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. The final installment of the Lonesome Snails of ...
Sep 18
The final installment of the Lonesome Snails of Hawaii features the main players (besides us) that have taken the entire population of endemic snails nearly out of existence. Back in the day, people brought the giant African snails (Achatina fulica) to the Hawaiian islands as food. Then they became pests, too many eating crops. So what did we humans do to try and curb the giants' numbers? We brought in the speedy (speedy for snails, anyway), voracious predatory snail called the rosy wolfsnail (Euglandina rosea) which they thought would eat the African giants. But they decided to eat everything instead, including pretty much all of the native species of snails on the Hawaiian islands (and other islands as well). And by the way, the introduced rats and chameleons aren't helping the "jewels of the forest, either."
Part 3 of the Lonesome Snails of Hawaii: Part 2 in the Lonesome Snails of Hawaii features ...
Sep 13
Part 2 in the Lonesome Snails of Hawaii features the little Newcombia cumingi, a snail that looks so much like the plant it lives on, it confuses itself.
Here's part 1 of the series I'm making with the help of conservation hero David Sischo @dsischo — the guy who's saving the native snails of Hawaii. I was hoping to avoid making a comic about the ...
Sep 10
I was hoping to avoid making a comic about the fires in Brazil (I'm good at avoiding things), but so many people asked me to make one so I did. Plus, these things are just not letting up.
September 7 is Vulture Awareness Day! Traces of moon snails can be found all over the ...
Sep 6
Traces of moon snails can be found all over the world. Ever see a shell with a perfectly round hole close to the hinge? Well, that's the work of a moon snail's drill-like radula, which carves into a bivalve's shell to suck out all its guts.
August 31st is Eat Outside Day! It tuchus a long time but we made it to the rear ...
Aug 29
It tuchus a long time but we made it to the rear end of summer! If you happen to be a smoker, remember—one of the biggest pollutants are cigarettes! International Dog Day is here. So here are some ...
Aug 26
International Dog Day is here. So here are some classic dog comics!
When in Maui I've got to post the humpback mom and calf classic Underdone comic. (even though they have their babies here in the winter months!) Springtails are the earliest known arthropods, ...
Aug 18
Springtails are the earliest known arthropods, having popped up in the Devonian period of the Paleozoic era. That's, like 400 million years ago. Not bad such a teeny critter, eh? Take a deep breath and have a look at my first ...
Aug 15
Take a deep breath and have a look at my first animated gif for #NationalRelaxationDay — did you know you can find all my animated comics on @giphy and Tenor?
There's so much to say about the plight of the African painted dogs. Their habitat is disappearing, they get caught in traps that are set for other animals, their vast habitats are fragmented and shrinking—in other words, they're going extinct. My favorite elephant comic—that means it musth ...
Aug 12
My favorite elephant comic—that means it musth be World Elephant Day! Did you hear about the waterbears on the moon? ...
Aug 11
Did you hear about the waterbears on the moon? Apparently, the Israeli craft that crashed onto the lunar surface a while ago had a dvd-sized disk with tardigrades taped to it!
International Cat Day is happening right meow. The American paddlefish has been swimming around ...
Aug 7
The American paddlefish has been swimming around for about 200 million years in the fossil record. Nowadays, they're listed as vulnerable on the endangered species list—mainly because of habitat loss. But thanks to a LOT of effort, their numbers are kind of not plummeting. Their close relatives, the Chinese paddlefish, however, are pretty much extinct.
Here's the original "Dont Drop this Thing in the Ocean" comic from 2016. It's still an old favorite of mine, which is why I keep coming back to the scene like I did for yesterday's comic.
Do you know what some of the most genetically unique and critically endangered animals are? According to the @zsledgeofexistence , They're the sawfish! So what you don't want to do is drop a chainsaw in the water, which might confuse them. More importantly, you don't want to irresponsibly eat fish. Use apps like @seafoodwatch and eat food responsibly, because bicatch is the biggest killer of these strange creatures that reside in the shark family. The goblin shark and frilled shark are both deep ...
Jul 30
The goblin shark and frilled shark are both deep sea dwellers. The goblin probably uses its pointy snout to help it detect prey in the darkness. Once it finds something to eat, it'll snap its jaws, which extend further and quicker than any shark.
Hey! I'm back—happy Shark Week! For some reason, July 25 comes around every year ...
Jul 25
For some reason, July 25 comes around every year as National Carousel Day.
Some more "sciencey" people may call it the "waggle" dance, but it's clearly twerking for followers.
July 21 is National Junk Food Day!
