sonic06apologist:

waluigf:

sonic06apologist:

What do you think the doge dog is doing right now

this picture was posted of her yesterday 

thank you for this

blurds:

falseredstart:

falseredstart:

This is a crested auklet (Aethia cristatella). Like many seabirds, they are socially monogamous, which means they spend an awful lot of time with their mate. And boy, do they dedicate a lot of time to attracting and keeping that mate!

Like many other birds, they squawk and show off their beautiful voices.

Like many other birds, they display their fancy ornaments.

But what sets crested auklets apart from all the other birds?

THEY SMELL LIKE ORANGES.

You heard that right! Crested auklets are one of the only bird species that use olfactory signaling during the breeding season. Both males and females give off a distinctly citrusy odor during the breeding season, and perform a distinct courtship display (called the ruff-sniff) when one bird shoves its face into the other’s feathers.

The closely-related whiskered auklet also smells like oranges.

IMPORTANT BIRD ANNOUNCEMENT UPDATE!!!!!!!!

DURING COURTSHIP THE AUKLETS WILL SPREAD THEIR CITRUSY ODOR ON EACH OTHER

IT’S CALLED ALLOANOINTING

It has been my long-avowed ambition to huff an auklet and now I know how

customerservicebotdolores:

customerservicebotdolores:

concept: machiavelli as a lemony snicket style narrator of a show about the renaissance

“cesare was vexed, a word which here means ‘preparing to have his sister’s second husband murdered at the earliest opportunity’.”