My all time favorite animal.
The red-bearded vulture.
The bearded vulture, or lammergeier, lives on a steady diet of bones (more specifically the marrow) and dyes its own feathers blood red.
Bearded vultures come in various shades, from pure white to orange-red. Soils stained with iron oxide give the birds their fiery appearance. Lammergeiers apply the dirt with their claws and then preen for about an hour to ensure a bright orange/red glow. They are also attracted to other red things, like leaves and red wood. Captive birds also partake in this behavior, which suggests the activity is instinctual, not learned.
The soil doesn’t have any practical purposes; it certainly doesn’t make for good camouflage (though the birds have no natural predators anyway). Scientists have noticed that the birds’ age and size are directly correlated to the intensity of color. It is theorized that the hue is a status symbol. More soiled feathers indicates that the lammergeier had the time and resources to find an adequate place to bathe; the brightest-colored vultures should have the most territory and knowledge of their surroundings. Interestingly, these baths are done in secret, so most of the information gathered has been through spying on captive birds.
Bearded Vultures are most commonly monogamous, and breed once a year. Sometimes, especially in certain areas of Spain and France, bachelor lammergeiers will join a pre-existing couple to create a polyandrous trio. Females accept secondary mates because it increases the chances of producing offspring and doubles her protection. The birds usually don’t lay more than three eggs, so they can use all the help they can get.
These giant birds can grow up to 4 feet tall. They have a wingspan between 7 and 9 feet and usually weigh around 10 to 15 pounds.
In other words, this bird is awesome and I love it forever.
One of my favorite gags in the adventure zone is when griffin is trying to find a word, someone slips in something weird and he just briefly runs with it like
Griffin: She reaches into her bag and pulls out a, uhh…
Travis: A gun
Griffin: Yup, she just whips out a gun and wastes all three of you
Ok is there ever an explanation to why side characters in Zelda games still are around even though the games are sometimes 100 years + apart?
Are they tied to the same fate as Zelda or Link or even Epona? Like they just keep coming back when needed?
If so I want to see the ancient scroll that’s like “To keep this realm in balance you need courage, wisdom and power to live in harmony. Also you need Beedle the shopkeeper, as his prices are reasonable and he is a very friendly guy.”
me: everything’s garbage my cat: (touches me very very very gently on the arm with the softest paw) me: (on the verge of tears) ᶦ ᵇᵉᶫᶦᵉᵛᵉ ᶦᶰ ᵃ ᶫᵒᵛᶦᶰᵍ ᵍᵒᵈ
Today I cried a little bit because I remembered that when Beethoven conducted his ninth symphony for the first time he got a standing ovation and one of the sopranos had to turn him around to see the audience.
i love how full-mage-squad party banter is literally just bitching. viv & dorian trading nationalistic insults, solas making snarky remarks at dorian abt tevinter imperialism, everyone pausing to collectively shit on solas’ fashion sense – idk what it is abt magic, apparently the fade is made entirely of salt
Imagine being a human in an alien crew in space and leaving with bright blue or pink hair and the color fades and everybody on board wonders WHY you are losing your colors??? Is it the lack of greens? Are you sad? Angry? They just don’t know??
“HUMAN BIOLOGY IS BAFFLING”
These are the kinds of pure posts I come to this place for.
ok don’t get me wrong the ‘salt and pepper diner’ bit is hysterical, but john mulaney has so many more hilarious stories that no one seems to talk about:
•the party at the house of the teacher that everyone hated
•the dog trainer
•meeting bill clinton
•“hUSH!”
•“-too old to be a duckling, quack, quack!”
•“eat ass, suck a dick, and sell drugs.”
•literally any story involving his parents (especially the black coffee one)
just please, do yourselves a favor, don’t just stop at ‘salt and pepper diner’, listen to all this guy’s stories because they are gold
Don’t forget
– sometimes I get nervous on airplanes
– Delta Airlines / The I Love My Girlfriend
– “I just wanna sit here and feed my birds”
– JOHN that bathroom’s been closed for FOURTY YEARS!
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