Snap! This southern ground hornbill opens and closes his beak to eat a locust in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve.
PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLIE HAMILTON JAMES
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I found a bug
Idk why I'm sharing this with u but yk
Bug :3
congratulations. This is not a bug (Order Hemiptera), it is an orthopteran. Specifically, this is a member of Acrididae (a short-horned grasshopper), but I could not get you further than that. It is very beautiful! Congratulations on your locust friend.
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In 1875 a swarm of 12.5 trillion Rocky Mountain locusts covering 198,000 square miles and weighing 27.5 million tons descended upon the Great Plains, devouring all plant life in their path. Farmers that tied to shoo them away had the clothes eaten right off their bodies. [1, 2, 3]
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They are so babygirl
Please send them some love and food 。◕‿◕。
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“Stick around if you wanna find out how low these freckles go”
Pre-tadpole Locust. That line doesn’t work often but that’s why he’s in Sharess’ Caress.
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my beloved locust who kicked a stalker in the head and obliterated its pilot last night. i will love you forever
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I've been playing one iteration or another of Battletech since I was about 15. I've always had a weird love of military sci-fi, especially if it had giant robuts. I blame the BOOK Starship Troopers.
Anyway, I tell you that so I can tell you this:
I JUST found out that there are canonical space dinosaurs in Battletech. Like, ones that wreck 'mechs. So, of course I have to draw them.
THEN I FOUND OUT ABOUT THE MAJISTRACY OF CANOPUS.
Cat girls. Possibly CYBORG cat girls.
What was once a sober and relatively :hard: sci-fi setting for me has gotten weird, and I am going to make it as queer as I can. BattleTech cat girls get to be trans, have space dinosaur mounts, and blåhaj-shaped drones.
I am so excited to annoy others with this information. <3
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