#Monodon

[mizuakiyume]

Monodon and Galinthias are back as NPCs and fourth class now~

I'm WAY too happy with Galinthias's outfit design, it's so worth the extra work

[buffetlicious]

They are not called Giant Tiger Prawn (Penaeus monodon) just in name as females can grow as large as 33 cm long. While it may be an invasive species in other parts of the world, here in Southeast Asia it is widely cultured for food. Mum cooked these Spicy Tiger Prawn with Onion and tomato for dinner. Next, she stir-fried Cauliflower & Abalone with Minced Pork to go with the steamed white rice.

[namu-the-orca]

Arctic Odontocetes

And here's the three other Icelandic whales poster illustrations. All true Arctic species, roaming the frigid water of the high north. While Atlantic white-sided dolphins can occasionally be spotted along European shores, Narwhal and Belugas roam the true ice seas.

Narwhals are famous for their rather striking dentition: the huge, up to 3 meter long tusk, is hard to miss. It's actually their left canine tooth - every once in a while the right canine erupts too, making for a double-tusker. It's usually only males who are so adorned, as only a very small number of females (15%) bear tusks.

The exact function of the tusk is still debated: originally thought to be a simple weapon, now it is mostly thought to serve as a secondary sexual characteristic, inducing status in the bearer. The bigger the tooth, the sexier the man. However, researchers suspect they may have many more functions. Through the tusk run thousands of nerves which enable Narwhals to sense differences in water temperature and salinity. On top of that tusks have been observed to aid hunting and social interactions between males, and perhaps more. And the occasional Narwhal has been found with a broken tusk embedded in their cheek. So perhaps some good ole fashioned fighting happens after all, though no one has ever observed it happening.

The tuskless females survive just fine without them though and often live to be even older than males (up to 115 years!), so the advantages can't be that critical. Nevertheless it's fascinating to think about. Somewhere out there in the ice cold seas where we would freeze to death in an instant, swim whales - fellow mammals - sensing the waters with their 3 meter long canine tooth, occasionally slapping a fish unconscious. A wholly alien experience lived by an animal not so essentially different from us.

Atlantic white-sided dolphins may be far less mysterious, but nevertheless amongst my favourite delphinids. They've such beautiful markings. And the beluga... no doubt well known too as living marshmallows. I must say that youtube videos of their melons and fatty flabs being wobbled is great watching material.

Also - the "Whales of Iceland" poster is officially up for sale! You can nab one at Pappyr's website here. Not sponsored or anything, I just think the poster turned out super neat.

[sweetsuenos]

How it started vs. How it's going

At first the narwhal swims on the outside of the group, trying to keep up with his new friends in unfamiliar waters.

When the same group of whales is spotted a year later, the narwhal swims in the middle of the group of belugas, now officially a permanent member of their pod!

From: Secrets of the Whales (2021) Episode 3: Beluga Kingdom

[upwards-descent]

I made a hot narwhal merman whom I love

[sakichikai]

台北での自由時間にお散歩して出会った Monodon Coffee 一角鯨咖啡

実家へのお土産にコーヒー豆を購入

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・Monodon Coffee 一角鯨咖啡 https://www.monodoncoffee.com/

[inatungulates]

Narwhal Monodon monoceros

Observed by don-jean

[wizarddsandwichh]

Penaeus Monodon (Tiger Prawn)

[asterwild]

Narwhals (Monodon monoceros) are an arctic-dwelling whale species. Their tusks, spiraled teeth that can grow to over nine feet long, were once traded across the world as unicorn horns, and believed to hold medicinal properties.

Narwhals are currently listed as Least Concern by the IUCN, but like all arctic wildlife, their habitat is threatened by climate change and human activities such as oil & gas drilling, shipping, and commercial fishing.

[nevesmose]

Coveting

Trazyn/Clone!Fulgrim requested by @chemos-factories (first time writing these two so drawing a lot of inspiration from your fics)

It's natural to play games with things you own.

Today's entertainment was an old favourite of theirs, and a way for Fulgrim to show off the knowledge he'd gained. Fulgrim loved nothing more than to show off.

