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neovison vison American Mink Visón Americano

The American mink is a carnivorous mammal and an invasive species. It is endangering an indigenous species, the European mink.

It is from the mustelid family and its skin is valuable in the fur industry, there are fur farms where sometimes they escape and roam free in the new environment, where they do not belong naturally.

Activists have also entered these farms and released the American mink, thinking about freeing the animals, but without realizing about the serious impact on the environment.

One of the problems with the American mink is that they are an opportunistic predator and affect seabirds by eating their eggs and hunting on the birds.

The American mink is also displacing in the habitat of the European mink, the American mink steals their food and they also prey on the European minks, now there are only 500 individuals of the European mink left.

European mink now have a disease problem that has been carried over by the American mink. Mink plasmacytosis is an Aleutian disease virus (ADV) that causes a fatal immune deficiency.

To control the American minks, they are trapped and euthanised. El visón americano es un mamífero carnívoro y una especie invasora. Está poniendo en peligro a una especie autóctona el visón europeo.

Es de la familia mustélido y su piel es valiosa por la industria peletera, hay criadores de granjas donde a veces  escapan y entran la naturaleza, donde no pertenecen naturalmente. 

También activistas han entrado estas granjas y liberado los visones americanos pensando en liberar los animales, pero sin dar cuenta con un impacto grave por el medio ambiente.

Una de los problemas con el visón americano es que son una depredadora oportunista y afectan las aves marinas se comen los huevos y cazando las aves.

El visón Americano también está desplazando en el habitat del visón europeo se roban su alimentación y cazan los visón europeos, ahora solo quedan 500 individuos del visón europeo.

Los visones europeos ahora tienen una problema por enfermedad que ha portado el visón americano. Visón plasmocitosis es un enfermedad aleutiana del visón (ADV) que provoca una deficiencia inmunitaria mortal.

Para controla los visones americanos, lo capturaron en trampas y se sacrifican.

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The Dance of Death Yellow Lipped Sea Krait VS Giant Moray Eel Laticauda Colubrina VS Gymnothorax Javanicus 

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Wood Frog Lithobates Sylvaticus Rana Sylvatica The most amazing thing about this frog is its ability to freeze during the winter and thaw out in the spring. Normally  when a heart stops beating an animal is dead, but with the wood frog  they can shut down their bodies including its heart and lungs and then  defrost itself from within. It is  still a scientific mystery on how the  body reactivates. The study of this frog and other biological materials from below normal temperatures is called Cryobiology. Scientists  believe if we can learn from the adaptation of the wood frog the  knowledge could be used to help with medical problems such as freezing  organs until needed and thawing them out for transplants without damage  "Cryopreservation" Not only can they survive being frozen, they  can be frozen and defrosted multiple times called freezing episodes and  can withstand being frozen for up to 8 months a year normally in  episodes of under four weeks at a time. Even though  the frog is  frozen on the outside it inhibits a Glucose which is sent to its cells  which helps to protect it from getting completely frozen even though its  heart is not beating and lungs not breathing. It can be frozen to up to  70% of its total fluids including its eyes and blood.

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Freaking Fox

A digital edit of a drawing I made showing a skull of a fox glitching between reality and non existence. As if stuck inside the static of a computer screen.

I wanted to show my feelings on life after death, and that how skulls and bones are one of the only ways you can hold into something that once lived and that they have a precious value of the memory of life and also the memory that life never lasts and even one day that bone will too be gone.

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Giant Moray Eel Gymnothorax Javanicus

Facts~

Moray eels are a group containing around 200 different species.

They normally stay hidden between corals and rocks waiting for prey to pass by before eating them.

They are covered in slime which helps them glide through the water in a friction-less way and is also used as a glue like substance to help build sand burrows.

The slime also attracts parasites and those parasites attract its prey.

They have small round eyes at the end of their snout, but have poor vision and rely on motion and smell.

They can co-operate with other fish for hunting and learn the routine of their prey.

They have two sets of teeth the inner set it used to drag helpless prey down their throat.

They are the only known animal that uses their second set of jaws (pharyngeal jaws) as a weapon.

They are nocturnal and hunt only in the night.

They can lay up to 60,000 eggs at once and the parents have nothing to do with them after they are born so lots get eaten up.

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Yellow Lipped Sea Krait Laticauda Colubrina

Facts~

Have over five different names! Which include of Banded Sea Krait, Colubrine sea snake, yellow lipped sea snake and more!

It’s key characteristic is it’s flattened tail which acts like a paddle helping it swim through the water.

They can only move at one 5th of the speed on land than it can in water.

It spends an equal amount of time on sea than in water unlike most other sea snakes and kraits which cannot move on land at all.

They eat eels and small fish and are preyed upon by sharks, larger fish and birds whilst on land.

They can fool predators from the movement of their tail into thinking it is their head.

The venom makes it one of the most lethal creature of the sea being 10x more potent than a rattle snake.

Like turtle it returns to land to lay eggs.

They have a salt gland under their tongue which removes salt absorbed from the sea.

They also have the ability to breathe through their lungs and their skin.

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A small GIF of my FASE lamp that hovers over my work space