At 0.2mm, Angustopila dominikae is the world's smallest snail. In fact, these critters from Southern China are the world's smallest land mollusks as well. They were discovered in a soil sample in some limestone cliffs in Guangxi, China. My Threadless.com shop has 50% off all premium ...
Jan 11
My Threadless.com shop has 50% off all premium tees—that’s an amazing deal, by the way. I just found out about this beauty of a snake the ...
Jan 10
I just found out about this beauty of a snake the other day, and immediately wanted to draw it—so here it is.
If you don’t follow @mbari_news you should. They’re the Monterrey Bay Aquarium researchers and they introduced me to the tiny but immensely important animals called larvaceans. Time marches on like a quick breeze. With the new ...
Jan 7
Time marches on like a quick breeze. With the new year comes a wonderful holiday — it’s January 7, aka, #NationalPassGasDay 💨 Happy New Year from Pole to Pole (as in the baby ...
Jan 1
Happy New Year from Pole to Pole (as in the baby seal in the Arctic celebrating a fortuitous booping from a narwhal — to a celebrating hooded seal in the Antarctic). Boop someone you love with a happy new year!
Let's seal off the decade with a seally joke, shall we?
As we continue to #sealoffthedecade — here's a classic meeting that I'm sure happens more often than not. Follow @underdonecomics as I #SealOffTheDecade ...
Dec 27
Follow @underdonecomics as I #SealOffTheDecade with lots of seal-related comics! Does your grandmother make a special holiday meal?...
Dec 25
Does your grandmother make a special holiday meal? Is it any good? Share in the comments!
What was the most surprising gift you’ve ever gotten? I’m thinking we should seal up the decade with ...
Dec 22
I’m thinking we should seal up the decade with some seal comics. To get started, let’s look back at an old favorite. It’s the prequel to the whale fall comic I posted from last week.
Could this be Randolph the Ultraviolet-Nosed Reindeer? No, because some polar creatures (like the arctic fox, seals, polar bears), reindeer can see light on that end of the spectrum.
I wasn't exactly sure how to write the caption for this, because beaked whales are soooo weird. So I had my friend Ben, @a_fools_experiment & @lostworldofbayside, who's a paleontologist, specializing in whale natural history write it for me. Follow him if you're not already.
This story features a beaked whale, so it qualifies for #decembeakedwhale Hakuna matata! The male strap-toothed beaked whale...
Dec 11
Hakuna matata! The male strap-toothed beaked whale has warthog-like bottom teeth that grow out, up and back over the mouth the mouth. They'll eventually cross over each other, greatly limiting the ability to open the jaws. Since beaked whales are so elusive, nobody's seen how they feed—but slurping up squid seems to be the consensus (and plastic trash, of course). It's also a mystery about how how the males feed with their lockjaw. They most likely use their tusks for fighting. Bottlenose whales are members of the beaked whale ...
Dec 5
Bottlenose whales are members of the beaked whale group. They can grow to 32feet (9.8m). What's amazing about them is that jelly-filled, watermelon-sized melon on the males' forehead. Females have some jelly in their heads too, but not as much as males. These bulbs are probably used for communication and echolocation.
Beaked whales are hard to study because they're so rare. They seem to spend their lives in the open ocean, diving for hours. Since they don't have teeth (except for the males' "tusks"—but more on that in a sec), they slurp up their prey through their snouts, or "beaks." The male ginkgo-toothed beaked whale has two ginkgo-shaped teeth that just barely stick out of its lower jaw. From the handful of specimens that've been found, they're not as scratched up as other beaked whale males. So it's thought they DON'T use their ginkgo teeth for fighting each other as much as other whales. But who really knows, really?
Thank goodness DinovemBird is finished. I was getting sick of birds.
