all those “koalas are evolutionary dead ends and their bodies are riddled with toxins” posts are just hate clickbait- koalas are normal animals on the lower end of the smarts scale but no less intelligent than say, a squirrel.
YOU HEARD WHAT I SAID BASTARD JEREMY, I SAW YOU ALMOST GET RUN OVER BY THAT MOPED LAST WEEK WHEN YOU WENT AFTER HALF A CHICKEN SANDWICH IN THE GUTTER
in fact, koalas are just one of MANY mammals that have specialized into eating a noxious/dangerous plant that other animals in their ecosystem avoid, which is a totally valid strategy and works really well as long as your food source doesn’t go extinct!
another notable mammal that specced into this niche is:
giraffes!
and yet, I have yet to see any shouty wildlife articles calling giraffes an “evolutionary dead end”…
(though to be fair, a giraffe is more likely than a koala to render you into a monkey pancake for the insult)
and finally, koalas aren’t actually poisonous! they’re part of their ecosystem like any other animal, and regularly get chowed down on by multiple different predators, including humans.
“shit bro, maybe you guys should just try these leafs instead. love these leafs.”
in this way, koalas are actually a VERY IMPORTANT PART of their ecosystem, because their participation in the australian food web means that nutrients that otherwise would remain locked in eucalyptus trees and inaccessible to most other animals get passed up the chain when a koala eats the eucalyptus leaves and eventually is eaten itself in turn!
*swelling music*
IT IS. THE CIRCLE. OF LIFE.
yes, but that’s actually not at ALL unusual- smooth brains are pretty much the standard for small-to-midsize mammals, like it or not. so it’s not just koalas, animals that have smooth brains full of youthful vigor include fan favorites such as…
SQUIRRELS (again! I SAW that, Bastard Jeremy, you are going to electrocute yourself one of these days and I am going to LAUGH. LAUGH.)
MICE (not actual size, that would be terrifying)
SQUIRREL MONKEYS (that’s right, you have a relative on this list! maybe YOU’RE the weird one here, Raisin Brain.)
RABBITS
plus many, many others! brain wrinkles might indicate increased intellectual ability for a species, sure, but the LACK of them doesn’t mean they’re all idiots by any means! a koala is a normal and functional animal roughly on the same level as an opossum.
PLEASE DON’T BE MEAN TO THEM THEY’RE TRYING SO HARD
also, that bit about how “koalas can’t recognize leaves if they’re on a plate” IS just an internet hatebait myth- koalas can recognize the leaves just fine, they likely just won’t eat leaves off the ground because rotting leaves can make them sick and also the ground is gross.
as far as this little guy is concerned, you just handed him half a burger you found at the bottom of a garbage can last tuesday, and you like, expect him to EAT it. right there, on camera. what’s wrong with you.
regret to inform you that Bastard Jeremy is an actual real life Eastern Gray Squirrel that lives in the oak tree by my house and he pulls this shit roughly every other week
THAT’S RIGHT ASSHOLE, I’M TALKING ABOUT YOU
GET BACK HERE,,
apparently all those koala posts were koala slander written by lemurs or sthg, wild
URGENT!!!!!! my disabled black and queer family desparately needs to go buy some groceries one more time while we wait for a final food stamp decision!
my name is sugar and im a trans woman living w my gf after our white roommate ditched the house and all their stuff in the middle of the night leaving us homeless and having to move in w her my gfs family (some of you may have seen my old posts floating around and im sorry to be on yalls dash so much) but its been another two weeks of us eating bread and syrup sandwiches and a few of the elderly here have diabetes etc
no one in the household has government assistance. i did have pua but they took it away quick and its hard to find a job bc the whole house isnt vaccinated and we live w sickly/elderly unvaccinated folks which means i along w my gf have to be their caretakers 24/7. We give 5 other ppl their medicine and food, change diapers, keep them safe, bath them etc so we’re busy alot of the time (which we absolutely dont mind bc we love them💕)
we are applying for food stamps and are waiting for the final decision but we cant wait for them to eat we literally have nothing and are starving. hopefully this will be the last time we have to beg like this for help on the internet💕💕💕
we desparately need $650 dollars so we can buy food to last us hopefully 2 months w a house of 7 and that also includes uber money bc none of us can drive and we live far from the grocery stores around us we dont live in the city.
so many ppl on tiktok will be like ‘look at my epic style glow up omg my style used to be so cringe’ and it just shows them wearing clothes that were in fashion in 2015 and then clothes that are in fashion now like baby that’s what happens when u don’t have ur own sense of style
got called “omg vintage” by a secretary in training at the dentist’s office on sunday because i wore a shirt that was in style five years ago like. ma’am i bought that in 2016
this is WILD you can’t just leave this in the tags lmaoo
(cw: adult story below)
okay so basically the story went that he has. a fetish for guys with tats and piercings and this culminated in him getting real teeth KNOCKED OUT during a glory hole incident in 98 or 99 he can’t remember but basically the guy thrust in as he was catching his breath. and. teeth got knocked out. he was THAT HARD.
