On the last page someone posted pictures of jumping spiders, and I just found one! I was in my room and saw a tiny dot on my mattress, and upon closer inspection I see that it's a jumping spider. Eureka! I caught him in a little jar and looked at him for about 10 minutes before releasing him into the wild. I normally don't like spiders, but as for him, I approve!
How does one even remove a mantis shrimp from their tank?
You know, it would be pretty awesome to have a tank for mantis shrimp. You'd just need, like, three feet of glass.
Getting them out usually involves a trap. You can rig up something so they can enter but can't exit, and they're greedy so they'll take any bait usually. And if you're fast, you don't need anything more than like a plastic bottle. They won't just freak out and start punching the walls right away, so it's easy to get it out quick and do whatever with it. The hard part is FINDING it at first.
And YouTube mantis shrimp. It's scary. People do keep a tank just for a mantis, and you CAN keep them in a normal tank if you want - they won't just attack the glass for no reason. The problem comes from having a snail cleaning the glass, and he goes and smacks it THROUGH the glass. I think 3 inches is the minimum they say if you're going to keep one, if i remember right.
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Giant isopods aren't even the worst isopods. The worst ones are the entirely non-fictional ones that crawl into a fish's mouth, eat then replace it's tongue. I'm not going to post a picture, even though I could, out of respect for every one here's sanity.
Giant isopods aren't even the worst isopods. The worst ones are the entirely non-fictional ones that crawl into a fish's mouth, eat then replace it's tongue. I'm not going to post a picture, even though I could, out of respect for every one here's sanity.
And then one day the isopods realized
IT WORKS ON HUMANS, TOO.
What would you do if you were talking to someone and you just happened to see the flash of an isopod's black eye against a pale white mass inside the other person's mouth?
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Giant isopods aren't even the worst isopods. The worst ones are the entirely non-fictional ones that crawl into a fish's mouth, eat then replace it's tongue. I'm not going to post a picture, even though I could, out of respect for every one here's sanity.
And then one day the isopods realized
IT WORKS ON HUMANS, TOO.
Nah, probably not. I don't think most people would just let a crustacean replace their tongue.
What would you do if you were talking to someone and you just happened to see the flash of an isopod's black eye against a pale white mass inside the other person's mouth?
Personally, I would go insane forever. But that's just me.
Nah, probably not. I don't think most people would just let a crustacean replace their tongue.
Oh probably not, unless of course they fell asleep with their mouth open, not realizing which lifeforms that had stowed away in their new addition to the aquarium near their bed.
Giant isopods aren't even the worst isopods. The worst ones are the entirely non-fictional ones that crawl into a fish's mouth, eat then replace it's tongue. I'm not going to post a picture, even though I could, out of respect for every one here's sanity.
I have no such qualms. Don't look if you have a weak gag reflex.
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The worst part of that picture isn't even the isopod. It's the fish's teeth.
A new favourite animal that i just discovered: the clione or sea angel which is a type of sea slug. Notable for its method of feeding, where its previously cute face bursts into a mass of tentacles like, well I don't know what but i bet someone here can think of a fictional monster from something that does exactly that.
I have no such qualms. Don't look if you have a weak gag reflex.
Am I the only one who thinks that the isopod looks kind of cute? I mean, it's not hurting the fish all that much, they don't actually eat the tongue, they stem blood flow to it so it atrophies.
This thread reminds me of "Eagle vs. Shark" ...when I look at these I think about which one I would dress as at a 'dress as your favorite animal party'
There is this one dragonfly I've seen in Japan that is pretty cool. It's wings are black, but they don't seem like regular dragonfly wings. They look like they are made out of silk. It also flies in an odd way, more of a bouncy floaty flying style as opposed to the quick movements of a regular dragonfly.
Man, the house I used to live in was always swarming with spiders. One of the more interesting ones, which I just found out is a woodlouse spider, has a brownish abdomen that we would sometimes mistake for a coffee bean and try to pick up off the floor. Kinda cool that they specialize on roly-polies.
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So being an entomologist insects and chelicerates don't particularly frighten me. From time to time I do outreaches with other grad students to elementary schools and the like and show them things like
without any problems. In fact, the emperor scorpions we have are so used to being looked at and handled, they are fairly safe to hold in your hand.
One early morning around 4am the mood to go to the terlet struck me, and what did I see in front of me when I turned on the light.
