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Rotenberg’s Pumpkin Toadlet (Brachycephalus rotenbergae), family Brachcephalidae, endemic to the Mantiqueira Mountains of Atlantic coastal Brazil

Poisonous.

Recently described (2021)

This is a tiny toad, with a max. length (SVL) of up to 1.8 cm.

photograph by Sandro Perez Veltman

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banchie

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

corrucyst

dude, this is really scary, and liminal as well. It's like the bathrooms

herpsandbirds

Western Blind Snake aka Western Threadsnake (Rena humilis), family Leptotyphlopidae, found in the SW United States and western Mexico

photos: Oonagh Degenhardt, Yinan Li, Toby, & Tbargholz

theyre saying you have to go to work again tomorrow even though you just went today

frontmansdefender

RIP to the legend

silvermoon424

This goose fucking rocks and had a crazy life!

I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:

He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.

Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.

Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.

When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.

Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.

Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.

As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.

His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."

Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.

Before and after his death, Thomas has been celebrated as an icon of the LGBTQ+ community for obvious reasons.