currently obsessed with this taxidermied great white that was left to gather dust in an abandoned display in a park in australia. something about it is so simultaneously eerie and melancholy to me
The Japanese emperor or great purple emperor(Sasakia charonda), is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is native to Japan, the Korean Peninsula, China, northern Taiwan and northern Vietnam.
The caterpillar of the species (above) feed on hackberries.
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hate to break it to y’all but the sharp objects adaptation is actually garbage because they left out the objective best detail from the book which is that alan crellin reads a book titled simply “horses”
the takahe (porpyhyrio hochstetteri) is a large member of the rail family native to small, predator-free islands of new zealand. takahe are flightless, and are similar in coloration to the related pukeko but have a large, blocky beak and thicker legs. they feed mainly on grasses, shoots, and leaves, sometimes facing competition from red deer, which graze on these plants.
