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Hello, Internet. Much like our friend the olm, Consider Nature has been pretty inactive lately and (I hope) some of you are wondering why.
We're back (sort of)
i WILL make lump fish a Trendy Animal like axolotls and isopods. no one can stop me
Very beautiful, very powerful
Very beautiful, very powerful
Golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia).
Native to small patches of Atlantic Forest in Brazil, these New World monkeys were once nearly extinct in the wild due to habitat loss and competition with introduced species, with it being estimated in 1969 that there were only 150 individuals left in the wild. Thanks to preservation efforts, though, their population numbers have gone up by 3100% since then!
Golden lion tamarins are the “face” of animal conservation in Brazil and are considered an unofficial national symbol. We like them so much, we put them on our money!
Long man has preferences
Melanocetus johnsonii specimen found 2 km off the coast of Tenerife while a group of researchers were observing pelagic sharks. It is currently unknown why the specimen was so close to the surface, being that anglerfish normally live in the bathypelagic and mesopelagic zones (200-2000 meters deep)
mh family has been sending me lophiiformes fancams all day this is awesome
does anyone have that 4chan post about the guy who got like. deradicalised from being an incel because he started taking care of shrimp?
i can't post pictures in replies so here u go
thats the one! thank you!
One of the greatest Tumblr posts of all time. I hope this guy and his shrimp are doing okay
scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple
the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!
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[Image 1] Purple slide with pictures of purple and white petunias entitled “History of RNAi.” Bullets read:
A) Rich Jorgenson (1986)
1) asked to create a unique flower to gain funding for new gentech company
2) wanted to create extremely purple Petunia
B) Thought: add more copies of the gene -> more purple
C) Got: White petunia!
D) 10 years to figure out why this happened
[Image 2] Eric Andre “what if it was purple” meme. Top row edited to read “what if it was MORE purple?” paired with two copies of the purple Petunia image from the above slide. Bottom row shows a perfectly white petunia (also from above slide) next to Andre with his arms in the air and the caption “WHAT”.
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None of this is normal or natural. We'd do well to remember that.
clownfish variety names that go hard as fuck:
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Today is World Hippo Day!
We share our planet with two species of hippo: the River Hippo (Hippopotamus Amphibius) and the Pygmy Hippo (Choeropsis liberiensis).
Pygmy hippos are an endangered species, with fewer than 2500 remaining in the wild! Threats to them include hunting and habitat destruction due to forestry and mining.
While the adorable Moo Deng rocketed the pygmy hippo into popularity in terms of awareness, much more work must be done to protect this species from extinction.
If you want to learn more about pygmy hippos and their struggle to avoid extinction, check out Consider the Pigmy Hippopotamus at Consider Nature!
I love hippopotamuses. They have the strongest bite force of any mammal, skin so thick that fangs and claws cannot penetrate it, antibacteri
Image credits: (1) William Warby under CC BY-SA 4.0. (2) cloudzilla under CC BY-SA 2.0. (3) Public domain.
Have you ever heard of the lesser blind mole rat (Nannospalax leucodon)? Growing up to 10.6 in (27 cm) long, this rodent can be found in parts of Eastern Europe. A nocturnal animal, it spends the majority of its life underground, digging long tunnels beneath the surface. Though you might think that this species is completely blind, it actually isn’t. This critter’s tiny .04-in- (1-mm-) eyes, which are hidden beneath its fur, help it sense light and navigate its underground habitat.
Photo: Максим Яковлєв, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
official crab post ❤️🦀
Have you seen this post?
You probably have. It currently has over 120,000 notes, largely because of this addition.
Of course it's going to get reblogged, this kind of unsourced factoid does numbers on here. But something about it wasn't quite right.
A bit of searching turned up the origin of the "fact".
Alright, so it's someone who posted this on reddit 4 years ago and somehow ended up in the search hits. And the post confuses the electric eel (from South America) with the electric catfish (from the Nile, which the Egyptians would have known about).
Reminder: this is an electric eel (Electrophorus electricus). It is from South America. (image from Wikipedia)
And this is an electric catfish (Malapterurus electricus). It is from the Nile and would have been familiar to the ancient Egyptians. (image from Wikipedia)
And then of course people were speculating in the notes to that post about trade routes between South America and Egypt. Excellent scholarship everyone.
