#penguin
A little Zoro from the 14° ending, I thought it was funny.
Some bird studies from this week: Hooded crow (Corvus cornix), Greylag goose (Anser anser), Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae)
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La mastrioska del giorno: Bat-Matrioska.
THIS FRIDAY! Join us for the return of IDIOT BOX, one of G1988′s most memorable shows, where we celebrate the medium of television during what is arguably it’s greatest era. Check out this Andy Stattmiller doll set! All hand painted and INCREDIBLE. This and more THIS FRIDAY at 7308 Melrose Ave, from 7-10 PM. SEE YOU THERE, SAME BAT CHANNEL.
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How peckish penguins find their food
Animals have used the same technique to search for food that’s in short supply for at least 50 million years, a BBSRC-funded study suggests.
Creatures including penguins search for food using a mathematical pattern of movement called a Lévy walk. It might sound complex, but it is a random search strategy made up of small steps and a few larger steps. Although a Lévy walk is random, it’s the most efficient way to find food when it’s scarce.
Finding food in a timely fashion could be a matter of life or death. Choose the wrong direction and it could be curtains. But moving in a random search pattern is mathematically the best way to find isolated food.
Image credit: Christopher Michel
Stay tuned for more (biological) festivities…
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Penguin leaps to safety as ice breaks | source
Day 29: Penguin.
Suggested by someone on instagram ! That was a fun one to draw!
He’s so unimaginably cute.
(viaRichardSidey)
started watching gotham
AZAR ON FIRE
by Olivia Abtahi
Nancy Paulsen Books | Aug 23 | 9780593109458
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Fourteen-year-old Azar Rossi’s first year of high school has mostly been silent, and intentionally so. After a bad case of colic as a baby, Azar’s vocal folds are shredded—full of nodules that give her a rasp the envy of a chain-smoking bullfrog. Her classmates might just think she’s quiet, but Azar is saving her voice for when it really counts and talking to her classmates is not medically advisable or even high on her list.
When she hears about a local Battle of the Bands contest, it’s something she can’t resist. Azar loves music, loves songwriting, but with her vocal folds the way they are, there’s no way she can sing her songs on stage.
Then she hears lacrosse hottie, Ebenezer Lloyd Hollins the Fifth, aka Eben, singing from the locker room. She’s transfixed. He’s just the person she needs. His voice + her lyrics = Battle of the Bands magic. But getting a band together means Azar has a lot of talking to do and new friends to make. For the chance to stand on stage with Eben it might all just be worth it.
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THE WOLVES ARE WATCHING
by Natalie Lund
Viking | Oct 4 | 9780593351093
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The night little Madison disappears from her crib, Luce sees a pair of eyes–two points of gold deep in the forest behind her house–and feels certain they belong to a wolf. Her town, Picnic, Illinois, is the kind of place where everyone knows one another and no one locks their doors. It’s notthe kind of place where a toddler goes missing without a trace, where wolves lurk in the shadows.
In town, people are quick to blame Madison’s mom. But when Luce’s English teacher shares an original script about the disappearance of another little girl in Picnic back in 1870, Luce begins to notice similarities that she can’t ignore. Certain that something deeper is going on, Luce tracks the wolf she saw into the woods and uncovers the truth about her town: magical animal-women, who have remained hidden in shadows for centuries, have taken her cousin for their own purposes–and they have no intention of bringing her back.
A chilling mystery that weaves elements of magical realism, drama, and folklore into a story of one teen’s bravery as she confronts her town’s past and tries to save the future.
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Amigurumi Baby Penguin designed and crocheted by me :)
