#Aquariums
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typhlonectes · 10 months ago
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randybutternubber · 3 months ago
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My fish, The Gooch. She’s an elephant Nosed fish, Marcusenius schilthuisiae. She is scared of metal tongs and objects because elephant fish produce electrical pulses, kind of like a sixth sense, and the way it bounces off the metal is very noticeable to them
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Her irl
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heartnosekid · 3 months ago
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tiny pet collection 🐱🪲🐶🐠 | achycollects on ig
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orcinus-veterinarius · 8 months ago
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Learning anything about marine mammal training will make you re-evaluate so much of your relationship with your own pets. There is so much force involved in the way we handle domestic animals. Most of it isn’t even intentional, it just stems from impatience. I’m guilty of it myself!
But with the exception of certain veterinary settings where the animal’s health is the immediate priority, why is it so important to us that animals do exactly what we want exactly when we want it? Why do we have to invent all these tools and contraptions to force them to behave?
When a whale swam away from a session, that was that. The trainer just waited for them to decide to come back. If they flat out refused to participate in behaviors, they still got their allotment of fish. Nothing bad happened. Not even when 20-30 people were assembled for a procedure, and the whale chose not to enter the medical pool. No big deal. Their choice and comfort were prioritized over human convenience.
It’s almost shocking to return to domestic animal medicine afterwards and watch owners use shock collars and chokers and whips to control their animals. It’s no wonder that positive reinforcement was pioneered by marine mammal trainers. When you literally can’t force an animal to do what you want, it changes your entire perspective.
I want to see that mindset extended to our domestic animals.
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creepymutelilbugger · 4 months ago
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got salmonella again. yeah it was from kissing a reticulated hillstream loach on its tiny soft forehead again. yeah i know that's the eighth time this year. you don't have to be preachy about it
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shiftythrifting · 4 months ago
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Someone get that dandelion crayon person I would have gotten it but it's in my lease not to have a fish tank or water bed
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honeyrosepetals · 4 months ago
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aquarium on film
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wildlifetracker · 11 months ago
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Rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, at Monterey Bay aquarium
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crosseyedcricketart · 10 months ago
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two sturgeons — 2022 acrylic on canvas. 24” x 24” these are river sturgeons, acipenser fulvescens this won an award, so. yay.
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prince-liest · 4 months ago
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a little shrimpy journey
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a bounty, stolen. danger looms.
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chrimsonfoxdon · 5 months ago
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Went to the Georgia Aquarium for the Animal Crossing Collab! 🐟
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typhlonectes · 1 year ago
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World's oldest aquarium fish 'Methuselah' could be decades older than we originally thought, DNA clock reveals
A new study has found that the famous Australian lungfish Methuselah, who first arrived in the U.S. in 1938, could be up to 101 years old.
The world's oldest aquarium fish, a lungfish named Methuselah, may actually be decades older than researchers originally thought and may even be over 100 years old, a new study finds. Methuselah is a female Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) that resides at Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, California. She first arrived at the aquarium in 1938 after being sent to the U.S. along with more than 200 other fish from Fiji and Australia.  Aquarium staff have never been sure how old Methuselah is, but until now the best guess was that she is 84 years old, which makes her the oldest known fish in captivity. (In the Bible, Methuselah was a man who reputedly lived to be 969 years old.)...
Read more:
World's oldest aquarium fish 'Methuselah' could be decades older than we originally thought, DNA clock reveals | Live Science
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iridescentclouds29 · 12 days ago
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Amazing beauties at my local fish store. One of them is now at home :)
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heartnosekid · 2 months ago
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_peechanan on ig
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orcinus-veterinarius · 4 months ago
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What is zoo medicine if not a path to ethically boop the snoots of as many species as possible?
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