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The body shape of a fish can tell you a lot about it! It can tell you where they like to hang out, how they hunt, what they eat, and more!

Let's use the Asian Arowana (Scleropages formosus) as an example!

Based off the rounded caudal fin (the "tail"), this fish is not a very fast swimmer

Having the dorsal fin and anal fin right near the end of the fish's body suggests it is an ambush predator

The flat head suggests it hunts at the surface

The upturned, large mouth suggests it catches its prey from below

Arowana are ambush predators that hunt at the surface!

They don't need to go very far very fast, hence the rounded caudal fin (which is the slowest moving fin)

Having posterior dorsal and anal fins are a common trait amongst ambush predator

They primarily hunt at the surface! They will sit near the surface and grab small fish, bugs, crustaceans, and even occasionally a bird!

4. Fish that catch their prey from below sometimes do it via suction. They'll open their large mouth, and as the water gets sucked in, so does anything in the water. And the larger the mouth, more water will more quickly fill into the mouth, catching larger and faster prey

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She is so beautiful

My friends and I found this beetle on our college campus, we think it's a female elephant beetle. The photos were all taken by my friend (photography_dex on instagram).

https://www.instagram.com/photography_dex/

Go check him out.

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Jumping spider mimic planthoppers in the genus Rhotana

Photo 1 by tenebrionidfan, 2 by gancw1, 3 by budak, and 4 by deeqld

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me when I eat broccoli

u ever just look at all the stuff u love and think wow i love this stuff

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reading progressive sex ed caricatures with accurate and detailed and realistic diagrams of sexual organs + shows their variation, but all i can think about is how there is no discussion of what srs is besides the fact that it exists

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Inspired by @maggotmuncher0 and those bugs they draw

Ahhhh 200 likes!!! That’s insane thank you!

300!!!!!! You guys are crazy!

No way 400!

Wow 500 o-o

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Making a wheel

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thats pretty reasonable i guess

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THIS SET UP?

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They’re all so beautiful

My.Kali: "is the first LGBTQ+ webzine for and from the Middle East and North Africa. they aim to demonstrate diversity and fight repressive forms and norms with art therapy, photography, and visual innovation. The magazine tackles issues related to women’s rights, personal politics, gender related matters, freedom of speech, alt-communities, and new media. This allows for a window of hope where societies’ minorities can find solidarity, offering a safe atmosphere of reassurance and certainty in the midst of regional turmoil."

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wish people understood that being vegan isn’t about “treating animals like human beings” or expecting them to “behave like people.” it’s actually about holding humans to human standards of cognition and personhood. it’s not about whether cats can verbalize like humans or not. it’s about the fact that we need consistent ethics in regard to suffering individuals. it’s about the fact that as humans our cognitive advantage is also our responsibility. our mindfulness means we are even MORE responsible for our actions not less. it is inhumane to use the helplessness of another as justification for your exploitation of them. this is the same ideological rhetoric behind misogyny, racism and anti-Semitism. The same rhetoric that justifies killing the poor who are less “moral” hence less deserving of your moral consideration. your ethics should be consistent because moral reasoning is something humans must do because of what we are. It is not contingent on the cognitive capacities of the moral subject we are considering. you wouldn’t justify cutting up a baby for pleasure because it had lesser cognition than you. so vegans are holding humans to humans standards. that means we are in a unique position to understand and do something about the large-scale plight of suffering individuals at the hands of human beings. that makes us more responsible, not less. our superior cognition makes us more responsible for the underprivileged, not less. the same way a parent is more responsible for their toddler by proxy of knowing and being capable of more than said child.

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Iridescent beetles have my whole heart❤️🌈

Jewel Weevil (Eurhinus sp.), family Curculionidae, found in the Neotropics (Central and South America)

photograph by Kota Abadi

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This is so real. First time I had vegan cheese I had it with my dad and it was SO BAD and he’s sworn off all vegan cheese because of it. Go Veggie if ur listening ur cheese tastes like fucking wood chips.

Yknow, I always think that most like meat replacements are pretty much the same

And then I have a bad one and I just hope no one has it as their first one and thinks they're all bad

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