Gillian’s Petblr

Pet and animal blog! I follow from @variations-on-a-kfc

[exoticanimaltherapy]

Y’all I’m getting a kitten in a week

[babyanimalgifs]

[jaubaius]

Penguins getting weighed.

[muffyblogs]

Do you ever cycle through the same 4 apps on your phone over and over again and feel like a tiger pacing its cage at the zoo

[teratomarty]

If you’re doing this, it is because you, like the tiger, need enrichment and variety in your life. May I suggest cramming just a whole bunch of raw hamburger into a pumpkin and rolling it around your enclosure?

[exoticanimaltherapy]

I wonder what my fish are doing right now

[exoticanimaltherapy]

A comprehensive list of exotic pets I want:

Red clawed crab

Cockatiel

Blue tongue skink

Bearded dragon

Whites tree frog

Kenyan sand boa

Ball python

Syrian hamster

Flemish giant rabbit

[exoticanimaltherapy]

Also any kind of smaller tortoise. I don’t know my tortoises well enough but maybe a Russian or a red foot?

[exoticanimaltherapy]

A comprehensive list of exotic pets I want:

Red clawed crab

Cockatiel

Blue tongue skink

Bearded dragon

Whites tree frog

Kenyan sand boa

Ball python

Syrian hamster

Flemish giant rabbit

[exoticanimaltherapy]

I miss Pinball and Ghibli so much. Pinball used to be the star of this account. My babies 💔

[valentinethehedgehog]

Whose dis guy?

[l3irdl3rain]

Lukie loves to show off whenever he’s out of his cage and the other birds aren’t

[l3irdl3rain]

Captain is very concerned by the fact that we have a weird dinosaur living in our house

[lovingexotics]

Source: here

[exoticanimaltherapy]

Java is the betta and Chester is the frog

[toadschooled]

A researcher working in Glacier National Park, Montana, carefully takes the measurements of a wild caught western toad [Anaxyrus boreas]. Images by GlacierNPS.

[bbfroglove]

The indignity of being gently squamptched…..

[frogginaround]

Measure the boy

[exoticanimaltherapy]

Why won’t my dog play fetch with me?

[exoticanimaltherapy]

Damn this blew up

[ruinedchildhood]

[nelox91]

But why? where are the tumblr cow experts? 

[wavesplash-daddy]

They do that because the cows have little to no depth perception. Cattle guards are used in ranches and farms to keep cattle and horse in the right areas. They're basically metal bars that are placed over a deep ditch and the cattle usually always know that their legs will get stuck if they try to cross it. So the cows were jumping over it to make sure it wasn't something they could get their legs caught in. That's why every single one of them looks down at it before jumping. Cows are very good at avoiding holes in the ground and it's a natural habit. Cows can graze in fields with prairie dogs cause they know not to step in the holes whereas, horses and sometimes donkeys cant because they'll run and sprain or break their legs.

I'm not a cattle expert but my dad is. You're welcome :)

[aplpaca]

That rabbit/hare post is messing me up. I’d thought they were synonyms. Their development and social behavior are all different. They can’t even interbreed. They don’t have the same number of chromosomes. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and coyotes can mate with each other and have fertile offspring but rabbits and hares cant even make infertile ones bc they just die in the womb. Wack.

[aplpaca]

These

are more genetically compatible than These

and that’s why morphology-based phylogeny has Issues

[thellamamongler]

@aviculor

[aviculor]

The problem is perspective. People always think dogs are the ‘standard’ animal, the metric to use for whether or not two organisms “look like” they’re related. When in fact they’re a massive outlier due to the fact that we fucked up this lineage of wolf beyond recognition with selective breeding. It’s why people always say “breed” when they mean “species”, especially when talking about groups like lizards which can’t even be defined cladistically since some of them are closer to snakes than each other. To say nothing of fish.

[thetinybutimportantthings]

I once read an article that emphasized there is no such thing as a fish. Sharks and rays, lamprey, lobe-finned fish like lungfish and coelacanth, bichir and sturgeon, and of course the multiple infraclasses of more “modern” fish groups are all only very distantly related to one another. They’ve maintained semi-similar body structures only because there are limited ways to efficiently move through water as a vertebrate. 

This

And this

Are more distantly related from one another than you and I are from a lungfish

Which is absolutely fuckin wild.

[bogleech]

Not only that, but all of us air-breathing land vertebrates, all the lizards and chickens and people and frogs, are closer to one another than those three “fish” are to one another as well.

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

these

are genetically closer than these

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

and…

these

are genetically closer than these

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

and my personal favorite, it really fucks with people…

these

are more genetically similar than these

[augustdementhe]

COOL. 

[varkarrus-deactivated20200511]

just the other day, one of my friends mentioned this book, “Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History,” which apparently has a (tongue in cheek) chapter that argues that Cows are actually Fish.