Hi, I've only just found this community...I just want to say you're doing amazing work rescuing Baxter....I fucking detest people who get animals and don't look after them properly, or exploit them
I'm glad Baxter is out of solitary confinement, and mixing with his new pals and his lady friends
According to this they announced the closures sometime around April 2022, so it's they old stock they're offloading
If a human fungal infection did this I'd be impressed!
I had to look this up, I had no idea what mentats are.
I only wish that my autism presented like this, I'd love a super memory. I can remember that I've read something once long ago, but it's vague, and also my maths is appalling....I do love that autism is a spectrum and that we're all unique in our presentation
This is a really fascinating comment, I'm aware of sickle cell being a problem, but it's surprising that there may be an advantage to having it. I've opened up the link in a new tab (one of the many) to read later
diversity makes communities stronger.
This is so important, not just from an autism perspective, I think I read once, long ago on the internet, that having a gay sibling would be a benefit for the non gay siblings offspring, in the same way that the grandmothers being around to help find extra food, provide care would mean a greater chance of survival
There has to be an evolutionary reason/explanation that gay people exist, and the fact that other animal and bird species will have same sex partnerships (and rear an abandoned egg to fledged juvenile in the case of the gay zoo penguins)
I also love the 'canaries in the coal mine' analogy, I think that the more people discover they are neurodiverse the better.
I only found out as an adult, and if I hadn't seen the Chris Packham documentary and met another autistic woman I'd still be none the wiser (and struggling massively)
I've really enjoyed reading your comments, I'll check out the link and post later on when I come back from work!
Pop on over we've got giant millipedes and a freaky grim creeper caterpillar!
Not according to what I've read, they like damp forest floors with plenty of organic matter, definitely not parasites in humans
I really want this thing to exist!
This is probably why some of my other posts of giant centipedes and the like didn't get much traction lol
Stiff upper lip, my friend! Lemmy needs to experience Camel Spiders 🕷️
I find that I'm both drawn the the building as well as the exhibits when I'm there, all the pillars are trees with texture and foliage (and monkeys too), the large room with the minerals has sea creatures carved onto the stonework. The carved wood, the floor even the outside with the metal drain pipes and tiled roof...it's a Temple to Nature, really beautiful place!
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....poor vole 😢
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Above Image 'Zebra Spider [lat. salticus scenicus]' by Rawbert|K|Photo, flickr
I really love those big eyed friends! Very fast and curious!
Camera Nikon D7000 with enlarger lens Nikkor EL-50/2.8 using two macro extension tubes and a special selfmade flashlight construction using the Nikon SB-600.
Above image, 'Zebra jumping spider, Salticus scenicus' by Frank Hendre, flickr
One of photographs in The Invertebrate Portrait shortlist for CUPOTY 5
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'Velvet Worm (Euperipatoides sp.)' by Stephen Zozaya. This velvet worm was photographed during a JCU field trip to Mt. Zero/Taravale Sanctuary, Paluma Range, Queensland, Australia. From flickr
Scientists have described some 180 modern species. They can be found in moist, dark places all around the tropics and Australia and New Zealand. Smaller species are less than an inch long, while the largest reach lengths of about 8 inches. Wired
They use slime as a weapon. Velvet worms are ambush predators, hunting other small invertebrates by night. To subdue their prey, they squirt a sticky, quick-hardening slime from a pair of glands on their heads. After the prey is ensnared, the velvet worm bites into it, injecting digestive saliva that helps liquefy the insides for easier snacking. The slime is energetically costly to make, so velvet worms will often eat any excess slime they have produced to shore up their reserves. Wired
They have lots of little stubby feet. Their feet are described as conical, baggy appendages. Depending on the species, a velvet worm can have between 13 and 43 pairs of feet. The feet are hollow, fluid-filled, and have no joints.
Each little stubby foot has a claw. Each foot is outfitted with a hooked claw made of chitin (lending the group its scientific name, *Onychophora *('Claw-Bearers')). Velvet worms use their claws when walking on uneven terrain; on smoother surfaces, they retract their claws and walk on the foot cushions at the base of the claws. Wired
More info on wikipedia
Reworked digiscoped little owl pics from the archives all Jpeg files taken in 2015 in Yorkshire
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Found on flickr
I remember that I had to chase this dragonfly around for about a half hour to even get one photo. I started to think it was just messing with me 😁. It would land a few feet away from me, let me slowly creep up ALMOST close enough to get a photo and then fly away again. Photographed at Brookside Gardens in Maryland on 7/19/23.
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One of the most amazing things I've EVER seen! While holidaying recently on Lewis and Harris, we had lovely walks (despite the weather) in Aline Community Woodland, where we spotted several "colonies" of Puss moth caterpillars on Willow. Looking more closely at several, I was amazed to see Scottish midgies,Culicoides impunctatus, feeding on them, then spotted one festooned with them, counting 29 on one side alone. Have cropped in (see second image) to show one of the midgies engorged with "green", whatever the equivalent to human blood is. Wow, who knew?
Found on flickr
Found on flickr
Found on flickr
I'm rather taken by the green one myself! I'll probably make it the star of its own post soon