Thoughts on the ant whose head is a door?
Im going to be sick
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I have some news for you concerning the size of tuna:
Gaud PLEASE google image search the green humphead parrotfish. PLEASE.
betrayed by my own unquenchable thirst for bad knowledge
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The only carnivorous plant that I saw in Scotland - Pinguicula vulgaris, common butterwort, which seemed fairly abundant around Glen Nevis. Sadly, none were in flower in May! P. vulgaris is a circumboreal plant, and I’ve also seen it Washington State and Canada. Its leaves are covered in sort of sticky, slimy fluids and digestive enzymes to trap and breakdown insects, which give it a buttery feeling.
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scientist discovers a little animal awww
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Jokes aside they’re likely using the spin that this is good news because it’s a unique trapping method among Nepenthes. The hope is that, since they’re unique, it’ll be easier to protect them and help stop/slow down deforestation for the sake of palm oil plantations wherever this species is found.
A very nice thought! Unfortunately, many individual Nepenthes are constantly killed because of deforestation - even some species that have unique traits. Take N. ampullaria for example. Even though it’s carnivorous, a species of frog (Microhyla borneensis*) has evolved to actually use the pitchers as a nursery for their tadpoles!!
If you look at the second photo, you can see one of the tadpoles to the right.
Despite this unique relationship, N. ampullaria is often destroyed along with countless other plants when they clear cut to put in a palm oil plantation.
I’d like to believe this new discovery will have the intended effects, but in all likelihood it won’t :/
*Chien C. Lee, the photographer for these photos, is of the opinion that this M. borneensis is a separate species and that those that use the pitchers as nurseries should be described as Microhyla nepenthicola. iirc the evidence doesn’t seem to support separating the species, but many people believe they should be considered distinct
Ummm...Good news network? This is...good?news?
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i romanticize mundane things ab life too much i was watching a lecture for my animal behavior class and the prof mentioned that songbirds migrate at night guided in direction by the stars and i had to take a moment and pause the vid like oh songbirds look at the stars......
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You, sir, are extraordinarily small. Do something about that please.
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Male pipefish have their priorities in order
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I have a lot of respect for the way single celled organisms throw taxonomy into so much chaos the scientific world has spent centuries just leaving them in their own pile to figure out later, maybe
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Me making sure I write “prostrate” instead of “prostate” and, in the same sentence, using the word “erect”: I am a scientist and people will take me and my research seriously. I am a scientist and people will take me and my research seriously. I am a scientist-
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Bro I am crying. Crying. Nautical nonsense......it’s something I wish.......
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Two leaf roller cocoons.
This is how these caterpillars stay safe ❤
Tortricidae
Both found on Polypodiopsida plants
18/05/22
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Building on this a bit: Because the term “fish” refers to such a broad spectrum of unrelated taxa, just a little bit of research into taxonomy will leave you resigned to one of two conclusions (or a combination thereof) -
1. Nothing is a fish.
2. Everything is a fish.
give me a nice* fact
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