpg classes
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