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The blog where I mostly just reblog stuff :] Apricot || They/Them Art blog here

[apricottheapricat]

THIS IS PURELY A REBLOG BLOG!!! DONT FOLLOW THIS UNLESS U LIKE GETTING SPAMMED!!!!!

Go follow @apricot-the-apricat for my art stuff!! n game stuff potentially when im less busy!!!

[aphantimes]

🫵 YOU. STOP WHERE YOU ARE

say something nice about prev!!! find something cool about them!! give their blog a skim!!

compliments are FREE TO GIVE so GIVE THEM OUT. pls. thamnk. (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

[creativereid]

Ardea cinerea

[tofupixel]

Goots (geese)

200x200 pixels, 26 colours, based on this photo.

Finally finished this OMG!!! Probably took me 20 hours in total but also I've been insanely busy and tired...!!

Prints available!!

[vintagewildlife]

White-tailed fawn By: Harvey Payne From: The Zoogoer 1999

[sorrrowfull]

[catsofyore]

That’s 50 lbs of sass in a 2 lb body. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

[cartoonscientist]

I mean, I do like spiders

what?

[zooophagous]

Baby fawn scratchin' him head

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[slimetony]

Alpine Ibexes climb nearly 90 degree angles to lick salt deposits of of mountainsides. They crave that mineral.

[sailor--spoon]

Why is this back on my dash in 2018

[conqueringthenoodle]

Thank god this is back on my dash in 2018

[mintytrifecta]

Enough depressurized blobfish. I'm here to spread living blobfish propaganda.

Look at them. Gorgeous. Wonderful. Living comfortably at depths to over 1,200 meters in the ocean. Be nice to them.

[mona-cat-luna-cat]

I cant take this. Look at this creature.

[amnhnyc]

While the crab-eating fox’s (Cerdocyon thous) name implies that crabs make up most of its diet, this canid is omnivorous and has a wide-ranging menu that changes with the seasons. It lives in parts of eastern and northern South America, where it’s found in forests, savannas, shrubland, and wetlands. During the dry season, it may snack more on insects; during the wet season, it favors crustaceans.

Photo: gabriel_delasala, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[michaelnordeman]

Two fox cubs from the same litter play-fighting on a summer evening. These playful scuffles are more than just fun, helping them prepare for the increasingly independent lives that lie ahead.

Red Fox/rödräv. Värmland, Sweden (19 June 2026).

[antiqueanimals]

"Fox Studies"

Lives of Game Animals, Volume 1 - Part 2. 1925. Written and illustrated by Ernest Thompson Seton.

Internet Archive

[okapiaconcolor]

By hedera.baltica from Wrocław, Poland - Crow portrait, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link

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