According to the books, Bali Mynah males attract females by calling loudly and bobbing up and down.
I guess it’s nice to know that high school is inflicted on all species equally.
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Starlings
It’s a little known fact that Dante’s third circle is also chock full of starlings.
Anegada Ground Iguana
Iguana contemplating the phrase “life is hard”, thinking that really, life is extremely easy.
It’s living within a society with intentionally-designed capitalist and sociological barriers to your success that’s hard.
Prairie Dog performing As You Like It
And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part.
Snowy Owl
Snowy owls aren’t actually snowy. They’re just white.
This is good because otherwise they’d melt when they come inside for the bird show.
Black Bears
To bears generating a comment thread.
Amur Tiger
Amur tiger stopping in his tracks as he realizes that beekeeping only works if the bees are not kept at all, but are instead allowed to roam freely, collecting pollen for miles around.
Black bear
Just thought it was time for another supportive post.
Bald Eagle
Eagle pondering that an alternative solution would be genetically engineer people to have bulletproof skin, but realizing that such an approach would require funding research scientists, so it won’t happen either.
Blue Macaw
After you get into a fight with your shadow.
Galapagos Tortoise
Ó lá go lá, mo thuras,
An bealach fada romham.
Ó oíche go hoíche, mo thuras,
Na scéalta nach mbeidh a choích.
Cactus
It gets really contrasty in the desert at night.
Cactus
It was really windy that year.
Cactus
The most dramatic part of the cactus show is when the music reaches a crescendo, the fan dancers move aside, and the lead singer prances out – owning the stage in prickly glory.
Cactus
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Even though it knows all the answers, no one ever calls on the cactus.
Bird
I don’t think bird feet have any nerves in them at all.
Cactus Flower
When you produce a flower larger as you are tall, you might be compensating for something …
In this case, they’re compensating for the fact that an arid climate has fewer pollinators to attract.
Heater
In Arizona, as in Minnesota, they turn on the heaters when they expect people to be outside when it’s cold.
We just differ a bit about on what constitutes “cold” … by about 50 degrees F.
IR Bee
Sometimes you see a bee and just have an infrared camera with you.
Sometimes that works out.
African Crowned Crane
African crowned crane who knows that things can be thrown out of whack, but who doesn’t understand how things are gotten into whack in the first place.