"And here we see a typical cabinet of curiosities," he said, leading the way into the wide, marble-floored hall dotted with exhibit cases that formed a space so stereotypically like a museum as Fulgrim understood the term that, to an outsider, it would have verged on parody.

A strictly delimited playhouse, everything arranged just so and built to perfectly suit the superhuman build of the Primarch who was not a Primarch, in which Fulgrim had free rein to explore and learn as he wished.

Ancient scientists had done such things with rats in mazes once.

"They are also called wonder-cabinets," Fulgrim continued, eager to share his knowledge with his visitor. He was suitably attired in purple silks, and delicate gold bangles shifted on his wrists as he gestured to the object in front of them.

"Although the gathering of disparate objects and artefacts has no real scholarly intent or value, they represent an important step in the development of Old Earth's versions of museums as we would know them."

"How fascinating," Trazyn said, playing his role of distinguished guest to perfection.

"I think so too," Fulgrim answered. "And although the exhibit appears to be fully authentic to its ancient origins, further inspection reveals that the curator has included a number of deliberate anachronisms."

"Deliberate, you say?"

"Yes. To reward the attentive viewer for his study. For example, in the centre, beside a truly ancient specimen of monodon monoceros tusk, we can see a comparatively much more recent piece. A bust of an unknown subject by the remebrancer Delafour."

"Oh, how intriguing." Trazyn leaned closer, as though seeing the sculpture for the first time. "May I touch it?"

"My deepest apologies, honoured guest," Fulgrim replied, "but these objects are too fragile to touch. Lord Trazyn forbids it."

Trazyn stood back with a gesture of mock offence. "But I am, as you say, an honoured guest," he said. "Surely there's something here I can touch?"

The script being old didn't make the play any less entertaining.

Fulgrim hesitated for a moment. "The fragile objects are forbidden, but... I am not, honoured guest."

Sometimes he remembered that he had been something else, once. A being created for a very different purpose. But remembering brought pain and after so much time among Trazyn's other possessions it was infinitely easier to let go, to drift into the comfortable haze of being simply one more pliant, complaisant object to be arranged alongside many others. And so he did.

"A most agreeable solution," Trazyn said, radiating satisfaction as he moved closer to Fulgrim. "Shall we continue?"

The Archaeovist's hand settled comfortably in the small of Fulgrim's back and directed him onwards through an ornate archway with a subtle application of strength.

"Of course, honoured guest. We now enter the gallery of Terran dolls."

"Oh, how appropriate."

They halted in front of a tall, glass-fronted display case containing a multitude of dolls with painted ceramic faces and wigs of genuine human hair.

"In this exhibit," Fulgrim said, "we see every surviving product of the warrior and artisan Jean-Andoche Juneau, a toymaker from ancient Franc. The effort required to gather them here must have been vast."

"It was," Trazyn said. "Put your hands on the glass."

Fulgrim obeyed, bending gracefully at the waist to lean forward and place his palms flat on the cold surface. The dolls in their serried ranks smiled vacantly up at him.

"Good. Look only at yourself."

He locked his gaze onto his own face reflected in the glass, reducing Trazyn to a blurred outline as the Overlord of Solemnace moved behind him.

"Every object has a purpose, does it not?" Trazyn asked.

Fulgrim swallowed dryly as the Archaeovist's hand began to stroke languidly up and down his back. "I would agree, honoured guest."

"And, having acquired a truly beautiful, precious object, would it not be shameful for me to deprive it of its purpose?"

Necrodermis fingers glided up over the back of Fulgrim's neck and into his hair, stroking through it with intermixed possessiveness and reverence. He was intensely aware of how easy it would be for Trazyn to grab it if he wanted to.

"What is the purpose of a doll, Fulgrim?"

"To be looked at," he replied quietly. "To be dressed and posed as its owner pleases."

"And above all?"

"To be played with."

As all pretence fell away and Trazyn began to explore and claim his body in earnest, Fulgrim kept his focus on his own reflection as he had been ordered to and saw exactly what his owner wished him to see - himself in the glass as simply one more doll arranged among a thousand others. He matched their placid, vacant smiles with his own and felt nothing but happiness.

[lpsotd]

can I get three, preferably, fish or marine related lps to make designs of = )

sí sí !! te voy a dar splashette monodon #88, fish #1315, y walrus #2882 !!

