#cooloola monster

[llatimeria]

the trundler

[sewerfight]

Love it when they call animals "monster" in their names. The Gila monster. The Cooloola monster. awesome 👍

[scolop98]

VOTE FOR JERUSALEM CRICKETS IN THE @weirdanimal-tournament

I love Jerusalem Crickets with all my heart and I will not stand to see them eliminated in the first round by a fish, even if I think fish are lowkey eldritch creatures. Ever heard of the Giant Wētā of New Zealand? Jerusalem crickets (not from Jerusalem, also not a real cricket) are basically those but in the American southwest and not quite as big. According to Wikipedia, they’re also found in Sri Lanka and Indonesia for some reason.

Unlike basically every other Orthopteran (the grasshopper/cricket/Katydid order of insects), they don’t use their wings to call to each other - they drum their abdomens on the ground instead. They’re also omnivores that readily eat other insects, which feels weird for an orthopteran (and even if that’s not actually that weird for an orthopteran, it *feels* weird, and sometimes that’s what matters). I’m pretty sure that all species are flightless and most lack wings, and they’re also not good at jumping, which immediately makes it a Weird Orthopteran™️

And while I do admit that pufferfish have freaky teeth and a mind-boggling skeleton, for me it’s the principle of the matter. Jeruselum crickets stand in for a whole array of weird-ass orthopterans in the superfamily Stenopalmatoidea: giant wētā, tusked wētā, parktown prawns, cooloola monsters, tree wētā, king crickets, and leaf-rolling crickets (which apparently produce silk from their mouths), all relatives of the humble Jerusalem cricket.

Pufferfish may be objectively weird, and their relatives may be equally weird, but I believe that obscurity often plays a huge factor in the perceived weirdness of an animal. Pufferfish, boxfish, triggerfish, and mola mola are decently well-known if not famous sea creatures, while Jerusalem crickets and most of their relatives are far from mainstream at best and often incredibly obscure.

A vote for the Jerusalem cricket isn’t just a vote for the best arthropod to bear the name Potato Bug; it’s a vote for all of the large, chunky, usually flightless, and criminally underrated quasi-wetas of the world

Also, I think they’re adorable. How can you say no to that face? Do it for him. Vote jeruselum cricket

[onenicebugperday]

please consider: cooloola monsters

I have considered them! They are extremely good. For those who do not know, cooloola monsters are a species of orthopteran related to grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids. They’re weird so they’re in their own family, Cooloolidae. They live in Australia! Here’s one to admire:

Precious :)) Photo by CSIRO

[redslug]

[vedajuno]

humans decided that exactly one animal was allowed to have the word “monster” in it’s name and then immediately said it should definitely be this one

[waywardmartian]

The best part of this is that they are, in fact, called 'Cooloola monsters'.

I love Cooloola monsters so much they look like really chunky Jeruselum crickets 

[elementalgod-aj]

Animal practice 35

Panarthropoda

Arthropoda 4

Hexapod 2

Phthiraptera

Dan Drift (Louse)

Psocoptera

Book (Book louse)

Bark (Bark louse)

Dermaptera

Vertigo (Earwig)

Embioptera

Weve (webspinner)

Plecoptera

Obelisk (stonefly)

Zoraptera

Angel (Angel insect)

Thysanoptera

Brash (Thrip)

Hemiptera

Dj (Cicada)

Hip hop (Aphid)

Funk (moss bug)

Jazz (bedbug)

Reggae (back swimmer)

Polka (stink bug)

Metal (leaf hopper)

Country (treehopper)

Folk music (seed bugs)

Gospel (cotton stainer)

Rock (cinnamon bugs)

Pop (water strider)

EDM (assassin bug)

Latin (kissing bug)

Punk (giant water bug)

Soul music and R&B (squash bugs)

Orthoptera

Rownan (Grasshopper)

Maori (weta)

Coolmong (Cooloola monster)

Kate (Katydid)

[aaaaagaronia]

syn be like: cries over cooloola monsters

[voxxphantasma]

top five pals (as in, creatures)

oooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhgghhh yeahhhgghhhh babyyyyyyyyy im going wifth amnimals for this bc thats what came to mind first uh

5. rats. very good. pancaking and boggling. wonderful.

4. cooloola monsters. go google them. theyre epic (just a warning though, they're bugs)

3. ferrets! love them!!! i want ferrets!!!!!! aaaaaa!!!!

2. opossums!!!!! those funky epic babies!!!!

1. snails. of course. look at those friends

[aviculor]

I read in Bogleech that certain pokemons like Nidoqueen, Nidoking, Slowpoke and Exploud are monsters without an identifiable base. I thought this was a good idea for creating fakes. Do you have fakes like that? Could you give me a hint about that?

The “generic monster” thing is definitely an iconic staple of gen 1. Just a chunky creature with angry triangle eyes, fangs, and usually at least one horn. If they can be tied to an animal, it’s the vaguest suggestion of it, almost like the pokemon is the generic monster superimposed over the animal. Kangaskhan is ostensibly a kangaroo, no one could deny that even though kangaroos don’t have Sauropod legs and reptilian scutes covering their skin. It’s like Kangaskhan is a monster with being a kangaroo as its “hat”, the same way Nidoking’s hat is being venomous and Venusaur’s hat is having a flower on its back. Pokemon stopped using the format as much in later generations, opting instead for direct animals and animals with more moderate embellishments, but it’s definitely something to do if you’re going for that classic design look.

large stomach, a very stocky body shape

thick, blunt limbs, alternatively having thinner arms if it’s a biped.

digits are three white claws or one wide hoof-like nail. A hand may be a mitten with a white claw for a thumb.

stomach may be yellow or off-white and may be scaled like a snake’s underside.

angry triangle eyes

large mouth with a short snout that has small nostrils. May have small fangs sticking out.

spikes on top of the head, on the back, on the tail, and/or on the nose.

ears are either absent, solid and block-like, or cat ears.

skin has the impression of being tough and leathery or armored: segmentation, ridges, raised block-like patches, angular splotches.

anatomical traits are very vague, appearing equal parts mammalian and reptilian in a way that echoes kaijuu (which is no coincidence). Similarity can also be drawn to early interpretations of dinosaurs.

I am a massive stickler for animals and clear biological inspiration, to the point where nearly all my ideas start by wanting to make x animal a pokemon. The best example of a generic monster I’ve made that I can pull off the top of my head is Coolstroyr the Cooloola Monster (a species of cricket).

There’s also Dustmighty, who you could only identify as a dust mite from context clues....such as me saying so.

[sewerfight]

when you getting it from the back and the guy says something factually incorrect about what order of insect the cooloola monster is in

[sunsetsafaris]

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[mega-mbeon]

Mcflyeon's Top Animals 31- Unusual inverbrates

[zone0neko]

i only just discovered the existence of cooloola monsters and i’d already die for them

[sunsetsafaris]

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