Occasional Creatures

welcome to Daely Creachur where every day of the year we share doodles of creachurs, crepes, freeks, sily lil guys, or bebbie bois / goirls

[occasional-creature]

Welcome to Daily Creatures

I decided to create this blog to exercise my art brain because I have a habit of getting too deep into a project and never finishing it.

the contents of this blog are mostly going to be my own doodles and sketches, but I'll also reblog some art too if there's a creature involved.

I also have a submissions thing if anyone wants to share their own lil creatures, but I do ask that any submissions are SFW.

June 2025 UPDATE

never thought I'd get back to this side blog but I've been thinking about it a bit over the past couple of years. I'm gonna start uploading again tho idk if it's going to be daily (despite that being the name).

that's all I have for the update. have a good day!

August 2025 Update

so, turns out I'm not going to be uploading regularly so I'm changing the name of this blog from Daily Creatures to Occasional Creatures, as that seems more fitting to how often I don't post.

[encryptidarchivist]

i love lowland streaked tenrecs because they’re like if a mammal was a caterpillar

[encryptidarchivist]

look at this thing. the animal

[rederiswrites]

Wow. Wikipedia image not any less mammal that is caterpillar.

[great-and-small]

Here’s another neat insect-like thing about this species; they’re one of if not the only mammal to use stridulation as a threat response/communication. Stridulation is what we call it when an animal rubs or vibrates body parts together to make sound, like a cricket does with its legs. Cicadas also produce their iconic sound by stridulation!

Lowland streaked tenrecs have quills on their back that when vibrated together make a high frequency sound that is used to communicate with one another and to produce a threat display. They have specialized muscles beneath each quill that allows them to vibrate them at will. I believe the sound is too high for humans to hear.

Stridulation is common in insects but pretty rare in vertebrates. Other than the lowland streaked tenrec as our mammal representative there are a handful of snakes that stridulate by rubbing their scales together and a bird called the club-winged manakin that makes an incredible sound by vibrating specialized feathers.

[mikufanclub]

[mikufanclub]

the pic in question btw

[beardedmrbean]

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

Dude was trying to self-domesticate again

[uncle-beanbag-mojave]

[skinny-dipping-sasquatch]

[tauforged]

one of my favorite things about my job that i can say to people that sounds utterly ridiculous but is technically 100% true is that one of our sea turtles keeps trying to get me to commit a felony on her behalf and gets SUPER cranky when i won’t do it

[tauforged]

this is because she is spoiled rotten and LOVES head and shell scritches. every time i go to the tank she’s in to collect water samples while she happens to be awake and swimming near the surface, she sees my hand enter the water and immediately comes over to try and get my attention, headbutting the dive platform and splashing water at me and generally making a huge fuss.

unfortunately, because she is also a ~100yr old green sea turtle, i legally cannot touch her. she’s a protected species, and a fairly prominent individual at that, and im not one of the aquarists who dives into that tank NOR am i a vet, so i’m not among the handful of people who are ALLOWED to give her scratchies. she knows all of the divers personally, and knows that i am not one of them. she doesn’t care. she wants attention and because she’s the specialest princess in the entire universe she will do anything in her power to get it.

she also throws a big ol tantrum when i end up not petting her. she’ll stick up her head to snort water at me, slap at the platform and ladder with her fins, and then swim under the dive platform and bump her shell against the bottom — she’s a 500lb turtle, which is a lot of weight for her to be throwing around. i usually have to move pretty quick to get off the platform and onto solid ground cuz there have been times where i’ve genuinely felt like i was about to lose my balance and REALLY didn’t want to end up falling into the tank.

^ myrtle, throwing a tantrum because she was unsuccessful at peer pressuring me into violating the endangered species act

[hana-bobo-finch]

i fed a wasp whipped cream today and she shoved her whole face in it and got it all over her chin

[fawfulydoo]

you learn something new every day i just learned about the limacodid slug caterpillar and i am obsessed

[ashen-vulture]

peeled grape

[habbadax]

Fuit gumy

[the-big-mood]

[animals-riding-animals]

frog riding fish

[deertwoheads]

I'll take your word for it man

[mintytrifecta]

Enough depressurized blobfish. I'm here to spread living blobfish propaganda.

Look at them. Gorgeous. Wonderful. Living comfortably at depths to over 1,200 meters in the ocean. Be nice to them.

[shrimp-gender]

More potentially radioactive shrimp recalled in 17 states. See list.

The FDA has again expanded an ongoing recall of shrimp that could have radioactive contamination.

EDIT: THIS IS FROM DECEMBER 2025.

I DO NOT KNOW THE STATUS OF RADIOACTIVITY AND SHRIMP AND THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE TWO AND ANY OTHER TIME EXCEPT FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER IN THE YEAR 2025

[shrimp-gender]

UPDATE: it happened again ( February 20 2026)

4,000 Units Of Frozen Shrimp Recalled For Possible Radioactive Contamination

The shrimp were exposed during manufacturing.

[followthebluebell]

Where: The greater Houston (Texas) area and along the Gulf Coast

Affected products: 1 pound bag of frozen shrimp

Lot EA14 25118 with a best by date of October 28, 2026

Lot EA14 25119 with a best by date of October 29, 2026, and the UPC code 04120333035

[bramblepatch]

What in Shrimp Heaven

[gwiggs]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS THE SAME SHRIMP

[nyaa]

horse with a dvd player on its back 2006-03-21

[nyaa]

wild

[nerveblot]

sorry I have some kind of brain disease

I suspect this was meant as a visual pun because this server is rated for 733 watts, almost exactly one metric horsepower

[creepymutelilbugger]

if it wasn’t for some kind of brain disease, we would all have forgotten this punchline. everyone say thank you some kind of brain disease

[slugonascrabbletile]

s is for slug

[g4yr4t]

I love Doris and she is so cute but also she looks so much like Teddy Roosevelt sometimes that I can't help but laugh

[g4yr4t]

all I'm saying is that no one has ever seen them in the same room together

[astronautawry]

New aesthetic: Arctic hares when they're coat is only half done shedding and they look a little fucked up

[craftingcreatures]

Attended a rattlesnake conference yesterday and one of the presenters was talking about public attitudes towards snakes, specifically how showing them in a non-aggressive context helps to create more positive attitudes, and. Y'all. I NEED to show you the image he used as an example

Look at him. Look at this smiley newborn sidewinder sitting in a bottle cap. He is so small and so happy he is EXACTLY the right size to sit comfortably in a bottle cap