so he gets dental implants and continues on his way, assured that he’ll never have to lose any more teeth. he used to bartend blah blah and was always complimented on his teeth but he eventually got them SNAPPED OUT during an altercation with a drunk guy and he got different ones put in and was like “oh, so this is a recurring theme in my life” and decided that he was going to swear off bartending.
so he moved out this way and started his “dick-sucking career” anew, hopeful, wide-eyed. and managed to get a piercing snagged on his fucking tonsil and they have to GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM TOGETHER BECAUSE THE GUY IS STUCK IN HIS FUCKING THROAT AND HE CAN ONLY BREATHE IF HE BREATHES AROUND THE DICK. it was at this moment i remembered that one fucking movie where a guy gets his prince albert piercing stuck in a lady as a killer is busting into the room and dies because he won’t cut it off and run or something
also as this is happening i’m waiting on x-ray results so i’m just. there lmao
and he was talking about how the guy NUTTED. IN THE AMBULANCE. BECAUSE OF THE VIBRATION OF THE ROAD. IN HIS THROAT. AND THEY HAD TO SUCTION IT OUT. WHAT THE FUCK. but it turns out that there was a bad cut to his gums as well because it was a spiked fucking piercing so he just. had to get a couple teeth replaced. again.
and they dated. for 2 more years. until he moved to serbia or something i forget that part i was laughing to hard. it might have been spain. idk anyways
the bf got stopped by airport security because this was a few years after 9/11 and he had to take half his piercings which were not “safe metals” for metal detectors (“because DIY punks are hotter” was his reason??) and he was like “do i take the dick one out too” (no, but he did get taken to be privately searched.) and it ended up, that his boyfriend (the guy in the dental office) laughed so hard, after hearing this story repeated, that he slipped and smacked face first into the edge of a table. and LOST HIS TEETH AGAIN, and ended up walking around “like a fucking christmas carol about wanting two front teeth” until his bf sent him money to get them fixed and then broke up with him “for some hot young thing”
so he gets new ones! and they lasted! they really did! for years!
and then, #4, was on sunday. he was so “inspired” after he was allowed to go on dates again. because quarantine and no-socialising rules and shit have hit hard here multiple times. that he “went too hard” at a small gay bdsm gathering. and he managed to both bend his teeth inwards and fuck his molars up FROM DICK SUCKING. and he was like “i was tied up there, thinking about how many times this has happened. and how some evil gay witch put a curse on me for being too good at sucking dick.”
and he went on about how the kink club in question is technically helping to pay for this because they felt SO BAD and the guy who did this laughed his ass off and was like. i don’t have any money but once you get your teeth fixed - and the guy was like NO. I AM NOT SUCKING YOU OFF EVER AGAIN LOOK WHAT YOU DID
also this was told by the most middle-aged, boring looking man on earth. like picture an accountant, but gay and VERY clumsy and funny
Yak wool: the sustainable alternative to cashmere and a tool in the fight against desertification
Tibetan nomads hold the secret to one of the world’s softest and most valuable wools: not cashmere, merino or vicuna, but yak. The Norlha workshop, brainchild of half-Tibetan Dechen Yeshi, buys khullu, or yak wool, directly from nomad families. An alternative to cashmere is good news for China, where overgrazing due to the glut of production is turning grassland into desert. Dechen Yeshi also hopes to improve living standards for nomadic yak herders, who are among China’s poorest inhabitants.
Welcome to my big, kickass living room.
I really like yak wool. Not sure why it can only come from “nomads”, but hey I’ll let that go, in favor of mentally kickin’ it in this big kickass living room.
Mongolians are cool because they’ve merged their traditional and modern ways of life so rather than having poverty due to losing all their important skills they just live in their yurts with their cows and 827474874mbs internet
sure their GDP in dollars is low but when you can survive like your anscestors did it doesn’t mean anything, nothing wrong with adding a motorcycle and wifi into the mix
Everyone should live like their ancestors did 1000 years ago but with the addition of wifi tbh
Adapt. Survive.
this is the single most inspiring piece of information I have yet to come across in all my moments in this world
just a reminder of my favorite thing on tumblr and its existance
New killer reveal
I want one,
these are room guardians!! also known as the star of that one fuckin meme that went around a while ago aka this
they were (are?) made originally by anyaboz on dA! they also make a lot of other fantastic stuff I mean I am in love with fuckin everything they do their work is stunning
