[T]he common wildebeest has the thick, horned bust of a buffalo, the spindly legs and wispy tail of a horse, and the scraggly whitish beard of a wizard.
[M]ales are judged by females based on who has the best area of grass and makes the most obnoxious noises. Biologist Richard Estes ...has... seen ruts in which bulls get so worked up fighting each other for territory that they forget the females entirely.
...Wildebeests have scent glands in their hooves...
Seriously, these are weird (should I say implausible?) beasts...
Spotted this one just outside the Ravindra Kalakshetra in Bangalore . Its called the Cannonball Tree , but is - technically (i.e., in Latin, if thats your metier) - Couroupita Guianensis , or ನಾಗಲಿಂಗ ಪುಷ್ಪಾ in Kannada. The fruits look like Cannonballs (well, d-uh), and the flowers are really quite amazing, and pretty ludicrously distinctive...
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via nebezial a long time cooking inside joke between my wife and me of the immense protective power of a women's uterus! in reference to the general design approach in female gear that leaves exposed midriff region
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