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herpsandbirds

Fire Skink (Mochlus fernandi), family Scincidae, Equatorial Guinea

Photograph by trekking with javi

#fire skink #skinks

herpsandbirds

Goliath Frog (Conraua goliath), family Ranidae, found in Cameroon and Equitorial Guinea in West Africa

ENDANGERED.

This is the largest extant frog, growing to a length of 32 cm (12.6 in) snout to vent, and weighing up to 3.25 kg (7.2 lb).

photographs by Gerard Carbonell

#goliath frog #humans #frogs

redavexat

re-alku

@bugs-are-cool

#katydids #giant hooded katydid #bugs #video

power-chords

I almost forgot to mention: this woman came into the penguin enclosure with a KESTREL??? I said “oh my god is that an American Kestrel?” and she said “Yes! She was outside doing raptor education for the kids, but she doesn’t like to get rained on.”

ayellowbirds

#she was watching the penguins with what I will anthropomorphically project as skepticism

elkian

kestrel: i hate rained on!!

human: here is birds in water

kestrel: ......no.....

#kestrels #birds

michaelnordeman

Värmland, Sweden (22 July 2021).

#nature

mbari-blog

Meet one of the ocean's biggest surprises. 🌊

Big red jellies can reach more than a meter (three feet) across. These jellies are covered in tiny, harpoon-like stinging cells that stun prey. Unlike most jellyfish, big red doesn't have long trailing tentacles. Instead, a cluster of finger-like oral arms beneath its bell helps it capture food.

Big red was first discovered off the central California coast in 1988, by MBARI staff. This jelly has been spotted across the Pacific Ocean, from Baja California to Hawaii to Japan.

The fact that an animal this large, with such a wide range, remained undiscovered for so long is a reminder of how little we've explored the deep sea—and how many incredible discoveries are still waiting to be found.

#big red seajelly #fish #jellyfish #video

great-and-small

I saw an otter briefly hop on top of a babirusa at the zoo and when the stranger standing next to me heard my camera shutter click he turned to me with this look of immense relief, put his hand to his chest, and said in a dead serious tone “oh thank christ someone caught that on film”

great-and-small

Not the best photo but here it is for posterity

aelijoh

I wanted to draw them

#otters #babirusa #art

plaguedocboi

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

thesplendidsnout

We're doing the same in Whitby, England, and there's a little aquarium attached and it ROCKS. Huge recommend to anyone in England looking for a little fun in the town that made Dracula.

They have a bunch of very happy "berried hens" (i.e. mother lobsters covered in eggs), a set of (essentially) aquatic centrifuges that rock the baby lobsters around to help build their strength against the currents, and a GIANT 35-year-old blue lobster named MELVIN who wanders around in a big tank living his best life, with a couple of sharks for room-mates.

It's a MARVELLOUS time and they're on course to release 100,000 lobster babies a year!

Marine conservation charity in Northeast England. Aiming to conserve, educate and research. Home to Whitby Lobster Hatchery. Releasing 100,0

#lobsters #fish #text #conservation

nyanletnest

#chaunacops #anglerfish #fish

folkfashion

Garifuna duo's dresses, Honduras, by thealexadarling

#<3333 #humans

markscherz

OKAY BUT HAVE YOU SEEN THE SKELETON OF A RAIN FROG? [X]

ask-crow-aus

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN THEY DON’T HAVE RIBS

HUH

markscherz

Yeah frogs don’t have ribs. It’s a quick way to identify the bullshit ‘info’post about the ‘correct way’ to hold a frog. They seem to constantly mention hurting their non-existent ribs.

talesfromtreatment

As a vet tech very used to the skeletons of mammals and reptiles…. the extremely small number of vertebrae is rather discomfiting. But with our froggy friend I must assume this is a normal and good number of vertebrae

#frogs #science #text

selkiesparrow

Zoozve, my beloved

ktempestbradford

"...we don't live in a big clockwork, we live in a dance club..."

This is my favorite line.

rabbitrah

It is now called Zoozve :')

#universe #humans #science

folkfashion

Saamaka bride and groom's clothes, Suriname, by rello_pix

krivi

These clothes are called a "pangi". They're a rectangular cloth made by afro-Surinamese people. It's worn by tying the cloth around the waist with a top around the chest. It's usually worn in a pangi set of 2 or 3 pieces. It can technically be worn on any occasion, but there are certain expectations for styling it depending on the situation.

Casual designs are just the cotton skirt with a simple top. The pattern is similarly simple with little to no embroidery. People in Suriname wear western clothes, but it's very normal to see people dressed like this running an errand or at the beach.

Occasion wear has elaborate designs including embroidery and accessories. Colors and patterns can be important here. They can indicate age, affiliation, spiritual meaning, celebration or mourning. All of these below are pangi's, styled for different occasions.

Modern designs either make use of more contemporary patterns or use advances in technology to push boundaries like painted pangi's or machine applique.