in all honesty this is the most unreal, surreal, unimaginably magical thing i’ve ever seen in my life. they make sounds and i never knew. these things are gigantic. i’m so awed.
i make that noise when i want food too
are they really making those little subtle mooing sounds!?! Wtf!?? This is news to me but maybe the sound of them breathing out their gills in water that shallow??
Turn on the sound, for the love of God TURN ON THE SOUND
via The Guardian: Straussberg, Germany A baby ring-tailed lemur
sits in a heated slipper at the Straussberg animal park. She was
rejected by her mother and is being brought up by a keeper Photograph: Arifoto Ug/AFP/Getty Images
The siphonophore appears to be a single large organism, but is actually a colony of individual zooids. These zooids function together as a single unit and some of them can’t survive without the others. This video captured a deep sea siphonophore that is also bioluminescent.
I do wish people would stop saying “I respect spiders and insects outdoors where they belong but IN MY HOME THEY MUST PAY WITH DEATH”
I mean the vast majority of them don’t want to be in your house either. They’re not “intruding.” They end up there because they got lost and for most species your house is a wasteland where they’re doomed to slowly starve or dehydrate.
If you can get close enough to one to smash it you can get close enough to one to trap it or sweep it back outside.
They even sell this neat thing now that can gently grab little delicate creatures when you pull the soft bristles shut
Woah! I bet you’re gonna get a lot of notes just like this dude, but I would love it if you could give me a name or something to look up for that product! I’d totally love to buy one!
I love bugs myself, but when I need to escort one outside, even though I’m not scared of touching them, I’m almost always super worried I might slip up and my big clumsy human fingers might accidentally injure them!
They call them “critter catchers” and they seem to go for around $15-20 online!
It squirted Garden Girl in the face as she walked by, and she became convinced that it was an alien monster and asked me to dig it up. My fingers are wrecked from the sand - they can dig themselves several feet deep. This guy weighed at least four pounds. I put it back in the hole after some photos.
Is it alive? What is it? It looks like a melon? Why was it spitting at people…….wait………..it’s a giant phallus that spits at people???
It doesn’t look like a duck…..
It is alive! It’s a giant clam that burrows into sand and can grow up to six feet long and live for well over a hundred years. Apparently they taste pretty good, but they uh… they look pretty alarming when their siphons are extended:
I didn’t actually realize they could retract fully into their shells until this one did.
The clam looks like it could be in a fucking hentai
(Note: the clam I found is actually a horseneck clam, not a geoduck!)
