Liatai

Severely agoraphobic artist living with cats and tea. Just trying to get by! She/her; asexual, autistic, and anxious. Were-gardener. I stream sometimes!

[Liatai @LiataisLibrary]

Tossed together a quick Kweeta reference sheet for when I eventually have the courage and the funds to get commissions done... ^^; Have some info on my little space raptor buddy in the meantime!

[Liatai @LiataisLibrary]

@CrunchyCaws @BreezeBlueBird

[SK Winnicki, PhD @skwinnicki]

Plus, bird parents keep track of the number of eggs in their nests. If you remove the cowbird egg, you are making it look as if a predator stopped by and grabbed that egg. Parent birds will often abandon nests if they think a predator knows where it is. 34/37

[SK Winnicki, PhD @skwinnicki]

Cowbirds were originally called bisonbirds by colonizers because they follow bison and eat the insects on them. It used to be assumed that mobile bison led to this brood parasitism strategy (cowbirds need to keep moving to follow bison, therefore couldn’t settle on nests). 7/37

[SK Winnicki, PhD @skwinnicki]

Is this brood parasitism evil? No! Birds are birds and we can’t hold them to our moral constructs. Many of your faves (sparrows, ducks, etc) actually parasitize nests of others in their species—this “conspecific brood parasitism” means more eggs in more baskets! [Poysa 1999] 5/37

[SK Winnicki, PhD @skwinnicki]

It is the N. American songbird breeding season, AKA time for my annual #bird & #birding PSA:

Don’t kill #cowbird brood parasite eggs/nestlings! It is illegal and likely doing more harm to your birds than good. How? Behold, a mega-thread: 1/37

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[Bagel 🍩 @bagelcollie]

Small redraw from 2019 ~

[Josh Trebach, MD @jtrebach]

essential amino acids, on the other hand, are essential to the body and we need them BUT they do not have fun smells

[Josh Trebach, MD @jtrebach]

toxicologist here to remind you that essential oils are not essential for anything

the word "essential" in "essential oils" refers to the fact that the oil contains the ESSENCE (the smell) of the plant it comes from

[Ilse Köhler-Rollefson @IlseKohler]

This paper also shows the direction in which ANIMAL SCIENCE has to be fundamentally reoriented:instead of focusing on output/productivity per animal we need to pivot towards best deploying livestock to convert locally available biomass into food.

[big honkin caboose @itsbighonkin]

The anti-sex worker crowd is like “yes I want to see you naked and imagine you in sexual situations but ONLY if you’re not okay with it otherwise it’s weird and disgusting and I will NOT be participating”

[World Bird Sanctuary @WBSSTL]

It’s just too much for the heart to handle. The fact that the chick’s face is blurry is incredibly endearing.
All the funds made on this fundraiser will go right into that blurry beak, and the one feeding it! https://t.co/YfHmGGAa7u
Type RockBaby in the comments of the donation!

[Helen of Boy @hasbranscombe]

@ac_maestro One of the best examples of how executive dysfunction (as a part of ADHD or otherwise) I've ever seen was "There is cake in my fridge right now. I want a slice of cake. I have thought about getting myself some cake four times today. I have had no cake." Brain gets in the way.

[maestro @ac_maestro]

Markiplier makes me feel so seen in this clip. ADHD fucking sucks. Mark is such a cool dude man…

[Gus, Echo, & 🌈Tycho (kats2kitties on ig) @KatsKitties]

Being a good nurse kitty. Human is feeling crappy today (she thinks she has a sinus infection)

[Gus, Echo, & 🌈Tycho (kats2kitties on ig) @KatsKitties]

Sigh. Bedtime has already been infested by a bedmonster. And it’s all human’s fault because she encourages it by tenting the sheets to attract the bedmonster

[Bex Ollerton @Schnumn]

3/3 petition to make the winged ice deer the universal trauma symbol (I wish I'd given them spiky horns instead of boxing gloves!!!)

[Bex Ollerton @Schnumn]

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