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zoologist in training || 20 || main @dadbeast••• The best people are animals, and the best animals are all of them. I have experience with both fairly common and rather exotic pets, and constantly strive to learn more about them. I frequently change my husbandry as I discover new ways of doing things; I am always open to constructive criticism of my techniques. •••current personal menagerie: 4 rats (2 male, 2 female)5 millipedes (bumblebee)•••planned pets: leopard gecko, shrimp
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My skittish girl, Poppy, has learned one whole thing and it’s Wheel.
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Had the rattos do some veggie fishing. The girls were less than thrilled until I warmed up the water. Momo had a blast!
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Ren’s more of a veggie hog tho.
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Big love to #VolunteerAngelJae who saw this news article and saw an opportunity to dunk on #Spoon. 😂
For anyone who hasn’t had the delight of meeting #thefullSpoon, it’s theorized that he has some degree of intellectual/cognitive disability, which doesn’t prevent him being the happiest rat ever, he’s just a little slow, struggles with rats sometimes, and walks off tables.
Fun fact, we actually have had Spoon’s head xrayed, it looks normal!
#Rachie
Real article attached too because it’s interesting!
https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/this-rat-had-no-brain-and-it-somehow-lived-a-normal-life-329774
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New girls, new girls, new girls!
Meet Clove (black berkshire rex) and Poppy (standard black berkshire, and always blurry). They’re my girlfriend’s addition to my rat cage, and cute as a button!
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Ren, the sleepiest boy.
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Momo, the fruit monster.
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my two beautiful boys, Ren and Momo!
they’ve been so good for me.
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Where to buy bugs online
this is a pretty us-centric list. I hope to get more resources for people outside of the US.
US
Mulberry Farms - I use this for most of my bugs. I have no complaints. c: Wide variety of feeders.
Linda’s Gone Buggie - this is a MUCH smaller company, so mistakes with orders are somewhat common (like maybe 5% of the orders I’ve gotten have had some problem like feeders I’ve ordered not being included), but problems are quickly and generously corrected. Very good prices and a wide variety of feeders.
Dubi Deli - focuses on dubia roaches. Good prices, but feeders often arrive very thin and dehydrated. Ships out extremely fast though! If you need bugs in a hurry, try this place.
WestCoastRoaches - When I need to buy more roaches, this is where I go. Good prices and weekly deals. Also ships out VERY fast. (EDIT: so I live in the same state, and it’s come to my attention that people who live further away have reported more negative experiences with WCR)
Lady Silkworm - Focuses on silkworms! As a rule, silks are very sensitive to fungal and bacterial infections. These are probably the hardiest silks I’ve seen.
Rainbow Mealworms - Despite the name, they sell a wide variety of feeders. I’m very fond of this one! They’ve sent out my orders quickly. I’ve never heard a complaint about them.
Kimbrell’s Coldblood - Another dubia-centric place, but also sells discoid. I’ve never bought from this place.
Rhactastic Rhacs - Yet ANOTHER dubia-centric seller! Best prices I’ve seen on breeding packages of dubia. I’ve never bought from them.
Florida Silkworms - Silkworms only and only in LARGE amounts (500 or more). Also dubia. Never bought from them.
Great Lakes Hornworm - Hornworm centric, but also sells super, meal, and crickets. Never bought from them.
Phoenix Worms - sells phoenix worms (aka reptiworms/calciworms). My reptiles aren’t a fan of these critters, so I’ve never bought from here.
Reptiworms - See above. I HAVE bought from here, though. Prices are lower than Phoenix Worms.
Timberline Live Food - most of the stuff you see in pet stores is produced by Timberline. I’ve never bought direct from the company.
Roach Crossing - TONS of different species of roaches here, including some very unusual ones. You want pet roaches? Check this place out. Also clean-up crews for bioactive set-ups. Never bought from them, but probably will some day.
Fluker’s Cricket Farm - Notable because they sell hissing cockroaches. Also carries the most common feeders: crickets, mealworms, etc. Never ordered, but haven’t heard any complaints either.
Kritters For Christ - Never used. They have good prices on dubia, but they will include a pamphlet on Christianity with every order.
DubiaRoaches.com - exactly what it says on the tin. They’ve also got some handy guides.
Cape Cod Roaches - Sell a wide variety of roaches! Like one of the widest I’ve seen. They also sell a few other feeders, like hornworms.
UK
The Live Food Warehouse - Looks like they have a pretty wide variety. Offers springtails for those who want to set up a bioactive substrate.
Silkworm Store - Pretty wide variety here too! Plus silkworms!
Rick’s Livefood - Sells a pretty wide variety, including stuff for bioactive set-ups.
Virginia Cheeseman: Entomological Supplier - Sells mostly pet bugs, but also supplies a few types of feeders. Doesn’t mention on site what species of cockroach she sells, though.
DartFrog - Sells a VERY large variety of feeders, including a few different types of cultures. Seems primarily focused on feeding small amphibians, especially dart frogs, but any animal who requires very small feeders can benefit.
CANADA
RECORP INC. - Nice wide variety of feeders!
The Worm Lady - Mostly worm-centric. Also sells rodents, both f/t and live.
Super Cricket - Warning for VERY obnoxious graphics and flashing.
