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Today's crab is: stares at you
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something ‘bout may makes it all feel better!
baby, summerland holds what i want right now…
it’s that time of year again! went to the beach!
#strong sad has the towel from “suntan”#strong mad and bad’s swim shorts are like the first ones i think of for little boy swimmies#theyre big boys but yeah not really#strong bad is pissy because he doesn’t know how to surf#the cheat is eating a crab#okay actual tags#homestar runner#strong sad#strong mad#strong bad#the cheat#marzipan#other characters are at Old Man Beach probably. if you were worried#watercolor#jaybirdz egg
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Wish I knew how to swim-
#werewolf#werewuff#sfw fur art#sfw furry#furry#furry art#art#wholesome werewolf#wholesome werewuff#wholesome#Naoma#swimming#crab#floaties
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comm for wavycookie
had an absolute blast on this, I love kelp forests :D
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At Last, the Atlantic Blue Crab!
A common sight on dinner tables in Canada, America, and Mexico, the blue crab-- also known as the Atlantic blue crab or the Maryland Blue crab (Callinectes sapidus)-- is native to the the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coast of North America. This species is a bottom dweller, and can occupy a range of habitats from freshwater tributaries to the open bays and gulfs of the ocean itself. At times it may be found at high tide, but most individuals remain submerged at depths up to 36 m (120 ft) deep.
As indicated by its name, the claws and front body of male blue crabs are bright blue. Females are carry a blue tinge, but are largely brown or olive, though the tips of their claws are bright red. Otherwise, the two sexes may be distinguished by the shape of their underside, or "apron"; males have an inverted 'T' shape, while females have a wider, rounder shape. Individuals of both sexes may grow up to 23 cm (9 in) in width, and weigh up to 136 g (0.3 lbs).
Spawning for C. sapidus can occur year-round, but for most populations it peaks in October or November. When females are ready, they travel up estuaries and rivers to where populations of males are more concentrated, and then release pheromones in their urine to attract mates. Male crabs then compete for access, and guard their chosen mates fiercely for up to a week. During this time, the female molts, at which point the male fertilizes her. Afterwards, she may retain her mate's sperm for up to a year, during which time she returns to saltier waters. A female can fertilize 2 million eggs at a time, and will carry them in a mass under her abdomen until they hatch, about a week after fertilization. She may do this as many as 4 times throughout a single mating season.
Once hatched, Atlantic blue crab larvae are released into the ocean. Each larvae spends 30-40 days going through seven larval stages known as zoea; these stages are similar to the instars of a larval insect. However, zoea have hard shells and must molt at each stage of development. After the initial zoea stages, juvenile C. sapidus enter the megalops stage, which lasts 6-20 days. During this time juveniles move from the ocean into the estuaries in which they spawned. Finally, they molt into their final form, which resembles an adult-- albeit much smaller. Both males and females continue to molt throughout the year until they reach their full size. In total, both sexes go through about 25 molts each throughout their lives, which spans about 3 years in the wild.
Blue crabs have a wide and varied diet, as they are omnivores. In their larval stages, Maryland blue crabs consume primarily plankton and detritus. Megalops and adults will feed on clams, mussels, and oysters, small fish, kelp, seaweed, carrion, smaller blue crabs, and animal waste. In turn, both juveniles and adults are food for eels, large fish some sharks, stingrays, and humans. In fact, predation upon larval and sub-adult blue crabs is so heavy that, of 8 million eggs released by the mother, only 1 or 2 typically survive to adulthood.
Conservation status: The Maryland blue crab has not been evaluated by the IUCN. However, in recent decades, fisheries have noticed a severe decline in abundance, likely due to over-harvesting and pollution.
If you send me proof that you’ve made a donation to UNRWA or another fund benefiting Palestinians– including esim donations and verified gofundmes– I’ll make art of any animal of your choosing.
