I Am Covered In Hickies How Am I Supposed To Be A Respected Scientist Looking Like This!?!

If I put a white pigeon in the bottom right, I win

Love that one of the America's most important keystone species is a fucked up rat with anxiety

(Beavers are the world's second largest rodent and I could probably talk abt then all day)

refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

I once almost got hit by a car at night because I was trying to follow a juvenile opossum.

Naturalists have got to be one of the groups of people most susceptible to being tricked by the fae. Travellers these days are much less likely to follow a mysterious light or the smell of roast beef into the forest. Meanwhile, find me a naturalist who would not completely lose themself in pursuit of:

An unidentifiable bird call

A butterfly that's slightly off-color

An opossum with its head stuck in a yogurt tub

A really big woodpecker

Spotted skunks do handstands when trapped or startled! Here’s a skunk I drew 🦨

My all-time favorite snail move is when a baby ends up on an adult’s shell. They’re literally piggybacking.

The unken reflex is a posture that toxic amphibians will take to show off their bright colors. It’s their way of saying “stay back! I’m dangerous!”

In California, the California Newt (Taricha torosa) will do the unken reflex to show off their bright orange bellies. These newts produce tetrodotoxin.

Porcelain crabs aren’t actually crabs! They’re another one of those freaks who has achieved the ideal body shape and gone through carcinization (becoming crab-like)!! All hail the crab!

I love shrews because they’re such strange little guys. They have the largest brain-to-body ratio of any vertebrate and some species can even be toxic. Anyway, give it up for these weird little guys!

Also, shoutout to anyone else that loves rodents and other strange little guys. Let’s be friends.

Don't be sad babe, look at this funny photo of a kakapo.