#hybrid biology

[t00thpasteface]

here's something stupid: the catcatfish

some quick facts:

they're nocturnal and tend to roam around while awake.

they have keen senses of smell and hearing, but terrible eyesight. despite this, they also have a tapetum lucidum, making their pupils "glow" in the dark.

their fur is short, dense, and oily to waterproof them.

they prefer a diet of mostly meat and are attracted to strong-smelling food like fish, cheese, and anything fermented.

the elongated dewclaw on each front paw is sharp, flexible, and nonretractable. it injects a venom that causes respiratory failure and cardiac arrest in prey and, in extreme doses, humans. veterenarians typically remove the dewclaw venom glands during the neuter/spay procedure.

they grow to an average of 1m and 23kg (3ft and 50lb) but can reach up to double that length and triple the weight!

[redhairedfish]

it would be the most dangerous animal on the planet

[1mm4d13]

Chat, did I lose???

[mckitterick]

Meet Dogxim, the world’s first known dog-fox hybrid

this cutie had been hit by a car, and the Brazilian veterinary clinic that nursed her back to health noticed that not only did she look unusual, she didn't behave like a dog

researchers checking her genetics discovered she's both dog and Pampas Fox!

link to paper: X

[witchofthesouls]

Whatcha think of the possibility of some seekers having more than one wings? Like kinda sub species almost to the normal seekers?

Personally, absolutely love it.

It could be something like what TFP did with a smaller set over the main wings. Or, a physiological difference found within an isolated sect of Seekers or even something like a multi-environmental approach (one set to fly and one set to navigate underwater). But I also really like the concept where two species produce a viable hybrid, so something between a Camien Seeker and a winged alien neighbor would have interesting results.

[aut2imagineart]

As challenging as arthropods are to draw, I wanted to create a detailed look at one of my two uplifted which I call the Sprites. I actually imagine a story line with these and the other new uplifted the Scurachin who will get their own dedicated post.

Like the rest of the uplifted from my Centauri Universe, the Sprites are hybrids of various Earth animals that possess human level sapience. In their case, the Sprites are a combination of ants, bees, and portia spiders. They consist of four main castes (workers, warriors, drones, and queens) and communicate primarily through pheromones, visuals, and vibrations. The workers, the most numerous caste, and responsible for constructing elaborate nests and communication systems (a network of vibrating web strands) as well as hunting and gathering. Like bees and ants respectively, Sprites are callable of making honey and growing fungi as alternate food sources. Though all castes have venomous vangs, the warriors are the only caste to possess stingers and can spray formic acid. Their role is to protect their colonies as well as assist in hunting more dangerous prey. In normal bee and ant colonies, the drones sole purpose is to breed with the queens (often perishing shorty afterwards). Sprite drones serve a similar purpose but have more individual intelligence due to their larger size they play some leadership roles along with the queens. Being the largest caste members, the queens have the most individual intelligence as their size allows larger brains and more neuron density. Due to this, they play major roles in leadership as well as breed. However, much like bees, sprites actually have a democratic system where important actions (moving locations, gathering spots, attacking targets, etc) are voted on by the other caste members with even the workers suggesting key actions.

As mentioned previously I'll do a dedicated post to my other new uplifted at some point in the future. I'm working full time now so my posts will unfortunately be a little less frequent.

As always, comments and critiques are welcome.

[middle-earth-marauder]

Shadow the Hybrid, reference

Shadow post-Generations, character from These Restless Hearts are Waking, my sonadowverse series

Link to the Masterpost

[shadowcaststudio]

Pointing this painting out to a friend and she was like "what would their kid look like?" I had to draw it. Love how the colors came out on this character ❤ Of course Fitz is gonna have a field day talking to this creature! What do you call a mermaid + centaur? A Hippocampitaur? (Mix of hippocamp (horse + fish) and taur????) Thank you @centaurself for pointing out this is already a mythical creature called a icthyocentaur ✨ Lemme know if there are any other mythical creatures you want to see Fitzwilliam interact with!

[afallenwolf]

Athena aka Xenomorphilid Davidnae named after the Xenomorph’s use of acid and chestburster. And young king David who stood against the giant Goliath. Been working on her for a while, but spent most of the contest time sick! Finally got finished and she's been submitted. I don't expect to reach the final 16, sucks I was sick for so long. But was a fun challenge.

[hawkpartys]

[t00thpasteface]

🐈🐈🐟!!

[redhairedfish]

(mermay 2022) If you have never seen an Australian echidna now is the time to see

[rassicas]

Hi!! I was thinking, what's your opinion about inktolings? Like I'm 99% sure they'll never be properly canon (due to various reasons including biology), but I wondered if you had any specific thoughts or headcanons about them. I'd love to know :')

in general, personally not a fan of the concept of hybrids in the splatoon world. if it were possible for stable hybrids to happen in a society comprised of so many species that have been intermingling for generations, i dont think we'd see the level of speciation that we do. it makes for messy worldbuilding.

inklings and octolings have had peaceful relations with each other for millennia and with how similar they look, i have zero doubt that some have tried for kids. but biologically speaking squids and octopuses as distant as cats and dogs (maybe even more distant than that, at least cats and dogs share a taxonomic order, squids and octopuses only share a class). the only way id imagine an inktoling to exist would be nothing short of a miracle, and would be sterile, likely with some kind of health issues. the sapient herrings in splatoon can produce hundreds of children and this likely applies at least to other species of fish too. for couples of different species who want children, i think there would be no shortage of children to adopt.

[soaplily119]

i wanna be a machine but i also want to be organic

i wish i was some weird techno organic hybrid

give me metal bones but let me regenerate

let me become stronger without needing to replace my parts

let my brain be connected to more storage while keeping my memories and brain stuff

let me perspire and breathe to lower my internal temperature and run at peak efficiency

allow me to replace my parts for different niches like eyes into the infrared spectrum

let me choose between getting energy from food or electricity

aaaahaahhjjjfkglhlkgj

[raintailed]

FOURTEENTH FUNGUARY SILLY based on bleeding tooth fungus!!!

this is Soni (pronounced SAW-nee) (any pronouns, he/him preferred)! He was a regular northern highland slugcat until he was modified by Drowned Out Cry to be a slimecat "hybrid."

Something about slimecats and their hybrids is that they can only properly hybridize (form "true hybrids") with similar species such as rot or dark lichen.

Meanwhile, Soni is a "false hybrid;" since his original species isn't fully compatible with slimecat stuff, he has distinct slimecat patches instead of being an even mix. Since slimecats technically never stop growing, a false hybrid's patches won't either; eventually, Soni will be 100% slimecat (but still 100% Soni).

Sometimes it can be difficult to identify whether a slimecat hybrid is a true or false one. A simple method is to see if their slimepups are also hybrids; if so, it's a true hybrid. If the pups are just regular slimepups, then their parent is a false hybrid.

True slimecat hybrids can occur naturally or be made artificially (natural ones usually happen from pups living around and absorbing stuff like rot). False hybrids are always artificially made.

[soybeenss]

oarfish dragon