// cw: for animals and insects that might freak you out!
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if i look back, i am lost
Show & Tell

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d e v o n

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DEAR READER
Stranger Things
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
we're not kids anymore.

#extradirty
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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// cw: for animals and insects that might freak you out!
This kid is so fucking good holy shit. I love how into it the audience is, too
yeah dude
[Description: TikTok video from @/diabetic4one in which a kid is standing in front of a microphone in a school gymnasium holding up bird plushies and very precisely imitating the sounds each bird makes, as the audience of other children becomes more and more excited and impressed. Below it is a still from the video of a kid in the front row turning around and making a "mind blown" gesture. /end description]
Proboscis Bat Rhynchonycteris naso
It is found from southern Mexico to Belize, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil, as well as in Trinidad. The bats are nocturnal, sleeping during the day in an unusual formation: most of them line up, one after another, on a branch or wooden beam, nose to tail, in a straight row.
In the photo, the two bats on the lower left are carrying young.
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I really love how dedicated these guys are to queuing.
*Whimpers*
This is the jumping spider Neobrettus tibialis photographed in Indonesia by wildsumatra on iNaturalist.
Dorsal view by the same photographer:
And from the side:
Antilles Pinktoe Tarantula (Caribena versicolor), family Theraphosidae, endemic to Martinique in the Caribbean
The juveniles are mostly blue.
photos: Urban Tarantulas, Jimmy Reid, Chase Campbell
Huge fan of the fluffy spiders you've been putting on my dash today 10/10 would quietly mutter "fupfy..." to myself before scrolling on again.
Well, how do you feel about this special friend?
Panama Blond Tarantula (Psalmopoeus pulcher), female, family Therphosidae, Panama
photograph by Eric Reynolds
>see bird creeping up and down a tree trunk >look it up >common treecreeper
can't make this shit up
we just keep naming bugs like this
uses him to scroll on tumblr for 2 hours
Was lucky today being able to watch a dipper dip for quite a while. Such a cute bird.
White-throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus)
schimdtocean on instagram
Ploop ploop ploop
POV you made a popular post about insects
@core-vortex
This isn't true and is one of the misconceptions this post is about. Please think, for five entire seconds, about how absolutely batshit insane the claim "3,500 species of fly and 850 species of arachnid have no impact on the food web whatsoever" is. Nature doesn't evolve life for shits and giggles. Mosquitos are vital pollinators. Ticks, like many parasites, balance resources throughout the ecosystem.
Spreading this kind of misinformation uncritically is how you end up with corporations spraying pesticides like its going out of style and causing mass biodiversity death.
Basically every time humans have decided to play god, it leads to a bunch of academic papers in the next decade title "Why Did Anyone Think Playing God Was A Good Idea: The Horrific Impacts"
Is a healthy ecosystem one that is rich in parasites?
From prey to pollinator: Unmasking the diverse ecological roles of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)
Parasites boosts biodiversity and changes animal community structure by trait-mediated indirect effects
Parasites, disease and the structure of ecological communities
When parasites become prey: ecological and epidemiological significance of eating parasites
A world without mosquitoes? It's not as great an idea as it may seem
What Purpose do Mosquitoes Serve?
What Purpose Do Ticks Serve in the Ecosystem?
From bug to drug—tick saliva could be key to treating heart disease
The ecological significance of manipulative parasites.
Ten years in the making: The story behind the award-winning photo of an elusive brown hyena stalking Namibia's diamond ghost towns.
LOOK AT THEM THEY'RE SO CUTE 😭😭😭
The baby Venezuelan Sun Tiger Tarantula spiderlings are growing up!
If anyone wants to know what a leopard seal sounds like 🦷🩸
Leopard Seals are what happens when god needs a lizard and all he has is a mammal
leopard seal topic activated; i am so sorry to my long time followers who have seen me do this like ten times but i just can't help myself
OH MY GOD
That is a monster (respectful) If it was a lizard it would be a dragon.
They can be bigger than the biggest grizzly bears. They are about the size of a horse, just without the stilt legs. And their faces are hiding teeth like this (sorry it's kind of gross but it shows the teeth best)
Here's a leopard seal skull next to a horse skull
they can get as big as 12 feet and can weigh like 1,200 pounds. They can swim 35 miles an hour and eat only meat - regularly eating giant penguins that weigh more than 100 pounds each, and anything else they feel like they can kill. And they're pretty smart. Only an Orca is a more dangerous hunter in arctic waters, and even they usually leave a leopard seal alone.
A seal's closest land relative is a bear, and leopard seals will regularly hunt other seals, making this a bear that eats bears, but built for the ocean. You know, the terrifying ocean? A bear that lives there that eats the other bears that live there.