Needless to say I was a tad scared. Unlike the Emperor Scorpions that depend on their claws to subdue prey and fight off predators, these guys rely primarily on their venom. This dude was ready to fight too, pincers were cocked and loaded and it basically followed me around the room as a searched for the nearest object to beat the crap out of it. In hindsight I wish I hadn't demolished it and flushed the remains down the toilet.
Oh yes, it was an Arizona Bark Scorpion. From Wikipedia:
The Bark Scorpion is the most venomous scorpion in North America, and its venom can cause severe pain (coupled with numbness and tingling) in adult humans, typically lasting between 24 to 72 hours. Temporary dysfunction in the area stung is common; e.g. a hand or possibly arm can be immobilized or experience convulsions. It also may cause the loss of breath for a short period of time. Due to the extreme pain induced, many victims describe sensations of electrical jolts after envenomation.
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Oh yes, it was an Arizona Bark Scorpion. From Wikipedia:
The Bark Scorpion is the most venomous scorpion in North America, and its venom can cause severe pain (coupled with numbness and tingling) in adult humans, typically lasting between 24 to 72 hours. Temporary dysfunction in the area stung is common; e.g. a hand or possibly arm can be immobilized or experience convulsions. It also may cause the loss of breath for a short period of time. Due to the extreme pain induced, many victims describe sensations of electrical jolts after envenomation.
Those little bastards used to be all around the house when I was younger and the area was still in development. They'd just run into your house and hide under the couch or something. Theres a reason if you live anywhere in an developing or desert area you get an exterminator. Those little guys are mean as can be.
Those little bastards used to be all around the house when I was younger and the area was still in development. They'd just run into your house and hide under the couch or something. Theres a reason if you live anywhere in an developing or desert area you get an exterminator. Those little guys are mean as can be.
Yeah, I hadn't seen one before and I haven't seen one since. I have no idea how it got into my room.
My grandpa found one of those bark scorpions in his living room when I was young and gave it to me as a pet, ha. After he had a pretty unpleasant go at a cricket we gave him, my mum decided we didn't need it around and took it to some local entomologist, who then told us how damn poisonous it actually was.
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Scorpions freak me the fuck out. I generally have issues with things that have stingers anyway, and the scorpion's is just so goddamn terrifying with the range of motion and speed it has.
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If you tap their back with a ball point pen they will stab themselves and end up killing them selves with their own poison. Its wonderful if you trap one and have the balls to reach that close.
If you tap their back with a ball point pen they will stab themselves and end up killing them selves with their own poison. Its wonderful if you trap one and have the balls to reach that close.
This is the worst thing. Why would you admit to knowing this, much less promote it?
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If you tap their back with a ball point pen they will stab themselves and end up killing them selves with their own poison. Its wonderful if you trap one and have the balls to reach that close.
That's weird. I thought that venomous and poisonous animals were generally immune to their own toxin.
If you tap their back with a ball point pen they will stab themselves and end up killing them selves with their own poison. Its wonderful if you trap one and have the balls to reach that close.
This is the worst thing. Why would you admit to knowing this, much less promote it?
Why is that so bad? I can't imagine it's much (if any) worse a death than just getting squashed, which is what I would do otherwise.
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If you tap their back with a ball point pen they will stab themselves and end up killing them selves with their own poison. Its wonderful if you trap one and have the balls to reach that close.
This is the worst thing. Why would you admit to knowing this, much less promote it?
Why is that so bad? I can't imagine it's much (if any) worse a death than just getting squashed, which is what I would do otherwise.
Aaaaaaaaaaaand while I was reading Wikipedia to get you guys some fun facts (it can hear insects walking on sand!) I found out it can be a pet so I need to go now, later.
EDIT: $1,000. Checking for legality in New York (it's legal to own one in the US, but varies by local laws). I have no money, so I am 99.999% sure I am not going through with this (especially on a whim), but when you suddenly realize that the animal I dragged my parents to the zoo so I could see when I was 11 could live in my house.
A friend of mine in the US has them (among many other animals) to be sold as pets. He says his opinions went from "awwwwww, cuuuuuuute!" to "hellspawn!" right quick after they got a couple. From them going instantly aggressive whenever he's around (probably a gender thing, they're okay with his wife) to the cute factor going down significantly once you've seen them up close. If you're seriously considering it I'd make damn sure the animal doesn't hate you on the spot, he showed me bite scars from the things. :P
I have no idea what it is, but 90% of the time, at many random zoos, the Lemurs make the WORST noises ever when my girlfriend looks at them. It's scary and so weird. I've seen lemurs at the zoo (ring tailed, all sorts of lemurs!) and they look cute. But when I've taken my girlfriend, they make this deep, gutteral honest-to-god hellspawn noise that makes them demonic and scary.
