When I'm depressed, I draw a funny little animal. Please enjoy this opossum.
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.
Garlic snails are snails that smell like garlic, if you even care.
I am covered in hickies how am I supposed to be a respected scientist looking like this!?!
A list of some beaver facts:
1. There are currently only two species of beaver: the North American beaver and Eurasion beaver. However, there's an extinct genus of beaver that existed during the ice age called the giant beaver and they could get as big as a black bear.
2. Some Eurasian beavers have been found to hold sticks and jump up and down (stick display) to communicate to and warn others about territory boundaries.
3. The basic social unit for beavers is a family consisting of the parents and several children and they live in and maintain lodges made out of logs. One family can maintain one or more lodges in their dam.
4. The entrance to a beaver lodge is underwater and is made by the beavers chewing tunnels into the bottom of their lodges. The inside of the lodge is elevated above the water. Oftentimes,the lodges will have to platforms—one for eating and grooming and one for sleeping.
5. Not only do beavers chew down trees for their dams and lodges, but they can also eat the inner tree bark and twigs.
6. Beavers will build and repair dams when they hear running water. Researchers proved this by playing recordings of running water to beavers.
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)
I want to see an American Woodcock so badly that I'm actually going insane.
what is your all time favorite predator? and prey animal?
Idk if I have any absolute favorites, but I have some I think are funny. For predators, I think archer fish are pretty funny because, like, wdym a fish learned how to nerf its prey? For prey, I have an unwavering obsession with beavers.
Also, I’m scared of seagulls because I had to fist fight one for my food once and I lost.
Caught some strange guys over the weekend! This is a deer mouse. PSA!!! Be very careful handling some little guys because there may be possibilities of them carrying hantavirus!
When you're sad, just remember that somewhere in the world is a cat that's sleeping in the sun that you might get to pet one day, or that maybe you'll see a really fluffy dog next time you go to the park, or maybe you'll get to see a fat squirrel doing something funny on your next walk. If you feel like giving up, just think about all the animals you'll miss if you're gone.
Anyways everyone should watch The Good Place
I study ecology and conservation and I love weird little guys!
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