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cataclysmic-entity

EVERYONE GET THE FUCK UP NEW FROG HAS BEEN DISCOVERED WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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waterskies

They hunger

derpfishstuff-deactivated202409

Sometimes you become the algae

My inca snails favorite spot, grazing the aquarium pasture

pepperandpals

@emifishwaffle pointed out that orange-fronted conures are also called half-moon conures. So I give you Pokemon Sun Conure and Pokemon Half-Moon Conure. Bird images from BirdChannel.com.

Which one would you choose? You know I gotta go with sun birb.

pastrygeckos

It's been 7 years and I never realised just how long his tongue was! Look at that, a miracle of nature!

william-snekspeare

I made a bearded dragon stuffed animal anyone wanna see?

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behold… my beautiful son

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o… oh my go d…

oh my god… !! lick!!! 😭

tangelojack

@skeleslime-phantom

izukos

bettaworldforbettas

Exciting news! @liveaquaria has updated the Betta fish tank size guidance on their website! They raised the suggested minimum for males from 0.25 to 5 gal, and for females from 1 to 5 gal. I notified them about the petition for @petco to raise their recommended min Betta tank size from 0.25 to 3 gal. LiveAquaria was receptive and responsive – in fact, their updated guidance raises the bar among industry leaders! While all of these retailers can continue to sell smaller tanks, some are giving their customers information that helps them make better choices. It is great to see a leader like LiveAquaria recognize the demand for proper Betta care information. This is a small step in the right direction! Will other retailers keep up? 😃

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Here is the link to the Petco petition: https://www.change.org/Petco-Betta-Min

maureen2musings

The madams love running through fields of clover!

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glumshoe

When did hikers develop the collective impulse to stack rocks and make obnoxious, useless decorative cairns at every park and river they visit? I don’t remember seeing them as a kid except as trail markers, but now they’re EVERYWHERE. What part of “leave no trace” don’t people understand?

britney-j-christ

I’m gonna leave a trace and it’s gonna be a cool ass rock tower in the woods :D

glumshoe

Please don’t!

If you want to build rock towers, get your own rocks and build them at home. That’s perfectly fine. But rocks provide vital habitat for wildlife, especially in stream bed; moving and stacking them leaves them without shelter, crushes them, exposes their eggs, and leads to soil erosion and bank destruction. Leave them where they are.

Furthermore, cairns are used as trail markers to indicate routes. Creating pointless cairns for funzies and Instagram can actually be dangerous to other hikers who rely on them for navigation, and immensely frustrating for rangers. We don’t say “leave no trace” to be mean–we’re trying to protect both the environment and our visitors.

huytuf-deactivated20200512

we’ve already proven how fucking stupid op is. this shit is so fucking annoying. aside from creek beds stacking rocks isnt hurting the fucking environment. which once again i remind you we arent separate from. please calm down and stop acting like people living their life and creating art is destroying an ecosystem.

glumshoe

Huytuf, if you love lost hikers and crushed salamanders so much, why don’t you carve it into a lovely old tree and let the world know? Or perhaps you’d rather chisel in the sentiment of “my artistic whims are more important than the safety of others and the health of an ecosystem”? After all, if we’re not separate from the environment, nothing we can do can hurt it or cause problems.

But what do I know? I’m just a stupid old park naturalist who is, according to you, going to hell for discussing folklore while not being militantly Christian about it.

66dataa

would it be okay to make a small one, then put the rocks back where they came from after you’ve taken pictures ect.

kedreeva

@maqpiie Please don’t move them at all.

This is a Hellbender salamander. Hellbenders are the third largest aquatic amphibian in the world, and the largest amphibian in the US. They are extremely endangered, in huge part because people are moving rocks in what little habitat they have left to them. These big boys can live for decades and once they choose a rock to live under, that’s it, that’s where they live, and they do not do well relocating. Studies have found that if their rock is moved or even disturbed, the hellbender will not return to it- even if you can replace the rock how you think you found it. Moving rocks, even just briefly, runs the risk of crushing them, their young, their eggs, or depleting the places where their food sources hide (they eat mostly crawfish and small fish that hide among rocks), either from you moving the rock or from other rocks falling in the absence of the rock you moved. Even if it doesn’t immediately kill them, it can permanently displace and ultimately cause the death of one.

These are not the only creatures that suffer from habitat being destroyed, they are just one I happen to know the face, name, and situation of. Please, please, please. It’s not worth the photo. It’s just not. Leave nature in place where it belongs, leave no trace. Protect those that have no defense against you other than your choice to be kind to them.

roach-works

TAKING PICTURES IS A BIG PART OF THE PROBLEM, as it spreads the idea that stacking rocks is a fine thing to do. pictures of cool-looking rock stacks are how rock stacking became such a fad in the first place. please, please, PLEASE, do not take pictures of rock stacks, share pictures of rock stacks, or in any way encourage other people to do it.