The Gay-Ola Prodigy

azi or azira | they/them | Old Enough | We have fun here

[flipchild]

[the-world-annealing]

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that's really cool, personally I don't give strangers false information and then get mad at them for believing me

[mbari-blog]

FathomVerse 3.0 is here!

Today, FathomVerse is releasing a suite of new features, including a brand new mini-game called Filter, to expedite community-driven analysis of underwater imagery and accelerate ocean discovery. 📱🙌

Developed by MBARI and partners in the FathomNet Program, the FathomVerse app engages ocean enthusiasts around the world to help improve the artificial intelligence tools researchers use to study the ocean.

In Filter, FathomNauts can quickly review a set of images and remove all the images that don’t match their mission, filtering out what doesn’t belong. Denizen Mode within Filter will relieve bottlenecks slowing down the FathomVerse annotation pipeline by enlisting the most experienced FathomNauts to verify community annotations. The new version of FathomVerse empowers FathomNauts to work alongside experts to quickly put images annotated by the FathomVerse community into the hands of scientists. Dive in, learn, and discover with FathomVerse.

[markovchaingang]

visual kei novel

[butterbee]

it is always striking to me to see canids besides domestic dogs and realize how much more expressive (to my human eyes) dogs are, the effects of domestication are really something else

[7andaswitch-blade]

A coyote cools off in the drink fridge at a Quiznos in the Chicago Loop, 2007

“It did not growl. It did not make any sounds. It just tried to get in. Apparently it was scared and tried to shelter itself,” said Ray Zavalas, Quiznos employee.

[randomanimaloftheday]

Day 285#: Blunt-Headed Tree Snake

Today's animal of the day is the Blunt-Headed Tree Snake (Imantodes cenchoa)!

Photo credit: Geoff Gallice

Also known as the fiddle-string snake, this species of arboreal snake can be found in the tropical rainforests of Mexico as well as both Central and South America. They can reach a maximum size of 4 ft 11 in long and are known for their long, slender bodies with comically large heads. Their eyes are also incredibly large compared to the rest of their bodies, and take up nearly 26% of their total head space. While this might look really goofy, it actually helps improve their vision significantly compared to other species of snakes, which are known for having very poor eyesight. Most other snakes rely mostly on their sense of smell as well as vibrations to detect predators and prey, but since the blunt-headed tree snake needs to be able to clearly see the branches of the trees it's climbing, they need to have better vision than the average snake. The slitted shape of its pupil even allows it to look down without moving its entire head, which most snakes are unable to do.

Photo credit: Max Hofmann

Blund-headed tree snakes are active mostly at night, which is another reason they need good eyesight, and will forage through the vegetation in search of prey. Their diet consists mostly of lizards, but they'll also often go after frogs and have been known to eat eggs when the opportunity presents itself. Females tend to be larger than males, meaning that they can take on larger prey. Size isn't the only difference between the sexes. In fact, the populations in the north and south actually seem to exhibit two very different types of sexual dimorphism. Northern males tend to have longer tails than southern males and both types of females, while southern females tend to have much larger heads.

Photo credit: Laurent Hesemans

These snakes are members of the Colubrid family, which also includes hognoses, garters, kingsnakes, and many other species of snakes. Like many of its cousins, the blunt-headed tree snake is technically venomous, but they are rear-fanged venomous instead of front-fanged. This is a useful adaptation when a good portion of your diet consists of frogs and toads, but it isn't really well-suited for injecting venom into humans, since it would require letting the snake chew on you for a good while before it could envenomate you. Luckily, even if you did let one chew on you, their venom is pretty mild, and they're not considered dangerous to humans.

[herpsandbirds]

Wilson's Plover (Anarhynchus wilsonia), chicks, family Charadriidae, order Charadriiformes, FL, USA

photographs by Igor Marach

[morggo]

I love and admire coyotes; their ability to survive, adaptation, and tenacity has been nothing less than inspirational. They've always been here, and will still be here.

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[herpsandbirds]

Southern Ground Hornbills (Bucorvus leadbeater), family Bucorvidae, order Bucerotiformes, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

photograph by Piotr Naskrecki

[makesomenoise]

🌈

[butterbee]

you'd think that having a pretty strong framework for understanding why people do the things they do might promote feelings of security or compassion or perhaps even a superiority complex. no unfortunately it just makes me feel very tired and like a lot of things are pointless.

[herpsandbirds]

American Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinica), CHICK, HIM SO FEET!!!, family Rallidae, order Galliformes, FL, USA

photograph by Charlie King

[herpsandbirds]

Earless Monitor Lizard (Lanthanotus borneensis), family Lanthanotidae, endemic to Borneo

ENDANGERED.

Semi-aquatic.

Closely related to the true monitor lizards in the family Varanidae.

The only member of its family.

They do have inner ears, and are capable of hearing, despite the lack of ear openings and tympana.

photograph by Will Hunt

[salmon-elle]

I miss the mould-man.

[butterbee]

im soooo selective about what Fandoms i follow in any capacity and fkmt isn't one of them but still every time i think about kaiji my brain explodes with dopamine i love that miserable little wet dog from the bottom of my heart

[superlovely100]