At this point I was ready to call it another made-up internet fact that gets reified by people repeating it. But something was still bothering me.
An ancient Egyptian slab from 3100 BC. What could that be...
Oh.
The Narmer palette. It's the goddamn Narmer palette. (image, once again, from Wikipedia)
So where is this "angry catfish"?
It's not the Egyptian name for the electric catfish.
It's... Narmer. It's Narmer himself.
Narmer's name is written as above (detail of top middle of the palette), using the catfish (n`r) and the chisel (mr), giving N'r-mr. The chisel is associated with pain, so this reads as "painful catfish", "striking catfish", or, yes, "angry catfish" or other similar variants, although some authors have suggested that it means "Beloved of [the catfish god] Nar".
So.
Where does this leave us?
It would appear that this redditor not only confused electric eels with electric catfish, but also confused a Pharaoh's name with the name of a fish. And then it got pushed to the top search hits by a crappy search engine and shared uncritically on tumblr.
In short, "the electric eel is called angry catfish" factoid actually literacy error. Angry Catfish, who ruled upper Egypt and smote his enemies, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
Also the Arabic name for the electric catfish is raad (thunder) or raada (thunderer).
References
Afsaruddin, A., & Zahniser, A. H. M. (1997). Humanism, culture, and language in the Near East: studies in honor of Georg Krotkoff. Eisenbrauns.
Clayton, P. A. (2001). Chronicle of the Pharaohs. Thames & Hudson.
Godron, G. (1949). A propos du nom royal. Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte, 49, 217-221.
Sperveslage, G., & Heagy, T. C. (2023). A tail's tale: Narmer, the catfish, and bovine symbolism. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 109(1), 3-319.
I'd call this net zero information except I learned quite a lot. Except what an electric eel was called before electricity was discovered.
I already posted this in previous reblogs, but here it is again! In Tupi the electric eel is called puraké, poraké, poroquê, poraquê, puraquê, or simply purá. Puraké also means deception or disguise. In Yanomami the electric eel is õrãmisiwë, shenini, or yahetipa. Sometimes the metaphor wakë rë yëre ha is used to refer to it (“the place where fire burns”). And there are others, certainly.
References
Lizot, J. (2004). Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmi. Vicariato Apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho.
Navarro, E. (2007). Dicionário Tupi Antigo A Língua Indígena Clássica Do Brasil. Global Editora.
The cruelty of racist white men.
Does anyone else remember when Elon was like "if anyone knows how to end world hunger for 6 billion USD, I'll fund it" and UNICEF was like "we're going to spend a month to make a plan to end world hunger for 6 billion USD and Elon is going to fund it" and Elon was like "actually, nah" and then bought Twitter instead?
I think that was one of the worst things I'll ever see in my life.
I still think that should be the thing for which he's the most famous. It should be brought up every time he's mentioned. In any news article, any interview, any history book. "Elon Musk, who was offered a chance to end world hunger and turned it down." Put it on his fucking gravestone.
As a society I think we should capture Elon Musk and fill his rectum with army ants.
The forest at the tip of Lord Howe Island's highest peak is an otherworldly place alive with animals and plants not found elsewhere on Earth
Five years after a massive effort to remove invasive mice and rats from Lord Howe Island, the unique ecosystem is experiencing what is being called "an ecological renaissance" as the endangered flora and fauna recovers.
Lord Howe Island woodhens were reduced to only 30 individuals in the 70s due to egg predation from the invasive rodents, but in just the last five years the population has jumped from 200 to over 2,000.
From the article:
"It's just amazing, the changes that have happened in the forest--it has blown me out of the water really. I thought it would change but I just can't believe how quickly things have been happening."
2007 eBird gem
i enjoy that every single human’s reaction to penguin is unrestrained delight
And penguins lack large terrestrial predators, so their reaction to humans tends to be, “HELLO STRANGE GIANT PENGUINS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? DO YOU HAVE ANY FISH?”
I will reblog this on my deathbed.
Please let him science 🐧
i think at least half of the million reblabs on this are from me