Imagine skating around on a frozen lake and just coming across pairs of jaws, halfhazardly spread around the lake, jutting out of the ice. Would you touch them?
I have been using alligators as the base for dragons in a book I am writing. Please make me regret my decision and tell me some cursed facts about them!
contrary to popular belief, american alligators can survive the occasional deep freeze just fine!
they do so by entering a torpor state that’s basically a short-term hibernation, but first they make a big ol’ hole in the ice and stick their face out of it so they can breathe until the thaw comes.
depending on how long the freeze lasts, this may mean that the hole literally freezes shut around their faces, and abruptly the swamp by your house is now a skating rink with built-in pit trap hazards.
don’t worry about them though, they’re fine! as long as they have access to open air, they’ll wake up when the temperature rises again and go back to lurking around pretending to be logs, though they may bonk around disorientedly for a few days afterwards.
“the shit was THAT about??? humans better stop fucking with the climate, I swear.”
overall, the alligators probably weathered the Great Blizzard of ‘21 better than the humans did.
Here’s some prompts for Spectober! I can’t wait to see all the different spins on these prompts!
Alright, the art prompt is out! Remember, the event is planned for October, but that doesn’t mean you can’t start planning ahead :) And as one last reminder, we’ll be using the #spectober2020, which I’ll be looking out for on here, twitter, and instagram.
Prompts listed again beneath the cut
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A young American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) rides on the back of its mother in Brazos Bend State Park, Texas, USA
by Rick Dunlap
Happy holidays, @junk-thrillz! I got to be your @paranaturalsecretsanta this year. I really had fun thinking of potential ways to sneak all the prompts in, although I didn't get all of them. I couldn't think of a good Werewolf Violet idea in my head, so I did the next best thing and threw a werewolf *at* Violet instead. I hope you enjoy it!
If there's one thing that will instantly brighten up your day it is seeing the wildly different approaches each contestant took to eating a watermelon. Including completely obliterating it on the floor.
Taskmaster one task per episode 1.01 eat as much watermelon as possible in one minute (Romesh Ranganathan)
ah, don'tcha just love language. one small mixup and the entire context is suddenly way different.
public service announcement
Another fun fact: crocodiles and alligators will climb surfaces. If you go to a reptile zoo and see the metal mesh curve upwards, that's because the crocs and gators would otherwise be able to climb right up the mesh and get out. They can also use their massive tail to propel themselves out of the water like really slow death missiles.
They're amazing creatures.
(Footage taken from Queensland Australia)
abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them
A Cozy Cabana for Crocodiles, Alligators and their ancestors. -fan of the webcomic Paranatural, Pokemon, Hideo Kojima titles -updates/posts infrequently
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