I've always thought of the Galapagos's marine iguanas as being the coolest lizards. With their flat tails for swimming, long claws for gripping slimy rocks, teeth made for scraping delicious seaweed and nostrils built for launching extra salt from their bodies, they are the best. The bigger ones can swim for a while under the cool water, looking for the best algae to eat—while the smaller ones graze in the intertidal zone. When they're not dining, they hang out on the rocks and sun their dark bodies, firing salt boogers from their faces. 👉10 points to anybody who knows the original line and origin that the marine iguana's saying. If you don't know check out my Instagram story. 🌊Which would you rather live with—a land or marine iguana? Do you live close enough to the sea to keep a marine Iggy happy? In fact, let's find out where everyone lives—tell me in the comments! July 14th is Shark Awareness Day! Are you aware ...
Jul 14
July 14th is Shark Awareness Day! Are you aware that 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.
Did you know that July 12 is #DifferentColoredEyesDay ? People used to think that some folks who had heterochromia (different colored eyes in the same head) were werewolves. Well you can't see it in the comic, but the wolfwere has heterochromia too (just in the opposite eyes 😉). What animal would you like to turn into? Bonus question if you're playing along—if a full moon🌕 turns people into werewolves, what would turn you into your animal? I'll think of one in the comments. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 When you get it, let me know in the comments. Feel...
Jul 9
When you get it, let me know in the comments. Feel free to drop clues there—but NO SPOILERS!
Here you go—a new one for Plastic Free July. Remember: many animals can't tell the difference between plastic bags and jellyfish. Many sea turtles eat many kinds of jellies as a main food source. Unfortunately, lots of our garbage that's used for less than 15 minutes, gets caught in our waterways and can severely injure animals.
In case you don't know this fact, or maybe it's too clouded in the hazy poop joke of this comic—an amazing paleontologist— @a_fools_experiment, made a post one day about pygmy and sperm whales, which blew my mind. He informed his audience that these mysterious toothed whales can eject a liquid from somewhere in their intestines which acts just like cephalopod ink. They use it to escape predators! Who knew tractor seat plants were such jerks? That...
Jun 28
Who knew tractor seat plants were such jerks? That poor little coleus. Oh well.
Here's one more comic for #cephalopodweek —and it's romantic, isn't it?
As #cephalopodweek squirts away, let's look at the Larger Pacific Striped Octopus (LPSO)—the true oddballs of the octopus world. These suckers actually like each other. For most octos, if they're in the same place, especially when mating, the larger octopus will almost certainly eat the other. This makes mating a dangerous event for little males. LPSOs, however, seem to tolerate each other. AND, so far, nobody's observed the females trying to eat their mates. Scientists have witnessed these creatures actually living together, which is something shunned in most octo-social traditions!
Let's propel further into #cephalopodweek with the Humboldt squid. 💯They travel in packs of over 100 and get very big and mean. 🦑Scientists think they communicate by changing their skin colors.
June 21 through June 28 is Cephalopod Week!
Follow the @zsledgeofexistence to find out how you can help 'em out.
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?
Keep these comics cruising by visiting the shop! It's at UnderdoneComics.Threadless.com!
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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!
Oh and speaking of catharsis, I've got a new shop!
Check it out: underdonecomics.threadless.com (link in bio) — there's a neat special going on AND there are WATER BOTTLES for every comic PLUS some new designs that you'll only find in the shop.
Oh and did I mention, if you're really nutso—you can get shoes and/or pants? With my comics on them? Get outta town! Have a visit and let me know what you think.
And why not buy something while you're in there? I mean, it's not only World Octopus Day, It's also my birfday 🐙💨🎂 #worldoctopusday #octopusday #octopusweek #dating #relationshipgoals #love #cephalopods #underwater #nature #comic #webcomic #comics #biology #outdoors #ocean #beach #underwater #cannibalism #science #scicomm #waterbottle #conservation #vacation #courtship #nosepickin #embarrassing #relatable #shop #UnderdoneComics #🐙
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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.
Share this with a weirdo you know💞
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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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#scuba #saveourocean #reef #coconut #clam #shells #swimming #nature #🐙 @octonation
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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Be cool and visit UnderdoneComics.com/ways-to-support (there's a sale in the shop!
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Luckily, YOU can help right the wrongs of human folly!
Follow this link to see the wish list of @dsischo and the team that's trying to save them (link is also in Insta story)
http://a.co/7AxiSw7
They could use supplies to help them study and regrow these beautiful candy-coated snails in Hawaii. 🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌
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Partulina variabilis is another Hawaiian snail on the brink of extinction. They can live between 10-20 years, have live birth, and like all snails, they're hermaphrodites. 🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌 Help keep the variety of these comics coming by visiting www.UnderdoneComics.com/ways-to-support 🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌 #hawaii #snail #snails #endangeredspecies #outdoors #conservation #IUCNredlist #lanai #nature #comic #webcomic #savethesnails #savetheearth #biology #science #extinction #comics #educational #mahalo #beautiful #gastropod #mollusk #evolution #naturalhistory #island #scicomm #Hawaiian #aloha #ifyoucare #🐌
They give live birth and have a lifespan between 10-20 years. Their shells are the color and texture of the trunks and branches of their native host trees. They’re often
found hanging out on small branches and twigs. Their shell shape, color and their behavior are likely a camouflage against predators.
