can't tell if it's more or less nightmare-fueling to know that that's a picture of a penis.
the author had good fun with euphemisms for beetle jizz
There may even be some more instantaneous positives for the females who couple up with superlatively spiked males. Arnqvist’s team found that females who mated with males from the long-spined lineage laid more eggs over their lifetime than those that had hooked up only with the stubby-spined. Males with naturally longer phallic accoutrements are thought to gain better access to the female’s hemolymph—the insect equivalent of blood, flowing outside her reproductive tract—where their seminal fluids can prime her body for reproduction. They might also, thanks to their genes, produce higher-quality ejaculate—top-shelf beetle juice. This rich cocktail can be up to 8 percent of the insect’s full weight (the equivalent of all the blood in the human body, by proportion), and teems with hundreds of ingredients, many of which are thought to enhance egg production, or supply the female’s body with much-needed nutrients. (After seed beetles mature into adults, they stop eating and focus their efforts solely on sex.)
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 12 July 2021 13:54 (two years ago) link
that top shelf beetle juice the kids love
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 12 July 2021 15:38 (two years ago) link
it is a rich cocktail
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 12 July 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ5nbfhvV5I
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
DNW if you don't want sea turtles ruined for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNp7tuZyWBY
― Action Bell (Leee), Friday, 6 August 2021 23:58 (two years ago) link
https://blog.snapshotserengeti.org/2014/01/17/the-curious-case-of-the-giraffe-and-the-oxpecker/
The images also show that the birds seem to prefer settling between the hind legs of the giraffe.
― wildleee questionable baking substitutions (Leee), Friday, 20 August 2021 05:55 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxjIk_vXGlw
Giant fish with bony tongues, sturdy armor, and that breathe air and secrete a milky substance out of their heads to protect their young.
― Moz Jabroni (Leee), Thursday, 2 September 2021 05:09 (two years ago) link
vacuum attack!
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 September 2021 19:20 (two years ago) link
Probably mentioned before but some frogs let their offspring develop in their stomachs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce-pt3Da4QA
― Carte Blanchett (Leee), Saturday, 4 September 2021 05:56 (two years ago) link
Thought he'd mention that frog or toad that births babies through it's skin, because that's still the weirdest to me
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 4 September 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
Is that different from the one where the tadpoles live on the mom and eat her skin?
― Carte Blanchett (Leee), Sunday, 5 September 2021 00:09 (two years ago) link
It's Suriname toads, still one of the weirdest things I've ever seen.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgROaJY6Xnkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lf3JZw3OMY
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 5 September 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
Weird Oz duck says 'you bloody fool'
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-australia-58476891
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
Related: weird Oz duck likes to body surf: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-australia-55836596
― Carte Blanchett (Leee), Tuesday, 7 September 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zHmUvUre72ECbRSboWsGK3-970-80.jpg.webp
Hundreds of three-eyed 'dinosaur shrimp' emerge after Arizona monsoon
These tadpole-size creatures, called Triops "look like little mini-horseshoe crabs with three eyes," Lauren Carter, lead interpretation ranger at Wupatki National Monument, told Live Science. Their eggs can lie dormant for decades in the desert until enough rainfall falls to create lakes that provide real estate and time for the hatchlings to mature and lay eggs for the next generation, according to Central Michigan University.
― visiting, Thursday, 21 October 2021 18:59 (two years ago) link
More axolotl facts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFkIG9S2Mmg
Most interesting is the fact that they can actually undergo metamorphosis under the right conditions!
― Leee Tigre (Leee), Thursday, 21 October 2021 20:03 (two years ago) link
Uncovered this emu tidbit from the NYT crossword a couple days ago:
The male becomes broody after his mate starts laying, and may begin to incubate the eggs before the clutch is complete. From this time on, he does not eat, drink, or defecate, and stands only to turn the eggs, which he does about ten times a day.
― A Frome of One's Own (Leee), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
https://www.mbari.org/products/creature-feature/giant-phantom-jellyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bzQYKm3xTA
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 20:18 (two years ago) link
https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/23/23/54/21838645/3/2400x0.jpg
The barreleye fish, according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, has a transparent head, and can primarily be found throughout the Pacific, from the Bering Sea to Japan and Baja California at depths of up to 2,600 feet.
In lieu of eyes are “two glowing green orbs behind its face that gaze up towards the top of its head,” and indentations where the eyes would normally appear are its “olfactory organs.” (The eyes of this “bizarre” fish, the institute notes, can rotate to the front of the head “to see its food when eating.”)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Monterey-Bay-researchers-spot-deep-sea-barrelfish-16710913.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 20 December 2021 20:25 (two years ago) link
one of leees faves!
