I may have a lot of hobbies

You can call me Aku 💖

[werewolf-transgenderism]

only 62 more frogs until we hit 8,000 species described. the moment we've all been waiting for

[werewolf-transgenderism]

there are an average of about 150 new amphibian species described per year so I remain hopeful that 2026 will be the year of 8,000 frogs

[werewolf-transgenderism]

I do love that somebody tagged tumblr's own frog scientist on this post. chop chop dr scherz, we've got 62 more frogs to discover and you're the only frog scientist any of us knows

[werewolf-transgenderism]

happy world frog day, 50 frogs to go until we hit 8,000 species described!!

[patheticwheeler]

@markscherz

[markscherz]

There is a small but real chance I will get to Do The Thing. Watch this space.

[draconym]

Reptiblr please advise. Why does my female hognose snake have bulge. Is she intersex?

She was sexed female about seven years ago. I'm curious but I don't know if I'm Give $80 To The Vet curious.

[draconym]

At about 31" long this is the largest male hognose any of us has seen (while females can be up to 3' long, males usually don't exceed 2'). And they've got swollen junk so they are on Baytril for a week.

[draconym]

Happy Birthday Galaga, You Get: Dick Surgery

Sorry lil buddy, good luck

[draconym]

nevermind they don't know WHAT my snake is

they're fine though. just a lot of mystery fluid down there for no fucking reason!!!!

[spiribia]

the charm of the great chain of things is that you'll see reptile keeper circles recommending isopods as a cleanup crew in your enclosures and then you'll go look into isopods and there is a whole separate community where their main event is the isopods themselves and pet isopod care and they recommend also keeping springtails as a cleanup crew for the isopods and you look into springtails and there is a whole separate community where their main event is the springtails and they're posting photos of springtails and going They're soooooo cuuuute

[aralintheobsessive]

if you want butterflies, you need to live with caterpillars.

i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf

you will not get butterflies if you kill all the things that turn into butterflies! what are you doing!

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

hi

do you like nudibranchs?

if yes then www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f3GpKiaQUA

Ooooh! Woahh mama! Thanks for the video!

[subcultureblues]

love when ppl ask to see pics of my axolotl and are expecting something cute + pink + all smiles and instead with genuine fear in their eyes, and in their heart, say WHAT the fuck is that.

[subcultureblues]

demon

[prism-cloud]

Hierodula salomonis, aka, the “Jade Mantis”

[catgirl-kaiju]

my extremely powerful long chip (utahraptor toe claw for reference)

[mountaincrone]

Govt. Shutdown PSA

During the shutdown if you visit any National Public lands (parks, forests etc) PLEASE take everything you brought in with you. This is a most important time to "leave no trace." Any trash you have bring it home with you. Don't even leave it in the bins if you can avoid it.

Those trash bins aren't emptied by your local public works sanitation department. They're emptied by the National Parks/Forest workers. And if they're furloughed right now then that job isn't being done.

Please help keep our public lands as clean as possible - well always - but especially during this time of shutdown.

And please TELL OTHERS.

Thank you.

[anton--rayne]

the thing about "plant trees" is that nobody cares if those trees fit the environment theyre planted at or even maintaining them after being planted and also over half of the worlds oxygen come from the ocean but theres an active effort to obscure that to push it all on Trees which we can save by shrimply planting more of. its that shrimple to save the Oxygen. plant an invasive sapling and leave it there

[anton--rayne]

and why are these trees being cut in the first place. who knows. must be something to be stopped by Individual Choice. its that shrimple

[libertineangel]

Yeah I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that that's how most greenwashing capitalist initiatives work, all those "for every purchase we'll plant a tree" or whatever ad campaigns, what they actually mean is "we'll plant a fast-growing cheap lumber monoculture and then lease the logging rights so we get your money from thinking we're environmentally conscious, government green space investment money and then timber industry money"

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: AUGUST 10TH, 2025 | Image IDs: Four photos of a dark, metallic blue common blue mud dauber on a human finger /End IDs.]

Chalybion californicum!

[feedyourdeadnametothevoidfish]

‘capitalism works’ factoid actually untrue. the 62 people who own half the world’s wealth are outliers and should be eaten.

[anarchistmemedistro]

62 8

[technofeudalism]

[g00burr]

Absolutely nuts how they made up a number for this satire post and the correction is that reality is *more absurd* than the number they chose

[anarchistmemedistro]

no i’m afraid it’s even worse than that. 62 was correct in 2016 when the original post was made.

[quincespolymorphedgargoyle]

it’s two different numbers:

62 people own 50% of the total world wealth

8 people own as much at 50% of the world’s population

[anarchistmemedistro]

this. i was wrong. i keep reblogging the corrections but my incorrect version has legs. sorry.

[reptimoe]

Opened my finger and my hand at climbing today 💔

[reptimoe]

My hands healed multiple times by then 💪

[eldritchcrab]

GUYS NEW SHARK JUST DROPPED

Well, technically it's not new : it's a nurse shark. What's new, however, is that it's the first xanthic (imagine albinism but in yellow) nurse shark ever found !! Not only it's not common AT ALL to find fishes with xanthism (it's the first cartilagenous fish ever recorded with this type of genetic "anomally"), but if it's there and still existing as an adult, it means the species is chill-ish with other predators (it probably would have been eaten by then). Its eyes are white so it can also be a form of albinism, in addition to xanthism !!!!!

And most of all : ITS SO CUTE !! AND IT'S SUCH A COOL FIND !!

Please if a marine biologist or someone with more info can interact with this post to feed me some more info or correct me on wrong infos i'e given I'd love it !

(Also if you have pics of animals with xanthism, it's also very appreciated!!)

[birdandmoon]

Birders: do you ever wonder if this happens?

Original on my site | Patreon

[5nakeb4it]

THEY DO!!! I’VE SEEN IT!!! Those motherfuckers run across those trees head down with no spacial awareness and get so startled and bewildered when they bump into eachother. It’s hilarious

[storybookprincess]

being sick & miserable objectively sucks, but it has become significantly easier to cope with since learning that “sickness behavior” is a well documented part of the body’s immune response

feeling not only physically but also emotionally like fucking garbage is unfortunately an extremely effective way to force your body to prioritize fighting infection & keeping you alive. i don’t have to like it, but knowing why i get weepy & pathetic when sick does help at least a little

[autumn2may]

i just found out that this is not common knowledge and am reblogging so more people know

YOUR BODY DOES THIS ON PURPOSE

YOU ARE NOT A BAD PERSON BECAUSE OR "WEAK" WHEN YOU ARE SICK IF YOU CAN"T CARRY ON AS NORMAL

[hightide-error]

extremely cool that the removal of wolf protections in europe are being driven by an eu official having one of her horses killed by a wolf. literal cartoon villain shit

[hightide-error]

if you own horses you should be disqualified from participation in government

[hightide-error]

and after this happened, they put that specific wolf on a kill list and then proceeded to shoot the wrong wolf. geniuses

[somejack]

Environmental groups condemn EU Parliament’s approval to downgrade wolf protection as an attack on nature Today, the European Parliament app

For anyone who thought this is too stupid to be real, I'll remind you the year is 2025. The EU official in question is Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. She is the latest in a long line of idiot Germans to think the CDU disguises her evil.

[reptimoe]

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