i cant stop saying "grisp it"
Not to critique evolution, but I would think orange and black stripes wouldn’t be as good for camouflage in a forest as, say, green and black would.
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ALTI FINALLY IMPRESSED A GIRL
It turns out a lot of animals can’t see the difference between orange and green! Elephants, for instance, have dichromatic vision (two types of cones, rather than three like most humans.)
Check out this diagram from ResearchGate. It deals with the color vision of horses, who are also generally dichromatic. (I think, though I’m not sure, that zebras would have the same color vision as horses.) See how orange and green look to them?
Not to critique evolution but I think prey animals should be better at telling when their predator is dressed like a traffic cone.
It doesn’t matter what zebras see, because tigers are not native to Africa and do not naturally hunt zebra. Tigers are Asian and mostly hunt animals like deer, elk, and buffalo. These aren’t animals with great color vision. They don’t need to have it because they don’t eat fruit and so don’t need to know when the berry is ripe vs when it’s not. Good color vision is too expensive to have if you don’t need it. Deer put their vision stats in a wide field of vision that is sensitive to motion, low light capabilities, and possibly seeing UV light. They don’t have great color and lack a lot of acuity, but have a great sense of smell and good hearing. That’s way more useful if you’re prey. Deer see well in the blue end of the color spectrum and less well in the red. This makes sense because deer are most active in the dawn and dusk periods, when there is more blue in the light. Tigers are taking advantage of deer eyesight by being orange.
We see tigers are being obviously colored because tigers are fruit colored to our tree ape brains.
I don’t know what the best part of this is: implying that deer chose their attributes on a character sheet, or the fact that we get to see tiger colors because they look like a snack.
Ok but like, I think you underestimate just how well they blend in when actually in the environment. Like, just using tigers as an example.
or how about a leopard?
It’s called ‘disruptive colouration’ because the markings help to break up the animal’s outline against the grasses or rocks. And the rosettes on leopards and jaguars? Sun spots shining through the trees and leaves on the ground.
And this is how hard it is to spot them WITH colour vision. Now imagine the above images but with the limited coloured mentioned above?
I’m sorry but there is not an animal in that first leopard picture
Are you, sure about that?
How Not To Be Seen meets How Not To Be Lunch.
Let's all run outside and start yelling and screaming and see if we can get people to panic. If everyone did this it would make a big difference
Nobody gaf about your eggs if you dont lay an egg with a dope pattern
OP: Today is the Qixi Festival七夕(Begging‑for‑Ingenuity Festival). Everyone’s doing the floating‑needle Ingenuity Test. My needle just keeps sinking to the bottom and won’t float. Is Zhinü (the goddess of weaving) telling me I’ve failed?
Chinese netizens: We’ve got to get this needle to float today.
Qixi七夕 is a traditional festival celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month in Chinese calendar. It is often translated as Chinese Valentine’s Day in English because most people are familiar with the tale of Zhinü (the heavenly weaving maiden) and her husband Niulang reuniting. In reality, however, Qixi has little to do with romantic love. At its core lies the Qiqiao乞巧, or prayer‑for‑ingenuity custom. It was more like a festival for women and girls to make wishes, pray for ingenuity, and gather with their friends.
Today, a popular activity for Qixi is this little test rooted in ancient custom: getting a needle to float on water while making wishes to Zhinü. People usually wish for deft hands, enduring passion, inspiration and creativity. Naturally, any other wishes work too. You count it as a success as long as the needle stays afloat. Even though the traditional rules were far stricter, nobody really sticks to them these days.
In old China, the games' standars are high. Vega‑the Weaving Maiden Star‑was revered as the goddess in charge of weaving and craftsmanship. Women prayed to her for deft hands and sharp wits. Records dating back to the Han Dynasty in Miscellaneous Records of the Western Capital (circa 200 CE) describe court ladies gathering under moonlight to compete in threading needles. The event served as both a contest of needlework skills and a blessing ritual.
From this tradition came the floating‑needle ingenuity test(投针验巧tou zhen yan qiao), a classic divination custom. The traditional procedure goes as follows:
- On the night before the festival, people place a bowl of clean water outdoors in the courtyard to collect dew and moonlight.
- By noon on Qixi Day, after sitting undisturbed overnight, an extremely thin film forms on the water’s surface under sunlight.
- Fine sewing or embroidery needles are laid gently flat onto the water. Supported by water’s surface tension, the needles float.
- Sunlight casts the shadow of the needles onto the bottom of the bowl.
Fortune‑telling through the needle shadows (the ingenuity test):
‑ If the shadow bends and takes shapes of flowers, birds, beasts, dragons, phoenixes or auspicious clouds, it is called “gaining ingenuity”. This foretells that the young woman is clever, quick‑fingered and highly skilled at needlework.
‑ If the shadow appears thick, straight and stick‑like, short and coarse, she “fails to gain ingenuity”, meaning her handiwork is clumsy.
‑ A shadow shaped like scissors foretells talent for tailoring and embroidery.
But here’s the general attitude among Chinese netizens these days: “Times have changed. If the needle floats, you win. Forget all their nit‑picky rules. My fate is up to me, not Heaven. I AM THE DESTINY(我命由我不由天)(in Ne Zha’s voice)”. This line comes from the 2019 film Ne Zha: Birth of the Demon Child.
Cnetizens also say a forcibly plucked melon can still be sweet. This saying originates from the traditional idiom “A melon forced off the vine is never sweet”, which originally means forced efforts will lead to no good outcome. This line is a playful twist on it, implying a relationship obtained against all odds can still turn out wonderful. In this context, it simply means anything goes as long as it floats. So nowadays, it counts as a success as long as the needle floats on the water, since people say traditions should evolve with the times. These days, many see Zhinü (the Weaving Lady) as their creative muse. (cr 落秋颐手作，科普阿连)
These are floating‑needle ingenuity test moments shared by Chinese netizens.
One person’s needle cast a shadow shaped like a scalpel, and others commented that she would surely make a great surgeon. Others produced shadows resembling bamboo leaves and squares. (cr美乐蒂大王)
something I really enjoy is that I've now seen like 4 or 5 variations of roughly this same video, all slightly different in their angles and timing while obviously being the exact same bunny and room, implying that this is a consistent and frequent behavior for this bunny instead of just a funny thing it did once that got caught on camera. I wish I could have as much raw unfiltered enthusiasm for anything as this little rabbit has for its dinnertime
why can rockstar games institutionalise you for life like nikita kruschev for being autistic
He didn't steal 10 million dollars. They made that number up as a loss, they never fucking had it. Rockstar has spent more than a billion fucking dollars on GTA VI and will likely make billions more when it gets released.
Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.
Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.
And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?
Capitalism is disgusting.
Nobody should buy GTA til they free Arion Kurtaj
What with GTA VI going up for pre-order i'd just like to remind everyone that rockstar conspired with the UK government to lock an 18-year-old away for life for hacking them.