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 December 2021 20:31 (two years ago) link
<3
― Shower Farts (Leee), Monday, 20 December 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
And footage of the same:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akv36y8WLYA
― Virginia Worf (Leee), Monday, 27 December 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
pixar missed a step imo
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 03:34 (two years ago) link
Not so much weird whales as weird whale members: https://www.dailygrail.com/2018/07/this-famous-sea-serpent-story-might-actually-have-been-a-sighting-of-a-whale-penis/
― Rabbit Pen Warren (Leee), Saturday, 8 January 2022 07:13 (two years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CZxLNavBWS1/FAT ASS SHEEPhttp://www.worldfoodist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/800px-Erector_fat_tail_sheep.jpg
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 10 February 2022 02:45 (two years ago) link
Mesmerizing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryRcPeOM1sY
― Vladimir Poutine (Leee), Saturday, 12 March 2022 07:22 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKh8g44UnAc
― Born Sleeepy (Nuxx) (Leee), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 00:23 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIzTWYfTVw8
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/05/03/science/03tb-dolphins-vs-anaconda/03tb-dolphins-vs-anaconda-superJumbo.jpg
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/science/dolphins-anaconda-bolivia.html
Something else from the photos was notable — the male dolphins’ erect penises.“It could have been sexually stimulating for them,” said Diana Reiss, a marine mammal scientist and cognitive psychologist at Hunter College in New York who was not involved with the study. “It could have been something to rub on.”The aroused males could have been having a sexual romp with each other before the snake became entangled.Researchers who study dolphins are well aware of the animals’ sexual proclivities, such as rubbing their genitals on toys or inserting their penises into objects, animate and inanimate. They often use their penises for tactile interactions, Dr. Reiss says. She has even observed male bottlenose dolphins trying to penetrate the blowhole of a rescued pilot whale in an aquarium. It’s possible, she added, that the males tried to insert their penises into the snake.“There are so many questions,” Mr. Entiauspe-Neto says.
“It could have been sexually stimulating for them,” said Diana Reiss, a marine mammal scientist and cognitive psychologist at Hunter College in New York who was not involved with the study. “It could have been something to rub on.”
The aroused males could have been having a sexual romp with each other before the snake became entangled.
Researchers who study dolphins are well aware of the animals’ sexual proclivities, such as rubbing their genitals on toys or inserting their penises into objects, animate and inanimate. They often use their penises for tactile interactions, Dr. Reiss says. She has even observed male bottlenose dolphins trying to penetrate the blowhole of a rescued pilot whale in an aquarium. It’s possible, she added, that the males tried to insert their penises into the snake.
“There are so many questions,” Mr. Entiauspe-Neto says.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 22:19 (one year ago) link
typical males
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 23:47 (one year ago) link
Would you believe an omnivorous shark?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDkSToylRjM
― Star Trek: Strange New Wordles (Leee), Monday, 9 May 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/13-foot-long-fish-caught-in-mekong-river-shows-some-megafish-are-thriving
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 May 2022 08:50 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbLFbyjVLYY
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
Binturongs have kind of given up:
Binturongs pee in a squatting position, soaking their feet and bushy tails in the process. They also drag their tails as they move about in the trees, leaving a scent trail on the branches and leaves behind them.
https://today.duke.edu/2016/04/popcornscentedbinturong#:~:text=Binturongs%20owe%20their%20popcorn%2Dlike,toasted%20bread%20and%20cooked%20rice
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 22:50 (one year ago) link
I met one in person at a weird zoo in Kōbe, until that point I had no idea they existed so it completely freaked me out. Pretty gentle big dude, like a wolfhound hanging from a branch.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 23:02 (one year ago) link
Did it smell like popcorn?
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Thursday, 9 June 2022 03:28 (one year ago) link
I was racking my brain to try and remember, I think I do remember some kind of warm/woody smell.https://i.imgur.com/8HiAgg4.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/hJZElkO.jpg
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 9 June 2022 04:31 (one year ago) link
That one's huge! Love bearcats. Spotted one in the wild on Borneo a couple of years ago:https://imgur.com/a/Ao7VDnl
― willem, Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
hmmm :( clicketyclick: https://imgur.com/a/Ao7VDnl
― willem, Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
https://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/hymenopt/RedHair1.jpg
ok, here's one I saw on saturday, three separate times - the pacific velvet ant, aka the 'cowkiller ant'
They were wandering around a dirt fire road... I'm a California native and I don't think I've ever seen one
My friend looked it up on her phone, and we were like 'that's an ANT? fucking weird.. it looks like a bee.'
Well, despite the name, it's not actually an ant but a wingless WASP, with an extremely painful sting.. I'm glad I didn't try to pet it
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
Oh, I would sometimes encounter these in meadows when I lived in California. Cool!
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Thursday, 9 June 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
Funny, I've been seeing those in NW Nevada but they're covered in gold fur.
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 12 June 2022 09:11 (one year ago) link
I was stung by one of those as a teen. It was agonizing.
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 12 June 2022 13:31 (one year ago) link
In Australia we have these mfs, same deal, also agonisinghttps://i.redd.it/ezv9y6x4nv131.jpg
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 13 June 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
That's pretty!
In completely unrelated WTFness: https://www.popsci.com/female-salamander-kleptogenesis/
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 01:35 (one year ago) link
That's so strange...Also "Kleptogenesis" sounds like it could be a Voivod album...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 02:02 (one year ago) link
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/in-this-insect-females-have-penises-and-males-have-vaginas
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link
Check out these adorable dumdums: https://defector.com/why-is-this-tiny-frog-so-awful-at-jumping/
― Antifa Lockhart (Leee), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
Also "Kleptogenesis" sounds like it could be a Voivod album...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, June 15, 2022 3:02 AM (yesterday)
Thumbs up
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 23:47 (one year ago) link
Nice account
Brilliant colours of the pink-necked green pigeon from South-East Asia. pic.twitter.com/na2kQchv08— Weird Animals (@Weird_AnimaIs) April 2, 2022
Maned wolves of South America have very long legs! Its not closely related to other canids, so it's not actually a wolf. pic.twitter.com/VlQAg57YdD— Weird Animals (@Weird_AnimaIs) June 2, 2022
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 25 June 2022 01:36 (one year ago) link
excellent
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Saturday, 25 June 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link