Today I saw a pic of a baby cowbird next 2 its nest "parent" and it was so much bigger!!!!! Which is the sort of thing that gets normal people upset about the injustice of nest parasitism but makes *me* worry if baby cowbirds get bird dysmorphia

This (from Cornell Labs via Merlin) is the pic I was looking at. It's just a little baby but it's so much bigger than its "parent"!!!! Do baby cowbirds feel isolated? Do they understand they're a different bird, or are they just a really bad sparrow?

hey, good news! ecologists have been studying this very thing! it seems young cowbirds have some kind of innate sense that leads them to sneak out of their foster nest at night to hang out in grasslands where they—more often than not—meet other cowbirds and learn more about what they really are.

Thanks I am going to cry so hard I throw up ;-;

Chauvet horse beautifully observed over 30,000 years ago created by lamplight from memory with fingers and rudimentary art kit on a limestone cavern wall deep underground

Horse taken with a digital camera on auto in the sunshine

More: https://thetravelbible.com/top-artifacts-from-the-stone-age/

Carlos Páez Vilaró. Serie metamorfosis cardumentaria, 1985. Collage fotocomposición.

Shout out to this one woman from Blair Witch Project. According to the directors everyone involved in the scene was a plant, except for her, some random woman from the real Burkitsville who was asked about the Blair Witch and immediately made up a story about seeing a documentary on the Discovery Channel about disappearing hunters. While carrying a child. Unsung MVP of horror

say her name…

Wanted to explore ideas for Cumberland's full body design (dip pen/mixed media)

He's the uhhh ghost?? Ghoul??? Of an escaped slaughterhouse pig who became a guy and is the manager of a hotel or something!!!!

spent far too long laughing at this chaotic little guy. he is only ever either yelling or running around like a little freak

I love this little wretched thing I hope it stops being endangered

Nasr Abdel Aziz Eleyan (Palestinian, b. 1941)

MAX ERNST // 1920 “THE CHINESE NIGHTINGALE” “LE ROSSIGNOL CHINOIS” [photomontage | 12.2 x 8.8 cm.]

Beaker with Birds and Animals

Thrace, ca. 4th century BCE

An Austrian silver fish form spice box and a group of seventeen silvered metal articulated models of fish. Via Bidsquare

Shanell Papp

Ram in the Thicket

Iraq, 2450 BCE

i love when people get up in arms about kink as like a "new perverted phenomenon" bc of their boogeyman obsession with porn. brother gay people have been slapping each other and pretending to be dogs while we fuck since the dawn of time. you're only just finding out now bc your hole is largely unremarkable and your manner unbecoming