Meet Jaya, our adult male orangutan 🦧
Jaya is typically doing exactly what he wants: relaxing in his nest, working through enrichment at his own pace, and taking life one thoughtful moment at a time. He’s calm, he’s deliberate, and he is completely unbothered.
At 18, Jaya is still considered young. Orangutans in human care can live 40 to 50 years, so he’s got a lot of life ahead of him. He’s also still maturing physically; his cheek pads, called flanges, only developed a few years ago and are continuing to fill in as he grows.
As Rambutan’s father, Jaya does spend time near Hesty and the baby, but in true orangutan fashion, male orangutans naturally take a more hands-off approach to raising their young.
He prefers his nest, his enrichment, and his own company. Life is good when you're Jaya.
Photos: Animal Care Specialists Christa K. and Jenna G.
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This is the 3rd video I've seen by an Ontario physican complaining about the letter sent by the gov't telling them to work less hours, because the point is to break our healthcare system to make life more difficult and expensive for Canadians so private entities can profit.
this site dunks on japanese ppl a lot for stuff like this but americans whose parents gave them weekly allowances that exceed the monthly salaries of most filipino families rlly do get uppity online abt the idea of a poor child pirating something
Apparently everyone in Renaissance Florence was accusing each other of being gay all the time.
Between 1432 and 1502, this city of 40,000 persons would investigate 17,000 men for homosexuality, meaning that half or more of all men would be investigated during their life.
Since you could report anyone anonymously to the authorities by dropping a note, and the punishments for those convicted were financial fines and political disbarment, there was both a low bar and financial incentives to investigate people, plus benefits if financial or political rivals were accused.
Leonardo da Vinci was accused anonymously twice, probably due to his association with the Medici, and although cleared, bitterly complained about the Florentine justice system in his notes afterwards.
TERFs are trying to make you okay with the idea that trans men and cis men are irreconcilably different in order to make you later accept that trans women and cis women are irreconcilably different. that's why we need to fight this rhetoric every time it shows up
Can pretty vividly imagine this one as a Treehouse of Horror. Smithers yelling "confess" at Homer while Mr. Burns tries to smash his legs but can't pick up the hammer
It is still genuinely incredibly to me just how devoted so many "Gender Critical" women were - and are - to defending Russell Brand once he was accused of rape.
And for no apparent strategic reason. It's not like Brand was some big TERF campaigner.