Let’s take a closer look at New Zealand’s kea bird. There are all kinds of stores and videos about how curious and downright cheeky they are (as an American I’m not sure I grasp the meaning of the word cheeky, but I’m also not sure how else to describe this parrot’s behavior. Can anybody give me some synonyms for cheeky in the comments?) Keep these comics aloft by visiting www.UnderdoneComics.com/shop Kakapos and keas are amazingly intelligent parrots...
Nov 26
Kakapos and keas are amazingly intelligent parrots that are barely hanging on to existence in New Zealand. The kakapo, or owl parrot, is a flightless, solitary tree climber (it uses its strong beak to help get up trees) that has a intensely managed population on a couple islands in NZ. They are the longest living birds, having been recorded to live for 9 decades (with an average lifespan of 60 years). The reason for their near extinction is introduced mammals preying on them, eating their prey and taking over their habitat. Typical human BS.
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From my rookie year, in November, 2016: This endangered 4 foot (1.3m) tall bird likes to ...
Nov 21
This endangered 4 foot (1.3m) tall bird likes to eat snakes, including venomous ones, like adders and cobras. They’ll eat other small animals as well by using their unique "bash 'em into submission" style of hunting, using those weird, long slender legs of theirs. So in other words, don't bring them in a butcher shop. Or they'll try to stomp all the snakes.
♻️ it’s America Recycles Day! So let’s recycle an old comic about recycling. Is that too meta? Black skimmers are one of my all-time favorite ...
Nov 14
Black skimmers are one of my all-time favorite birdies. When I lived in southern California they would come to the coast during the summers. I'd find them especially at @bolsachicacon. You can hear them zip along the water, kind of like they're cutting long lines of fabric, until they snatch a fish.
November 9 is Carl Sagan Day. Let's celebrate by looking back at my favorite avian astrophysicist. Do you think Carl ever put a colander on his head and just figured it all out?
Buttet, anyone?
Philippine eagles are a critically endangered bird. They're the apex predators of their mountain homes in the Philippines. Sadly, thanks to deforestation, there's not much home for them left.
Here's a creepy tale for this creepy time of year:
H A P P Y Pallid bats are biggish for bats and range from ...
Oct 29
Pallid bats are biggish for bats and range from Western Canada to Central Mexico.
October 24-31 is BATWEEK!
I once fell face down in a creek and I swear, amongst the bubbles, I heard the minnows singing the song in the comic. I almost forgot—the fourth Wednesday in October ...
Oct 23
I almost forgot—the fourth Wednesday in October is Lung Health Day.
October 20 is International Sloth Day! To celebrate, enjoy this oldy with a sloth and some altruistic eels. October 17 is International Sawfish Day. These ...
Oct 17
October 17 is International Sawfish Day. These fish, which are related to sharks and rays, are one of the most genetically unique and endangered species in the world. A friend of mine was on a cruise to Alaska and ...
Oct 16
A friend of mine was on a cruise to Alaska and while he was gazing out at the majestic views, he listened to a guide explain how climate change will affect the natural wonders surrounding the giant ship. His immediate thought was the emissions coming out of the vessel he was on.
Well, it's World Octopus Day—the end of Octopus Week, which means I don't have to think about these suckers for a while anymore. 1 more day of #octopusweek until Wod Octopus Day ...
Oct 7
1 more day of #octopusweek until Wod Octopus Day (where there will hopefully be a new comic!)
#octopusweek propels on!
From what's known of "normal" octopus behavior, the larger Pacific striped octo are weirdos. They've been found living together in what scientists call octopolous, where they don't try to eat one another! They also can have more than one brood of babies! WEIRD! Diving into day 2 of Octopus Week with the mimic ...
Oct 4
Diving into day 2 of Octopus Week with the mimic octo. It does impressions of venomous animals in order to escape predators. 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙 Who saw the @pbsnature octopus show last night? ...
Oct 3
Who saw the @pbsnature octopus show last night? Making an appearance was the favorite tool-making cephalopod—the coconut octopus.
Oh right I almost forgot. It's #nationalcoffeeday — use reusable stuff!
September 27 is Hug a Vegetarian Day!
