The library at Mafra National Palace in Portugal. Where, to keep books from being damaged by insects, they uses 500 bats! The bats are kept in boxes during the day but at night they are let out and eat up to double their own body weight in insects. (Info taken from this article at bookwire. Thanks to amygarvey for telling me about it!)
I think I need to go there. Do you think they’d notice if I moved in?
Dr. George Murray Levick R.N. signed up for a trip to Antarctica to see some adorable Adélie penguins, staying for so long that he and his shipmates became the first people to see the entire breeding cycle of the species. Being a good Edwardian Englishman/zoologist, he returned to publish a scientific paper titled Natural History of the Adelie Penguin. Just your regular, old-timey observations-style paper; social habits, hunting, what have you. Good, normal stuff.
“The account, based upon Levick’s detailed field observations at Cape Adare (71°18′S, 170°09′E) during the course of the British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition 1910, commented on frequency of sexual activity, autoerotic behaviour, and seemingly aberrant behaviour of young unpaired males and females including necrophilia, sexual coercion, sexual and physical abuse of chicks, non-procreative sex and homosexual behaviour.”
Nearly 100 years later, a copy of these notes was found hidden in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Tring, England. In that time, all of these behaviors (and more, undoubtedly) were confirmed to be common among young adult Adélies with little experience in interpreting breeding cues. Levick may never have been the same again, but he sure was good at science.
this is the paper where the phrase “hooligan cocks” came from and honestly the world is better for it
As a transgender man who is going to be having a baby, I am so glad that by technicality my child will be able to fulfil the prophecy and defeat Macbeth.
To be on the safe side, get a C-section? Macbeth really needs defeating.
Ironically I do have to have a C-section due to a hip problem I have. So it’s double accurate.
I like how this post implies that Macbeth is still out there, most likely terrorizing people, and no one has been able to stop him