miranda ★

🪬| 𝟽𝟽𝟽 | ♐︎

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Giant pandas are fertile for 24 to 36 hours per year. One day. Out of 365. And 60% of captive males won't even attempt to mate when the window opens.

Their diet is 99% bamboo despite having the digestive system of a carnivore. They extract so little nutrition from it that they eat 20 to 40 pounds per day and still barely have enough energy to reproduce. They ovulate once per spring. If fertilization happens, the embryo sometimes just... pauses. Delayed implantation can stretch gestation from 95 to 160 days for no predictable reason. They occasionally birth twins and then abandon one because they lack the caloric budget to raise both.

This species did not save itself. China did.

China built 67 nature reserves, created a $1.5 billion national park twice the size of Yellowstone, and planted over 50 hectares of bamboo forest. Zoos worldwide pay China up to $1.1 million per panda per year, with cubs costing an extra $600K. The Chengdu breeding center alone pulls 11 million visitors annually. US zoos have sent over $86 million to Chinese panda programs across two decades.

The part that makes the economics strange: the panda habitat in Sichuan's mountains shelters golden snub-nosed monkeys, snow leopards, red pandas, and takins. The bamboo forests regulate water for over half a billion people living downstream. The species the world spent billions to save was never really the point. The panda was the logo. The product was 2 million hectares of protected Chinese mountain ecosystem that would have been nearly impossible to fund without a mascot this photogenic.

Conservation's most expensive branding exercise, and it worked.

[💗 @ma1ybe]

Reminds me of when men broke the fingers of a sex robot, molested it and heavily soiled it at a tech fair.
It's not about whether the robot has feelings, it's about how these men get so excited about harming something when they know there are no consequences.

[🔞 Ari, the Queen of Dolls 💕✨🏳️‍⚧️ (PNGTuber) @MKNerd]

Yes. Men should not feel safe sexually assaulting women.

[Triiad ୭୭ @triiadxx]

For those interested, hollow points will also mark your attacker, and its permanent.

[Miley Nation @MileyNation13]

🚨 | HANNAH MONTANA DRIVING AROUND LA 👀

[ً @prinkasusa]

thinking about how in barbie land where everything is perfect for women, men still aren't suffering. they aren't in servitude, they aren't being objectified or harassed. they are just not the main characters. but in a world run by and for men, women are NEVER safe. that's the difference between feminists and misogynists. women just want to be left alone, while men don't see us as humans.

[Rue’s Last Fix @CurttiMagurtti]

because it is. yall were just eating tubs of cheesecakes last week

[🦌 @viscamari]

noah cant even be employed for a SKIT hes so over 😭

[⎈ julia ⚓︎ 🧡💙 @ca11mebiles]

. @TheAcademy act accordingly .

[mia︎ ⋆˚࿔ @cinevoidz]

Thinking abt Guillermo Del Toros house again today

[gav @itsgavv]

we’re witnessing levels of racism not seen since 1962

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

New teaser for ‘WICKED: FOR GOOD’

“Goodbye Dorothy, Goodbye Toto! It’s just that one road the whole time”

[𝑳𝑰𝑽𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑫𝑬𝑨𝑫 𝑮𝑰𝑹𝑳 🦇 @screamnhorror]

me october 1st

[𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 🌸 @hiroyukiholic]

Trump announcing that Tylenol causes autism:

[Aoife 🐝 Bee 🏳️‍⚧️ @Aoife_Bee_]

fuck it. i'm giving myself super autism

[Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz]

Melania Trump I wasn’t familiar with your game

[Perc 𒉭 @PercThaGoat]

i wish more ppl were unafraid to express themselves however they wanted. they look cool as shit