September 25th is National Lobster Day!
🦏💨 September 22 is World Rhino Day! The third Saturday in September is International ...
Sep 21
The third Saturday in September is International Coastal Cleanup Day. So if you did a #climatestrike yesterday, get out there and make sure nobody made a mess! These are for you @gretathunberg — your parents ...
Sep 20
These are for you @gretathunberg — your parents should definitely win some kind of award, much like puffins apparently always talk about.
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Thanks to a scientist from University of California Irvine (where I once took a class—and I believe all the paths are named after places in The Lord of the Rings), we now know that not every shark is nothing but a meat-loving carnivore. It turns out that bonnethead (relatives of the hammerhead) sometimes chomp on seagrass.
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These gentle giants are dwindling in numbers, even though they (used to) help keep dangerous rattler numbers in check. Habitat loss due to human expansion and hunting are the main reasons for their demise.
If you're not satisfied with my crummy rendition and would like to see a photo of what one really looks like, check out @oriannesociety —they're working hard to save these serpents (and you can help them).
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Imagine living in a house made of your own snot. Sounds amazing, right? Well imagine that your snothouse cleans the ocean as it floats along in the currents. Wow!
Well, that's what tiny larvacean homes do.
The larvacean, which is a kind of free swimming neotenous tunicate (sea pork!) lives inside its mucus home and eats the plankton that the slime ball filters to it.
Once the house is too full of material, it’s dumped, sinking to the bottom of the sea and a new one is secreted.
This is an amazingly effective way to bring carbon-based materials from the middle of the ocean down to the sea floor.
In other words, these balls of loogies fight against global warming.
Effectively decluttering the ocean like a bunch of Marie Kondos.
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Humpbacks always blame it on the bubble nets. And why not? They swim in circles under a school of fish while blowing bubbles (out of their blowholes, not their butts) to force their prey upward. Then they gorge.
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Bowhead whales are the longest living mammals—they can swim around the Arctic for more than 200 years! They're big filter feeders, measuring around 50-60 feet (15-18.5 m) long. So yeah, when they pee, I'm sure a lot of marine life wonder if there's a heatwave.
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Elephant seals, which are by far the largest pinnipeds (seals, sea lions and walruses) spend more than half of the year in the ocean. They can dive up to 5,800 feet deep and hold their breath for up to 2 hours. They migrate thousands of miles and return twice a year to their colonies to molt or find a mate. During their time onshore, the enormous males constantly fight with one another over mates and space.
It's unknown whether or not the 2 species (norther and southern elephant seals) enjoy having satellite tags stuck on their backs.
Visit elephantseal.org to learn more about these behemoths and to hear their elegant song.
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The grandma orca in the comic apparently loves to serve up a festive ribbon seal.
More on them:
When raising pups, ribbon seals like to live on pack ice. Since they float along in the north Pacific, they have few land predators to worry about, so they've been known to leave their babies for extended periods of time while doing some deep dives.
Down in the ocean, however, it's a different story. These pinnipeds are hunted by big sharks and orcas. Speaking of orcas, don't you think it'd be a nice gift to have a smartly dressed ribbon seal from grandma for the Christmas meal?
Grandmothers are the leaders of orca pods, since they're the oldest, they remember where the best food is and pass that knowledge down to their kids.
Those are some diabolical ocean predators, I tell's ya!
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Think the polar bear considers that seal to be a Christmas present or more of a "One in a million chance" pain in the ass?
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Orcas are brilliant predators in the sea. These massive creatures figure out all kinds of ways to cooperate in order to get their next meal. They'll even calculate the best times to swim up shallow channels in order to get seal pups along the shoreline. Sometimes, though, these pups have smart mommas.
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Scientists think they've evolved this ability (rather quickly, too, reindeer have only been roaming the top of the world for about 10,000 years) so they can see things like white fur, urine and lichen, which absorb UV light, in high contrast against bright highly UV-reflective snow. Our eyeballs protect themselves from harmful UV rays by creating snow blindness.
