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Happy birthday, Uglorable!

Emi — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:34:29 +0000

Uglorable is 5 years old today.

And in honor of its birthday, a lumpsucker!

Lumpsuckers are a favorite among fish & wildlife students. They have a little suction cup on them, so they stick to stuff.

Two hedgehogs

Kento — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:43:53 +0000

Hedgehogs spines are specialized hairs, and it looks like baby hedgehogs are born with hair where it counts.

Photo credit unknown. Thanks Wess!

Champ, the dog

Kento — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:03:28 +0000

I’m told this dog looks like me.

If you don’t know what I look like, you’ll just have to imagine how I must look.

Small Snake Biting Hand

Kento — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:08:11 +0000

Like a lot of us, this snake is taking on more than it can chew.

Photo credit unknown. Via Haha.nu.

Blizzard, the White Bison

Kento — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:11:46 +0000

Pigmentation deserves to be the topic of a great series of posts. Albinism is the relative lack of a specific common pigmentation, melanin. Leucism is the relative lack of all pigmentation. This bison appears not to be an albino, but a leuc— a leuco? Leucic? Leucist? Well, this post has been derailed. Leucid? Euclid? Lucario?

You can read more about white bison on the Wikipedia article titled “White Buffalo“.

Photo credit found by clicking on photos. Thanks Matt!
Apologies to anyone who googled “euclid lucario.” This is not what you wanted. I doubt what you want exists anywhere.

Raptorial moray eel

Emi — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:20:53 +0000

So I was studying for my ichthyology final which is in… Ten hours… And I came across this awesome video that my professor used in one of his lectures. And I’ve been meaning to see if I could find it online, but I forgot about it until just now. So here it is.

Watch it SHOOT OUT ITS PHARYNGEAL JAWS (secondary jaws in the throat, basically). For the record, before this no one knew pharyngeal jaws were used for capture. It’s just… Awesome!

Planktonic Mola mola

Emi — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:20:48 +0000

I’m taking Ichthyology right now, and my professor showed a picture of a baby ocean sunfish in class. Apparently they have up to 300 million babies at a time. And they’re tiny and planktonic and uglorable.

I will probably be posting fish for a while…. A lot of them are pretty uglorable.

(click for photo credit)

Mame Shiba

Kento — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:29:40 +0000

This translation is a little iffy, but you ought to watch this, it is the best thing.

David Attenborough with Manatees

Kento — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:21:29 +0000

Heck. Yes.

It used to be the BBC didn’t allow embedding of their YouTube videos. BUT NOW THEY DO. And they have a really good video up from David Attenborough’s The Life of Mammals.” (Amazon Link)

David Attenborough. One of my five favorite people. Manatees. One of my five favorite animals. Oh man.

Where am I going to write my opinion that being drowned by a manatee is the cutest way to die? Because it totally is and I want to put weird things in this blog even though the real purpose is to look at pictures and stuff.

Amazon links help the site financially. Supposedly. (I’d put Amazon links to my top three favorite Attenborough series, but The Private Life of Plants has never been released on Region 1 DVD. WHAT THE HECK. The other favorite in my top 3 favorite Attenborough series is Life in the Undergrowth, which is under $20 and it is the BEST EVER OK. This disclaimer thing is far less focused than I intended.

Tapir Commercial

Kento — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:15:14 +0000

This is exactly what the healthcare debate needs. I live in Japan right now, and I happened to see a health insurance commercial with a malayan tapir in it.

I can’t find a YouTube video at all so I can’t embed it, so I will just have to link to the site that has them.