a quantity of beasts

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

[snototter]

A pair of Coleman's shrimp (Pereclimenes colemani) in Batangas, Phillippines

by Robin Gwen Agarwal

[okapiaconcolor]

By Savopoulos Nikolaos - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

my redbubble shop || request posts/tip me on ko-fi

[animentality]

[arrowandaxe]

[bee-in-your-binnet]

Coyotes trying their damndest to get domesticated

[muttsandmustelidae]

From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!

[muttsandmustelidae]

Because people will pay attention to cute animals, here are some of the critically endangered/endangered species housed at the Nashville Zoo!

The Amur Leopard and Clouded Leopard (which recently celebrated its 50th cub born at the zoo!)

The Sumatran Tiger

The Red Ruffed Lemur and Ring-Tailed Lemur

The Cotton-Top Tamarin and White-Cheeked Gibbon

The Colobus Monkey and De Brazza’s Monkey

And the Mexican Spider Monkey!

Look at them!!!! Look at them and fight like hell to save them!!!!

[themightywolftiger]

Adding my own images of Nashville Zoo to this. It’s super important to stand, fight, and continue to spread awareness on this.

There’s so many other great animals at this zoo, and it's done so much in teaching people about animals and conservation.

[great-and-small]

Yeah sorry wasp haters but y’all don’t know shit. Have you ever even seen the cuteness of Bembicini?

[silvermothsio-reblog]

What's little buddy doing?

[great-and-small]

It’s probably a female digging a burrow for her eggs :)

[tyrelpinnegar]

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[thatdisasterauthor]

If not friend, why friend shaped?

[manicpixiesdreamdragon]

Hello its me, weird dog not bear, please let in?

[thatdisasterauthor]

He was, in fact, very close to letting himself in whether I wanted him there or not.

We really gotta get a doorknob that is not a lever…

[mondainai]

Were you putting distance there to make him lose interest or to have an escape route?

[thatdisasterauthor]

Actually, the door photo came first. I got closer after that. 😂

I went down and locked the door, then took the video.

I’m well aware of the threat bears pose, don’t worry. But I grew up out here so I’m very familiar with how to deal with them. I had a compound bow with me, a rifle down on the table, plenty of stuff to throw, lots of stuff to make noise, and a kitchen full of knives. If he had gotten inside it wouldn’t have been a big deal.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Of all the people I know, you are the person I think would be most capable of beating the shit out of a bear with a random object.

You are also the person I know who is the Most Likely To Need To Beat The Shit Out Of A Bear With A Random Object, so it's probably good that you're so capable.

[great-and-small]

Don’t mind me just thinking about the hole in the middle of the United States where Chipping sparrows refuse to fuck

[great-and-small]

[itscolossal]

Ava Roth Collaborates with Insects to Create ‘Kintsu-Bee’ Ceramic Vessels

[kropotkindersurprise]

you know how it is

[kropotkindersurprise]

it's chew on her fin chewsday

[end0skeletal]

The long-tailed slug, or ninja slug (Ibycus rachelae), is a type of semi-slug, being somewhat intermediate in appearance between a snail and a slug. Semi-slugs have a partially visible shell, but the shell is too small for the body to be withdrawn into. Found only in the state of Sabah in Borneo, the long-tailed slug was first described as a new species in 2008.(x x x)

[onenicebugperday]

Yellow leatherleaf slug, Vaginulus taunaisii, Veronicellidae

Photographed in Brazil by rogerriodias

[deltamothsblog]

the world is in peril, and people are hurting

but even so, we can take comfort in knowing we have creature of wet slop. grins.

[incyray]

It’s name is Aplysia vaccaria, the black sea hare!

It eats algae and lives in intertidal and sub-tidal zones on the coast of Mexico and California. You can find it in tide pools there!

Quality wet slop animal c:

[pencilonthemoon]

I would like to add that the colloquial name for this guy is the 'Black Sea Hare' because his antennae resemble rabbit ears!

[magpiegirlforever]

nicolas haeni, bunnies at the office, 2022

[soup-mother]

#mymound

[targetedknowledge]

[alex-and-nova420]

made this into a gif bc i liked it so much. shark Denied