And we also need to protect ourselves from noticing our own pee and poo that’s all over everything!
What's a disgusting thing that's happened to you? I'll share one in the comments if you do.
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Here's what he has to say:
Imagine possessing a biological sonar that could see the skull in your friends head...
I can’t, because we are Apes... Our ancestors decided to climb out of the trees millions of years ago in the heartland of continental Africa. As apes, we have 5 basic senses: we can hear, see, taste, touch and feel. But IMAGINE if we had the equivalent of a biological sonar (more powerful than any known military sonar) that we could hunt with. You could see in absolute darkness… You could find your prey hidden completely in the sand… You could even see an unborn human fetus developing in the womb... This is not science fiction. This biological sonar (echolocation) is possessed by an incredibly successful group of animals; the toothed whales.
Whales are weird… undoubtedly the strangest of ALL whales are the beaked whales. Can you imagine holding your breath for over 2 hours, whilst diving more than a kilometer below the surface of the water, hunting in the pitch black? It’s a world we are yet to properly understand, but beaked whales not only make sense of this world; they thrive in it. (Continued in comments)
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As you can see, in the end, no matter how big and awesome you think you are, we're all just worm food. Unless you get cremated.
Here’s an interesting discussion topic: after you die, if you could be food for any animal, what would you want it to be?
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Contrary to the comic, though, whales communicated by making squeaks and whistles through their noses, so I'm sure there actually IS a lot of mansplaining, lockjaw or not.
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If you're wondering about the part about the tummy:
Whenever I read news about plastic being in the chambers of the stomach of beached whales that I am reminded that whales evolved from hooved mammals. So their digestive systems are a lot like cows (hence the fluttering of stomachs). Don't forget to draw your own Beaked whales and use the hashtag #decembeakedwhale —we'll see where this goes!
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Use that hashtag and at the end of the month I'll share the top ten beaked whale illustrations. It'll be a fun way to end the year.
Not much is known about Cuvier's beaked whales, other than they can hold their breath for a really long time and take on some serious pressure.
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The kea is the world's only alpine parrot. They're known as the "Clown of the Mountains." And like all clowns, people are both annoyed and entertained by them. For a very long time, it was rumored to attack sheep. The jury was out from the 1860s until 1992, when someone recorded a nighttime attack. Apparently, keas enjoy tearing the back of wooly sheep to slurp on some succulent fat during the lean winter months. They've gotta use that beak for something!
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Well just imagine how brood parasites feel once they realize they're different than their parents!
Scientists haven't discovered for sure whether or not any dinosaurs were brood parasites (sneaking their eggs into other species' nests so the parasite doesn't have to raise their own young) yet. I for one, hope they do, and I hope they find a ridiculous combination, like a giant sauropod parasite to a small host, like the Fruitadens in this comic.
The classic case of this, of course, is the cuckoo bird. Cuckoos will distract smaller nesting birds, like warblers, to leave their home and then drop in an egg. They're so well adapted for this that their striped tank top shirts even mimic the chest of sparrowhawks (a predator that most birds stay away from), thus making it easier for unbothered egg laying.
The larger cuckoo chick usually battles its smaller roommate and pushes it out of the nest where it'll plummet to its death. Adoptive parents keep on feeding their enormous chicks until the young cuckoo leaves to start the cycle over.
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An estimated 200-300 thousand birds are killed each year by wind turbines. So, naturally, once Theropod dinosaurs (which contain the ancestors of birds) are cloned, what's to stop them from getting decapitated by the big windmills?
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Did you know that plastic floating around in the ocean smells like food to birds? As krill eat algae, they give off the same smell that plastic gives off as it breaks apart in the ocean. When a bird eats plastic it feels like it's full, which is a risk for starvation. What's even more risky, is bits of plastic are stored in their crops, which is then regurgitated into their chicks' mouths.
