The Massive Continuity of Ducks

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note-a-bear:

earlgraytay:
overlyygayy:
So the Great Barrier Reef was pronounced dead today.
Do you even realize that is this our home. We were blessed with such a beautiful, loving, and magnificent home and look what we have done to it. Mother Nature doesn’t deserve this. We don’t deserve this world we were so graciously given.
Are you waking up yet
K, so this is mostly bollocks.
The Great Barrier Reef is not dead. About a third of the coral in it is dead, and it’s suffering a really bad case of a disease called coral bleaching (which is what caused the photos down below)- but it’s not dead and it has a chance to recover. Hell, you can even see it in the bottom right picture- the only coral that’s actually dead in it is the big dark twiggy bit. The rest of it is still alive- it’s just under stress and so it’s bleached.
A lot of scientists are actually kind of pissed off about this message going viral, because it sends the message that there’s nothing we can do. It’s like sending out an obituary notice for your loved one that has cancer and is on life support. They’re still not dead. They can keep fighting; they can survive.
And we can still save the Reef. It’s not too late to turn things around.
Bless this clarification

viracon:

ethonydawn:
saysomethinghuman:
the-future-now:
this is a massive step forward for renewable energy (x) | follow @the-future-now
Yup
Just waiting for the massive coal industry giants to die so we can finally move forward

lady-aquata:

His shirt reads “They gave me a medal for killing two men, and a discharge for loving one.”
You are a bad-ass.

thejusticethatissocial:

thebestsophist on Michelle Obama’s speech

the-awkward-turt:

gdubcarver:
the-awkward-turt:
It is much more scientifically accurate to say “alpha chicken” or “alpha pig” than to say “alpha dog” or “alpha wolf”.
I want to know more.
In a natural state wolves (and dogs) live in a family group with two parents and their offspring. The breeding male and female are not the leaders of the pack because they dominated the other wolves, they are the leaders for the same reason that human parents are in charge of their young children (kinda a respecting the experience of their elders kinda thing).
Pigs and chickens, on the other hand, live in groups of unrelated individuals rather than family groups. In pigs it’s a collection of unrelated females with their offspring. Each female wants to provide the best resources for her offspring and it’s in the best interest of the herd for the strongest and most fit pig to be in charge, so the females will often fight among themselves for a better position in the pecking order. And I think we all know that the term “pecking order” comes from chickens themselves, which generally also have a very linear dominance hierarchy.
Due to faulty research on groups of unrelated wolves in an unnatural situation people used to think wolves fought for dominance and the strongest were the “alphas”. However that idea really doesn’t apply to wolves or dogs at all. It applies much better to pigs or chickens where there actually is fighting for dominance.
Coincidentally this is also the reason that dogs and pigs cannot safely be left alone together (such as when someones has both kinds of pets) because they don’t really understand how each others’ group structure works and it leads to dangerous miscommunications.