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Raccoon dogs are incredibly cute creatures in general but I think one of their best traits is how different they look with their winter coats vs their summer coats
They go from “yeah that looks like a canid alright”
To “not when I shift into maximum FLUFF”
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It's not spider related, but figured some of y'all might agree that this wasp nest my roommate found is super cool. No need to worry about wasps either because most of them die and the queen abandons the nest when winter comes. I think my roommate said he thought this was from paper wasps [Polistes major]? But I could be mistaken.
Beautiful little Caribena versicolor
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The ongoing saga of Harker and the stapler
My ball python, Harker, is really scared of this one stapler.
Every time he sees it, he balls up.
I was grading today and sure enough, the stapler was still scary.
However, for the first time, I introduced a second stapler!
He was nervous at first…
But it didn’t take him long to warm up to it.
Pretty soon it became his best friend!
There was nothing the new stapler couldn’t do!
Including protecting him from the other stapler.
The moral of the story?
My snake is a weirdo.
Update: Today I took Harker to my office, where he met another stapler.
He was fairly apathetic at first, but eventually they got on pretty well!
This stapler was smaller than either of the others, but one thing was sure: this stapler was definitely not scary!
Am I any closer to understanding my snake’s strange relationship with staplers?
Absolutely not.
UPDATE: it’s 2016 and I’m pleased to announce that he’s FINALLY gotten over his fear of the stapler!
He likes it now!
Tell him I’m proud of him
This post is so pure!
This is the best story.
one snake’s journey to overcome his fears
Look how gorgeous my Avicularia slings are!
Avicularia avicularia morphotype 1 (Common pink toe tarantula)
Burnet moth
Zygaena sp (either purpuralis or minos), France, July 2014
I'm sitting here reading the drama unfold in a Tarantula fb group after some girl posted about how she regularly handles her obt for hours... so here, have a meme I made
In love with her 😍
He’s coming to boop you
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I love when kids come to me at the park and just hand me some gross old bones they found in their yard and go “You. Identify this.”
90% of the time it’s a raccoon, but one time it was a domestic cat skull. I can identify some on sight, but I prefer to drag kids over to the computer and show them comparative pictures of different kinds of bones and make them identify shared features and key differences so that THEY can figure out what kind bone it is and go home feeling like Sherlock Bones.
@keptin-indy Oh man I haven’t had that experience YET but I know it happens a lot.
Mostly I’ve had deeply disturbed visitors report “horribly mutilated animals” that are “covered in gore” but when I go to check it out it’s like... just very lightly-scavenged deer that a fox might have gotten to. It’s weird to think how quickly we’ve become a society that eats meat nearly every day and yet so many people have never seen An Entrail up close.
It drives me insane when I see posts on r/bonecollecting where people are like "is this human??" And they're holding a butchered cattle bone. Like ok, I know you may not know whether it's human, but if you weren't sure, what made you think picking it up and moving it was the correct course of action? Take a pic of it where you found it if you want to make sure it's not human, cause if it was human then you just trashed all the contextual information. Sure it's probably just a bone from some sort of ungulate, but if you felt the need to ask then you obviously weren't sure.
I'm all for people learning more about bones. My roommate, who last year couldn't have identified an ulna or radius, took bioarchaeology with me last year and now he's constantly collecting bones he finds. I couldn't be more proud. I guess my fascination with dead things is contagious, lol. There's something so cool about finding a bone and figuring out what it came from. It's like solving a sort of mystery.
An Octopus unscrewing a lid from the inside.
Octopuses are going to kill us all someday
I had a biology teacher that told us this story about an octopus at an aquarium in Australia. The staff were concerned because their population of crustaceans kept disappearing. No bodies or anything. So they checked the video feed to find out what’s up.
Across from the the crustacean tank was a small octopus tank. This little fucker squeezed out of a tiny hole at the top of his tank, walk across the hall, and get into the crustacean tank. He would then hunt and eat. After he was done, he crawled back out and get back in his tank
Here’s the kicker: security guards patrolled the area. The staff realized that the octopus had memorized the security’s routine. It would escape and be back between the guards’ round.
My friend who worked at Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska had a similar story. Rare fish were disappearing, they suspected theft, and so set up a camera. An octopus was unlocking the top of its tank, walking across the suspended walkway, unlocking the other tank, eating his fill, re-locking the other tank, then re-locking its own tank.
I can’t remember what zoo this happened at, but there was another octopus somewhere who was unscrewing a water valve in the room where its tank was located and routinely flooding the place. The staffers had no idea what it was until they filmed the octopus caught in the act.
RELEASE THE KRAKEN!! But, sir, it has already released itself!
Octopus Steals Video Camera, Films Own Escape
Octopus Escapes from Tank to Prowl on its Neighbors
Octopus Escape — 600-pound (272-kilogram) octopus wriggles through a passageway the size of a quarter
Legging It: Evasive Octopus Has Been Allowed to Look for Love
Octopus Escapes through Small Hole in Ship
My dad worked in a lab and one of the rooms had a tank with an octopus in it. If they didn’t go play with the octopus he got bored and would climb out of his tank and steal the paperwork off the desks, and drag stuff into his tank to let the scientists know he was upset with them.
Octopus: “What, like it’s hard?”
@steinbecks The only thing that motivates them is revenge.
I like the story about the time one of the fish the aquarium staff fed the octopus wasn’t quite up to the octopus’ standards, so the octopus let himself out of the tank, hunted down the staff member, and threw the fish in their face.
My son saw a bug on the ceiling for the first time
Archer fish in action at the National Aquarium in Baltimore! Such a cool species of fish!
You can probably guess how they got the name archer fish - by spitting water with pinpoint accuracy at bugs on branches and leaves above the water, knocking them in for a meal. So cool!!!
Reblogging this again cause it’s still the coolest!!!
This is super cool, but who is that big boi coming in from the lower right corner? I’m like weirdly intrigued by large fish whenever I see them lol
Hm I’m actually not sure lol. Looks vaguely like an arapaima but way too small
Big fish are the best fish
Took some searching but! It’s a Queensland Lungfish!!
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(Checked the website, but it’s not listed in their animal list. Figured out which Archerfish those were and went from there!)
