Nature really went off with sperm whales. A 70-ton predator with teeth the size of a banana but it only eats squishy prey that it doesn’t even chew, it just schlorps them down whole like a vacuum cleaner. Big giant fat head full of goop. Tiniest fins in the world. Strong enough to smash a ship to pieces and smart enough to figure out how to do so but its first line of defense is just to shit everywhere. Possibly the most complex language in the animal kingdom and it creates sounds by blowing air through its internal right nostril (it uses the left one to breathe) into its giant fat head. It’s the loudest animal on the planet and might have the capability to create a beam of sound so loud it can shake your organs apart but they don’t seem to use that to hunt or fight. They’re highly flammable. We used them to make candles.
stretches my legs out so far with all toes spread out wide
Meld
Riot recently went for a routine neuter and I was surprised to find that his food drive is back in FULL force.
He has been begging for food off my plate (something he's never done) and wolfing his own food without pause (getting him to finish a bowl used to be near impossible). Apparently he just needed the good ol' chop.
Either way, his training can now continue, better than before, even.
Couldn't resist a bit of Valentine's fun with the birds at work! This is one of our ambassador red-tailed hawks, Jesse, trying to get at her snack! Jesse is a non-releasable ambassador, not a pet, and she had been at our facility for 25 years this year, so she deserves some love! (She is not very good at enrichment, so sometimes she needs 'help!')
i wish we had more time
Etzel von der Ettersburg, german shepherd owned by Jubilee Farm Kennels, born 1920 and published 1922
Wren: Sickly human Riot Auf Der Marquis: SDIT Lachlan: Perfect boy (retired)
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