It's estimated that 90% of seabirds eat plastic annually, and that number will be at 100% in the near future.
Even though so much of this waste is produced by industry that's completely out of many of our hands—what's in our hands is what we can do for ourselves. Cut out single use plastics whenever possible. And try to get plastic bags and other unnecessary junk out of our lives.
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Stats in the comic are from the North American Breeding Bird Survey.
According to @cornellbirds there are lots of folk names for these guys, like:
scissor-bill, shearwater, seadog, flood gull, stormgull, razorbill, and cutwater. Can you think of any? I'll start with a suggestion—the underbiter bird.
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People used to think that vultures' heads are bald because it prevents feathers from slopping up bacteria, blood, poop or whatever else, after a trip into another creature's orifice. But researchers are now thinking that the bald heads are used more as a thermoregulator. When it's hot, they will stretch out their beautiful nude, wrinkly necks and when it's cold, they scrunch up their scraggly-feathered bodies.
Tag your bald/balding friends!
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Along with the harpie and Stellers , they're the biggest eagles in the world.
Follow organizations like @zsledgeofexistence to see their plans for helping this modern dinosaur out!
HANG ON!☝️🤓The monkey says that the eagle eats lemurs—but it's referring to the Philippine flying lemur, or colugo, which isn't a lemur, but a colugo.
Be sure to share this with somebody who has awesome hair!
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Back in the day, French ocean explorer Jaques Cousteau and his outrageous team swam the clear Waters of Sabah, Malaysia, underneath the island of Borneo. In a submerged cave, they found a bunch of sea turtle skeletons, both old and new. At the time, Cousteau figured it was a place where turtles gathered to die, kind of like elephants.
Turtles don't do that, though. So people thought the turtles might have just explored the caves, got lost and wound up drowning. But sea turtles are such great navigators— nobody's really sure why this is the turtle Bermuda triangle.
What's your guess?
Well whatever the reason is, I hope your Halloween adventures don't end with you being a bunch of bones laying around in a cave.
Happy Halloween!
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Well the first isn't a very happy comic, but I hope you enjoy your halloween tomorrow nonetheless! And don't eat shark fin soup!
Look for a morbid but NEW Halloween comic tomorrow!
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To find food, they use their giant ears to listen for critters creeping on the ground.
Sadly, noise pollution is hurting their ability to hunt.
What's your favorite kind of bat?
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Bats are unbelievably helpful to our environment, no matter where you live. From eating tons of insects to pollination to seed spreading, they save us humans millions of dollars in agriculture and healthcare.
So let's appreciate and share how helpful bats are to us. Sometimes they even help with vocabulary!
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Sadly, bat populations are dwindling due to climate change, and the terrible White Nose Syndrome.
You can see how bats are doing by following these batty accounts:
@merlintuttlephoto
@batconservationinternational
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Alright, that MIGHT not be true, but what IS true is snowy egrets are beautiful and spindly little white birds with long, black legs that look like they're wearing yellow ankle-high socks. It's believed that the yellow-colored feet evolved to scare up prey from the muck, but who knows, really? Maybe if we put different colored shoes on them their prey would do different things.
What's your theory?
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So here's some info about whale lungs:
Did you know that when holding their breath, whales store their oxygen in their circulatory system? You might think that since whales are so big they have enormously large lungs, but that's not the case. When they dive deep, their lungs need to compress so they don't get poisoned by their own expanding gases. Whale lungs are still pretty powerful, though, as you can see by this right whale's giant vape toke.
Which, of course, they shouldn't do. And neither should you.
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These electric eels want to form the first ever Amazon Jungle EMT, but clearly need more training. They can emit 860 volts of power in two milliseconds. A defibrillator can have a wide range up to 1,700 volts. So could a duo of eels form their own emergency medical service in the Amazon? ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Did you know the first comic on the post was the first ever true Underdone Comic—going back to January '16? How many of you were even born yet?
