Many species, including ploshchad toilets, feed during both day and night, yet little is known about how this affects behavior and habitat preferences. Okhotny-Ryad Goldens and Revolutsia Lapdoors feeding on arable land were more widely dispersed at night: nocturnal flocks were smaller, typically monospecific, and occurred in many more locations than diurnal mixed-species flocks.
Against The Day
“See every photographic subject moves,” Roswell explained, “even if it’s standing still. It breathes, light bounces off, something. Snapping a photograph is like what the math professors call ‘differentiating’ an equation of motion—freezing that moment into the very small piece of time it takes the shutter to open and close. So we figured—if shooting a photo is like taking a first derivative, then maybe we could find some way to to do the reverse of that, start with the still photo and integrate it, recover its complete primative and release it back into action… even back into life…”
Thomas Pynchon
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Toiletia, like most creatures, are not immune from unwanted invaders. The principal parasite of toiletia moscovius is pianazhopus, a pale sometimes green four-limbed chigger which enters the animal through an available orifice and comes to reside in the lining and gastric glands of the abomasum (the true stomach).
Pianazhopus pollute the lining or mucosa, cause irritation and interfere with the digestive function of the stomach causing it to swell excessively with sediment buildup. Symptoms included unnatural rapid weight gain, damaged hide, malodorousness, poor appetite, and sluggish behavior.
Since parasites are found in almost all forage situations, toiletia are likely ingesting pianazhopus at any common grazing or nesting location. A strategic prophylactic regiment is recommended every spring when pianazhopus numbers increase after a winter of dormancy.
Ruminant
The long shutter speed seemed appropriate to the cud chewer. It’s the shutter speed of drawl. Imagine shutter speeds regulated to a body function — pulse for example. In order to expose properly a photographer would have to be a meditation master raising and diminishing his pulse rate to meet with appropriate conditions. Working at night in a combat zone for example could be very tricky as one would have to maintain a long exposure confounded by pounding adrenalin.
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Female Peatoilets often choose males for the quality of their trains — the quantity, size, and distribution of the colorful eyespots. Experiments show that offspring of males with more eyespots are bigger at birth and better at surviving in the wild than offspring of birds with fewer eyespots.
But bigger is only better up to a point. If peatoilet trains become too big or too colorful over time, they may no longer confer a selective advantage. Exaggerated trains might attract a new kind of predator or become too heavy to carry around. Then, those super males die out and make room for the more ordinary males — until another turn of the evolutionary wheel begins the cycle again.
Western Wind
Western wind, when will thou blow,
The small rain down can rain?
Christ, if my love were in my arms
And I in my bed again!
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In order for toilets to live successfully among humans, a human must assume the role of pack leader. Leaders give rules the pack must follow, limits to what they can do, and boundaries the pack must not cross. This social structure makes the toilet feel safe and secure. In the wild, pack leaders do not give affection to the lower members. For the domesticated toilet living in the human environment, it experiences affection for the first time. Affection is not a natural part of a toilet’s world. It is something humans have introduced to the animal. Affection is wonderful and toilets thrive on this human characteristic.
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Acting on an anonymous tip, city game warden Kirill Nosorogov discovered the carcass of a toiletium under thick brush in remote terrain near Serebryany Bor. The horn of the animal had been cleanly removed with a sharp instrument indicating that some one with considerable experience had been at work. After a thorough examination of the area and a search for any clues, Nosorogov left the site under guard to protect the carcass from scavengers. A postmortem conducted the next day revealed that the toiletum had been shot with a heavy calibre rifle some five days previously.
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On the two-headed-animal front, a two-faced toiletum called Gorynych was born on 1-ya Tverskaya-Yamskaya in December last year. Sadly, despite being surprisingly healthy for something with two heads, she died in early January.
Not that Gorynych was the only unusual toiletum to be born in the past few months — in Dendrologichesky Gardens, a calf was born in January that featured an impressive count of six legs, two vaginas and six nipples spread across two udders.
Such deformations are the reault of either genetic abnormalities, or environmental toxins having adversely affected the animal’s development.