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Kim Cover
Lynn Strauss
Jo O'Keefe
#atlantic blue crab#Decapoda#Portunidae#swimming crabs#crabs#decapods#crustaceans#arthropods#marine fauna#marine arthropods#coasts#coastal arthropods#atlantic ocean
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Also Hermes, WE went through so much to get this? Surely he is not talking about Ody making a house call to get the bag in the first place. I now want a spin of with Hermes and the winions going on an epic quest to retrieve the wind bag from the bottom of the sea!
#it’s just Hermes doing different acrobatic swim jumps and the winions standing behind with a score board#he keeps failing cause he won’t stop singing#main antagonist is the song within and a particularly nasty crab called mr Pinchers#who might be Eurylochus reborn for extra comedic effect#epic the musical#epic the musical spoilers#epic the vengeance saga#epic the vengeance saga spoilers#epic the crab 🦀 saga
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my favorite video in the whole wide world
#i used to be obsessed with this video in 2022#they swim?!#crab post#crabs#yap#im actually just posting this to show all my friends bc i cant put videos in dms#i got a video downloader for instagram.. hehe#i have a backlog of 5 years worth of reels
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The Common Objects of the Seashore. Written by John George Wood. 1857.
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#marine life#crustaceans#crabs#european spider crabs#velvet swimming crabs#shrimp#aesop shrimp#amphipods#sand hoppers
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Add Aka to the ocean to turn her into Very Happy Aka
#put me in water#sea water#in the sea#let me go swim#splish splash#skitter around crab holes#look at sea star#maybe even a sea hare#:[#water............ sploosh.....#aka what are you doing#ocean loving
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I watched a seminar about scientific diving and got so excited and passionate and interested..and then my heart sank.
Ill never be able to do that will I?
Sure I may be able to do one diving trip once in a while, but to have it be my job, well its the same issue as doing surveys on land.
I feel so jealous of people who get to go and do those types of things. Who are living my dreams...with their strong and painless bodies. I'll always be stuck behind a screen, not doing what I'm most passionate about. Weighed down by pain and brain fog. I'll always be 10 steps behind everyone, no matter how hard I try. And like one diver said, they only take the best.
#wrenfea.exe#chronic disability#chronic pain#spoonie#disability#scientific diving#even if i am able to dive I would still need to pass physical and medical requirements#i just thought that since when I swim Im not in pain it would be a way for me to pursue my passion#I love invertebrates so much they make me so happy and excited#seeing one crab makes my whole day and the studies they were doing were so cool#i just look at those divers and see what my life wouldve been if I never became disabled
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Today's crab is: oh so vibrant
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awesome men art btw
thanks i like drawing them bc i am gay
#spitblaze says things#spitblaze draws things#octopath#octopath traveler#therion octopath#alfyn greengrass#alfion#maybe? theyre standing next to each other lmao#probably gonna share that umbrella#therion will not be swimming (he does not know how) but he will find crabs and throw them at tressa#anyway. many thoughts. several about alfyns tummy#several more about therions waist#anyway.#good god not much to break an art block like a Free Dopamine Machine huh
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Photos 1-2 - Carapace, washed up 10-15m away from body
Photos 3-4 - the rest of the body
Photos 5-6 - closeups of claws
Photo 7 - flattened hind leg / Photo 8 - the other legs
Photo 9 - closeup of carapace / Photo 10 - internal structure beneath carapace
Dead crab that washed ashore. The carapace had detached from the rest of the body and washed up separately, but its still a clear match in my eyes.
You can see how its last legs are modified (or flattened I guess) for swimming.
17/09/23 - Portunus sp.