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Take a look at the ecological stats on cruises. It's mind boggling. Apparently a passenger's carbon footprint increases by at least 3 times normal farty output. Multiply that by the hundreds and hundreds of passengers on each ship!
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Earlier this year, Carnival Cruises pleaded guilty for taking a dump on the environment with its horrible pollution (gas emissions, plastic pollution and diesel air/sea anal leakage). One of my favorite quotes in the trial, where Carnival will have to pay $20mill (drop in the bucket) comes from the judge, who said, "If you all did not have the environment, you would have nothing to sell." There is hope, though! Norwegian Cruises has made an all electric ship that holds 500 people. So maybe the tide will turn? What do you think? Have you ever cruised? If so did you notice the trail of waste the boat left behind?
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But one more thought on the matter... When your fellow cephalopods are sooooo good at hiding, I bet it's difficult to get away with personal, yet embarrassing things, like siphon pickin' (which, btw, an octopus's siphon is it's breathe-hole, butt and sex organ depository). I mean, millions of color-changing and texture-changing cells all over their bodies for pete's sake!
Have you ever been caught in a disgustingly embarrassing position? Share in the comments—it'll be cathartic!
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We all know that octopuses have big brain power. They can do things like learning by watching, recognize faces and figure out how to get into things like jars (lefty-loosy, righty-tighty). For most octopuses, though, after a few years it's time to mate. Once they mate, the males will enter a state of rapid deterioration called senescence which leads to death. The females will go through the same thing while protecting their brood. Tag somebody you want to grow senescent with!
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It's fun to compare nautiluses and argonaut octopuses. They kind of look similar, based on the shapes of their shells, but thats about where the similarities end (besides the overall alien-looking cephalopodiness). People have known for a while that the argonaut octopus (aka paper nautilus) develops its paper-thin, translucent shell to use as an egg case. What they didn't know until recently is that the argonauts squirt air into their shells in order to remain buoyant at certain levels in the open ocean.
Nautilus shells, though, help the animal maintain their buoyancy by osmosis in their many chambers. Nautilus shells are also built for protection. They're well camouflaged (white on the bottom for looking up and darker on top for looking down). While female argonauts hold on to their shells with their suckers, true nautiluses live inside theirs and can't leave. They're the only existing cephalopods which always live inside their shell.
You could say they're the turtle of the cephalopod world, but I don't know why you would.
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We’re about halfway through #octopusweek — I hope you’re enjoying it.
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Should I do an all-octopus comic week, leading up to October 8? Would you like to see that?
More on the coconut octopus: (Amphioctopus marginatus) is known to scuttle along the sandy ocean bottom on two of its arms, kind of like it has two feet. Perhaps what's more remarkable is that while they're scuttling, they'll pick up two coconut or clam shells to hide in so their predators think they're just some debris flowing along the sea floor. Do you think a bikini top would make for a nice hidden fortress? The cups are connected by a little strap, always staying together!
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How do you like your cuppa? I take it black. Definitely no pumpkin in there! ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️
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What do you think? Does the octopus just want a hug or is the parrotfish about to get nibbled? Interesting evolutionary tidbit—both the octopus and the parrotfish have parrot-like beaks (!🦜!) Be sure to tag a huggable (or unhuggable because tagging is easier and less awkward than real hugging) pal!
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Be sure to check with great services like @seafoodwatch to find out whether or not the treasures of the sea that you want to eat will see the next generation!
When female lobsters are brought up from the bottom of the ocean, sometimes they'll be ensconced with eggs. When lobsterman see this, they cut a V in her tail (just like in the comic). Males have yet to try any mimicry (unlike in the comic).
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This year, let's look at the most endangered of the 5 extant species of rhinoceros: the Javan.
According to the WWF, there somewhere between 58-68 Javan rhinos left in the world, all living in Ujung Kulon National Park in Java. They used to live all over Northeast India and Southeast Asia. But the old story of habitat loss and illegal poaching for traditional "medicine" as all but obliterated them out of existence.
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