The native snails of Hawaii are disappearing possibly faster than any group of animals on the planet. Check yesterday's post for more info on the people who are trying to save them. 🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌
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Laminella sanguinea cats its beautiful shell with sticky mucous that winds up collecting dirt from the forest. It's believed that the debris acts as a camouflage to protect the snail from flightless birds that used to stalk the woods (before they went extinct). This is what David has to say about it: The Hawaiian Islands was host to a spectacular radiation of land snails with over 750 species found nowhere else in the world. Unfortunately, introduced predators such as rats, rosy wolf snails, and Jacksons chameleons have wreaked havoc on this fauna. Around half of these species have vanished already, and approximately 100 additional species will likely go extinct within the next decade without intervention. To learn more about the conservation efforts of the Hawaii Snail Extinction Prevention Program, check out this article and documentary from the Atlantic Magazine.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/extinction-endling-care/590617/
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/594067/snails/
Look for part two of these comics very soon!
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Under the new Bolsonaro regime, where there are more relaxed fines for Amazon land gobbling by farmers, around 40% more of the rainforest has been burned to be turned into pasture when compared to last year (beef cows gotta eat). Apparently, to make matters worse, if you illegally burn land, get caught and fined, your profits for selling the land are MUCH higher than the government fines anyway. In other words, the Amazon is toast.
Perhaps the small, local Seattle business, Amazon.com, should consider throwing some of its tax-free billions toward saving its namesake, hmm? Just sayin'. Looking for ways to help out (besides being angry at Jeff Bezos and not buying from Amazon.com)? Check out
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@rainforestactionnetwork -
@amazonwatch
Thanks to the amazingly talented @joyceillustrations for the translation! 🔥🐄🔥🐄🔥🐄🔥🐄
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Did you know that vultures have special enzymes in their digestive systems that break down diseases like cholera, anthrax, botulism and rabies?
In Africa, vulture populations have plummeted. One of the reasons is that poachers poison the birds after they make a kill. This makes it harder for authorities to track their activities. It makes it easier for them to get diseases, however.
What's your favorite bird? Any vulture fans out there?
Are you aware of my shop? (link in bio)
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If you've ever been on the shoreline at low tide and noticed weird-looking grey circles that look like broken toilet plungers, that's the work of a moon snail as well. It's an egg case crusted with sand.
The mother rolls upside-down, lays about 500,000 eggs in a gooey blob. When she rolls back over, the "collar" of sand forms around egg case. 6 weeks later, you've got more mini drills sliding around the ocean.
So, don't ever drop your plungers on the beach unless you want to make these gastropods upset. And who would want to do that?
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One of the most often misunderstood things about spiders is that they're like vampires that suck the guts out of their prey. The truth is, spiders need to barf digestive juices on their victims before eating them. Then they munch away on the half-digested mass of puke and flesh. So what's a creature, like the diving bell spider, to do if it lives all its life underwater? How can it vomit on things before it eats it? Once it catches its prey, the spider will drag its meal into its air bubble, which is a special web that holds an air pocket.
Amazingly, scientists have found out that the bubble really never needs to be refilled with air, it actually lets carbon dioxide out and takes oxygen in from the pond water, acting as an inorganic gill. The spiders would never need to have more air added to it, but nitrogen leaks out of the bubble, which makes it shrink. So once in a while, spidey has to attach air from the surface to its butt and bring it over to its bubble-web diving bell.
In other words, they're forced to always get takeout—let somebody you like to get takeout with know about the spider's dining habits!
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Question: what's the dog thinking in the last one? How about "I barked 'DUCK!' but you didn't listen!" What's YOUR idea? 🐶
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It's been reported that humpback babies "whisper" to their mothers as they swim together. But noise pollution might be getting in the way of the communication!
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If you'd like to know more about them, and hear from one of the people who's dedicated his life to saving these pups, give a listen to the latest episode of the @allcreaturespodcast.
Do you have any funny dog stories? I once lived briefly with a pug who stole sandwiches and was self-scooping, if you know what I mean!
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I'm not saying they'll evolve to something like in the comic up there or nothin'!
