[Image: Michael Dorn, Brent Spiner, Bryan Fuller, Jeri Ryan, Scott Bakula and William Shatner stand with their arms around each other and their backs to the camera as they take a selfie at the SDCC Star Trek: Celebrating 50 Years panel.]
Nintendo Magazine System AU #7, Oct 1993 - Massive hate for Wayne’s World on the SNES. 17? Wow! Not Party Time, Not Excellent.
it absolutely blows my mind when i think of how much star trek is just straight up bad…..like three entire movies are irredeemably Bad ™, 5-10% of the episodes are Bad, so many tie-in novels are Bad, and yet i love it with my entire body and soul and would die for it
moddeydhoo asked:
koryos answered:
Don’t mind at all! (Also these aren’t my bats- they’re from at the Lubee Bat Conservancy. I only had an internship there.)
Most of the time I spent observing these bats was between 8-4 PM, so I can’t give you an accurate activity budget considering that they are least active around midday and most active at dawn and dusk. This lined up with the behavior that I saw- in the early morning and around feeding time was when the bats were most likely to be flying. The exhibits are designed as octagons so that the bats can have a curved, continuous flight path if they choose, though usually the only times I would see the bats fly extensively was when they were startled/frightened. Otherwise they would just take short flights to get away from a conspecific or just to get around the enclosure more quickly. Younger bats were more likely to spend time flying than older ones.
Overall, flights during the day were infrequent and most locomotion was achieved by crawling. But again, I wasn’t there to observe the bats during dawn, dusk, and at night.
As far as enrichment goes, the bats received different enrichment items daily, both sensory and behavioral. Scent enrichment could be paprika rubbed on wooden ‘pickup sticks’ (sticks in a basket or bucket that the bats like to lift and manipulate), while auditory enrichment could be the sound of wolf howls or an instrument like a wind chime to manipulate. Most of the time, however, their enrichment revolved around foraging behavior, such as putting fruit in a suet feeder or juice in a nectar feeder. Baby food and honey would also be smeared on astroturf or mesh wrapped around a PVC pipe. Some specialized primate puzzles, like grenade feeders, also work well with bats.
If you’re interested in reading a much more detailed description of the enrichment provided to the bats at Lubee, there is actually an entire paper on it which you can read here: Fruit Bat Enrichment at the Lubee Foundation.
Anyway, hope that answered your question! Please enjoy these bat enrichment pictures:
autoforge asked:
Oh, for srs? Back in ENT times they had to fake it?
That’s actually pretty cool.
Look! Him pants!!
who told him its ok to match neutrals
JONAH GOT PANTS! Good for you Jonah. Next week we’ll work on shoes
why are you two always so critical of his choices :(
How does that even….
Genetics are weird.
Oh, this isn’t genetics! c: Jonah had a pretty major leg surgery a few months back—a FHO, or femoral head ostectomy.
For a while, he looked like this:
Now his pants are coming in nicely!
(unless u mean his coat pattern. That’s all genetics.)
OHHH, I see it now!
For a minute I thought he just had fur that changed color/pattern right on his hindquarters. Buh, I have no brain.
Poor baby, I hope he gets well soon!
‘no brain’, NO WAY.
Comments like yours are legit some of my favorite because I get to talk about COOL COAT PATTERNS IN CATS. There are cases where shaving a cat has resulted in a drastic coat pattern change.
SAY HELLO TO QUATTRO
Before he was shaved, his fur was pretty typical siamese: all creamy with just his legs, face, and tail dark. But now his whole flank is dark.
Why?
Because Siamese points are actually a result of temperature-dependent albinism! :D Also known as
acromelanism, this is a neat little mutation in which a specific enzyme (tyrosinase, which is responsible for melanin production) stops functioning at a normal body temperature, but will function when it gets cooler. So in cool zones on a cat’s body (face, ears, tail, feets), melanin production is normal. The warm zones develop in a lovely cream.
Since his butt is cold, it has normal melanin production. Once it gets all fuzzy and starts a typical shed pattern, it’ll come in cream eventually. Until then, he’ll have weird pants.
Genetics are weird and AWESOME.
It got even better
Wait so what about the first cat? We’re his pants always that different to his jacket or are his new pants different to his old ones??
Jonah’s pants are just slow growing. His pants look different bc they’re still growing in.
What a beautiful post
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