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Come vote for my toad pls :3
I hate that I’m always trying to find cool biology themed stuff to wear but all the “nature inspired” clothing companies just have like two crossed arrows or a minimalistic mountain on a sweatshirt. Fucking lame, that’s barely even nature-adjacent. Put the life cycle of a salamander on a jacket, put hyena skeleton patterns on leggings, put a damn field guide of birds of prey on a peacoat and THEN you can have my money. Do NOT give me a shirt with a leaf on it that says “stay wild” or some bullshit I would much prefer clothing that broadcasts to everyone around me how many teeth an adult Jaguar has or how some pitcher plants can catch and digest rats.
Coyotes deserve less hate like they are so cute and people get angry when their just following their instincts.... like bro they were here first
"𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒕-𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒈𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔: 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒘𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒔𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒘𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆; 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒚𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔, 𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒔, 𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒔; 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔! 𝑰𝒇 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚".
-Lafcadio Hearn
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Spilostethus furcula
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19/03/2024 (13:11 p.m.)
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Nature's Miniature Masterpieces
Spilostethus furcula
Spilostethus furcula is a species of seed bug in the Lygaeidae family, found in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. It is also known as SPITFU.
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28/03/2024 (12:14 p.m.)
Once more, amidst the verdant beauty of my garden, I chanced upon this mesmerizing seed bug and preserved its beauty for eternity with my camera.
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I found this ‘About Me’ thing and I wanted to do it so people can get to know me more! I’ll add a blank copy if anyone wants to use it.
Also I don’t know who made this I found it on TikTok so all credits to who made this!!!
guys i just found out about this site that does a daily guessing game, it’s phylogenetic wordle- so fun!!!
It makes me sad to see how common the hate for zoos is in leftist circles. To me, zoos are so symbolic of the determination and optimism in leftist thought that I often use these facilities as an example to keep me going. So when I hear fellow leftists wanting to abolish zoos it makes breaks my spirit a bit. Especially considering how necessary zoos are in the fight against the current environmental crisis.
I am the first to admit that no zoo is perfect. I have worked at a world class, accredited, non-profit zoo and it was FAR from perfect. The institution treated me and the other workers like shit. Burnout, lean staffing, and poor adherence to safety protocols resulted in poorer animal welfare outcomes for the animals. And this is a world class facility. There are many facilities out there that shouldn't exist at all that are hardly better than the menageries of feudal kings.
BUT
Zoos are vital if we want our ecosystems to survive the current mass extinction event.
No other type of institution on earth has saved as many species as zoos. From tiny snails to 1-ton bison, entire species have been returned to the wild thanks to their preservation in zoos.
There are approximately 40 animal species listed as Extinct in the Wild by the IUCN, most of which ONLY exist in zoos and aquariums. Many of these animals are only able to be taken care of because of the decades of animal husbandry science and institutional knowledge built up by our zoos and aquaria by working with other species.
There are many extinctions I cry for, but the ones that hurt the most are the ones happening in front of our eyes. The Javan rhino is all but gone. It's estimated that there would need to be about 100 rhinos for the species to survive genetically intact. There are now less than that, and none in human care. All it would take is a single tsunami or volcanic eruption and the entire population could be wiped out.
But if there were some in human care, if we had acted sooner and established a breeding population based on the centuries of knowledge we have of caring for their closest relative, the Indian rhino, we could have saved them.
So, when I see leftists talking about how all zoos are inherently destructive, I ask you to think ahead. To when polar bears, chimpanzees, or elephants go extinct in their natural homes, don't you want a place where we can save them? Where experienced animal care professionals can foster a population in human care so that one day these creatures can return to their homes? A global system of world class facilities dedicated to the survival of wildlife? So even more creatures don't end up like the Javan rhino; a species we could've saved if we'd had the will and the space to do so? If there had more zoos instead of less?
I'm not asking you to love zoos, I'm just asking that you recognize the practical necessity of their existence in the modern age. We won't survive the coming crises without other species. And they won't survive without us.
behold: the largest land predator native to the entire continent of Australia. (second-largest prior to the extinction of the thylacine.)
tremble in fear.
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I see these fellows in my garden all the time during summer, in addition to the few resident hummingbirds! I can tell you with confidence that actual hummingbirds are significantly larger than the largest hummingbird moth you'll ever see (at least twice to three times as big).
Oddly enough, while there are hummingbird moths in Europe and North America, hummingbirds themselves are strictly New World animals. Any reports of hummingbirds outside of the Americas is either an escaped captive bird or, more likely, a hummingbird moth.
Bonus fun fact: here in NorAm we also have a different genus of moths with the same adaptations: the clearwing moths!
Have any of you ever heard of the hummingbird moths we get in Britain?
So, I thought I saw a hummingbird last year. It was much bigger than a bug could be, I thought, and it hovered around flowers and looked like it had feathers.
I got pretty close but it was never still enough to see clearly. Then, when I told my parents they said "oh! it was probably a moth!" and I was baffled for a long time. Like, how could a moth look like and act so much like a hummingbird?
Until I googled "hummingbirds in the UK" and this fucker comes up:
Everyone, meet the hummingbird hawk-moth; one of the weirdest and coolest cases of convergent evolution on this planet.
This is the kinda thing I'd see in fiction and go "oooh cool, bug hummingbird! Wish we had those on earth!" But we do. We really do have them on earth!! Isn't that nuts?!?!?
Dimorphodon (two form teeth)
era- Early Jurassic
family- Dimorphodontidae
location- Dorset England
length- 1m
wingspan- 1.45m
Dimorphodon was a unique early pterosaur, so much so that it was given its own family which it is the only member of. its large head had a large antorbital fenestra, ( a large hole in skull between the nostrals and the eyes) this made its big head light so it could easily lift it. Its named after its teeth, it has mostly longer sharper teeth in the top jaw, and a bunch of tiny teeth in the bottom. structurally it probably had a weak bite force but it was fast, so it might have eaten fast flying insects that dont require a strong bite to kill and eat.
