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A majestic mega raft of mustelids mesmerizingly maneuvering through the meandering kelp maze of murky waters, melding into a magnificent mosaic of motion and merriment.  

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Holdfast, fronds — it’s the beginning of the week, and we hope this adds a little sway to your day. Did you know that our Kelp Forest exhibit is the very first of its kind to successfully maintain live kelp?

Join our director of dive programs, George Peterson, to learn all the intricate details that keep our kelp healthy and our kelp community so magically mesmerizing.

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Tasseled Wobbegong

Western Pacific Ocean // Near Threatened // Chondrichthyes // image source

Fun Fact: This shark’s name comes from an Aboriginal word meaning “shaggy beard”.

#love a wobbegong

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( not for sale) Finally got a few pictures of the giant bird/dragon/cat robot doll I have been working on for months! I want to have a wearable robot companion for @neotropolisevent and decided to make my “ ultimate robot buddy” This is just a prototype to see if I could pull off the textures, proportions and poseability. It is just under 4 feet long fully stretched from nose to tail. Made of locline armature, foam, neoprene fabric, heat bent laser cut acrylic armor, and a hand sculpted cast head and upper limb/ back armor. The paws are based on the feet of the perching bird robots made by @stanford engineers and are poseable! So much time and experimentation went into this and I think I’ve learned enough to make the final version. I’ll try to post the construction on my p a t r e o n in the next few months. #missmonster #missmonstermel #artdoll #doll #dragon #robot #softdoll #propmaker

#wonderful!

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Ornate Hawk Eagle (Spizaetus ornatus), family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, Colombia

photograph by Javier Zurita Wildlife Photography

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Seeing a post that you know a mutual will like and reblogging it to add enrichment to their dash like giving a tiger in a zoo a cardboard box

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if god is real then explain the state of georgia

#hang on I’m goin down to Georgia

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officialdappertomboy: TurnTables @janellemonae 💿🖤

photos by @safflarestills // https://www.safflare.com/

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#god that’s pleasant #watch with sound off

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this from the guy who wrote the sting pain index, a scale he constructed after letting himself be stung by insects

#i have so many thoughts

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What I Say: My favorite genre is alternative history

What People Hear: I like considering what would happen if the Civil War/WW2/Cold War ended differently

What I Mean:

#you had me at queer Louisianan feral hippo heist

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Yes geologists! Doing the important work 💖

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unconsentually exposing the public to impact play kink by getting into a fistfight in the 7/11 parking lot

#what was that post yesterday about American culture mostly happening in parking lots

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Cinnamon Bittern (Ixobrychus cinnamomeus), family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, Windsor Nature Park, Singapore

photograph by Tony Wong 

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it's a weird emotion when somebody goes "doesn't this just shake you to your core and rewrite your dna and change who you are as a person" and your honest experience of it was that it was ok

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Back from the hunt

Progress pics: