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Some funny guys!
Some funny guys!
try the dik dik its a small antelope
it has massive eyes and a long pointy snout
it screams at things that frighten it and has a scenting gland near its eye
although cute you could always subvert it
as their wailing screams and blank huge eyes could be creepy if framed correctly
they are rather facinating
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mIzswisI86Q
another would be the indonesian gliding snake
it stretches its body out wide to use as a sail gliding tree to tree
to snack on some tasty lizards which too can glide
they are super cool
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=16aGSx9gFO4
it has massive eyes and a long pointy snout
it screams at things that frighten it and has a scenting gland near its eye
although cute you could always subvert it
as their wailing screams and blank huge eyes could be creepy if framed correctly
they are rather facinating
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mIzswisI86Q
another would be the indonesian gliding snake
it stretches its body out wide to use as a sail gliding tree to tree
to snack on some tasty lizards which too can glide
they are super cool
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=16aGSx9gFO4
try the dik dik its a small antelope
it has massive eyes and a long pointy snout
it screams at things that frighten it and has a scenting gland near its eye
although cute you could always subvert it
as their wailing screams and blank huge eyes could be creepy if framed correctly
they are rather facinating
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mIzswisI86Q
another would be the indonesian gliding snake
it stretches its body out wide to use as a sail gliding tree to tree
to snack on some tasty lizards which too can glide
they are super cool
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=16aGSx9gFO4
it has massive eyes and a long pointy snout
it screams at things that frighten it and has a scenting gland near its eye
although cute you could always subvert it
as their wailing screams and blank huge eyes could be creepy if framed correctly
they are rather facinating
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mIzswisI86Q
another would be the indonesian gliding snake
it stretches its body out wide to use as a sail gliding tree to tree
to snack on some tasty lizards which too can glide
they are super cool
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=16aGSx9gFO4
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[quote name="coolrat" date="2020-09-26 18:24:12" ]
the olm
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long axolotl
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Axolotl noodle
ChickenDinner wrote on 2020-09-26 19:47:23:
coolrat wrote on 2020-09-26 18:24:12:
the olm
Nothing much to say here.
[i]Tullimonstrum gregarium.[/i] Not only does it look weird, but no one actually has any idea [i]what[/i] it was. Scientists have been arguing for ages.
Is it a fish? A mollusc? An arthropod? A worm? Who knows? It's a mystery.
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Tullimonstrum_NT_small.jpg[/img]
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Tullimonstrum gregarium. Not only does it look weird, but no one actually has any idea what it was. Scientists have been arguing for ages.
Is it a fish? A mollusc? An arthropod? A worm? Who knows? It's a mystery.
Is it a fish? A mollusc? An arthropod? A worm? Who knows? It's a mystery.
Maned Wolf! These guys are my favourite animal because they remind me of the struggle with long legs-
Also they're just so freakin cute
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They're like deer - fox - wolves heh
Also sorry if someone already said these little guys, I haven't checked the whole thread-
Maned Wolf! These guys are my favourite animal because they remind me of the struggle with long legs-
Also they're just so freakin cute
They're like deer - fox - wolves heh
Also sorry if someone already said these little guys, I haven't checked the whole thread-
Also they're just so freakin cute
They're like deer - fox - wolves heh
Also sorry if someone already said these little guys, I haven't checked the whole thread-
go check them out :] ^
[quote name="Fractals" date="2020-09-15 23:48:26" ]
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Someone please make a meme of this ^
In other news, I am rather partial to the oarfish, ocean sunfish, and beluga sturgeon. I would also like to second the barreleye fish and camel spider, and add water boatmen, jumping bristletails, and velvet worms as fun creepy-crawly creatures.
EDIT: also garden eels!! I saw these in a desert museum a year ago. They're so funny looking.
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Fractals wrote on 2020-09-15 23:48:26:
Someone please make a meme of this ^
In other news, I am rather partial to the oarfish, ocean sunfish, and beluga sturgeon. I would also like to second the barreleye fish and camel spider, and add water boatmen, jumping bristletails, and velvet worms as fun creepy-crawly creatures.
EDIT: also garden eels!! I saw these in a desert museum a year ago. They're so funny looking.