[megaten-and-other-polls]

Shrimp Tournament: Round 1 Polls

You can find the bracket here and the schedule here

First Round of Polls:

Sulawesi Shrimp (Caridina Dennerli) VS Amano Shrimp (Caridina Multidentata)

Bamboo Shrimp (Atyopsis moluccensis) VS. Hawaiian Red Shrimp (Halocaridina Rubra)

Snapping Shrimp (Alpheus randalli) VS. Cherry Shrimp (Neocaridina Davidi)

Great Tiger Prawn (Penaeus monodon) VS. Sea Monkey (Artemia Salina)

Golden Coral Shrimp (Stenopus scutellatus) VS. Peacock Mantis Shrimp (Odontodactylus scyllarus)

Shadow Panda Shrimp (Caridina cf Cantonensis var Panda) VS. Pederson's Shrimp (Ancylomenes pedersoni)

Sexy Shrimp (Thor Amboinensis) VS. Zebra Mantis Shrimp (Lysiosquillina maculate)

Brown Shrimp (Crangon crangon) VS. Northern Brown Shrimp (Farfantepenaeus aztecus)

Tags:

@crossovershipstournament @bugcrimesbracket @octo-showdown @orangecharactersmackdown @blue-character-brawl @grim-reaper-bracket @themiiofalltime @catboy-showdown @divorced-tournament @john-battle @worlds-worst-dad-competition @babygirl-beatdown @17-million-years-of-pining-poll

[sweetsuenos]

My whale book arrived!!! 🐋🌊🐬💙

[stellernorth]

i love how simple and descriptive and exciting some latin names are. megaloceros, big horns, oh hell yeah. megatherium, giant beast yesss. even monodon monoceros, one tooth one horn, i’m intrigued.

[pleistocene-pride]

Monodon monoceros, better known as the narwhal, is a species of toothed whale in the family Monodontidae and the only living member of the genus monodon, and is endemic to the frigid waters of the far northern atlantic, the far northern pacific, and the arctic oceans. They live in pods of 5 to 20 individuals, with individuals frequently switching between groups depending on the time of year (in calving season nursery pods are formed of primarily females and there young, during such time adolescents join with bull males to form there own pods), in some cases several pods may come together for short periods of time forming aggregations up to 1,000 whales. Narwhals are some of the deepest swimming mammals, regularly diving upwards of 4,900ft (1,500ms) in search of prey such as cod, squid, redfish, wolffish, capelin, cuttlefish, shrimp, skates, and various types of flatfish. Narwhals are themselves preyed upon by polar bears, orcas, Greenland sharks, and humans. Reaching some 10 to 18ft (3 to 5.5ms) in body length, and 1,760 to 3,530lbs (800 to 1.600kgs) in weight, with males being slightly larger than females, narwhals sport a thick cylindrical body and a mottled pigmentation, with blackish-brown markings over a white background. Instead of a dorsal fin, it possesses a shallow dorsal ridge, and female narwhals sport tail flukes that sweep-back on the front edges, whilst those of males curve inwards. The narwhals most notable feature is the single long spiral tusk which projects from the left side of the upper jaw of males and can get up to 10ft (3m) long. Additionally some females may grow tusks and some males may grow two tusks. These tusks seem to have many uses such as: stunning fish, attracting mates, fencing with rivals, sensing temperature and salinity, breaking sea ice, and communication with one another. Breeding occurs from march to may, after a 15 month pregnancy a mother narwhal will give birth to a single calf which remains by there mothers side for 2 to 3 years. Under ideal conditions a narwhal will reach sexual maturity at 6 to 8 years of age and may live upwards of 80.

[arthistoryanimalia]

Happy #NarwhalDay!

A Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) tusk is the upper left canine tooth that grows through the lip. Sometimes, the right one does the same, resulting in a 2-tusked individual, as illustrated by English naturalist George Shaw (1751 – 1813):

George Shaw's The British Miscellany (1806)

George Shaw's Zoological Lectures (1809)

Bonus: Found a photo I took of a real double-tusked #narwhal skull that was on display at the Smithsonian NMNH :