Mentally I Am Living In A Cabin In The Middle Of Nowhere In The Woods Of Oregon And It’s Foggy And

Took these from my shit posting TikTok, maybe they'll be better appreciated here

Ottoman yataghan from the Court of Suleyman the Magnificent, 16th c, workshop of Ahmed Tekelü (possibly Iranian, active Istanbul, ca. 1520–30), steel, walrus ivory, gold, silver, rubies, turquoise, pearls, gold incrustation on the blade depicts combat between a dragon and a phoenix, gold-inlaid cloud bands the ivory grips.

I Will Wait For You At The Challenger Deep

i think the coolest thing would be to see a new color

Things going well is pretty nice and all but by god does it decimate your excuses. You'll be sleepy at work and be like "by god, I'm not even besieged by the horrors currently. I just need to go to bed earlier."

This week on #Fat Bear Friday, she may not be the chonkiest but Bear 399 has beat all the odds and all 4 of her children are all ready to set out on their own next spring it looks like.

More pics here

Coyote fact ? Coyote facts ? A crumb ? Plwease ? Coyote ?

coyotes are naturally social animals, but their pack structure is a LOT looser than wolf packs are and so it's not at all unusual to see a coyote living and hunting alone!

but what IS unusual is that these lone coyotes will sometimes partner up with other animals for hunts who are... definitely not coyotes.

not even canines, in fact!

yeah that's right, sometimes a coyote will straight up find a fucking american badger and decide, HEYYO, it's the Burt to my Ernie! the Frog to my Toad! the Jelly to my crunchy-style Peanut Butter! let's go kill something together, new best friend.

and then they do.

the way it works is that the odd couple will find a group of burrowing prey animals, like ground squirrels or prairie dogs, and start digging them out of their holes.

the prey is confounded- if they break out of their holes and flee, the coyote will use its superior speed to run them down, but if they stay put, the badger is just going to pry them up out of the damp earth and eat them anyway!

WHAT'S A POOR GROUND SQUIRREL TO DO.

nothing. they just get eaten. badger/coyote duos are FAR more effective hunters than either animal could hope to be on its own.