QLD:WET - Cardwell, ocean shore
#Arthropods#invertebrates#invertblr#arthropod#arthropoda#Portunus#unidentified#Portunidae#Swimming Crabs#Decapoda#Decapods#crabs#dead tw#Crustacea#Crustaceans
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summer is hitting me something fierce and I want to do a beach episode because of it :( do you have any idea how much I love beach episodes :((((
#and movie nights#and slice of life filler#if it were up to me systema would be purely slice of life fluff#but with it also up to me i want it to be a dark thriller#sigh#anyway i live for fluffy shit#i can see it now#Eric? surfing. Sonia? getting a sick tan and being dumped into the water by Vincent#Amon? swimming. he is far. He is one with the water.#Nate? swimming then walking by the shore with sera. then going for some smoothies. he likes well rounded trips#sera? staying away from the water. and the sand. god this sucks. she would stay at the villa but the shore is nice to walk by#eventually she gets sick of it and flies around with a shorter nate in tow.#Strohl has blinded people#He still gets sunscreen for some odd reason.#he and katya lounge about before swimming a bit#Katya wears the most sunscreen to protect her career#sonia has a silent need to one up her so she tries being extra lavish and classy on this trip#rivalry stays strong even though shes over Strohl#Amon returns to the beach house covered in seaweed and with five ocean fish in tow.#Eric has surfed for a long while and vincent has enjoyed swimming and flying the day away#the men HUNGER#Nate has since cooked for everyone with Sera's help#Everyone enjoys a nice meal and then some with the fish amon caught#Adra made a ton of sandcastles with katyas help#etc etc etc etc etc#writing groups is fun#character interactions are endless#sera likes crabs and she enjoys observing the critters with her good eyesight#Shes never seen them before#Vincent does eventually tire of swimming to make a better and bigger sand fortress for adra
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Aside from the noble platypus I also feel like rui would really enjoy these animals:
Mola mola/Sunfish
Anteater
Echidna
Kiwi
Kākāpō
Axolotl
Horseshoe crab
Gibbon
#i have reasoning for all of these beyond ‘they look funny’ trust#mola mola are just. so fucking weird man. they’re so odd. their back fin grows back on itself? they’re so rigid it reduces drag#but they ‘swim’ really slowly? they swim similar to how a bird flies. just sideways. largest bony fish. they bask to get enough warmth#to allow them to dive super deep to forage for food (cold blooded so they’d be fucked without doing that)#anteaters are interesting. did you know they’ve (the giant ones) killed jaguars and humans before#because they walk on the knuckles to keep the huge knives on their feet sharp and their threat response#is basically just ‘swipe blindly (poor vision) at whatever comes close until it stops coming back’#echidnas are fellow monotremes (only ones besides the platypus) and are just as strange#they also have electrosensors (~2000 compared to the platypus’s 40000) and a similarly low body temp#(second lowest of all mammals after. u guessed it. the platypus) and are actually decent swimmers despite looking Like That#kiwis are weird beasts.#massive eggs compared to their body size. rely more on scent than sight because their eyes are so tiny and under developed.#kākāpō are the heaviest parrot and also the only flightless parrot. they also kinda resemble owls face wise? and they’re green.#evolved with no natural predators and are currently being fucked over by invasive rats#axolotl is self explanatory#although to give a fun fact the wild type is naturally brown. the fun colored ones would be easy prey in the wild.#& they’re capable of going through metamorphosis (like how tadpoles -> frogs) if exposed to the necessary hormones#but they don’t produce it on their own#horseshoe crabs despite having crab in the name are more closely related to spiders/ticks/scorpions than crabs#& gibbons are included because 1 I’m biased towards my favorite animal 2 only species of lesser ape. live in family units.#tbf I think he’d like all apes and probably prefer orangutans/chimps but I’m saving you the extensive lecture on great apes#here at ssruis we strive to be educational.#biology cool. despite me dropping out of the program (treated as premed at my college and I could NOT do chem let alone orgchem/physics) but#i liked biolab/the units abt animals ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#rui
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GeneFinny Week
Day 3: Beach Day
let’s go to the beach beach!
ninki minjaj
#hello i was kinda lazy with this one#it’s based on a beach memory i had: my fam was swimming and my uncle somehow pulled a crab out of the ocean lol#a separate peace#asp#genefinny week#how do ppl actually post art daily like what yall are on crack#but eemm i hope yall enjoying the art cuz yall never gonna see me post this much within a month ever again 😀#anyways im being overwhelmed with school already save me somebody save me 😂🙏🙏
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