#familiar friday

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Familiar Friday - Banana Slug

The adorable Californian Banana Slug, which is basically my county’s mascot despite them living all up and down the Pacific NorthWest. I have a puppet of one named Henry Splurgim.

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Familiar Friday - Brazilian Blue Spider

The ever elusive and ever highly sought after Sazima/Blue Tarantula of Brazil.

A resident of Chapada Diamantina National Park, this lil guy’s more of a peacock than even a peacock spider. 

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Familiar Fridays - Blue Ringed Octopus

Summer is a’ coming in 'which means joyous critters from the sea…and also deadly ones. Here’s the beautiful but INCREDIBLY venomous Blue-Ringed Octopus.

Infamously small and cute looking, its tetrodotoxin-venom can theoretically kill twenty adult humans. 

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Familiar Friday - Slit-Faced Bat

A very asymmetric specimen of the extremely symmetric Slit Faced Bat.

Will sing for spider egg sacks if you let him!

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Familiar Fridays - Leopard Seal

 It’s the start of the Christmas season so it felt appropriate to give a little love to a terrifying tundra beast from the Poles. And when it comes to horrors of ice, there’s no contest: the Leopard Seal wins every time.

Seriously though; did god just decide to make a seal into the scariest thing in the world and not care what anyone else thinks? You don’t need to be a penguin to be scared by these guys.

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Familiar Friday - Little Crow and Little Raven

Corvids are always welcomed here, of course, so why not the ‘littlest’ of them all (they aren’t actually the littlest corvids) the Little Crow and the Little Raven of each specific species.

Because it wasn’t hard enough for people to tell the difference between ravens and crows- they guys exist with their bugged out eyes, looking far more crow than raven-like and far more blackbird than crow-like. 

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Familiar Friday - Harvestman

You can’t have spring without the spiders! Or, at least, the arachnids! Here’s to the ever gentlemanly Harvestman, aka an ‘Opilion’ aka a ‘Daddy Long Legs Spiders’; Opilions are technically their own arachnids and not spiders- Whatever you call em- they’re one of my favorite arthropods.

My heart hurts when I find a harvestman curled all up in itself with my bathtub. A good man has died. A Daddy, no less!

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Familiar Friday - Valdostana Goat

A little love for the Valdostana Goat, a very ‘familiar’s familiar’. Known for their LOOOONG horns, regal posture and fighting-made personalities. Though like all goats, I imagine they can be incredibly doofy.