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Welcome to Toronto, World Capital of the Urban Raccoon

"When I catch a raccoon," he says, "ninety-five percent of the time, it looks like a teenager that's been busted for smoking pot: just kind of aware of what they've done and accepting the consequences."
— Gordon

8h ago

The naturalist hardly expects to be believed when he relates the instincts of animals; yet the physiologist is compelled to believe them, because he cannot explain them away.

3w ago

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The Kong Edition

What's wild is how perfectly this automotive function translated to canine psychology, despite serving a completely different purpose. Dogs are natural problem-solvers and foragers, with hunting instincts that crave unpredictable movement patterns. The bump stop's engineered instability—designed to absorb mechanical shock—accidentally became the perfect trigger for prey drive.

3w ago

themarginalian.org

How Evolution Invented Faith: The Patience of the Penguin and the Art of Withstanding Abandonment

The male's stoic, heroic devotion to his duty as incubator and nurse must be unique in nature, involving that almost incredibly long fast under conditions of exposure to intense frost that would kill most other living creatures. It is at last rewarded, while the rookery is still sunless in July, by the return of his mate, fat and full-bellied from her long sojourn amid the krill and small fishes.

1mo ago

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