#flatbacks

[littlewigglers]

Caught them sneaking into the log 🪵

[reignsvpreme]

so now that you're off winning championships in other companies you don't got time to say hi to your former tag partner? i see how it is. @flatbacks

[starfirebodyjewelry]

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[crippled-peeper]

neurosurgeon says they cant do any other surgery that isnt another spinal fusion. nothing else can be done except for injections and intensive physical therapy. i am stuck with this pain for now

[todropscience]

TINY CRABS ARE MAJOR PREDATORS OF FLATBACK TURTLE HATCHLINGS

Flatback turtles (Natator depressus) face predation risks during their hatchling stage on Thevenard Island, Western Australia. A recent study found that while no egg predation occurred, about 30% of hatchlings were consumed, primarily by ghost crabs (Ocypode convexa). Gulls and Caspian terns were also observed preying on hatchlings, although these were less common.

The absence of egg predation is unexpected and may be explained by the strategic nesting choices of female turtles or the composition of the eggshells. Despite these protective mechanisms, the survival rate from egg to hatchling remains vulnerable.

- Ghost crabs (encircled), and silver gulls and a Caspian tern predating on flatback turtle hatchlings emerging from nests, recorded by infra-red video camera on Thevenard Island, Pilbara region, Western Australia.

Conservation strategies must address these predation threats, particularly by targeting human disturbances and reducing predator populations in key nesting areas. These findings offer vital insights into the challenges affecting flatback turtle populations and their long-term recovery.

Photograph: Golden ghost crab by kaiwolfe

Reference (open access): Avenant et al. 2024. Predation rates on flatback turtle Natator depressus eggs and hatchlings at an island rookery. Mar Biol.

[everythingunderthesky]

Warning: No pancake stacking.

Turtle behavior info found on Reptifiles!

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[respect-the-locals]

🐢Daily Sea Turtle Fact:🐢

Flatback Sea Turtle: The flatback sea turtle has the smallest range of the seven sea turtles. The species is endemic to the sandy beaches and shallow coastal waters of the Australian continental shelf and does not travel long distances in the open ocean for migrations like other sea turtles. This turtle gets its common name from the fact that its shell has a flattened or lower dome than the other sea turtles.

[puphoods]

[morbidsmenagerie]

Oregon Zoo bugs

[insanebreadloaf]

Your blog is what happens when you dump the contents of a comic book store, a bunch of really bad puns, and a pride parade into a punch bowl and serve it to a party full of screaming, hyperactive kids who just ate all of their Halloween candy in one sitting. 😁😂 (That was a compliment, bee tee dubs)

Thanks, that is very accurate 😂😂

Here, have a turtle. He is very polite

[littlewigglers]

Yummy salad.

[gloombog]

one thing i was not prepared for with nostril piercings is these fucking boogers man

[starfirebodyjewelry]

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[daisywords]

trade paperback >> hardcover rebind

Since I was trying this for the first time, I decided to use a book that I didn't really care about...so enter the copy of A Christmas Carol that I got from a "free books" shelf in my wanderings around the humanities building.

This was a lot of fun since I already had the text block ready and I just got to focus on doing fancy things to the cover! I covered the page edges with sharpie and then a layer of liquid graphite. Added endbands and cut the original cover to use as a hinge.

I used liquid graphite again to do the painting for the endpapers. The lil painting at the front is based on a woodcut illustration of Victorian London. Cut the window out of the cover board, which was a whole ordeal, and put a piece of plastic behind it, which I painted to look like frosted windowpanes.

Then I decided to stencil the title onto the spine, which was a whole thing (can't believe I cut letters out of paper with a scalpel—and I should have used a stiffer brush or something bc the paint kind of spread, but it was an experiment).

But overall I'm happy with how it turned out! Now I have a cute little book with annotations from the previous own but with a cover that's a lot less ugly (sorry)

process photos under the cut :)

Lots of deliberation on how I was going to get the endpapers glued down and still have my window holes, so I ended up gluing it, putting my phone flashlight behind it to to see the outlines, and then making light cuts to get the paper and not the plastic. I also had to paint the corners of the window holes to match the cloth since it didn't stretch enough to cover completely.

[crippled-peeper]

I can’t even find any other people who have 2 spinal fusions let alone any articles about it 😩 am I just bad at googling things