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sophia_sol) wrote2024-09-18 09:52 am
sophia_sol) wrote2024-09-18 09:52 am
5 things: crop milk, website excitement, pterosaurs, fic ideas, name gender
one
recently I was telling someone about crop milk and it is such a delightfully cursed bird fact that I have to share it here too!
did you know that mammals aren't the only living things to produce milk? a select few bird species have independently evolved it too! pigeons, flamingos, and emperor penguins all secrete milk from their crop to feed their young! lactation is even stimulated by prolactin, the same hormone that causes lactation in mammals!
crop milk has fat and proteins, like mammal milk, but no carbohydrates. it's also got the various immune boosting stuff and other similar intangibles
In pigeons, crop milk is....not quite a liquid. it's a pale yellow semi-solid that has been compared to cottage cheese.
flamingos have liquid crop milk! but it's bright red that looks like blood!!
(the colour fades over time though, it only looks like blood for the first week or so after hatching)
all I've been able to determine about penguin crop milk is that it is "thick"
two
I love being able to just go into the css stylesheet for my website and alter a detail about how lists are formatted....and then that change is automatically enacted for every list on every page of my site! it's so cool. coding is cool!
three
just finishing up listening to a podcast episode about pterosaurs and *dreamy sigh* pterosaurs are just so cool you guys
four
me spitballing funny fic ideas with a friend, and oh shit now I really want to write one of them!
it's amazing to me now that I used to struggle so much with coming up with fic ideas to write...these days I have far more than I can actually get to!
five
something I learned recently: it does not matter WHAT name I changed my irl name to, a certain type of cis people will find a way to hear a feminine name no matter what your name is, if they read you as female
I thought I had just insufficiently considered what my name could be misheard as! but no the problem is not with me.
posting about pterosaurs DOES mean I had to update my dinosaur tag. bc pterosaurs are not dinosaurs and I needed my tag to be actually inclusive!
recently I was telling someone about crop milk and it is such a delightfully cursed bird fact that I have to share it here too!
did you know that mammals aren't the only living things to produce milk? a select few bird species have independently evolved it too! pigeons, flamingos, and emperor penguins all secrete milk from their crop to feed their young! lactation is even stimulated by prolactin, the same hormone that causes lactation in mammals!
crop milk has fat and proteins, like mammal milk, but no carbohydrates. it's also got the various immune boosting stuff and other similar intangibles
In pigeons, crop milk is....not quite a liquid. it's a pale yellow semi-solid that has been compared to cottage cheese.
flamingos have liquid crop milk! but it's bright red that looks like blood!!
(the colour fades over time though, it only looks like blood for the first week or so after hatching)
all I've been able to determine about penguin crop milk is that it is "thick"
two
I love being able to just go into the css stylesheet for my website and alter a detail about how lists are formatted....and then that change is automatically enacted for every list on every page of my site! it's so cool. coding is cool!
three
just finishing up listening to a podcast episode about pterosaurs and *dreamy sigh* pterosaurs are just so cool you guys
four
me spitballing funny fic ideas with a friend, and oh shit now I really want to write one of them!
it's amazing to me now that I used to struggle so much with coming up with fic ideas to write...these days I have far more than I can actually get to!
five
something I learned recently: it does not matter WHAT name I changed my irl name to, a certain type of cis people will find a way to hear a feminine name no matter what your name is, if they read you as female
I thought I had just insufficiently considered what my name could be misheard as! but no the problem is not with me.
posting about pterosaurs DOES mean I had to update my dinosaur tag. bc pterosaurs are not dinosaurs and I needed my tag to be actually inclusive!