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The Master Ass-assin

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[F] - [18] - [UK] Living in the U.S. Welcome to my blog!My name is Amelia. I'm addicted to Netflix, Supernatural, Assassin's Creed and Troy Baker. (Send help) I accidentally joined fandoms and now they've ruined my life with their stupid, perfect characters. (Damn it) I now pray to Castiel to get his feathery ass down here, but he is taking his sweet time finding my house.Anyway, I hope you enjoy my blog and remember: Nothing is true, Everything is permitted.
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I still need to know what dog this is

It is the Caucasian Shepherd Dog aka Russian Bear Dog. This picture below is just a PUPPY.

Holy shit.

I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE NOW

MOUSE

THE REAL LIFE CLIFFORD!

Level 1

Level 17

Level 35

I could literally ride this dog into battle.

and I would.

For anyone wondering, that last pic is another awesome breed called the Tibetan Mastiff :)

Fun fact: Tibetan Mastiffs were often “paired” with Tibetan Spaniels. The Tibetan Spaniel is a natural-born tattle tale and would run along monastery walls to keep an eye out for intruders. Upon spotting someone suspicious they would go get the big dog.

N O. Oh my God that is so cute

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I know this isn’t Bojack related, but recently instead of turning men down by saying “no, thank you”, I experimented with saying “I’m engaged” and flashing a ring instead. Needless to say, I am not engaged. It still worked better than just saying “no”, but then came questions like “so where is your fiancé?” and “he let you go out by yourself looking like that?” or just remaining persistent in asking for my number. So I went into my closet, and pulled out a fiancé. Now when I turn men down and they need further proof, they can know that I would rather lug around a 5 foot tall plastic skeleton to Steak n Shake and fake a proposal than give them my number.

His name is Braunschweiger Last-Name and I think I’m going to take his last name.

Update: the wedding was beautiful

The level of dedication this took is monumental and enviable and if I cared about anything this much I would be much farther in life

This is absolutely fantastic. My goodness.

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A new species is evolving before scientists’ eyes in the eastern United States.

Wolves faced with a diminishing number of potential mates are lowering their standards and mating with other, similar species, reported The Economist.

The interbreeding began up to 200 years ago, as European settlers pushed into southern Ontario and cleared the animal’s habitat for farming and killed a large number of the wolves that lived there.

That also allowed coyotes to spread from the prairies, and the white farmers brought dogs into the region.

Over time, wolves began mating with their new, genetically similar neighbors.

The resulting offspring — which has been called the eastern coyote or, to some, the “coywolf” — now number in the millions, according to researchers at North Carolina State University.

Interspecies-bred animals are typically less vigorous than their parents, The Economist reported — if the offspring survive at all.

That’s not the case at all with the wolf-coyote-dog hybrid, which has developed into a sum greater than the whole of its parts.

At about 55 pounds, the hybrid animal is about twice as heavy as a standard coyote, and her large jaws, faster legs and muscular body allow her to take down small deer and even hunt moose in packs, and the animal is skilled at hunting in both open terrain and dense woodland.

An analysis of 437 hybrid animals found that coyote DNA dominates her genetic makeup, with about one-tenth of its DNA from dogs, usually larger dogs such as Doberman pinschers and German shepherds, and a quarter from wolves.

The animal’s cry starts out as a deep-pitched wolf howl that morphs into higher-pitched yipping — like a coyote.

Her dog DNA may carry an additional advantage.

Some scientists think the hybrid animal is able to adapt to city life — which neither coyotes or wolves have managed to do on their own — because her dog ancestry allows her  to tolerate people and noise.

The coywolves have spread into some of the nation’s largest cities — including New York, Boston and Washington — using railway corridors.

The interbreeding allows the animal to diversify her diet and eat discarded food, along with rodents and smaller mammals — including cats, which coywolves eat skull and all — and they have evolved to become nocturnal to avoid humans.

The animals are also smart enough to learn to look both ways before crossing roads.

Not all researchers agree the animal is a distinct species, arguing that one species does not interbreed with another — although the hybrid’s existence raises the question of whether wolves and coyotes are distinct species in the first place.

But scientists who have studied the animal say the mixing of genes has been much faster, extensive and transformational than anyone had noticed until fairly recently.

“(This) amazing contemporary evolution story (is) happening right underneath our nose,” said Roland Kays, a researcher at North Carolina State.

Watch this report on coywolves.

THIS SHIT IS SO WILD AND IT’S ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING. If you’d like to watch the entire Nature documentary referenced in that “watch this report” link, you can find the whole thing on Youtube. It’s a terrific documentary and a really interesting look at an animal most people don’t even seem to realize exists. The extent to which coywolves have adapted to urban life and the ways in which they’re very distinct from the species they’ve sprung from is pretty incredible.

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barlowstreet

Okay but it kind of looks like it’s covered in maple syrup

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andrusi

coy wolf

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iamshadow21

@copperbadge

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copperbadge

Aw man, I love coywolves. 

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YES LADIES PLEASE DONT BUY THINGS YOU NEED FOR NORMAL BODILY FUNCTIONS AROUND US GUYS.

Am I the only one distressed that he included toothbrushes on this list?

i didn’t reblog this before, but this got better.

so ppl know

I’m so relieved that he wasn’t serious and I’m sure his dentist is too

dude I’ve seen this post a thousand times and I NEVER saw the last bit and I am so shook.

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