We usually go late, and the time we went to the Cleveland zoo they have a "House of Lemurs" and one started so it was this horrible chain reaction -- but someone should see if that noise lives online somewhere. It is just the scariest noise ever.
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If you tap their back with a ball point pen they will stab themselves and end up killing them selves with their own poison. Its wonderful if you trap one and have the balls to reach that close.
This is the worst thing. Why would you admit to knowing this, much less promote it?
Why is that so bad? I can't imagine it's much (if any) worse a death than just getting squashed, which is what I would do otherwise.
The scorpion dies doing what it loves.
The last one I caught in my house got squished by a 20 pound barbell weight. I think a toxin that shuts them down is more humane than the last thing going through their brain being their eyes.
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Getting them out usually involves a trap. You can rig up something so they can enter but can't exit, and they're greedy so they'll take any bait usually. And if you're fast, you don't need anything more than like a plastic bottle. They won't just freak out and start punching the walls right away, so it's easy to get it out quick and do whatever with it. The hard part is FINDING it at first.
And YouTube mantis shrimp. It's scary. People do keep a tank just for a mantis, and you CAN keep them in a normal tank if you want - they won't just attack the glass for no reason. The problem comes from having a snail cleaning the glass, and he goes and smacks it THROUGH the glass. I think 3 inches is the minimum they say if you're going to keep one, if i remember right.
Whatever, don't cave to pussies in the animal thread!
They're spoilered anyway.
And then one day the isopods realized
What would you do if you were talking to someone and you just happened to see the flash of an isopod's black eye against a pale white mass inside the other person's mouth?
Nah, probably not. I don't think most people would just let a crustacean replace their tongue.
Personally, I would go insane forever. But that's just me.
Oh probably not, unless of course they fell asleep with their mouth open, not realizing which lifeforms that had stowed away in their new addition to the aquarium near their bed.
I have no such qualms. Don't look if you have a weak gag reflex.
He's unbelievably cute. I'm not even sure he's of this world. L & G, I present for your viewing pleasure ...
the aye-aye.
Go on, give him a hug. You know you want to.
Apologies for the video, but it's the best i could find that shows the feeding
Am I the only one who thinks that the isopod looks kind of cute? I mean, it's not hurting the fish all that much, they don't actually eat the tongue, they stem blood flow to it so it atrophies.
Those are some awesome bugs. NW Washington has some pretty bland bugs imo.
Can't find a picture of it. Damn.
And, you didn't post the image that I really hate. Which I will post now.
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One early morning around 4am the mood to go to the terlet struck me, and what did I see in front of me when I turned on the light.
Oh yes, it was an Arizona Bark Scorpion. From Wikipedia:
Those little bastards used to be all around the house when I was younger and the area was still in development. They'd just run into your house and hide under the couch or something. Theres a reason if you live anywhere in an developing or desert area you get an exterminator. Those little guys are mean as can be.
Yeah, I hadn't seen one before and I haven't seen one since. I have no idea how it got into my room.
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This is the worst thing. Why would you admit to knowing this, much less promote it?
That's weird. I thought that venomous and poisonous animals were generally immune to their own toxin.
Why is that so bad? I can't imagine it's much (if any) worse a death than just getting squashed, which is what I would do otherwise.
The scorpion dies doing what it loves.
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Their eyes are really big:
Star-nosed moles. Like baby old gods from the center of the earth:
Lastly, this thread needs hairy-nosed wombats.
"We're sad because we're about to go extinct."
I also feel sorry for the endangered pigbunnies.
I have no idea what it is, but 90% of the time, at many random zoos, the Lemurs make the WORST noises ever when my girlfriend looks at them. It's scary and so weird. I've seen lemurs at the zoo (ring tailed, all sorts of lemurs!) and they look cute. But when I've taken my girlfriend, they make this deep, gutteral honest-to-god hellspawn noise that makes them demonic and scary.
We usually go late, and the time we went to the Cleveland zoo they have a "House of Lemurs" and one started so it was this horrible chain reaction -- but someone should see if that noise lives online somewhere. It is just the scariest noise ever.
The last one I caught in my house got squished by a 20 pound barbell weight. I think a toxin that shuts them down is more humane than the last thing going through their brain being their eyes.
If a 20-ton looney tunes-esque block of metal fell on you from 100 feet up I doubt you'd be feeling much either.