Eight arms, hundreds of disguises. The mimic octopus shifts shape and color to imitate more intimidating animals–fanning arms out like a lethal lionfish or slithering like a sea snake.
Meet this mimicry master in our Tentacles exhibit
People are always so surprised by my relationship to animals, they think I should “love” them a whole lot more than I do. But in 24 years I think the most important thing I’ve learned about caring for animals is that love is not actually a huge part of it. I mean it is, obviously. But it’s so damaging too, it’s like the antithesis to balance. Unchecked it results in dogmatic, self-serving fervor. More important than love to your relationship with animals: respect, understanding, critical thinking, thoughtfulness, kindness, gentleness. Empathy. Perspective. Distance and space when necessary. The ability to let go.
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The highly anticipated “Bee Yourself” and “Queen Bee” pins are here!!
I’m so happy with how these turned out, and I hope you like them too! Read a little more below about how I’m using these to help the bees, or order yours now at marycapaldi.storenvy.com!
Seven species of bee have recently been placed on the U.S. Endangered species list. Bees and other pollinators are super important to our agriculture and survival, so let’s help them together! I’m donating 25% of the purchase price of each pin to the Pollinator Partnership monthly, now through the end of January 2017. Please help me spread the word about this project so we can make a difference!
The bees do so much for us - let’s take an opportunity to do something for them! Order “Bee Yourself” or “Queen Bee” to help out and get a special pin to show for it!
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Really pleased to have been asked to have one of my illustrations appear on the wonderfully inspirational and educational site “Once Upon a Picture: images to inspire.” I’m intrigued to find out how impressionable minds view my octopus…
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I like to imagine Lighthouse Demo Raziel is another Raziel in a separate timeline….in a universe where nothing exists outside the bounds of this tiny level and he’s self-aware of being trapped in a time loop but is compelled to continue on against his will. Essentially, that makes the player Moebius.
Not in a creepypasta way or an edgy way. In a meta way.
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photos by lloyd meudell (instagram) along the southern coast of new south wales. as lloyd, who’s surfed the area for years before picking up a camera, explains, “when the tide is high, the water comes in and it breaks in front of cliffs, explodes into the air and creeps over the sand.” keeping his photographic techniques close to his chest, lloyd is uniquely able to capture the beauty of sea foam in both form and motion.
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Unusually for salamanders, hellbenders engage in external fertilisation. Male hellbenders will seek out the perfect flat rock under which to dig a nesting burrow, and will defend it viciously from other males. When a female approaches, the male will coax her inside to lay her eggs, which he will then fertilize. A single female can lay up to 200 eggs, connected by five cords, and one male’s burrow can contain almost 2000 eggs at once. The male will guard the eggs in the two or three months it takes them to hatch, standing over them and rocking his body and undulating his skin folds to keep water flowing over his clutch, keeping them oxygenated. When the larvae hatch, they are all but limbless and subsist on a large yolk sack for their first few months of life.
Sadly, the larvae have little chance of making it to adulthood. Aside from the adult hellbenders’ tendency towards cannibalism, hellbender larvae are particularly vulnerable to pollution and rising silt levels. Some zoos, such as the Toledo Zoo, are now raising hellbenders until they are about a year old before releasing them to the wild, greatly increasing their chance of survival.
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