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thechaoticrow · 1 year

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SHADOW AND BONE SEASON 2 RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCEMENT TOMORROW!!!! I AM GOING TO BE SO UNHINGED TOMORROW YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

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shadowandbonecentral · 1 year

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JESPER FAHEY & WYLAN VAN ECK Shadow and Bone, 'Rusalye'.

#shadow and bone #sabedit #shadowandboneedit #six of crows #socedit #wesper #wesperedit #jesper fahey #jesperfaheyedit #wylan van eck #wylanvaneckedit #shadowandbonesource #socdaily #gif #show #s2 #sab spoilers #ours #by becca

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shadowandbone · 1 year

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THE CROWS IN SEASON 2, SHADOW AND BONE

#shadow and bone #sabedit #shadowandboneedit #socedit #six of crows #inej ghafa #kaz brekker #nina zenik #wylan ven eck #jesper fahey #the crows #ours #by day #S2 #gifs

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crowsdaily · 1 year

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#he got promoted

#wylan van eck #wylan #wylanvaneckedit #shadow and bone #sab #six of crows #soc #shadowandbonedit #sabedit #socedit #socdaily #shadowandbonecentral #shadowandbonesource #gifs #*gifs #ours #by oli

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ravenyenn19 · 3 months

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Inej after moving into the Slat & deciding to take up stitching like her mother: Maybe I’ll make something for the Dregs! Make this place more cozy. Something we can all appreciate!

Inej, hanging this in the entryway:

Kaz: ok fine it stays

#kanej #kaz brekker #shadow and bone #inej ghafa #grishaverse #crooked kingdom #dealing with our demons #kaz x inej #six of crows #leigh bardugo #dwod #the dregs

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wylanslcve · 11 months

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This genre of Freddy Carter smiling like a proud little kid after filming the most gut-wrenching scenes in the entire show.

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thethiefandtheairbender · 1 year

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like idk man i’m all for found family but as an adult with friends who have moved to different parts of the world, stories that ‘separate’ the found family at the end and say “it is the impact, not the proximity, that determines your importance to me” will always hit harder and be more emotional than “you get older and unrealistically see all your best friends every day always”

#dragons rambles #amphibia #six of crows #httyd3 #how to train your dragon #like both are good. and i appreciate both #but there's something about the Former that just hits #cause like. we all say goodbye Eventually. even if it's all the way at the end of our lives

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movie-gifs · 11 months

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THE NICE GUYS (2016) dir. Shane Black

#ours #kumi #2010s #the nice guys #shane black #russell crowe #ryan gosling #filmedit #comedyedit #filmgifs #userteri #useranimusvox

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skyreadbooks · 1 year

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The feminine urge to live in my favorite books is insane.

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glowsticcc · 23 days

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it’s my sons birthday today tell him happy birthday or i’ll blow up this entire building

#qsmp #art #digital art #qsmp fanart #qsmp chayanne #chayanne the egg #MY SPECIALIST BOY IN THE WHOLE WORLD #MY BABYY #love how phil’s like ‘chayanne doesn’t really care about his birthday’#and all the crows are like ‘we need to throw our baby boy a birthday party our perfect angel boy’

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userblorbo · 7 months

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BRANDON LEE as ERIC DRAVEN THE CROW (1994) dir. Alex Proyas

#eric draven #the crow #film #thecrowedit #filmedit #horroredit #societyclub #userscary #userangelic #userallisyn #userspacey #kwistowee #usergiles #tuserlou #useravalone #userlaro #userraffa #*ours #by kai

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reasonsforhope · 7 months

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Humans are so cute. They think they can outsmart birds. They place nasty metal spikes on rooftops and ledges to prevent birds from nesting there.

It’s a classic human trick known in urban design as “evil architecture”: designing a place in a way that’s meant to deter others. Think of the city benches you see segmented by bars to stop homeless people sleeping there.

But birds are genius rebels. Not only are they undeterred by evil architecture, they actually use it to their advantage, according to a new Dutch study published in the journal Deinsea.

Crows and magpies, it turns out, are learning to rip strips of anti-bird spikes off of buildings and use them to build their nests. It’s an incredible addition to the growing body of evidence about the intelligence of birds, so wrongly maligned as stupid that “bird-brained” is still commonly used as an insult...

Magpies also use anti-bird spikes for their nests. In 2021, a hospital patient in Antwerp, Belgium, looked out the window and noticed a huge magpie’s nest in a tree in the courtyard. Biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra of Leiden-based Naturalis Biodiversity Center, one of the study’s authors, went to collect the nest and found that it was made out of 50 meters of anti-bird strips, containing no fewer than 1,500 metal spikes.

Hiemstra describes the magpie nest as “an impregnable fortress.”

Pictured: A huge magpie nest made out of 1,500 metal spikes.

Magpies are known to build roofs over their nests to prevent other birds from stealing their eggs and young. Usually, they scrounge around in nature for thorny plants or spiky branches to form the roof. But city birds don’t need to search for the perfect branch — they can just use the anti-bird spikes that humans have so kindly put at their disposal.

“The magpies appear to be using the pins exactly the same way we do: to keep other birds away from their nest,” Hiemstra said.

Another urban magpie nest, this one from Scotland, really shows off the roof-building tactic:

Pictured: A nest from Scotland shows how urban magpies are using anti-bird spikes to construct a roof meant to protect their young and eggs from predators.

Birds had already been spotted using upward-pointing anti-bird spikes as foundations for nests. In 2016, the so-called Parkdale Pigeon became Twitter-famous for refusing to give up when humans removed her first nest and installed spikes on her chosen nesting site, the top of an LCD monitor on a subway platform in Melbourne. The avian architect rebelled and built an even better home there, using the spikes as a foundation to hold her nest more securely in place.

...Hiemstra’s study is the first to show that birds, adapting to city life, are learning to seek out and use our anti-bird spikes as their nesting material. Pretty badass, right?

The genius of birds — and other animals we underestimate

It’s a well-established fact that many bird species are highly intelligent. Members of the corvid family, which includes crows and magpies, are especially renowned for their smarts. Crows can solve complex puzzles, while magpies can pass the “mirror test” — the classic test that scientists use to determine if a species is self-aware.

Studies show that some birds have evolved cognitive skills similar to our own: They have amazing memories, remembering for months the thousands of different hiding places where they’ve stashed seeds, and they use their own experiences to predict the behavior of other birds, suggesting they’ve got some theory of mind.

And, as author Jennifer Ackerman details in The Genius of Birds, birds are brilliant at using tools. Black palm cockatoos use twigs as drumsticks, tapping out a beat on a tree trunk to get a female’s attention. Jays use sticks as spears to attack other birds...

Birds have also been known to use human tools to their advantage. When carrion crows want to crack a walnut, for example, they position the nut on a busy road, wait for a passing car to crush the shell, then swoop down to collect the nut and eat it. This behavior has been recorded several times in Japanese crows.

But what’s unique about Hiemstra’s study is that it shows birds using human tools, specifically designed to thwart birds’ plans, in order to thwart our plans instead. We humans try to keep birds away with spikes, and the birds — ingenious rebels that they are — retort: Thanks, humans!

-via Vox, July 26, 2023