- me: i like that
- me: *looks at price tag*
- me: i don't like that anymore
K but I literally can’t clean my fucking floors without my neighbour complaining about scented products. Too bad, get a nose plug and an allergy pill cuz I’m entirely over it. My apartment smells like a fresh mountain breeze and it will continue to for the rest of the day. DEAL WITH IT.
when you are so desperate you go to the second page of google results
Yo.
(Source: cnnbreakingofficial)
Primate Hibernation More Common Than Previously Thought
Previously, the only primate thought to hibernate was the western fat-tailed dwarf lemur. But in a new study, out of Duke University, suggests that Crossley’s dwarf lemur and Sibree’s dwarf lemur also burrow into the ground and spend three to seven months hibernating.
Article excerpt:
“Exactly what triggers hibernation is still an open question,” said lead author Marina Blanco a postdoctoral researcher at the Duke Lemur Center.
Unlike animals such as bears and ground squirrels, which hibernate to survive the cold, western dwarf lemurs hibernate to survive during western Madagascar’s long dry season — a time when temperatures top 85 degrees, trees drop their leaves and food and water are in short supply.
To find out more, Blanco and her colleagues trapped and fitted the squirrel-sized animals with temperature-sensitive radio collars before the start of the hibernation season, allowing them to find the lemurs’ underground burrows and monitor their body temperature once hibernation began.“To the casual observer, it looks for all the world as if the animals are dead. Their bodies are cold, they are utterly still and they take a breath only once every several minutes or so,” said co-author Anne Yoder, director of the Duke Lemur Center.
Western dwarf lemurs hibernate in drafty tree holes, where their body temperature fluctuates by as much as 20 degrees with the outside air. But the researchers found that eastern dwarf lemurs keep their body temperatures more constant in cozy underground burrows.
Photo: Eastern dwarf lemur hibernating in its underground burrow in Madagascar. (Credit: Image courtesy of Duke University) and Mary Bates
Journal Reference: Marina B. Blanco, Kathrin H. Dausmann, Jean F. Ranaivoarisoa, Anne D. Yoder. Underground hibernation in a primate. Scientific Reports, 2013; 3 DOI:10.1038/srep01768
I wish there were more characters and real life teachers like Ms. Grotekey
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“you shouldn’t be depressed, people have it worse than you”
finally, after years of searching, the person with the worst life ever is found. formally, they are granted permission to be sad. but only them. only they have earned it. no sads for anyone else at all ever
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A SPIDER JUST CRAWLED ON ME. IN MY BED.
