a quantity of beasts

here be animalia. I don't like any kind of selective breeding or vegetables. Some appear anyway.

[beanytuesday]

Animal Crackers for Zoologists

[onenicebugperday]

Entomopathogenic fungus (Engyodontium aranearum) infected spiders

Engyodontium aranearum is a species of ascomycete fungus in the family Cordycipitaceae. It parasitizes the long bodied cellar spider, Pholcus phalangioides. It causes 100% mortality in infected spiders.

Photo 1 by bugzone, 2 by garrett_brown, 3 by laurahuckleberry, 4 by lois_rancilhac, 5 by emilvus, 6 by komille277, and 7 (for scale) by samdeakin

[theggy]

IT'S THAT TIME OF WEEK

[segmentedleg]

"A hungry killer whale breaks through Antarctic ice in an effort to eat the man who took this picture." Life Nature Library: The Poles, Willy Ley, 1962.

[amnhnyc]

Another day, another doggy you can’t pet. Meet the dhole (Cuon alpinus). Found widely across parts of Asia from India to China to Indonesia, this social canid typically lives in groups of up to 12 individuals. Sometimes it even socializes with other groups of dholes to form “super packs” of more than 30 members! Teamwork enables these hunters to take down prey ten times their size. And unlike many other species of canid, dholes allow their pups to feed first on kills. Their diet includes pigs, deer, and buffalo.

Photo: mihail1981, iStock 

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[deadpowol]

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[okapiaconcolor]

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happy to see this on the top of my activity page. this is what toucans in rehab do to your head when you get into their enclosure to feed them btw

[pomgore]

i love learning about animals ive literally never seen or heard of before. what amazing diversity of life on this planet earth. what the hell is a japanese serow

[pomgore]

goat dog

[pagurus-san]

Ok, I'm very surprised

Last year, wasps built this nest

This year, other species of wasps built a nest on that nest

?!?!?!

[shailion]

"Well this spot worked for the last gals"

[westformiles]

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[addicted2wasps]

I have witnessed something like this myself. The nest I found was from 2012, so it's very old. A Vespinae nest built on a Polistinae nest. All I can say is WASPCEPTION!!!

[okapiaconcolor]

By hedera.baltica from Wrocław, Poland - Nutty rook, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link

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[indolentjellyfish]

tiny glass aphid

[natoraptor]

“Tour Guides”

-2026

[nobrashfestivity]

Leonardo da Vinci

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[aquilacalvitium]

Happy Gandalf gets to lick a graham cracker Monday

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Nature Documentary: these deep sea creatures can withstand crushing pressures of thousands of pounds per square inch!

Me: they’re not withstanding a goddamn thing. The pressure is a part of them. Their interiors and exteriors are equalized. Just because your respiratory system is built around a pair of fragile poppable bubbles-

[asteroidtroglodyte]

You don’t know me

[escuerzoresucitado]

[chestnutmareenergy]

Pond horsey

[horsesarecreatures]

Chip used to escape into the pine barrens and go in ponds to eat yellow pond lilies. This brings back memories.