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[font=American Gothic][size=4]*Eyes this thread*
*Scurries out with my parasites*
HELLO WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT OUR LORD AND SAVIOR- THE PARASITE?
Parasites are really neat creatures. Really neat. It has independently evolved amongst animals alone an insane amount- over the hundreds! They get a bad rep, but they are really understudied and important to the ecosystem.
-Parasites can actually benefit the entire system, if not the host. Certain parasitical worms that drown grasshoppers actually feel trout and other fish. Parasites can also help to regulate species that could become very harmful to the environment if overpopulated.
-The loss of a parasite species risks the rise of a more dangerous one. Apart from parasitoids, most parasites would like to keep their hosts alive. A new parasite species will struggle with achieving a symbiosis with its host, and possibly kill it.
There is much, much more, but parasites are unfortunately very understudied. They are stereotyped as monstrous aberrations that are Bad and must be eliminated. It is possible that over a third of parasitical species are threatened with extinction. This is very bad. So, to talk about parasites in a more positive light, I'm going to show some photos of some parasitical barnacles I like.
[i]-Sacculina carcini:[/i]
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Sacculina_carcini.jpg[/img]
[i]S. carcini[/i] right here is a parasitical barnacle that acts as a parasitical castrator. In an evolutionary sense, it is a parasitoid to bloodlines. Males are rather small, while the females are larger and tendril-y (see the buttery lump on the crab). The females, when they find a crabby host, inject some of their cell in, then [i]leave the rest of their body behind.[/i] Meanwhile, the cell injection begins to spread and grow tendrils, acting like a cancer (carcini). Kind-of like [i]Alien![/I]
Then it gets weird: once it has developed, the blob-barnacle (now the externa which carries barnacle eggs) emerges where the crab would carry its own eggs, if female. If the host is male, then the barnacle alters its hormonal cycles so that it would look like and behave like a female crab. Because of that, the crab will believe the blob is its eggs and protect them, all-the-while being cut-off from the evolutionary game. Cool, huh? I personally think so.
EDIT: Oh yeah! I forgot to mention! Did you know [i]L. pygmaea[/i] is an hyperparasitic isopod that parasitizes [i]B. callosus[/i], which is a parasitic barnacle like [i]S. carcini.[/i] It parasitically castrates the externa, just like how the barnacle castrates the crab. Nature is a strange circle, constantly in flux. Parasites parasitizing parasites parasitizing crabs. Such a wonderful circle.
[i]-Dendrogaster: [/i][img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Dendrogaster_sp.jpg[/img]
This fellow mainly parasitizes echinoderms and cnidarians. The female is that big, branching form that will be in, for example, a sea star's coelomic cavity. The males are really small in comparison, and live in the female's mantle cavity. I'm not going to ramble about this one as much because of below...
Here's an [url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339291356_Three_New_Species_of_Dendrogaster_Crustacea_Ascothoracida_Infecting_Goniasterid_Sea-Stars_Echinodermata_Asteroidea_from_Japan]essay[/url] about [i]Dendrogaster[/i], don't know if it is openable in every country, but it is interesting.
*Eyes this thread*
*Scurries out with my parasites*
HELLO WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT OUR LORD AND SAVIOR- THE PARASITE?
Parasites are really neat creatures. Really neat. It has independently evolved amongst animals alone an insane amount- over the hundreds! They get a bad rep, but they are really understudied and important to the ecosystem.
-Parasites can actually benefit the entire system, if not the host. Certain parasitical worms that drown grasshoppers actually feel trout and other fish. Parasites can also help to regulate species that could become very harmful to the environment if overpopulated.
-The loss of a parasite species risks the rise of a more dangerous one. Apart from parasitoids, most parasites would like to keep their hosts alive. A new parasite species will struggle with achieving a symbiosis with its host, and possibly kill it.
There is much, much more, but parasites are unfortunately very understudied. They are stereotyped as monstrous aberrations that are Bad and must be eliminated. It is possible that over a third of parasitical species are threatened with extinction. This is very bad. So, to talk about parasites in a more positive light, I'm going to show some photos of some parasitical barnacles I like.
