what kind of fuckin cues did they give to the voice actor who was tasked with saying “Fullmetal Alchemist” a couple thousand times? bc like it varies based on the context, were they just like “ok now we want you to say it as if it means ‘your entire family was just killed and your town was burned.’ Ok that was great, now say it as though it means ‘i was the only one who bet on the right horse at the Kentucky Derby’”
Anonymous asked:
I recently watched a video of a pair of Sandhill Cranes raising a Canada Gosling, and it seems that it isn't the first example of it in the last few years. Are cranes like penguins where they will steal eggs/hatchlings if they had an unsuccessful breeding season, or is there some other reason that they 'adopt' baby geese?
great-and-small answered:
If you follow enough birding groups in Sandhill crane territory, you’ll eventually see someone post a baby duckling or goose that is following around a pair of cranes. It’s not common, but it happens enough to be a thing!
Sandhill cranes don’t seem to steal babies, but they have an extremely strong parenting instinct. If they find a baby that needs taking care of, you can bet they’re going to take damn good care of it. There are documented cases of Sandhill cranes adopting unrelated crane chicks as well as geese and domestic ducks. They just love babies. There has even been some research into using Sandhill cranes as foster parents for endangered whooping cranes in order to re-establish a non migrating population of the latter. Sandhill cranes are super parents!
For my fellow Sandhill craniacs interested in this phenomenon you’ll be delighted to know another cross-species adoption has been spotted in Madison WI this spring! Unknown how this happened but folks in my birder groups are saying the cranes took over an abandoned Canada goose nest with a single unhatched egg left behind. No way to know the backstory for sure but hopefully this chick is able to figure out life with his new eccentric parents
Hilariously, this baby is growing up to have the best posture I’ve ever seen on a Canada goose- look how tall he stands!
Eurasian Dotterel (Eudromias morinellus), family Charadriidae, order Charadriiformes, Alaska
photograph by Paul Maury
Eastern Cleft Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus aureolus), family Phrynosomatidae, Oaxaca, Mexico
photograph by Elí García-Padilla
Ashy-headed Goose (Chloephaga poliocephala), family Anatidae, order Anseriformes, Ushuaia, Argentina
photograph by Jose | Tropical Birding Tours
