Moody's Art

Recently graduated to Hobgoblin.

[mammiferousmoody]

I saw a clip of a mountain cottage today. I was content with my new lodgings until seeing it. I yearn for a home that feels like a home. One filled with the noise of birds, the breeze and a babbling brook, not the incessant din of a busy intersection and screeching machinery. I want a home thats filled with the smell of a smoky hearth, not the reek of bleach. I want a home with human imperfections, uneven walls, creaky floorboards, not mechanically precise angles. I want a home made from stone and wood, not plaster and plastic. I want a home full of life, not a sterile box scrubbed of any sign of habitation. I want a home with a garden and a pond, not a malnourished monocultured lawn. I want to live in the real world, not the modern one.

[mammiferousmoody]

Eel larvae are transparent little ribbons called leptocephalus. The real fun thing is nobody actually knows how eels reproduce in the wild, it still has yet to be witnessed. Ancient people believed they propogated by rubbing themselves on rocks, the pieces that are shed growing into new eels, that or they spontaneously generate in mud.

[mammiferousmoody]

What a blessing to exist in the same world as these creatures

[mammiferousmoody]

Another plant today; Orchid flowers are notoriously difficult to grow. Also they come in a large variety of wild shapes, such as happy monkey and *very* happy man. As a side note, in floriography orchids can represent luxury, love, virility (how apt), seduction, refinement, beauty and strength.

[mammiferousmoody]

Heres a plant i love. Lithops! Theyre little succulents native to southern africa that have adapted to camoflauge themselves as stones to hide from herbivores.

[mammiferousmoody]

The Boxer Crab, also known as the Pom-Pom Crab wears anemonies on it's claws that it uses for catching food and fending off predators. They get the anemonies on their claws by coaxing the anemonies into releasing from their sedentary home by massaging them. The relationship between the two is debatably mutualistic, how much the anemone actually benefits from this is not completely clear. I higly recommend the Octopus Lady's video on them.

[boxheadpaint]

And like who the fuck is this guy [gestures to reflection in mirror alone in bathroom

[mammiferousmoody]

Garden snails can have anywhere from 14000 to 20000 teeth depending on the specis. Theyre microscopic grinding structures called radula.

[cuttledreams-bugs]

I deliver a friend feel free to spread it as you please

[mammiferousmoody]

The tapir frog was recently discovered in 2019 and described in '22. They have a distincly chocolate color, smooth skin, and my favourite part, a long schnozz. Not particularly fascinating, but exceedingly cute.

[mammiferousmoody]

I'll be posting art I feel like sharing on here. I'm gonna try to post a drawing of an animal with some mildly interesting nature fact with it on thursdays from now on. Starting with the Silky Anteater, the smallest anteater and only known extant genus in cyclopididae. They are fully arboreal and have a prehensile tail. I find them adorably doofy.