-Sacculina carcini:
S. carcini right here is a parasitical barnacle that acts as a parasitical castrator. In an evolutionary sense, it is a parasitoid to bloodlines. Males are rather small, while the females are larger and tendril-y (see the buttery lump on the crab). The females, when they find a crabby host, inject some of their cell in, then leave the rest of their body behind. Meanwhile, the cell injection begins to spread and grow tendrils, acting like a cancer (carcini). Kind-of like Alien!
Then it gets weird: once it has developed, the blob-barnacle (now the externa which carries barnacle eggs) emerges where the crab would carry its own eggs, if female. If the host is male, then the barnacle alters its hormonal cycles so that it would look like and behave like a female crab. Because of that, the crab will believe the blob is its eggs and protect them, all-the-while being cut-off from the evolutionary game. Cool, huh? I personally think so.
EDIT: Oh yeah! I forgot to mention! Did you know L. pygmaea is an hyperparasitic isopod that parasitizes B. callosus, which is a parasitic barnacle like S. carcini. It parasitically castrates the externa, just like how the barnacle castrates the crab. Nature is a strange circle, constantly in flux. Parasites parasitizing parasites parasitizing crabs. Such a wonderful circle.
-Dendrogaster:
This fellow mainly parasitizes echinoderms and cnidarians. The female is that big, branching form that will be in, for example, a sea star's coelomic cavity. The males are really small in comparison, and live in the female's mantle cavity. I'm not going to ramble about this one as much because of below...
Here's an essay about Dendrogaster, don't know if it is openable in every country, but it is interesting.
*Scurries out with my parasites*
HELLO WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT OUR LORD AND SAVIOR- THE PARASITE?
Parasites are really neat creatures. Really neat. It has independently evolved amongst animals alone an insane amount- over the hundreds! They get a bad rep, but they are really understudied and important to the ecosystem.
-Parasites can actually benefit the entire system, if not the host. Certain parasitical worms that drown grasshoppers actually feel trout and other fish. Parasites can also help to regulate species that could become very harmful to the environment if overpopulated.
-The loss of a parasite species risks the rise of a more dangerous one. Apart from parasitoids, most parasites would like to keep their hosts alive. A new parasite species will struggle with achieving a symbiosis with its host, and possibly kill it.
There is much, much more, but parasites are unfortunately very understudied. They are stereotyped as monstrous aberrations that are Bad and must be eliminated. It is possible that over a third of parasitical species are threatened with extinction. This is very bad. So, to talk about parasites in a more positive light, I'm going to show some photos of some parasitical barnacles I like.
-Sacculina carcini:
S. carcini right here is a parasitical barnacle that acts as a parasitical castrator. In an evolutionary sense, it is a parasitoid to bloodlines. Males are rather small, while the females are larger and tendril-y (see the buttery lump on the crab). The females, when they find a crabby host, inject some of their cell in, then leave the rest of their body behind. Meanwhile, the cell injection begins to spread and grow tendrils, acting like a cancer (carcini). Kind-of like Alien!
Then it gets weird: once it has developed, the blob-barnacle (now the externa which carries barnacle eggs) emerges where the crab would carry its own eggs, if female. If the host is male, then the barnacle alters its hormonal cycles so that it would look like and behave like a female crab. Because of that, the crab will believe the blob is its eggs and protect them, all-the-while being cut-off from the evolutionary game. Cool, huh? I personally think so.
EDIT: Oh yeah! I forgot to mention! Did you know L. pygmaea is an hyperparasitic isopod that parasitizes B. callosus, which is a parasitic barnacle like S. carcini. It parasitically castrates the externa, just like how the barnacle castrates the crab. Nature is a strange circle, constantly in flux. Parasites parasitizing parasites parasitizing crabs. Such a wonderful circle.
-Dendrogaster:
This fellow mainly parasitizes echinoderms and cnidarians. The female is that big, branching form that will be in, for example, a sea star's coelomic cavity. The males are really small in comparison, and live in the female's mantle cavity. I'm not going to ramble about this one as much because of below...
Here's an essay about Dendrogaster, don't know if it is openable in every country, but it is interesting.
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[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Spring_Hare_%28Pedetes_capensis%29_%286042009463%29.jpg[/img]
Spring hares are a good one
[img]https://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/images/facts-about-spring-hare.jpg[/img]
As are muntjac
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Spring hares are a good one
As are muntjac
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