This is a textbook example of trophic cascade, where predators influencing the behaviour of their prey species drastically influences species elsewhere on the “food chain” or trophic level.
And it’s amazing.
This is a short documentary on this subject on wolves in Yellowstone:
here’s a slightly longer one (with surprise!narrator Edward Norton):
thank you so so much for sharing this. this video is so important to me. i would sell my laptop, my house, and my sister for this duck. this video has enlightened me. i can continue living knowing such a being exists. thank you.
This is a pekin duck! I have two rouens and I would honestly never let them in the house without ducky diapers but this baby is adorable.
Also a little know fact I guess? Ducks need water to assist in swallowing or they can choke! They also need grit/rocks to digest their food, just like chickens. But unlike chickens, they need water deep enough to submerse their bills in. They put their heads under water and blow out, like a sneeze, clearing their nostrils of dust and food.
Also, you can tell if a duck is a drake (boy) if it has curly tail feathers and a soft quack 🙂
Just curious, did anybody else who had an abusive childhood absolutely ADORE stories where a girl would, like, be in an absolute SHIT situation and have to create a cozy, safe place for herself?
A Little Princess is KIND OF the thing, but also kind of isn’t, but it’s close enough. Secret Garden is A LITTLE BIT?
Mandy by Julie Andrews
Some of Scott O’Dell’s stuff, though the NATURE of the shit situation is a little different
And I know there were more of them, but those are the ones I can see clearly in my head.
A Little Princess. The Secret Garden. Anne of Green Gables. Emily of New Moon. Jane Eyre. 🙂
I think I like Mansfield Park for a similar reason, but I only read that as an adult.
From your tags, I don’t think “rags to riches” is QUITE the term I want here. Some of them fit that, yes. But the concept I’m thinking of is … creating a safe space to just BE and to be comfortable and to be yourself, a place that will shelter you from all the bullshit you’re dealing with in your life.
It’s more … okay, there’s a quote I like from Captain Awkward where they’re talking to a person who is being abused, hold on.
“
Listen: In the future, there is a small, quiet room that is just yours,
where you are safe and you are free. In that room your shoulders will
finally start to come down from around your ears. Nobody can come into
that room unless you let them. In that clean quiet place, you will work
and you will study. You will love and you will heal. I know this is
true because I am there with you. We are there together because you
saved us. You saved us because you were brave and because you never
stopped believing in that room.
“
And that’s a little closer to what I mean.
In some of the stories I’m thinking of, the protagonist goes “Okay, I need X thing. How do I make X thing?” and the story goes on to detail how she makes the thing. (Which, considering all the crafting I’ve done, is appealing.)
… See, if there was a story like this in a SF/F setting, I’d have read it until the book fell apart.
Oh crap. Apparently I have a writing idea. WTF.
Yeah, I didn’t mean rags to riches in that the riches were material wealth, more that they gained security, love, etc. Going from an emotional and spiritual wasteland and abusive void to a place where they were strong and healthy and happy. I just was trying to think of tags, and put that one on even though it wasn’t 100% what I meant, because I couldn’t think of better.
Just curious, did anybody else who had an abusive childhood absolutely ADORE stories where a girl would, like, be in an absolute SHIT situation and have to create a cozy, safe place for herself?
A Little Princess is KIND OF the thing, but also kind of isn’t, but it’s close enough. Secret Garden is A LITTLE BIT?
Mandy by Julie Andrews
Some of Scott O’Dell’s stuff, though the NATURE of the shit situation is a little different
And I know there were more of them, but those are the ones I can see clearly in my head.
A Little Princess. The Secret Garden. Anne of Green Gables. Emily of New Moon. Jane Eyre. 🙂
I think I like Mansfield Park for a similar reason, but I only read that as an adult.
Apparently, Brave New World of Toil and Trouble, the Austen fic I bemoaned not being able to put on my bookshelf two days ago… was self-published by the author in 2012. She renamed it Goodly Creatures, which is why I didn’t know about it, and I absolutely recommend buying it. Most of the negative reviews on Goodreads seem to be people thinking books should have content warnings, so, reminding people, this book contains rape and the aftermath thereof. It’s an incredibly good treatment of that, but it’s pivotal to the entire book, and there is no reading around it.
if you’re white. being,,,not straight ,,does not give you a “poc card”. i think a lot of you think it does. like being ,,not straight,,does not mean you can seperate yourself from other white people.
white people. you can reblog this. especially if you’re not straight.
I am both surprised that this is a thing, and, totally not surprised *facepalm*
I am queer, autistic and female and I TOTALLY benefit from white privilege. What I can do about it is USE this privilege to make noise and make room for people who are NOT white in any way I can. To listen to voices different to mine about what is needed, rather than thinking I know. To admit when I fuck up, because I have fucked up, and I KNOW I will again, not because I don’t care, but because my whiteness permeates every aspect of my experience. Being white doesn’t mean I’m not discriminated against for other reasons, but NONE of those reasons mean I know what it’s like to be anything other than white. I can listen, I can educate myself, I can try to empathise and open my narrow world view to try and imagine what it would be like for someone who is not white, but none of this means I KNOW. That only comes with living in a white supremacist society as a person of colour, and I can never be or experience that.
From imdb: ”During the filming of some scenes for The Princess Bride, the weather became markedly cold for Robin Wright Penn. Andre the Giant helped her by placing one of his hands over her head; his hands were so large that one would entirely cover the top of her head, keeping her warm.”
All of the behind the scenes stories about Andre the Giant were adorable like this, Apparently Wallace Shawn is deathly afraid of heights, so he was freaking out while they were doing the scene scaling the cliff and Andre was like “it is okay, I’ll keep you safe.” there’s a behind the scenes thing on the DVD and everyone is choked up and misty eyed when they talk about working with him.
Andre the Giant was a radiant human being.
I’m so glad he gets to go down in history as everyones favorite giant. What a legacy!
knitting in the dark 