if i lived in the wild west i would be kicked by a horse and the sharp edge of the hoof would give me a deep wound and i would die of necrotizing fasciitis at age 17
if i lived in medieval times i would be kicked by a horse and lose my balance and crush my skull on a large rock and die of brain trauma at age 17
but i live in the computer age and im immortal babey!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey robin wanna stand next to this horse for a second
boy do i ever!!
good! this horse is your friend and will never harm you 🙂
The aim of this study is to assess people’s preference for rabbit facial features, to help us gain an understanding of how these features influence how appealing a rabbit is to a potential owner.
Are we in the midst of a global insect Armageddon that most of us have failed to notice? Here’s another data point: A decades-long decline in plant-pollinating hawk moths has been reported in the Northeast, but its causes and consequences are uncertain because we know so little about the ecology of these insects. In days past, compiling such information would have made a respectable life’s work for a Linnaeus, Humboldt or Darwin. Now such creatures are often ignored because studying them seems unlikely to generate publications, headlines or grants that provide academics with tenure and prestige.
Why care about this new silence of the bugs? An across-the-board decline in flying insects, if true, means that an entire sector of the animal kingdom is in trouble, representing an immense diversity of life-forms, from butterflies and beetles to hoverflies and damselflies. The eminent biologist Edward O. Wilson, who has spent much of his life studying ants, has warned: “If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.”
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