I took a bit of creative and stylistic liberties with the coloration of these foxes and the arctic fox is in shades of grey instead of the more well known uniformly white winter coat because this one is modeled after their summer coat. I did try making it all white but it looked more like I had just painted only one of the earrings.
I didnt ask it about amphibians, writing or any extinct species at all. I was trying to see if a name that I wanted to use for a work of fiction wasnt already in use and if said name would make sense in the context that I wanted to use it in.
I can mimic sounds and voices almost perfectly after hearing them a couple of times. Although as a kid i mostly just did do that to troll people, it did prove useful exactly once when me and a bunch of people i was with were at a forest edge and were gonna get attacked by a troop of monkeys so I barked to scare them off (they often had dogs patrolling that area that the monkeys were afraid of) The monkeys ran away but it was equal parts funny and embarassing to have to explain to these people I barely knew what that even was since I had never told them that i could do that
Yup. I didnt expect it either, its like it searched upto a certain point to gather info but couldnt find anything conclusive so made up the closest thing to what it found and called it a day. It does bullshit, but it does so very well.
How do I leave a 50/50 downvote and upvote for this lol. The downvote is for that banger of an opening sentence and the upvote is in agreement to those kinds of public speakers being annoying.
"What I think she was trying to say is that- 🤓☝️" Stop trying to put words in my mouth or speak on my behalf when I am right here to put my point across to everyone.
That followed by those public event speakers that brush off the first round of goodmornings and then say "SAy iT lOuDeR! wHeRes yOuR eNeRgY! DIdNt yOu aLl eAt bReAkfAst?! 🤪" Idk what it is about hearing this sentence early in the morning that inspires so much hatred in me. You could have the most riveting, inspiring and thought provoking presentation in the world and have done lots of commendable deeds but if that string of words exits mouth before showing all of it, I automatically dislike you and whatever you have to say next.
Same. I just quit trying to correct them after a point.
Yes that is true and thanks for pointing it out. If Im being honest here I wasnt even sure if Batrapeton was a valid name and the reason I was searching it up was to make a blatantly amphibian coded name that also wasnt already a real creature that someone had already named and described otherwise I would have to go look for a different name but every name I could come up with seemed to already be taken and described by someone or the other so I decided to google it just in case and saw that there was nothing on them chatgpt had just made that up. I wish AI had a thing in which it could inform the user that "this is what it would possibly be but it doesnt actually exist" instead of just guessing like that.
This is a feather I found today of a dusky crag martin (I know this because I watched it get shed by one) and just wanted to talk on something cool about feathers in general and how they can be used to know more about the state of the bird that they came from.
Growth bars are faint lines and barrings which form over the normal growth of feather growth, typically forming every 24 hours as the feather grows, these bars show light bands and dark bands. The dark bars are from feather materials created during the day and the light bars during the night. And each light and dark bar corresponds to a 24 hour period of growth, so scientists can actually use growth bars to calculate how much time is needed to replace all of the feathers on a bird's body in some pretty useful ways. For instance, when all the growth bars on all feathers of a bird seem to be in line pretty uniformly, that usually means that all the feathers were replaced at the same time, which usually only happens during the first set of plumage (which means that the bird is still pretty young even if it sports adult plumage) so you can also also get clues about how old the bird may be from its growth bars.
But age and growth arent the only things you can get from looking at these growth bars, but also the birds overall state of heath. The growth bands being regular means that the bird was living good and that availability of the diet wasnt really an issue for it. But on the other hand a bird going through tough times will have irregular growth bars as well the apperance of fault bars on their feathers.
When a bird is subject to stressors such as a period of poor nutrition from a lack of sufficient food resources, illness, psychological stressors or due to sudden muscle contractions in the feather follicle (like a fright molt to distract and escape predators) its body diverts the protein, energy, and micronutrients required for synthesising keratin and developing feathers properly towards its vital systems and organs instead leading to the feather barbules not developing right and instead appearing as narrow transluscent bars of missing barbules in the feathers. These "defects" in the feather called fault bars and can prove helpful in understanding the life history of the certain bird that they came from.
In life in general honestly. But honestly overworking is far more likely to burn me out rather than actually achieve anything groundbreaking so Id rather just work within my limits and only as much as im required to do at any given time instead of trying to strive for anything far too good that I will probably never even reach.
Very. I dont just use em dashes but also tend to write in a way that gets mistaken for AI a bit too much for my liking. In the worst of cases, I have watched AI detection softwares flag my assignments as "high likelihood of being AI generated" despite me not even having used AI for them. Before Chatgpt was mainstream, professors thought that my writing sounded well versed, elonquent and professional, now I just get slapped with an accusation of using AI when I actually didnt.
Authenticity, depth and integrity. Someone who isnt performative to please me and who I dont have to perform to please either. They wont force me into a role or idolize me yet we should still be able to like and appreciate each other as people of our own. Plus someone who I genuinely find physically attractive because I rarely find men who are attractive to me by my standards so until I find someone like that I dont even wanna try dating.
Just your daily reminder to not trust or at the very least, fact check whatever chatgpt spews out because not only does it blatantly lie, but it also makes stuff way more than youd want to believe.
(btw batrapeton doesnt exist and is a fictional genus of jurassic amphibians that I made up for a story that I am writing. They never existed in any way shape or form and neither is there any trace of info about them online yet here we are with chatgpt going "trust me bro" about them lol)
(P.S never attempt to handle a bat with bare hands, especially one that is grounded, active during the daytime or found in unusual places. The risk of rabies is a thing with these animals, so if you do find one, contact the nearest wildlife rehab)
Early 20s. There isnt too much of a difference but any wounds I do get now take longer to heal than I remember and the scars stay for somewhat longer too. I could recieve the most cartoonishly outrageous injuries as a kid and in upto a year or so there would be little to no sign of them ever happening but now Im here collecting scars like a whale collects barnacles since they dont go away as fast.