B atriz

gente fina, mas não de corpo

[B atriz @itsaramirez]

ꙄᗡAƎЯHT

[helena @moornning]

se tivessem seguindo fielmente o tamanho dos dragões dos livros a syrax era pra tá assim com 33 anos de idade

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.

An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.

The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.

In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.

Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.

In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.

I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

[Tracklist @tracklist]

O Justin Bieber abrindo o YouTube durante o Coachella, e a Katy Perry simplesmente:

“Graças a Deus ele tem o Premium, eu não quero ver nenhum anúncio.” 🗣️ https://t.co/zXcAMMrnsw

[Sérgio Santos @ZAMENZA]

A plenitude do castor cortando a unha, enquanto seu colega se horroriza a cada barulho do corte.

[Latido Terrestre @NaturPictures]

Cara a cara con una leyenda. 🦈🌊 Estas imágenes captan a "Deep Blue", el gran tiburón blanco más grande jamás registrado, nadando con una paz que impone respeto.

[robert @robertxyo]

isso foi muito h2o meninas sereias da parte dela

[augusto @augustoofwar]

até hoje tento entender porque fiquei em estado profundo de luto por uma semana por causa de um bicho que nem existe feito de cgi.

[best of callie torres @bestofcaIIiope]

callie torres after a blonde left her in an airport:

[Thrones Updates @ThronesUpdates]

This scene always makes me laugh 😂

[rhaenyra targaryen's lawyer @Targ_Nation]

the contrast between aegon's coronation being so over the top and grandious but ultimately fake and unsincere, while rhaenyra's was intimate and spontaneous but actually geniune. everyone kneeling for her actually believes in her cause. the show cooked

[Canal do Negão @CanaldoNegaoo]

Imagina só você num lugar frio da gota serena e do nada surge um animal que hollywood ensinou que é fofinho e ele te olha desse jeito.
Meu amigo não passa nem wi-fi

[B atriz @itsaramirez]

Vou pra Abrolhos em AGOSTO pra tentar a sorte de ver jubartes e não tô aguentando, se isso acontece comigo eu explodo

[Carolina Vitoria @Chefcarolinavi1]

Imagina você na Ilha Bela, no litoral paulista dar de cara com uma ORCA?
Que coisa mais linda!

[Come with me @RhaenicentLove]

Same brain.

[mauro henri @xtinohenri]

isso aqui é como protagonizar game of thrones por alguns minutos

[CHESTER @Chestolooo]

The Tywin and Arya scenes at Harrenhal are pure gold.

Seeing the deadliest man in Westeros unknowingly mentor a Stark right at his own table is the ultimate high-stakes chess match.

​Their talk about history and legacy proved Arya was his intellectual equal long before she even became an ass@ssin.

It’s easily the best change the show ever made, hiding a wolf in plain sight while Tywin finally found a child worth his time.

#GameofThrones S2 E8

[sasha @lobotoshasa]

MANO KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

[𝑴𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒙 @mirexmoses]

"Ned Don't go to South "

"Bran, no more climbing"

"Never trust a Greyjoy"

"Robb don't marry that foreign girl and treat your oaths recklessly, or your people will do the same"

House Starks would not suffer that much if they listened to Catelyn stark ❤️🥲

[Fiscal do Fim dos Tempos @fiscaldofim]

Welcome to Brazil Games 🇧🇷

[rulji @jjmileo]

big fan of this genre of behind the scenes pics

[ashley 🍀 @ashireei]

Egg meeting Rhaenyra and Jacaerys
#AKOTSK #HOTD