hey. i saw your barnacle post. there's something i need to know. those hexagonal-deep-skin-embedded barnacles. i think cryptolepas? how do you know that's painless and harmless for the whale?
As large as whale barnacles can get by our standards, they still aren’t going any deeper than the very upper layers of the whale’s skin, where there aren’t even nerves or vessels! The barnacle doesn’t even do anything to harm the tissue, either; it just remains in place for so long, the skin naturally grows around it, and the barnacle has to keep growing outward just to avoid being swallowed up completely.
As near as we can tell, the only harm barnacles may do to whales is increase drag as they swim, collectively slowing them down a little, but the difference seems pretty negligible. There’s also observations to suggest that barnacles help protect some whales from orca attacks, and that some whales may hypothetically use their barnacle-caked heads to fight one another. If this is true then it would mean a mammal evolved to make “horns” entirely out of live bugs.
So if I put you in an L-shaped swimming pool, and you knew there was a corpse around the corner, you’d be fine?
loving the implication that I’m a little animal and you’re a scientist putting me into various bodies of water to test my corpse:water ratio tolerance
i think it has to be a moving body of water. like, if theres definitely a corpse in a lake, im not gonna swim in it, but if someone died in a river, and its been a bit, idk the water has moved on at this point, its probably fine
What about a lake? That doesn’t really move, but people swim in all of those. I think it’s more the SIZE of the body of water. A river or lake is much bigger then a pool.
We already covered the lake one but i like how your response implies that all lakes have corpses in them
I think depth has something to do with it? Like…if there’s a corpse at the bottom of that really deep pool in Dubai I’d be like…eh…it’s fine. But if there was a corpse in the wading pool at the family Y I’d be out for sure.
The depth of the water or the depth at which the corpse is
Hey does that mean if there are corpses floating on the surface, you just have to be able to scuba dive deep enough and it won’t be weird?
I’m gonna write a post of cool animal facts just to Blaze later. Typical deep sea anglerfish and some others are pretty famous but I’m going to spend maybe even ten whole dollars to make an extra thousand people look at these other fish that I don’t think enough people know about. Sources included for all images, many with additional information wherever possible, but there’s still very little known about many of these animals!
GIGANTACTIS - common name ”whipnose seadevil” - the Schmidt ocean institute recently took this detailed photo from a deep sea ROV of a fish almost never observed live, but it sure does actually look dead. These anglerfish spend most of their time floating upside-down like this with their proboscis-like lure dangling below, and one guess is that they may send the lure down into the tunnels of burrowing worms or crustaceans. In some species, the lure can be over six times the length of the body.
People seem to have liked this as a blaze so in the future I will definitely do a couple others. Definitely some bug facts, but I know some people get scared of even pictures so I may do those with drawings like I did my spider Halloween special :) …..or if I’m lazy just funny symbolic images
(This is content for Humans-B-Gone!, an animated sci-fi series about a giant praying mantis who works in pest control–those pests including humans. Watch it on YouTube here: https://youtube.com/c/humansbgone )
Got hit by a pretty bad stomach flu this week, which took out some days. Nonetheless, I got everything I wanted done!
First off, all remaining non-animated portions are completed! Not a small task. Additionally, the remaining background was completed, both painting and mesh (also not a small task)!
Also completed the non-Sophodra models, and animated them both!
Now, all that remains is to write Gregorsa’s notes and spam finishing Sophodra’s animation, and this short will finally be done! Until next time!
I’m glad I slowly but surely see more respect for parasites in nature-loving circles. How can you not be impressed anyway? Imagine living inside a big monster whose body wants you dead at all costs, and you’re the whole reason the monster isn’t growing even bigger and more destructive than it already is. A parasite is like a custodian living in the basement that no one ever sees and everybody thinks is creepy but without him constantly drinking from the plumbing the building would simply be too powerful and eat all the food all the other buildings need to survive.
I find it so amusing that the whipnosed devilfish is on you list of "lesser known" fish because I first learned about those when I was 3. I still have the children's bioscience book that had a big picture of them and other deep sea fish (like gigantura!) in them. That whole page of fish became my literal first OCs at age 3. And yet... apparently very few people even know they exist OTL.
I also had them in books when I was little! But the fact that they swim upside-down was discovered later than my childhood, and they never get acknowledged in media like other anglers do. I blame the fact that they don’t have the “cool” giant long teeth, but the weird backswimming makes up for it if more people knew about it.
Hey there folks! If you’ve been following my twitter and instagram, for this Mermay, my theme is to basically take inspiration from real life biology, and apply them to their design as merfolk… especially their wicked set of chompers. It got so popular on Insta, I even made backstories for their designs there xD.
You can read up more about their stories on my Insta, but the gist is this: Kara is a Great White Shark mermaid, and she does her best to look out for her sister, a Lamprey. She lives in a town full of quirky characters, whose merfolk come from multiple kinds of fish and critters of the sea.
Wingless Bat Flies have no wings and no eyes but these parasites are true flies, related to the humble house fly.
They spend their lives on bats, either swimming through their fur or nestling on their wings, and drinking their blood. .
Blood is such a rich, nutritious diet that maggots can pass through almost the entirety of their development within their mother’s body. She gives birth not to a clutch of eggs, but to a single maggot that immediately pupates.
Isn’t it perfect? What better parasite for a creepy, flying mammal than a crawly, flightless fly?
New wacky romance manga: A teenage boy gets locked in a bomb shelter with his crush after a false alarm for a nuclear war. The boy later finds out about the alarm being false but he tells the girl the world ended because she said she’ll only ever date him “if he was the last man on Earth”.
New disturbing psychological horror manga: A teenage girl gets locked up in a bomb shelter with one of her classmates after the world ends in a nuclear war. Despite her reservations, the two start to get closer. But there’s something off about the whole situation. And her classmate is definitely hiding something.
Notes pointing out that this plot has been done, failing to consider OP is suggesting that there should actually be two concurrent series framed from these two perspectives, or maybe one and then the other or alternating.
