For some reason, when biologists want to describe “the assemblage of morphological features shared among many members of a phylum-level group” we say bauplan. Which is German for “body plan.” But even if you don’t speak German you say “bauplan” anyway. So this is a very hilarious Social Media Discourse from someone who has forgotten that the word “bauplan” is an instant giveaway that you are actually a biologist and that makes it fantastic it’s like when robots try to pretend that they’re human but better
Here’s the little platypus that’s taking the internet by storm! She’s so playful and loves to be tickled. Don’t worry–only the males have venomous spurs.
people who are afraid of snakes are fuckin’ WILD, like dude, just carefully step over these fat babies’ sausage bodies and gently move the burmese python chillin’ against the door, then you become unfathomably rich. i would do this for $10. i would do this for FREE.
Snakes that large are actually incredibly lethargic most of the time. Even if they haven’t eaten, they know they can’t eat you, just don’t hurt them and they pretty much don’t give a damn.
Dude, I don’t like snakes – I have a healthy respect for predators that large – but forserious, if you’re chill, most animals won’t give a fuck.
And that’s a LOT of money, too. A few non-venomous snakes? pfffft.
Mother cat with kittens came to meet an old friend.
I can’t believe we’ve already found the best animal video of 2016.
That is too adorable. You can tell the mother cat actually does trust the dog just by her body language. Typically a mother will watch her kittens closely and be very protective of them, here she completely trusts the dog to play gentle with them. This is just too damn cute.
When he bops the kitten and looks up at Mom to make sure he didn’t overstep!
The dog is trying to make himself as non-threatening as possible!!
All four otters on our first of four snow days. Tahoe has never seen snow before, he is the one in the back of the video not sure if he wants to step on it or not. Baxter, Ryer, and Shasta are the ones going crazy. We bring in the 2000lbs of snow bucket by bucket in the morning before we put them on exhibit.
Don’t put it back, its an aggressive invasive species
Christ
That’s a lot of nuggets right there
can u imagine going noodlin and this chomps down on you oh my god
Duuuuude!! Catfish grow to the amount of food there is which means the river these guys came from must be plentiful as fuck, or it’s eating the native species. PSA: do NOT catch and release catfish. The fuckers will screw with the rivers ecosystem if they’re not native to the area. These are the sort of size fish that WILL have a go at eating people as well, they will probs chock but yeah. Catfish have little to no sight, since they’re bottom feeders they scout for food mostly using their feelers, and just swallow whatever they think can fit in their mouths.
I watch a lot of Jeremy Wades River Monsters when I’m bored. The shit he films is ridiculous and I love it.
Edit: Cat fish are also cannibals if there’s no other food source.
There’s a couple of these big suckers in the Lahn in Limburg. It’s one of the places that they take people to do diving instruction and training in Germany and sometimes the divers come back completely horrified because they crossed paths with something straight out of Lovecraft and the instructors are like “Oh, you saw the catfish.”
I guess if that doesn’t scare you off of diving, nothing will.
They also pose as different people online… dangerous creatures
I FOUND IT! And on Elodie’s blog no less. Someone give me a detective award
holy SHIT you found something on my blog? on my TUMBLR blog, with your own hands, you found something you were looking for? Something THIS old? JEsus FUCK, yes, @meromattandin you get an AWARD
Ok but catching those two was a Sampei level feat, jesus look at the size of those things.
Steel Phoenix Studios 