You’re lying on the sofa under a blanket, lights dimmed, watching your favourite TV show. Your cat is laid across you, sleeping but purring quietly. All is calm. All is good.
but then out of the corner of your eye you spot him
The first works on a private profile of Sara Shakeel, an artist based in Islamabad, Pakistan appeared about a year ago. Today Sarah’s Instagram is a colorful abstraction gallery full of flowers, diamonds, space and explosions that pop up in the least expected places of the composition. The galaxy instead of the iris, the eyes instead of the flower buds, the human silhouettes filled with diamonds – the collage of the artist can play the game of our mind. Follow her on Twitter.
This mysterious “chicken church” is located in the middle of the Indonesian jungle. The abandoned building itself is quite bizarre but even more bizarre is the fact that there are 12 underground chambers.
How did a grown-ass adult accuse a child of sexual assault?
Teresa Klein was in a new york bodega buying 2 bags of kitty litter when the 9 year old walked by. Klein claimed the boy sexually assaulted her by grabbing her ass, and called the cops.
the cops viewed the bodega cameras and saw the 9 year old was wearing a bulky backpack and brushed her as he passed by. But Klein turned around and started screaming at the mother and the 9 year old, and people in the bodega started filming her yelling and calling the cops. Other customers can be heard in the footage confronting Klein, with one woman telling her, “Nobody wants to touch your flat ass.”
Most behaviors that you see keepers demonstrate at the zoo or aquarium are natural behaviors that the animals do in the wild. When the animals do them, the keepers give them a treat and pair it with a gesture or a word, so that they associate them, and eventually the word or gesture is enough to elicit the behavior because the animal knows that there’s a reward. But here’s the thing: most of those behaviors are encouraged because they help veterinarians and keepers do health checks.
Yeah, its cute when they nose boop the stick, but also keepers need to check their vision and depth perception and mobility. Sea lions are so cute when they wave! But vets and keepers need to check under those flippers to make sure that they’re healthy and that they don’t have any restrictions on their motion or cuts on their skin. Why do they ask animals to jump? Again, to make sure that they’re healthy, and also because its fun and animals LOVE to move around and jump and have fun, its mentally stimulating.
This is the most important thing I will ever reblog and anyone who is still ignorant enough to think zoos are awful can fuck off my blog. Zoos are necessary. If you think otherwise please unfollow me because I don’t want you here.
This is super important for people to see. I have worked at a zoo and I can not tell you how many times I’ve had to defend the zoo for the good they do. People need to learn that zoos are actually helping save endangered species.
Remember: Sea World is not a zoo and doesn’t really care about animals unless they can make a profit. Fuck Sea World.
Alternatively, Busch Gardens does care for their animals.
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