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I'm not gunna hijack that post but I think more people should be aware of the fact that Malapterurus looks like an overstuffed sausage.

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Ppl who had time for romance in high school we are so different. i was busy fighting for my life in my head

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Oh my god. Not to be a queer but oh my god. I've been mutuals with you for like two?ish? years now and I've always LOVED your blog but I just stumbled upon your ahab cosplays for the first time and holy fuck you are so beautiful and I'm kind of having a lesbian momentary I just needed to tell you you're one of the prettiest people I've ever seen. I'm so sorry this is probably so fucking weird and incomprehensible but ooh my g od

This is actually very cute and sweet thank you

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*with a dark and evil aura surrounding me* I'm shy

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Oh my god this person found a leopard slug with its eyestalks fused together??? One super long stalk but it still has two eyes on the end. That's the cutest thing in the entire world. And then it had a ton of babies but JUST ONE baby inherited the mutation!!

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Does somebody have a can opener ?

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Chumby. Loop.

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I think sitting on the floor of the ocean for a few hours would fix me

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……………yeagh okay just do whatever

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Ok so. I’m working on a new video about the Edge Chronicles and while writing my script, I suddenly remembered the one and only fanfiction I’ve ever written because it’s an Edge Chronicles fanfic and I found the document and it’s. It’s 94K words. Which is longer than my published novel. What the fuck was I on.

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We were packing fish at work and for some reason started talking about how, since the plural of goose is geese, the plural of moose should be meese and it made my coworker write “moose” on the fish bag

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His bodyguards

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Prettiest leeches I've ever seen!

These are local Placobdella parasitica (smooth turtle leeches) I pulled off of our permanent-rehab pond sliders. While these critters can evade detection on healthy aquatic turtles by staying under the shell and behind the legs, they're given an advantage over turtles with deformed/injured shells and turtles with less leg functionality, (assumedly) allowing them to multiply over more surface area.

I will be taking these two (live) specimens to my bio lab on Tuesday. I removed a large cluster of juveniles that I have since humanely euthanized from a large pond slider to bring in as well. The two live specimens are mature adults and will be released after lab examination.

Unfortunately, there is not much in terms of information on these guys. Hopefully we see more about them in the future!

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I will say regarding your recent post; rain frogs are unethical-to-own pets because they cannot and have not been bred in captivity, therefore all captive specimens you see on social media have been poached from the wild. It damages their wild populations and adds to the already awful exotic pet trade :(

1. I don’t own rain frogs, I dont intend to, and I don’t encourage other people to go buy them. They just come across my feed because I follow a lot of amphibian keepers and I like sharing pictures of goofy animals I see.

2. The “ethics” of keeping a particular species is very much up to personal opinion and cant generally be reduced to “all wild-caught animals are unethical”. The vast majority of saltwater fish, corals and inverts in aquariums are wild-caught, but I rarely see people taking issue with that. I agree that some animals absolutely should not be kept as pets and the pet trade should be better regulated, but in my opinion, the ethics of keeping wild-caught animals comes down to whether they do well in captivity and how sustainably they’re harvested, not just the fact that they are wild caught.

3. There actually have been some recent successes in captive-breeding them, so it’s likely that in five or ten years we will have a sustainable captive population. But all captive-bred animals have to start from wild populations, unfortunately.

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I have this necklace that I thought you might appreciate

SICK

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