AUSTRALIA
Live Foods Unlimited - looks like it has a nice selection of supplies, but a pretty limited amount of feeders. Sells crickets, giant mealworms, and wood cockroaches. (Queensland)
Sunstate Crickets - Crickets, mealworms, wood roaches (aka lobster roaches), and SNAILS. Very important for BTS owners. c: (Queensland)
Martyn’s Mealworms - Live and dried mealworms. Also snails! (Victoria)
The Reptile Doctor Shop - Silkworms. Also sells supplements and books, including the highly recommended Complete Chondro. (Victoria)
The ARCade (Amphibian Research Centre)- I find their website kinda hard to navigate. That’s their main site, but their store is here. They sell a pretty wide variety, including crickets, blowflies+houseflies, calci gents and regular gents (housefly maggot), mealworms, and cockroaches. All the profits go to frog research! c:
The Essential Ingredient - this isn’t a reptile food store, strictly speaking, but it does sell snails. Since those can be hard to find, I thought it best to include it. They’re sold in brine, so they take a bit of extra work to make them reptile-safe: soak them in water for two days, making sure to change the water frequently.
New Zealand
Insect Direct - Just live crickets.
Animal Supplies - Wider variety here, including locusts.
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This weird worm LOVES the banana
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Flashlight Fishes
The name flashlight fishes usually refer to either the eyelight fish, Photoblepharon palpebratum, or the splitfin flashlight fish, Anomalops katoptron. Both are in the Beryciformes order of carnivorous, ray-finned fishes.
Photoblepharon palpebratum (left), Anomalops katoptron (right)
The most prominent feature of flashlight fishes are the large light organs present under each eye. Each sack contains colonies of bioluminescent bacteria which creates light simultaneously. The flashlight fishes are able to control the amount of light produced by either covering up the sack with a muscular flap, much like an eyelid or using rotational shutter-like mechanisms to rotate the sack inwards, essentially covering the light.
Photoblepharon palpebratum with its light organ open (left) and closed (right). Photo credit: Reef Builders
Commonly found in coral reefs and rocky regions of the eastern Indian and wider Pacific Oceans, it is one of the few shallow water species that can produce light. Predominantly nocturnal, they hide in caves and holes in the reef during the day. At night, they travel in schools far away from the reef surface, foraging for small planktonic prey for food.
It has been theorized that the light produced may help them locate and attract potential prey while allowing to communicate with other members of its species. They can also withdraw the light in the presence of predators to make a quick getaway
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i work in a pet store. a woman was looking at our bettas and asked me whether one was male or female. i told her that they were all male, because they are- our company only orders male bettas. she looked at me incredulously and pointed at one and asked, “even this one?”
i was like “…yes, why?”
“it’s pink, though! why is the male fish pink?”
i swear, she was borderline angry at me. i didn’t know how to explain that fish genetics don’t adhere to human gender roles
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Move over Fido. Dogs aren’t the only pets that can take a hint from humans. Cats can tell the difference between the sound of their names and other similar words, a new study finds. Good kitties.
Scientists have already studied how dogs respond to people’s behavior and speech. But researchers are just scratching the surface of human-cat interactions. Domestic cats (Felis catus) do appear to respond to the expressions on people’s faces. Cats can also distinguish between different human voices. But can cats recognize their own names?
“I think many cat owners feel that cats know their names, or the word ‘food,’” says Atsuko Saito. But there was no scientific evidence to back up cat lovers’ hunches. Saito is a psychologist — someone who studies the mind — at Sophia University in Tokyo. She’s also a cat owner to a male mouser named “Okara,” which means soy fiber or tofu scraps in Japanese.
So Saito and her colleagues pounced on that research question. They asked the owners of 77 cats to say four nouns of similar length followed by the cat’s name. Cats gradually lost interest with each random noun. But when the owner said a cat’s name, the feline reacted strongly. They moved their ears, head or tail, shifted their hind paw position. And, of course, they meowed.
The results were similar when cats lived alone or with other cats. Even cats at a cat café — where customers can hang out with many cats — responded to their names. The name didn’t have to come from a beloved owner, either. When a non-owner said the name, cats still responded to their names more than to other nouns. The scientists published their findings April 4 in Scientific Reports.
One finding did give the team pause. Cats living at cat cafés almost always reacted to their names and those of other cats living there. Housecats did so much less often. Maybe that’s because cat cafés have so many cats in residence, the researchers speculate. Cats at these café’s don’t just bond with a single owner or a family. Lots of humans visit the cafés, so the cats hear their names from many unfamiliar and familiar voices. A cat living at a café may also frequently hear its name called at the same time as another cat’s. So it may be harder for cats to associate their own names with positive events (such as attention and treats) in these environments. For their next step, the researchers hope to figure out whether cats recognize the names of their feline housemates as well as their own names
These findings mean that cats join the ranks of animals that have shown some sort of response in experiments to the names people give them. Those animals include dogs, dolphins, apes and parrots. It’s hard to compare across species, though. Some dogs, for example, can tell the difference between hundreds of human words (not that it’s a contest or anything). But dog studies usually involve command and fetch tests. Cats might respond to their names, but not many cats can be bothered to fetch.
The study makes a strong case that cats are purr-fectly capable of recognizing their own names. Getting a treat or cuddles as a reward is part of how cats learn to recognize a name. However, owners may also use their cat’s name in a negative setting, like yelling at Fluffy to get off the stove. As a result, cats can probably learn to associate these familiar utterances with good and bad experiences, Saito notes. And that might not be great for cat-human relations. So only using a cat’s name in a positive context and using a different term in a negative context could help cats and humans communicate more clearly.
So cats may recognize their names. But will they come when called? Don’t get your hopes up.
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