May 9, 2025
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 - 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.
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.
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.
Familiar Fridays - Tiger Shark
Dananananana-na-na-na-NAH SHARKSSS! Uh-oh! Tiger Shark spotted. I’ve always been scared of them ever since my dad told me they’re behind most shark attacks in real life- but something tells me this lovely lady doesn’t appreciate my tone…
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!
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.
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.