GENDEROUBOROS

Lowland Anoa (Bubalus depressicornis)

Splendid Odorous Frog (Odorrana splendida), family Ranidae, Amami, Japan

photograph by Yuji Abematsu

Mommy bat shows her new borns to the sanctuary workers.

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I Fucking Love Bats So Fuxkign Much

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Spectacled caiman By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

Cephalopod lovers, have you ever heard of the Dumbo octopus? 🐙 Members of the genus Grimpoteuthis, these critters are the deepest-living octopus known to science and can be found near the seafloor at depths of up to 13,000 ft (4,000 m). These adorable cephalopods flap their ear-like fins as they move through the water—a behavior that inspired scientists to name the genus Grimpoteuthis after Disney’s flying elephant. Unlike many other octopuses, Dumbo octopuses do not have ink sacs. Some scientists think it’s because they rarely encounter predators in their extremely remote, deep-sea habitats.

Photo: NOAA Okeanos Explorer, CC0, Wikimedia Commons

Realized I have a naked rat and a small piano

Here's Harry banging out the tunes, April 13th 2023

May I present to you Wheel Running In the Wild, a published research paper that delights me to no end:

This paper intended to test whether would mice would run on a wheel if they found one, to try and determine if this was a natural behavior or a stress response in captivity. They put a wheel in a protected little box with a camera that took pictures any time the wheel turned, and tallied up how often it was used by what.

Mice were, happily, the most common users of the wheel, and their patterns of use indicated they were doing so voluntarily once they figured it out.

But the second most common users.

Those were slugs.

A pine marten (Martes martes) and a sable (Martes zibellina) photographed in Russia's Vishera Nature Reserve in the Ural Mountains, where the range of both species overlaps.

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Today's crab is: sand flea

pig from my last farm job that used to be a therapy animal at a retirement home but it kept biting old people so my boss took it

A Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) covered in pondweeds in Chobe National Park, Botswana

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Everyone please look at this snapping turtle, walking to the pond outside my house, still groggy from a 6-month nap.

the music made this one of the most hilarious things i have ever seen, thank you so much.

GJJGJRKGNH THE MUSIC GOES UNDERWATER WITH THE TURTLE

I was looking for a good picture of a hellbender for an article I’m writing and I found these which maybe aren’t “good” for an article but my god are they Good

Green Salamander (Aneides aeneus), family Plethodontidae, Appalachian Mountains, WV, USA

photograph by Frank Gebhard