I Think The Jenny Haniver Is The Best One

The main difference between Darkwing’s and Negaduck’s relationships with their daughters

CONSTANTLY THINKING ABOUT THE TRAILER TO “JOKER” THAT SOMEONE DECIDED TO COMPLETELY REANIMATE W QUACKERJACK AND VARIOUS OTHER DARKWING DUCK CHARACTERS INCLUDING A BABY DARKWING AS BRUCE 

Reblogging this again, I'm very proud of this.

Might become a sticker design

Halloween art piece:)

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Also if you understand the tombstones, kudos!!!!

Cryptid dolphins. Sir Peter Scott recorded unusual dolphins accompanying Commerson’s dolphins on an expedition to Antarctica as recorded in his Travels of a Naturalist book, they may be Chilean dolphins or something quite different.

illustration, Sir Peter Scott from Travels of a Naturalist.

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Wild Stingrays making sounds beneath the waves

Stingrays: no longer the silent residents of the sea! 

Our new Journal of Ecology paper provides the first evidence of not one but TWO species of #stingray actively producing sounds 🔊 

https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3812 

We present 3 examples of sound production by wild stingrays - one of an adult mangrove whipray (Urogymnus granulatus) in #Indonesia by #scuba diver Philip Christoff, a juvenile mangrove whipray at #MagneticIsland in the #GreatBarrierReef by biologist and photographer Javier Delgado Esteban, and an adult cowtail stingray (Pastinachus ater) at #HeronIsland the Great Barrier Reef by marine biologist and photographer Johnny Gaskell.

The sounds are characterised by short, sharp ‘clicks’ and likely serve as a warning or defence signal. Both species often form large groups, so it may alert others to potential danger, suggesting a role in intraspecific communication! The mechanism is still unclear 🤔 but it appears they are produced through rapid movement of the jaw or head and spiracles behind the eye. 

 Almost 990 species of bony #fish have been shown to actively produce sounds, but until now #elasmobranchs (sharks, rays, and skates) have been considered silent. We show that this is a misconception, and more #research into this ability is needed! Turns out we have much to learn about life beneath the waves… 

 Given these observations were captured opportunistically by different people, we expect more to come to light in these and possibly by other species. If you’ve seen something similar, please get in touch! 

 The paper is fairly short and you don’t need specialist skills to understand most of it, so do take a read & let us know what you think 👍. 

The early view pre-typesetting version is up now here:

https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3812 

(all versions will be open access and free to read)

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Drone footage of a Basking shark in clear Scottish waters

The body of Wilf Batty’s thylacine, stiff with rigor mortis, tied to a fence on the man’s farm. Mr. Batty shot the animal, believed to be a male, in May of 1930, after it had reportedly been going after his chickens. It’s commonly believed that this represents the last thylacine to be killed in the wild. The photo itself, one of just five known to exist of the individual, was uncovered and shared by the great grandson of the original photographer. [ x ]