Red-lined Bubble Snail, Bullina lineata
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Red-lined Bubble Snail, Bullina lineata
Today I saw a leaf that looked like a frog and I was like haha nice and then it hopped because it WAS a frog and I started crying bc life is really full of everyday miracles including but not limited to experiencing frogs
you got camouflaged dude. If you were frog prey...... hoooo boy
monoculture forests are deeply unsettling in a way that is hard to explain to people who do not spend a lot of time looking at forests
this thing is alive in an undead hivemind kind of way and it wants to fucking kill me
being a scavenger animal must be so fucking great. imagine if every time someone died a new restaurant opened up downtown.
i'm . having fish emotions again
rule
pulling the pin on this grenade of a meme and sprinting for the nearest shelter
Grizzly 399 is so cool! I went to her Wikipedia page intending to screenshot interesting facts about her, but I would really recommend you go check out the whole thing for yourself.
Grizzly 399 lives in close proximity to humans but has never caused problems or attacked a human - she has taught her many cubs important skills like looking both ways before crossing the road. She has had more triplets than is normal for grizzlies, and is far better at keeping triplets alive than less experienced mothers.
She had 22 progeny, (though not all survived) including Grizzly 610, who in 2011 adopted one of 399’s triplets along with her own two cubs. 399 previously went viral on social media for keeping her quadruplets alive through two seasons, despite bear cubs only having a 55% survival rate.
monoculture forests are deeply unsettling in a way that is hard to explain to people who do not spend a lot of time looking at forests
this thing is alive in an undead hivemind kind of way and it wants to fucking kill me
Piebald American beaver (Castor canadensis) [x]
yo sometimes i just forget leafy sea dragons exist and just
i share a planet with these funky little men?? i feel HONORED
im obsessed with space and scifi and aliens, specifically how different living organisms can potentially look and live and move and. it is so wonderful to be reminded of the bizarre, beautiful, ridiculously diverse forms of life right here right now on earth.
The Hidden Problem of Outdoor Cats: Ecology of Fear
As a huge cat lover who grew up with cats and adores every part of them, outdoor cats are a problem. You’ve probably already heard this, but domestic outdoor cats are responsible for a staggering number of extinctions in local bird populations, even if someone thinks their “sweet little baby would never hunt” because the cat definitely has. But that’s old news, and I’m here to present another (probably already done) theory on why these cats cause problems, and that is a concept called “The ecology of fear.”
Ecology of Fear is a semi-recent concept coined by ecologists that talks about the indirect impact predators have on prey species. Basically, besides directly influencing prey populations by killing prey, there is a broader impact caused by just the presence of a predator that causes defensive changes in behavior. This change usually involves being much more cautious, meaning there’s more energy devoted to being alert and weary and less energy spent on growth and reproduction. There’s also less food consumed because the prey cannot spent large amounts of time in the open. So what does this mean for cats?
It means that even if your cat has less than one brain cell and doesn’t know how to hunt and is scared of grass like mine is, it doesn’t matter. Just the existence of a cat in the area causes local animals to chance their behavior, often with negative impacts for themselves. Birds and other prey species already have to deal with natural local predators, and adding the pressure of cats into the system tips the natural balance too far against the prey.
So please keep your cats indoors, both for their safety and the safety of local animals.
Sincerely,
An aspiring ecologist
(Also: if you’re interested in more details on the ecology of fear, a good documentary to watch is “Nature’s Fear Factor” on PBS. It’s about the reintroduction of wild dogs to Gorongosa Natural Park)
hold up im reading more about the lionfish thing and this one island in Honduras has had such a huge problem with lionfish that the measures they have taken include
• getting special exemption from the Honduran government to allow divers access to harpoons and spears which are otherwise illegal in fishing
• public campaign to teach people how to prepare and eat lionfish (apparently they are very tasty once the poisonous spines are removed) (but watch out)
• holding lionfish combination hunting competition and cookout (reportedly they killed and cooked 1,700 in a day) (someone killed 60 of them with a rubber band spear gun???)
• most recently and apparently out of desperation, the divers in charge of culling the lionfish in the Roatan Marine Park just started. feeding the lionfish they killed to sharks. bc what else are you gonna do with it
• the sharks don’t seem to notice or be affected by the poison and begin hanging out with the divers
• the sharks then were seen hunting and killing the lionfish on their own
like this is nuts to me sorry. the sharks just had to be shown “hey this is food, did you know?? you can eat these!! here try one!!” we are possibly altering an entire foodchain bc we like feeding the big ocean wolves
Sad, Justin Schmidt of the insect pain scale passed away
Studying the venom of bees, wasps and ants, he was stung hundreds of times and famously ranked the stings in a colorful pain scale index.
can you imagine being dealt this hand
they can't possibly know if it like has a bag of almonds down in a trench somewhere when theyre not looking
Another wood-eating sea creature besides the famous “ship worms” are a teeny tiny echinoderm called a sea daisy :)
People don’t think about how much wood is constantly falling into the ocean, I mean most people are probably aware that driftwood piles up on beaches, but that’s such a tiny fraction. There’s whole huge trees down there in the abyss muck!
Also you may know about “ship worms” that eat wood but you may not know they’re actually clams with super long feet and that they use their shell to carve the wood And I also can’t believe I forgot about GRIBBLES!!!!!!! Yes spelled just like Dale Gribble! They are wood-eating tiny marine isopods!
GRIBBLES