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@teenyfish
Well it’s been a minute since I posted on here--I’ve been busy visiting my family back in Virginia for three weeks, and before that I was taking care of fish and working on pet portrait commissions for the holidays.
Hoping to post some non-digital art soon.
Here are some of my favorites from the pet portraits I’ve done this year.
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Brine would taste…brine-y. Super salty. You’d be fine.
Speaking of which I need to go hatch some brine shrimp for the baby flounder I have coming in next week. FYI they are just sea monkeys.
Babe, wake up. New benefit to being a marine biologist just dropped!
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But like what’s the point of going to get your masters or PhD in marine bio if you can’t name animals the silliest names you can think of.
Mother Whale's Funeral
This is so creepy and beautiful
oh! oh oh oh. i never showed ya’ll how big a blue whale skull is, hold on
I want to be a little raccoon and live there :(
That’s not a blue whale skull. The shape is too narrow, its also far too small. That’s probably the skull of a Sei, Bryde’s or small fin whale.
THIS is a blue’s skull!!
Oh my gosh this fucker could fit so many racoons
Yah
Well I, a late-to-the game post-tumblr-collapse millennial managed to get 200 followers/mutuals and to celebrate and say thank you I’m giving you some cursed fish from my fish art collection. Whenever I get my art reblogged it makes my day ya’ll.
Top left - Myctophidae or Lanternfish
Top right - Coelacanth
Bottom Left - Greenland Shark + parasitic eyeball copepod
Bottom Right - Humpback Anglerfish + lanternfish prey
Sometimes this scene will pop into my head and I can’t stop thinking about how I need stanley tucci to be my dad
Let! That! Baby! Eat!!!!!!
Perfect tags
I love contemplating how actually scary this is. Nothing in horror movies affects me anymore but I get the most wonderful chills from the idea of these beautiful, haunting, mindless things just hovering in this murky water like a minefield for anyone foolish enough to go swimming or unlucky enough to fall in. How it’s still not as bad as being a fish small enough for them to paralyze and consume. How they regularly paralyze and consume fish but evolved before anything like a fish ever existed. A fish is such a complex creature that can see and think and navigate and be afraid but sometimes it touches these brainless, boneless, ghostly things that were just already there, millions of years sooner, and it dies and it never understands why that is. The thing that killed it and ate it doesn’t know either, it doesn’t know anything. It doesn’t have enough of a brain to even realize it has killed and eaten something. Some of its cells simply fired little harpoons into the cells of the other thing, and squirted deadly chemicals into them, and hauled up the paralyzed body to digest it. It’s a spider’s web without a spider but it still fills things with venom and eats them. :)
The best jellyfish are those that seem to trail off into forever. Like Chrysaora achlyos my beloved…
Images like that haunted me as a kid
lol does this mean lions mane jellies are eldrich horrors? 10/10
The worst ones to me are sea nettles though. Make me break out in hives like a mother. June and July are my least favorite field sampling periods because you can not escape the stingers.
I might be a little biased but I’m honestly starting to believe that there’s no purer form of love than the defensive spite you see from biologists that have devoted their life to the study of a maligned or misunderstood species. For example:
The hyena biologist that arranged for Disney animators to come sketch captive hyenas for The Lion King film (Laurence Frank) was so incensed when the animals were depicted as villains in the movie that he later included boycotting the film on a list of ways the average person could help hyena conservation.
Though it’s commonly known that Charles Darwin’s distaste for parasitic wasps played a role in his development of evolution theory (since he felt no loving God would create animals with such a disturbing life cycle), the biologists who study these wasps find it an unfair characterization. When they were tasked with coming up with a common name for the family of parasitic wasps (Ichneumonidae) that old Charles so disliked, they proposed the name “Darwin Wasps” to spite the famous naturalist who had insulted their beloved family of insects.
Parasitologist Tommy Leung was so frustrated with the way people write about parasites to evoke horror and gore that he started writing a Parasite of the Day blog, that specifically avoids inflammatory or unsettling language to describe them. He also illustrates different species in colorful anime art on Twitter in a series called Parasite Monster Girls—which he calls his “love letter to parasites.”
I guess I’m just saying that if you’re a biologist studying an unpopular species and you have a little bit of a chip on your shoulder about it you can always count on me to be in your corner if you want to get a little petty with the public!
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HA! @cantankerouscanuck I love how you think of me first. Absolutely the way all shark biologists think, and I’m on that boat to. If you get bit by a shark, you are in their habitat, it’s on you boo boo. If you die? Absolutely it’s an awful tragedy, but it’s not going to be made better by hunting down that shark (and you will probably kill a lot of “innocent” sharks in the process because how do you know what shark it was).
Personally, I don’t study any particularly misunderstood species, but I study a lot of non-charismatic animals (i.e. not a beautiful large mammal, bird, or fish that has behavior that we can project on) that often are significantly more important to the ecosystems they inhabit than the charismatic predators because they are at the base of the food chain and support everything else above them (I study shrimp and juvenile fishes mostly). Juvenile fish research is also important because they will eventually recruit to large adult populations of fish that we rely on as food resources (and the large charismatic animals do as well).
