The opposite of albinism called melanism, a recessive trait where the skin and fur are all black.
nature & real talk
Holy shit that’s majestic.
Yes, the powers of Photoshop are indeed majestic
So far the closest thing we have to melanistic lions are the black-mained Asiatic lions
(Panthera leo persica), and it’s not known whether lions are even able to be melanistic!
The only melanistic big cats we know of are jaguars…
…and leopards.
We do, however, know of abundism in other big cats! What’s abundism you may ask? Well, it’s basically when places that normally have a lot of melanin end up producing an abundance of it. So an abundistic tiger looks like this:
And an abundistic cheetah looks like this:
And just for good measure, here’s an abundistic leopard:
Y’know I reblogged this a bit ago and was saved from financial probation and getting kicked out of school because of it, just mere months from graduation. Got a call from the financial aid advisor telling me that they made a mistake with filing my account (or some other sort of clerical error) and said that, basically, they owe me money. Welp.
Last time I reblogged the money cat, I won two $100 gift cards at work.
With the launch of VOICE also came the opening of VOICE’s official hotline, which fields calls from those who allege they are the victim of a crime carried out by a immigrant.
According to BuzzFeed, since the hotline’s launch, the phone lines have been tied up with calls about undocumented aliens— from outer space.
Given that the launch of the hotline coincided with Alien Day, people put two and two together and launched a plan to inundate the hotline with stories of alien abductions. Read more (4/27/17 10 AM)
And for the record, Bill Nye didn’t say that “gender is determined by your chromosomes”. He was talking about genes that are stored in part of our cells – chromosomes. He just explained that they contain all of the genetic information and all the instructions you need to make a person. So the first comparison was fake and was supposed to vilify the scientist guy and liberals. No such luck.
However, no doubt Bill Nye has developed his knowledge over the years and that’s how real science work!
Five seconds earlier he literally said “We used to think gender and sex were synonymous”
Person A: You know… the thing Person B: The “thing”? Person A: Yeah, the thing with the little-! *mutters under their breath* Como es que se llama esa mierda… THE FISHING ROD
Also consider Person A: pass me the thingy Person B: Cual thingy? Person A: The thingy on top of the deste
Sometimes bilingual peeps shuffle phrases while we think things through, just in case that language’s patterns trigger the right word or idea we want to use. But “turning off” language? Nah…
“Do you have a liga? You know, a… The fucking… the liga. The liga, that… El deste, para tu cabello. The hair… tie. Shit.”
My personal favourite is when you do this shit and then realise that the word you’re after is actually a cognate, so not only do you feel dumb for not remembering it, but you could have just said the word in your first language and they probably would have understood you.