#GARS

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Fish

Lepisosteiformes. This order is made up of the gar, a relatively large and elongated fish whose swim bladder can funciton as lungs.

Amiiformes. This order is made up of the bowfins, also known as mudfish, ambush predators that are cabale of breathing air as well as water.

[snototter]

A longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus) surfaces the Thames in Ontario, Canada

by G. Sito

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #571

Spotted gar!

They tend to be the most common predators in their natural habitat, the small creeks, lakes and rivers between the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes! They spawn during spring floods, which allows them to use the submerged terrain as a nursery for eggs.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation reposted:

Nobody puts gar in the corner

[cygnus-is-tired]

So it is apparently gar week (or about to be gar week, not entirely certain on that but anyway)

I thought that I would share these photos I got of some beautiful gars I saw up in Tennessee a few months back

The first two contain alligator gars, including this ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS ALBINO GAR (I love her so much). Last picture is this darling little spotted gar

[bloodmoon24]

do you know any cool zoology facts?

You might wanna sit down and have a snack for this

• That in lemur society, female lemurs are always the boss of the family (girl power)

• Red pandas aren’t related to anybody. They’re in their own family (and to anyone who says that red pandas are related to the giant pandas, they’re not related. Just because they have “panda” in the name, doesn’t mean that they’re related)

• In some birds, like a hummingbird, males are always a brighter color to attract mates, while the females are duller so that they can camouflage themselves to protect their nests

• There’s a cool lemur called an aye-aye that has a special long and skinny finger that they use to knock on wood on branches for echolocating any prey like maggots or other grub (try getting flipped off by them)

• A woodpecker’s tongue is SO long, it wraps around their skull (look it up. I’m not joking)

• A warthog and use their face as a shield to block off an entrance of their borrow, so that predators like lions can’t get through

• There’s a jellyfish called the immortal jellyfish that can live forever by turning itself back into a baby and repeats its whole life cycle

• As far as most people know, lions are the only wild cats that lives in a big social group

• Coyotes are very adaptable. They can adapt in any environment likes cities, the desert, the arctic, and in the forest

• Crocs, gators, and king cobras are cannibals

• Like with the lemurs (kinda), female praying mantis are VERY larger than the males, and since they’re bigger, they’re way too heavy and the males have the ability to fly. And they both eat their prey head first. Same goes to the females after they mated with the males

• To anybody that didn’t know, a narwhal’s horn is actually a tusk, like an elephant or a warthog

• All raptors are closely related to the dinosaurs

* Gars specifically have been around since the dinosaurs

And that’s all the zoology facts that I have for you. I’ll let you know if I have some more awesome and cool facts about animals

[smokepig]

[antiqueanimals]

Elements of Zoölogy: A Text-book. Written by Sanborn Tenney. 1875.

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[regretevatorconfessions]

The Gnarpian species/Gars is so interesting to me,, like how is their society like?? Why are they so bloodthirsty and willing to act violent??? Yuecc has recently stated that the species is an invasive species that tend to pillage planets for resources, so are they in a crisis right now or just like that????? Hoping that we get more insight in the future I love these little guys (AND the angst possibilities!!!! Gars having a terrible government with a very predatory system that forces kids to join the army, leading to many of these children to have to grow up extremely fast and be mentally changed my beloved)

i love them too.. such an interesting and silly little species!!

[aperint]

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@indelible-waltz

Just some late night post card making ft Gars

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Fish

Clupeiformes. This order includes many important food fish, including herrings and anchovies.

Lepisosteiformes. This order is made up of the gar, a relatively large and elongated fish whose swim bladder can funciton as lungs.

[snototter]

The eye of an alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula)

by Olaf Nelson

[smokepig]

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

[hydrohobbyist]

Caught one of my favorite wet beasts. The long nose gar.