me when i see a cat: CAT! cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat
Fun fact: when I see cute animals, I forget English and automatically revert to my native Hungarian. I don’t know what bystanders make of me, reciting guttural gibberish to rabbits.
But the real question is, what are you SAYING to the rabbits? Is it ‘RABBIT! rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit bunny bunny bunny awww cute bunnyyyyy’?
Well, I usually say the Hungarian equivalent of ‘bun bun bun lil bun look at your tiny spoon-shaped ears awww bun brave little lawnmower bun’, but sometimes I say ‘hey rabbits, my sister’s gonna go to med school’ because I think everyone should know.
I live in Japan, and I always revert to English to talk to small animals, and I was cooing at this tiny little fluff machine of a puppy in baby english like “hello you’re so cute such a cute hello hello yess you’re good” and the 70 year old Japanese lady that was walking him started to *translate the baby talk english into Japanese* for her pup. She wanted to be sure he understood it too.
I talk to my two cats and the dog in a mixture of English, Spanish and Polish. They are trilingual. Mr. Reggie, who is an Ecuadorean dog, gets most of the conversations in English; good thing that “NOOOOOOOOO!!!” sounds the same in both.
Buhbuhbuh-bokeh. Pentagonal bokeh.
Temple animals.
In Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean territory of Australia, there are extensive subterranean habitats with a significant subterranean fauna, including endemic animals.
Now in christmas, scientists show you a new species of cave stygobitic prawn (strictly subterranean aquatic animals) and as probably you expected, is called Xmas stygobitic prawn (Macrobrachium xmas). Scientists released their finding yesterday december 25, in the journal Rafles Bulletin of Zoology
Macrobrachium is the most diverse genus in the family Palaemonidae with around 245 species. Its species have adapted well to many freshwater and estuarine habitats, but relatively few have made the move into subterranean environments. Currently, there are 12 stygobitic species of Macrobrachium.
You can now see Aurelia aurita at our spherical jellyfish tank, “Planet of the Jellyfish”. 〜 新江ノ島水族館(Enoshima Aquarium)
@why-animals-do-the-thing I’m no jellyfish expert, but doesn’t that tank look cramped?
Actually, for jellies, that tank is fine. They live well in high concentrations - just check out the photos of the lake population in Palau to get an idea of what they’re good with - and I’ve seen them in this density in the Boston harbor multiple summers in a row. This looks like a pretty cool tank for moon jellies, too; circular tanks are required for them to do well because they only move with current, so a sphere is a neat way to display them.
aspacelobster-deactivated201812 asked:
biologizeable answered:
This is a tough question to answer, if only because it varies from animal to animal! I know it can be kind of hard to find the point of certain animals, so I hope this brief, handy guide will help.
Let’s start with an easy one. The point of this animal is fairly obvious
Sometimes the point can be harder to find, but once you know what to look for, it’s easy
There’s more point to some animals than others, obviously:
And, of course, it is fairly easy to identify animals that have no point whatsoever
I hope this helped!
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Japan is known for its beautiful, vibrant, ethereal and enchanting spring. From its stunningly lush cherry blossom trees, we dare you to feast your eye on another one of its natural beauties.
