Jimothy Bobert and Ofus @grumpy-lumpy-andcute - Tumblr Blog

I love all reptiles

should I put on shirt and give me more animals

Please excuse my long absence and the frankly horrendous angle but! It was recently warm enough to take Ofus outside, so I did! :)

#petblr #reptileblr #bearded dragon #Ofus

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the way he's like "who did that! who pinched me"

#petblr #reptileblr #not my video #bearded dragon

peri

here's ur reminder that axolotl is NOT pronounced like "ak-suh-laa-tl" (or lot-ul), it is in fact a nahuatl word (that most commonly translates to "water dog" actually, very cute!) and is pronounced "ah-SHOW-lowtch" !!!!

i think abt this every time i see a post abt axolotls coz i just know there r so many ppl mispronouncing it and the thought bothers me. if ppl, esp white ppl, reblogged this to spread the word to those who may not be aware, i'd be very grateful. thank u!!

peri

hi everyone who happens to read the notes to this post, ive got smth important to add

don't reblog this ^ addition and similar additions (especially ones shitting on the pronunciation in any way). as a native american speaking about a native language (albeit not my own) i think it's VERY important that words from native languages specifically must maintain their integrity. this word has not been loaned, it has been colonized. there's a huge difference and it's important for everyone to learn how to pronounce it correctly becoz of this.

if you're having a hard time pronouncing this, nahuatl people have given english speakers easier ways to pronounce it without erasing its integrity. if "lowtch" is hard to wrap your head around, try ah-show-lotch or you can change the "tch" to a "k" (making it ah-show-lok)

#oh!!#good to know #not a photo

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@kona-and-suba my girls, Brownie Pumpkin and Nani

(This post is for the video, I'll try to get a more recent photo of Nani later)

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@kona-and-suba as promised in my comments, a more recent photo of Nani!

#guineapigs #Nani

great-and-small

I might be a little biased but I’m honestly starting to believe that there’s no purer form of love than the defensive spite you see from biologists that have devoted their life to the study of a maligned or misunderstood species. For example:

The hyena biologist that arranged for Disney animators to come sketch captive hyenas for The Lion King film (Laurence Frank) was so incensed when the animals were depicted as villains in the movie that he later included boycotting the film on a list of ways the average person could help hyena conservation.

Though it’s commonly known that Charles Darwin’s distaste for parasitic wasps played a role in his development of evolution theory (since he felt no loving God would create animals with such a disturbing life cycle), the biologists who study these wasps find it an unfair characterization. When they were tasked with coming up with a common name for the family of parasitic wasps (Ichneumonidae) that old Charles so disliked, they proposed the name “Darwin Wasps” to spite the famous naturalist who had insulted their beloved family of insects.

Parasitologist Tommy Leung was so frustrated with the way people write about parasites to evoke horror and gore that he started writing a Parasite of the Day blog, that specifically avoids inflammatory or unsettling language to describe them. He also illustrates different species in colorful anime art on Twitter in a series called Parasite Monster Girls—which he calls his “love letter to parasites.”

I guess I’m just saying that if you’re a biologist studying an unpopular species and you have a little bit of a chip on your shoulder about it you can always count on me to be in your corner if you want to get a little petty with the public!

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Animals are great!! The way different species work in different ways is interesting as fuck

#not a photo