Arright so i saw something really cool in Texas, the kind of thing you read about but don’t expect to actually encounter
I flipped over a rock and found a tarantula sharing its burrow with a tiny narrowmouth toad
This is a symbiotic relationship where the tarantula provides protection and affordable housing, while the toad feeds on ants that could harm the tarantula or its eggs. Other small frogs, lizards etc. are just prey to tarantulas, but they instinctively recognize and welcome narrowmouth toads for their ant-eradication abilities.
Basically, tarantulas keep tiny toads in their home for the same reason humans domesticated cats. This sort of went viral as a piece of trivia a while back, but there’s not a lot of actual photos showing it.
This isn’t the only case of this I saw either. I saw two other burrows with toads in them, including a massive tarantula that had at least 4-5 toads, but they hopped deeper into the burrow before I could take pics.
Anyway here’s some better quality photos I took of both animals during the day. The toad is Gastrophryne olivacea and the tarantula is an Aphonopelma species (probably hentzi but their taxonomy is a clusterfuck)
Me introducing myself like hi I romanticise everything, overthink way too much, live 85% of my life in my head and still can’t believe I’m a Real Person
support fat girls with weird curves
support fat girls with no butt
support fat girls with small boobs
dont just support the hour glass/big booty “acceptable” fat girl
Butterfly breeder Carl A. Anderson with monarch butterflies on his face, 1954.
Do you have any cursed facts about deer? They are my favorite animal.
there’s an entire subset of deer that have sabre fangs instead of antlers!
this is because the very earliest deer on the planet had both antlers AND fangs, but over time deer diverged into two separate lineages that had either antlers OR fangs and they’re both still around today!
this is superior humor
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This is a little ad I made for the app
out of frustration with the marketing of plants as lifestyle products for rich people with all-white apartments.
Here again are the basic functions of the app:
And here again are some of the rewards for backing it!
Floral Snake Art Prints by starrypaige
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