One driver already quit and NASCAR responded with basically “we had to google you because nobody knew who the fuck you were”
Nascar started because they said fuck cops and its nice to see they havent lost their roots completely.
That is the sexiest thing a corporation ever said.
this is what I’m talking about. Real southern rednecks. The kind that started a sport because they were building fast cars to bootleg and run away from cops. The kind that were big union men pushing back against corrupt capitalism and had more in common with socialist ideals. The rednecks who recognize that rural communities benefit more from cooperation among themselves than isolation, even with those different from you. The kind that hunt for subsistence (not sport) and recognize that the land is changing and that you should eat what you kill.
I’m certainty not saying that all southern rednecks were like this, weren’t racist or bigoted, but a lot of them had their roots here, and were more rebels against the norm than anything else, and certainly didn’t like the police. What I am saying are that these middle class white suburban families with salt life/browning stickers, listen to Luke Bryant clone country pop, watch modern NASCAR without knowing or understanding it’s history, and worship the cops are not rednecks. Don’t let them tell you otherwise. They are posers. Thanks NASCAR for sticking to your roots.
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gosh i wish i was this comfortable with color theory to paint like this.
May I present to you the antithesis to “there are many benefits to being a marine biologist.” The sad rock crew.
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thanks @cantankerouscanuck for feeding into my cave claustrophobia fear. If you want to know what this is about, listen to the Mother Nature Will Kill You podcast here. New episode is up next Monday.
Do u guys think at the bottom of the ocean there are fish with feet 2 walk on it?
yes
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thats the weirdest looking sea robin I’ve ever seen.
We used to catch northern sea robin all the time in the Chesapeake Bay. They looked much more cute/pretty. They still do be walkin’ around on their fingers though. The fingers/feet are just modified fin rays from their pectoral fins that have evolved into fingers that move around separately to the fin. Pretty dope.
A frustrating part of the mainstream vegan “love all animals and protect the environment” mindset is the fact that things need to die in real-life ecology all the time but deer hunting season makes icky feelings and carp culls aren’t cottagecore
The vegan “any animal death ever is morally wrong” mindset doesn’t hold up when:
We don’t have any of the large predators we used to (black bears, mountain lions, or gray wolves) but still retain large deer populations. If nothing is removing animals, they’ll quickly overload the carrying capacity of the environment and have massive losses to starvation and disease that can also pass on to livestock. Human hunters replace the large predators that our landscape can no longer support.
It’s kinder to euthanize an un-releasable hawk rather than try to find it a permanent home with humans. Wildlife rehabs have extremely limited space and resources and are usually run entirely on donated money and volunteer time. Only a few are large and stable enough to care for permanent residents long-term, and those spots are few and far between.
An invasive species poses a danger to threatened native wildlife. I will admit- Australian possums are adorable. But not in New Zealand, where they’re an invasive species that eats the eggs of ground-dwelling birds that previously had no such predators. The landowners I worked with replanting native bush, all native Maori, had no qualms about setting the dogs on them.
I don’t know how to end this except. Sometimes things just gotta die and acting otherwise just isn’t a realistic expectation.
OMG THIS THIS THIS. THIS IS MY BIOLOGIST HOT TAKE. Was just talking about this with my husband. This is why PETA pisses me off (besides like everything else that the do as well) because they get mad when you cull animals like wild boars which are destroying natural ecological habitat necessary for native species to survive. Or to keep invasive catfish or lionfish from eating all of the native species we have. The name of the game in biology right now is conserving what we still DO have, and increasing biodiversity as it results in higher resilience for these ecosystems to bounce back from natural disasters like hurricanes and fires. So if we have to get rid of some invasive, that’s no sweat off our backs so we can protect native animals and plants.
I will say though, if you CAN find a wildlife rehabber, go for it, but yes, rehabbing is hard and often done on the rehabber’s own time. I got to see the good side of this while working at a zoo/aquarium that almost exclusively took in un-releasable wildlife, but we were a larger facility that could handle it.
Hunting and fishing are good and important when done correctly and informed with scientific research, especially because we have eliminated most if not all apex predators on every continent except for Africa, and those predators were extremely important in keeping ecological balance (see the Yellowstone or Isle Royal wolves for example). And subsistence fishing and hunting (i.e. ecologically RESPONSABLE recreational hunting and fishing, not trophy stuff) is an important way for humans to connect with nature and their own roots. Also, you don’t want to see a deer with chronic wasting disease. It’s a bad time.
Its time for a fresh start *wakes up in a mangrove*
Mangroves are my favorite coastal habitat. Sunken forest with sharks and sponges and clear water? Tropical maze of wonders? Yes please.
if I was rich i would absolutely go all out weird. commission books handwritten in a made up language. erect strange black spires in the wood. buy a boat, make it look like a perfect copy of one that was used in an 18th century antarctic expedition, and then let it drift to shore miles away. i want every interaction with me to leave people with a sense of impending cosmic horror.
me, painstakingly arranging a fake alien-like skeleton sitting at a desk in the hidden room behind my bookcase: this is going to be so cool when they find this in 50 years
Rich people are so boring when they could be out there doing this shit.
(The 150 or so who have private luxury submarines are exempt but on thin fucking ice)
I feel targeted.
