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[chgoliz]

I hear you, but he did specify the 1950s, so the code was very much in force!

[hecep]

Yesssssssssss I knonnnoooowwwwwwww. I’m just saying there was an opportunity for Cagney to say the unsayable at some time in his career.

[MerelyGifted]

Doan’t figet! Dere’s also DeNiro in Taxi Dryvuh.

You tawkin’ ta me?

I love dialects and accents, and imitating them.

Bonus:

Tell Me a Story!

We made friends with a German chap, Dieter, who stayed at the same seafront place we did in Jamaica. He’s from Ulm. It was during Clinton’s “trial,” and he was horrified by that. He’d been ignoring us, b/c assumed we were anti-Clinton, and was relieved to learn that we were not. I also explained that we read books, and could find our country - and his! - on a map. That helped even more, but when he learned that both mom’s then-BF and I speak a little German, he knew we must really be Allrig…

[MerelyGifted]

The wild animals that live among us

Just look at them !!! [Sky Banana]

[ObakeBakaNeko]

Annie Stegg Gerard (@anniestegg.bsky.social)

[mindysan33]

Oh! That’s lovely… and paging @Axolotl!

[Millie_Fink]

[MerelyGifted]

everythingfox

T-rex arms

[Millie_Fink]

[nosaj]

I had a cat that would jump into a full bathtub and walk around like that: back paws walking and front paws gently paddling to keep her head out of water. She didn’t do it often, but she did it more than once, on purpose. Very unusual cat.

[Melizmatic]

Silly doggo:

[MerelyGifted]

That’s only The Cutest Derp EvAr!

[PsiPhiGrrrl]

@nosaj

gently paddling to keep her head out of water. She didn’t do it often, but she did it more than once, on purpose. Very unusual cat.

That sounds familiar, and it’s making me wonder about reincarnation. If I saw a cat doing that I’d be tempted to squint and ask, “Aunt Nettie, is that you? Slow blink once for yes…” Photos by Charles “Teenie” Harris reflect when swimming like that used to be common.

[Melizmatic]

Fuzzy ‘pounce’ imminent:

[Hanglyman]

Hyrax Core.😂😂#hyrax #awawa #animals #funny #cute #usa #fyp

(Sound on for sure)

[MerelyGifted]

That is one of the finest, most edifying videos I have ever seen. I tip my hat to you.

[kxkvi]

I’ve never heard of these animals before. Amazing! Some of their vocalizations sound like house cats.

Hyrax

Closely related to elephants??

A website with another video where one of them sounds a bit like a dog:

Hyraxes | Know Your Meme

[chenille]

There are a lot of animals to remember, but you did hear about them once before.

@chenille

Back when the (non-avian) dinosaurs went extinct, all the southern continents were still more or less separate. So as mammals evolved to occupy the different niches there were originally different groups on each one. Now of course the only one that is still isolated and not frozen over is Australia, so that’s where we still see completely unique fauna. But for a couple dozen million years Africa was an island continent too, and the afrothere mammals there diversified into whole ecosystems on their own too.

The reason they all seem so strangely different now is the normal ones are gone. Africa ran into Eurasia and was taken over by ungulates, carnivorans, rodents, the kind of things you see there now. The afrotheres that survived are a handful that had found their own weird niches. Rock hyraxes are the one survivor from a whole range of ancient hyracoids. Elephants and sea cows didn’t really have a Eurasian equivalent, and so have both been able to spread the other way too.

[kxkvi]