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The more I work with tarantulas they less I understand the overwhelming fear and hatred most people have towards them (not talking about legitimate, involuntary phobias btw…just to be clear). Tarantulas are such oversensitive, helpless little babies.

Even the defensive species are mostly just cute and hilariously silly in their reactivity. “I’m so offended by the opening of my cage that I will now threat pose so hard that I almost fall over.” Like, we do this every week, little dude. Chill. Stop trying to fight your water dish.

I guess it’s hard to be scared of an animal you’ve seen violently flee from a prey item less than ¼th their size, or stand on tiptoes because they don’t like a new texture, or obsessively and meticulously clean every little spider-paw after a meal because it’s not polite to be dirty.

They’re like grumpy little eight-legged cats and I love them all.

Me: spiders dont have emotions and cant be emotionally attached to someone

Also me: look at my spider sitting there looking at me shes so comfy and happy she loves me and I love her!!!!

i love it when i have the opportunity to teach little kids about bugs. theyre usually grown up with parents that spew the typical “all of them are nasty” mindset, but there’s a lot that are still curious

ive just had 4 young girls and their mom watch as i handled my tarantula gently on my floor and educated about them; what they eat, differences between old and new world, their anatomy, etc. most of the girls claimed to be afraid of bugs but willingly looked very closely at her when i pointed out her eyes!! she also had a leg sticking up and the kids gave her a gentle high five. she was very docile and chill during the entire experience. shit like this just makes me so happy

me @ all my nocturnal pets while turning the light off: have fun go wild

this is a reminder: tell your spiders that they are beautiful today!

Remember: a lot of people tell them they’re ugly and should be killed. All spiders want to do is help us, so sometimes they need a little self-esteem boost!

Shout-out to the little girl at work who started crying when she saw a tarantula not because it was scary but because “it’s so fuzzy and I can’t pet it because there’s glass”.

baby okko is busy redecorating

>Giant tarantulas keep tiny frogs as pets. Insects will eat the burrowing tarantulas’ eggs - so the spiders protect the frogs from predators, and in return the frogs eat the insects - Is this true? Because it sounds too cool to be true -- Thank you

It is true! The frogs particularly eat ants, and ants can even overwhelm and kill a fully grown tarantula, so the spiders who learned to tolerate the frogs and not treat them as prey had a higher survival rate and it spread through entire species

Here’s a piece I created for the Tarantula Show I went to a month or so ago!

Invertebrate medicine is wild

Guys, omg. Something happened at this conference that I never ever thought would happen–I found invertebrates super interesting. And I kind of want to work with them. I didn’t even know that was an option! Also I’ve always been terrified of insects and arachnids but THEY’RE SO COOL I’VE BEEN SO WRONG ABOUT THEM. Look at this:

Look at that anatomy!!! How cool is that?? Their heart is just…dorsal. Like why?? And you can hear it with a doppler! You can anesthetize a tarantula with isoflurane and monitor their heart rate with a doppler. That blew my mind. You can perform surgery on them and suture them with 6-0 ophthalmic suture! You can give them IV and sub q fluids. That’s crazy!! And look how they drink:

Apparently they just drink like that?? I dunno why but that’s kind of cute?? They use hydrostatic pressure to move (which is crazy cool) so dehydration is actually a serious issue with them.

He also talked about scorpions, snails, shrimp, roaches, centipedes, crabs and a bunch of other animals I never would have even imagined you could treat. And honestly, I never imagined I would care enough to want to treat them but they were actually so interesting I ended up grabbing his email! Am I gonna be a spider vet?? Like that’s the last thing I EVER thought I would want do but hey, if I’m gonna treat exotics might as well include invertebrates, right?

Quick illustration of me turning into a fucking goliath birdeater tarantula shortly after snapping under the pressure of living in America

Found the world’s most perfect unicorn. I’m expecting a call from Lisa Frank any time now.

bro when did porn bots start getting urls this good

if u cut off my dick two more will grow in its place

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Hi, it’s been a while 👋🏻😊 My first-ever ‚pool walk video‘ to a nice golden morning view of Mt Pilatus, watch until the end🏔☀️. Got up really early but it was worth doing.

Storms’ a brewin’  by childishharish

from being relaxed to seeing something scary

"She will take it back some day." -Pink Floyd

May I present to you:

Book seller

Crystal seller

He sells flowers

She will sell you a pumpkin this fall

Would you like to purchase.. bean?

They are regulars. They buy mushrooms for soup

She has more options

Don’t be scared, he’s just been doing this for years and is passionate about garlic

Can I interest you in...melon?

Witch’s familiar needs coins to buy ingredients from toad next door

Please trust reliable, small business owners

The skin of Madagascar poison frogs contains the sugar sucrose – the first known case of sucrose produced by an animal, and not a plant.

$15 DIY Fogger for Frog Tank or Vivarium

Showing off my diy humidifier-fogger I made for my dart frog tank as well as tips for how to make your own. One day I'll make a nicer version of this video, ...

Made this at the request of a friend and figured it might be useful to some people with humidity loving plants in boxes XD

I picked up some dendrobates leucomelas at the expo this weekend. I’ve wanted these frogs for a long time and I am very happy to finally have them.

Vivarium has ferns, bromeliads, creeping fig, pilea, pepperomia, and tillandsia.

A new study describes set of conjoined deer twins, including a CT scan of their skeleton. A taxidermist also mounted the skin, pictured here. An analysis found that they had never breathed air, meaning they must have been stillborn. (Photo: D’Angelo et al.)

Here’s an odd one: the skull of the only known “narluga”, a possible narwhal/beluga whale hybrid. It was killed by a Greenlandic hunter around 1987 and the skull was lying on top of a toolshed in 1990 when it was noticed by a visiting scientist. According to the hunter, the animal was a uniform grey color (as opposed to the mottled narwhal and the white beluga), with the tail of a narwhal but the pectoral flippers of a beluga whale. 

The skull is larger than both parent species’ and its teeth a strange mixture of both. Narwhals don’t have teeth except for the single large tusk of the male, while beluga whales have a full set of smaller teeth. The narluga seems to have a full set of teeth but some of them are strangely elongated and oriented like narwhal tusks, as seen in the third picture. The unusual dentition didn’t seem to bother the animal since it reached a great size but it would presumably have been sterile as most hybrids are. No other examples of narwhal/beluga whale hybrids have been found. 

The skull is currently housed at the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen.

Does anyone have snake sheds they could donate to me?

They dont have to be unravelled or stretched, just as long as they’re mostly one piece and free of feces or urine!

Shoot me an ask!!

Sitting on PJ is a free activity anyone can enjoy

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