The puma was captive. It was in a rather attractive cage at the Long Island Game Farm. My friend and I were admiring it and my friend asked me if they purred. Then the puma lay down as close as it could get to us and started purring.
It was wearing a nice pink collar, and I assume it had been bottle-raised by humans and probably had imprinted on humans.
Recycled poop and recycled dead stuff. It’s amazing how much of the stuff around us used to be alive at some point and I think it’s really cool that everything eventually gets recycled into other things but I’m pretty sure I’ve creeped people out by talking about it 
“You’re so full of [dinosaur/mammoth/earthworm] sh*t!”
Much of the internet’s pearl-clutching over dolphins, sea otters, and fur seals reminds me of how the guy in the Robert Scott Antarctica mission wrote about Adelie penguin activity in Greek, lest he offend gentle Edwardian readers with their “depravity.” Seems we haven’t changed much in the last 100 years!
Had a bit of a moment this weekend – while at a pond, some kids there shouted that “that toad is carrying her baby on her back!” I didn’t know that they did that!.. It turns out that they don’t, and that it’s toad mating season.
@owlshead-wren just reminded me of this: it wasn’t me that did the ruining, but one of the rhinos at the Denver Zoo sure messed up a lovely afternoon for one lady.
She was chatting (possibly flirting) with one of the guys in the historical re-enactment group that I belonged to (we were part of a zoo event), when her young son plucked at her sleeve and very alarmedly asked “Mommy, what’s wrong with that rhino’s belly?”
Let’s just say that Spring was most definitely in the air. 
I have ruined the following:
Recently informed my sister and a good friend while watching a troop of baboons on a camping trip that the reason baboons butts look like that is because they’re ovulating. They in turn informed me that they would have been perfectly happy not knowing that.
Yeah, I’m always annoyed by the usage of hawk calls for bald eagles, to signify grand, wide-open, lonely, majestic spaces.
Similarly, the use of the calls of common loons to signify remote wilderness, even when the situations and environments depicted would clearly not have loons.
The talk about bird calls in movies reminds me of my father spoiling the Tarzan movies for me when I was a kid. He pointed out that the ‘exotic’ bird calls in the soundtrack were California Quail calls. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard the call in other movies supposedly set in the jungle as well.
Apparently asking if this was a harvestman eating pasta was a silly question. Teachers could use some basic lessons in spider anatomy though…
But really, there should be. When I lived in Hawaii we heard about coconut deaths every year. And those were just the ones that made the papers, meaning it was tourists that died.
I read that in the US, chocolate can be up to 4% cockroach parts. The standards are more strict in Europe, evidently. It’s a problem because some people that think they are allergic to chocolate are actually allergic to cockroaches. I read that a long time ago, though. the percentage may have changed by now.
I’d love to see data of the actual numbers. I feel like this might be a Spiders Georg situation.
Sorry, I don’t know what a Spiders Georg situation is.
knowyourmeme enjoy 
I think he also had it locked away for awhile as well
A slowed down loon call being "what scientists figured out spinosaurus/T.rex/some other dinosaur actually sounded like is an epidemic on Instagram and Tik tok
Just the classic “wait, robins don’t migrate?”.
