Creatures!

Two-tailed spider, Hersilia sp., Hersiliidae

Photographed in Singapore by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

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Green Earthworm (Aporrectodea smaragdina), family Lumbricidae, Slovenia

photographs by Ton van Haaren

Austria - photograph by Manfred Auer

Michael Kerbow - Adaptive Reuse

Norbertine Bresslern-Roth (Austrian,1891-1978)

Haselmäuse (Pygmy Possums), 1922

color woodcut

The eel mural is finished!!! Thank u so much to everyone who bought a print / anything from my shop and helped make this happen!!

I recorded the whole process so I'll post some vids of that soon if ppl are interested!!

We’ve got double trouble! It looks like these little guys have gotten into the matches…. Uh can someone please get them out of there before they set something else on fire?

Made me think of this

Cicada shaped Knick knacks, how lovely✨

by Tom Brown from Kanahau - Utila Research and Conservation Facility

I love my horrid naked son

Mexican treehopper, Membracis mexicana, Membracidae

Photos by magazhu

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#228 - #229. While male Houndoom are solitary, females often make pacts with herding pokémon, offering protection from other hunters. In trade, they choose a member of the herd to feast on when hungry and safety for their pups.

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#194 (paldea) - #980. Unlike their johtonian cousin, the Clodsire line prefers wet mud and bogs to bathe on. They love getting mud on their trainers as a sign of love, and will get sad if you wash it off. Unfortunately, that mud is also very poisonous.

Sicko Animal

asbestos-free cornflakes

I actually know this one!

There's a traditional coconut farming technique in Thailand where they send monkeys into the trees to pick the coconuts. This is like a traditional centuries old thing that doesn't hurt the monkeys at all. Since Thailand is in asia, animal rights groups have been focusing on it the last few years as some kind of issue even though if a monkey doesn't want to do something there's nothing you can really do to make it do that because it's a monkey.

Nonetheless racist "animal rights" groups go around discussing it as though it's slavery or a labour rights issue. Personally I think they're being paid by people who get coconuts some other way but I can't prove anything.

Anyway, it's basically MSG again in that it catches on because of anti-asian stereotyping and none of the allegations are true or really even make sense when you look at them. Animal labour in agriculture is really well-established. That's where we get the term "horsepower". Because horses were doing the. The power. But there are no monkeys in Europe so Europeans didn't do that so it's an evil rights issue.

We domesticate animals and use them for labour. Big if true.

We domesticate

animals and use them for

labour. Big if true.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Like. As far as I can tell the monkeys in question are macaques, which... Yeah you're not getting a macaque, the monkey known primarily for attacking humans, to do anything it doesn't want to do, especially through violence. They use violence to establish dominance and that's a battle the macaque will always win. This npr article says every couple of trees the monkeys get inspected for ants and a little massage, and every other link in the search I did was from PETA, so. Yeah pretty sure the monkeys are fine.