In case you don't know:
Tardigrades, or water bears or moss pigs, are the heartiest lifeforms on Earth. Scientists have discovered their hundred-year-old dried out bodies and reanimated them in a drop of water. What's more is, they've survived the complete vacuum of space and harmful radiation. It's been recently discovered that a protein called Dsup (short for "damage suppressor") sticks to the organism's DNA which acts as a radiation shield.
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Friends of the feline: what do you think? Are we just food delivery system or do they actually like us?
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As you can see, I think the fish's profile look a lot like the profile of a pelican!
Did you know pelicans almost went extinct? The insecticide DDT that was used to kill pests washed into waterways, was infested by fish, which the pelis ate. The chemical made many kinds of fish-eating birds' eggshells too weak to develop. Once DDT was banned, the birds recovered.
So there's a story about how humans CAN affect the world in a negative➖and a positive➕way.
Do you think the pelican should eat the paddlefish?
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And it's #sharkweek so you know, sharks.
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Because basking sharks have hundreds of teeny-weeny teeth and they really want to try something besides krill.
Anybody have any ideas for what NOT to accidentally drop in the ocean?
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So what's the deal with the saw? Well, their rostrum, or snout, has a bunch of electroreceptors called ampullae of Lorenzini, which detects prey and is a great term to enunciate. The teeth that line the thing are for defense or attack.
Questions for you:
Do you recall the sorry person in the comic dropping something else in the water? Do you recall what happened?
Are there other things that should definitely NOT be dropped into an ocean? For instance, a koosh ball near sea urchins?
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The frilled shark uses its eel-like body to lunge at prey like a snake, catching food with its odd needle teeth.
Both of these sharks are caught as bycatch, as fisheries trawl the ocean depths, looking for other fish. Can you spot other bycatch species in the net with the snapper harvest?
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Great whites are ambush hunters. They like to eat big things like sea lions and catch them from below. So sometimes they'll break the surface while they're speeding from the depths as they crunch down on an animal. I'm sure they'll show it on Shark Week, which starts tonight. Or just Google it—it really is spectacular.
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Which animal do you like to ride on? Me, I pick the one that's least likely to make me barf—none.
By the way, I'll be camping the next few days so you'll have to come up with your own Instagram polls. I hope you'll survive without them!
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No, not social media followers, silly, just followers to where the honey's at. And no, not really honey, just flowers for nectar collection. To make honey. You know the story.
Would someone please make a song called "She twerks hard for the Honey" —like a parody of the Donna Summers 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
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What's your favorite unhealthy snack?
Even though all the toothed whales have those spongy melons on their heads, only belugas are capable of purposefully changing its shape for better sound production. That's why they're sometimes called "sea canaries!" You can help keep whales and other sea creatures from eating junk food. Cut out the disposable or single-use plastics! #♻️
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So now you can tell a picky kid that even sharks eat their vegetables! 🦈🦈🦈
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July 9 is Cow Appreciation day. And once again, I'm inviting you to read an article I wrote on Medium about the lives of dairy cows. The point of this article isn't to try to persuade anybody to give up eating or drinking dairy—it's just to inform the reader what the life of a dairy cow is like. It's got a few cow-related comics in there too—check it out!
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Is that a subset of convergent evolution called "whatever you can do i can do too" evolution? Whatever you want to call it, it's absolutely amazing.
What's your favorite animal fact? Top 5 ones that I never heard get a free sticker (no joke)!
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I think this is my first all-plant comic. Any suggestions for other botanic species?
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Bobtail squids are kind of like a cross between a cuttlefish and regular squid. They're shaped like cuttlefish and they move like cuttlefish, but they don't have a cuttlebone. The most remarkable thing about them, though, is their symbiotic use of a bioluminescent bacteria Aliivibrio fischeri—which lives in an organ inside the bobtail's mantle, where it's fed sugars and other chemicals. When it comes out to hunt at night, the cephalopod uses the light-emitting bacteria to simulate the moonlight, thus making it nearly invisible to creatures (like the dwarf moray eels) as they look up at the shimmery surface of the water.
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💪Their beaks are made of some of the strongest materials found in nature.
🎥If you get a chance, look up Scott Cassell's work filming these supersuckers.
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Turn up your sound because I've teemed up with the tenta-coolest musician @tedpoor to mesmerize you in this cartoon! 🌀🌀 Did you know that cuttlefish act as hypnotists to put their prey in a trance before they attack?
It's only a matter of time before they start using their chromatophores to take over our minds, eh? 〰️〰️
Have you ever looked into the squiggly pupils of a cuttlefish, or any other cephalopods, in an aquarium or in the wild? They definitely seem to be judging you from hundreds of millions of years of survival. 🐙🦑🐙🦑🐙🦑🐙🦑🐙🦑🐙🦑
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