Taiga, 10 months old. 63 cm, 34 kg (25 in, 75 lbs). Much winter coat.

Lights are on, but no one's home

Aardwolf (Proteles cristata)

Photo by Андрей Коткин / Andrej Kotkin

All the kids being so extra during the Chūnin exams and the procters are just like “what the fuck”

Slender-scaped carpenter bee, Xylocopa tenuiscapa, Apidae. Found in South and Southeast Asia.

The common name “carpenter bee” derives from their nesting behavior; nearly all species burrow into hard plant material such as dead wood or bamboo. The bees do not eat the wood, but discard it or use it to build partitions between nest cells where eggs are laid. Burrows are filled with masses of pollen on which the larvae will feed.

Although most carpenter bees are solitary, some species form simple social nests where mothers and daughters cohabit and divide up labor responsibilities.

Photos 1-2 by chiefredearth, 3 by dannym77, 4 by pjeganathan, 5-6 by licht_und_bild, 7-8 by pradeep_hewage, 9 by maheshmatthew, and 10 by avi_chat

Red Paper Lantern Medusa

Pandea rubra

The Red Paper Lantern resembles a floating, Japanese paper lantern in the deep sea. It has the ability to crumple and wrinkle its bright, red bell, and it is located at depths between 550m to 1200m. It has also been nicknamed the “origami jelly.”

Photo credit:  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pandea_rubra

http://www.thegorgeousdaily.com/pandea-rubra/

Two mysterious comments left on Brian Eno’s Dune theme

Like most people don’t like to admit this, but one of the reasons a lot of us have so many mental health issues is because we live in a world that has basically become untenable. People can’t afford basic necessities, let alone to cultivate their interests or take breaks and rest or do any of the things necessary for good mental health. People my age are wracked with debt, working at jobs they hate or studying topics they hate, living in a shitty apartment with five roommates. We live in a world that’s very hard to be healthy in. So while yeah, a lot of people obviously do have mental illnesses that would need medication no matter what, they are greatly exacerbated by these issues, and a lot of people have basically just been thrust into an eternal situational depression. So if that doesn’t change, medication is just a band-aid. 

DICK SLUTSKY?

Robert de Niro in heat and I’m not apologising

i forgot heat was the name of a movie and i had my finger on the block button

(via)

by Ludwig Jungnickel

they’re gonna charge 60 dollars for this

Semioptila Trogoloba

Family: Himantopteridae

First Described: 1920 by Hampson

Found in: Malawi and Mozambique