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herpsandbirds

Fiery-throated Hummingbird (Panterpe insignis), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, Panama

photograph by Ignacio Yúfera

my study of baikal seal... oughh i love their big wet eyess

#art #baikal seal

thekimonogallery

The 34-year old Japanese artist @lito_leafart has been living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) his entire life. Lito had been searching for an outlet where he could channel his above-normal levels of concentration and impulsive behavior when he discovered the Japanese art of kirie (切り絵, literally ‘cut picture’) and began experimenting, not with paper, but with leaves.

#art

strych-ix

feeling nostalgic about enstars

#kanata shinkai #enstars #ensemble stars #art

botanyshitposts

upstairs neighbors’ garden is not enough for the creatures. they are wanting access to my home

botanyshitposts

creatures when they see a thimble of rain within 8 hours: we NEED to have sex on this PRIME LOCATION DOORSTEP RIGHT NOW!!!!

#i love this so much #nature

kirimisosoup

lake beast

#art #creature

blurds

this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks

luxshine

The “Thunk” will always kill me.

falconratesbirds

14/10 doing his best

littleguysdaily

#art #owl #oh my ygfjfb

plaguedocboi

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

#conservation #nature #environment #lobsters

botanyshitposts

love doing something I call ‘the big leaf test’ where I put my hand on a leaf and if the leaf is bigger than my hand I go damn that’s crazy

#i wnat to do this #nature

prizmpaws

yayyy arts and crafts

#madoka kaname #puella magi madoka magica #madoka magica #art

sometiktoksarevalid

#humanity #sustainabilty

sometiktoksarevalid

#nature #humanity

spiribia

i like when you're petting an animal on the head and then remove your hand and then the animal puts their snout under your hand and flips your hand back onto the top of their head like they're a spatula with a burger patty. so far i have evidence that cats do this and that dogs do this. what else can i learn about this world...?

spiribia