Dokuro
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Dokuro
@MageBones
He/Him • Some guy that sometimes makes stuff and plays too many videogames.

Vultures eat anthrax, botulism, rabies, and cholera for breakfast. Their stomach acid is among the most corrosive in the animal kingdom, with a pH around 1, low enough to dissolve the bones, hide, and pathogens of dead animals that would kill almost anything else. A vulture eating a diseased carcass isn't a vector for disease, it's a terminus. The disease chain ends in the vulture's gut, and that's pretty hardcore. When vulture populations crashed in India in the 1990s, rotting livestock carcasses sat where vultures used to clean them. Feral dogs and rats took over the cleanup, both of which actually do spread rabies. Researchers later linked the vulture collapse to roughly 500,000 deaths in India over the following decade. The same collapse is now underway in sub-Saharan Africa. Six of eleven African vulture species are threatened with extinction, primarily from poisoned poaching baits. The animals nobody finds cute are doing more public health work than most of the species we actively protect.

Always remember where you started from

🚨BREAKING: Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/ex…

Copper rot is a fungus that, through yet unknown means, obtains energy from electricity. This species enters cables through exposed metal, then grows outwards, using fire to disperse its spores. It is not advised to touch it, as it is conductive enough to cause electrocutions.

Despite a 40-point lead, Maine Senate candidate @grahamformaine says he hasn’t heard from DNC leadership. #theweeklyshow #jonstewart #politics

Take StarFox 64, update the graphics, and change nothing else:

I hate that we have to have this discussion every other month when the creators quickly told yall the answer

FBI Director Kash Patel explains how the criminal investigation into James Comey’s seashell post wasn’t a simple one: This has been a case that's been investigated over the past 9, 10, 11 months. These cases take time. Our investigators work methodically
































