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The insects in the Hemiptera order are the true ...
May 29
The insects in the Hemiptera order are the true bugs!
Did you know it’s World Otter Day? Answer me this: besides the octopus and otter, what animals would you NOT want to do yoga with?
May 23rd is World Turtle Day! 10 points to the first one that gets it! ... Visit...
May 21
10 points to the first one that gets it! ... Visit the links in my bio for fun stuff at the shop or become a patron! The more I find out about these birds, the more ...
May 20
The more I find out about these birds, the more they they become my faves.
🔊TURN IT UP and hear the boisterous beats of @tedpoor — then take a screenshot and tell me what you got!
May 15 is Endangered Species Day—so let's look at an endangered species, shall we?
Well I’m feeling odd because of the state of pandemic that we’re in, but kind of proud that people are choosing to protect themselves and show off my comics at the same time. Listen you little punks! I wish all you moms or ...
May 10
Listen you little punks! I wish all you moms or mom-like creatures a Happy Mother’s Day 💕
Attachment parenting isn't for all species.
Welcome to #FintasticFriday - the day we give sharks a voice. In Brazil, a scientist picked up a frog, which bit...
May 6
In Brazil, a scientist picked up a frog, which bit him, and for the next 5 hours, the scientist was in excruciating pain. Luckily for him, he was bit by Greening's frog and not Bruno's casque-headed frog because the latter's venom is 5x that of Greening's. These two frogs have little spines on their skulls that inject poison into attackers. Unlike the famous and colorful poison dart frogs, which just secrete poison from their skin, the two frogs in this comic can inject it into their attackers.
I don't only do portraits of doggies—meet Salvador Mali—the Mali uromastyx. He's a vegetarian lizard who's kin originate in Mali.
Here's something! Once in a great while I get approached to do pet portraits. It's fun to bring out animal personalities. Do you know a critter that needs its likeness in comic-form? Direct message me and we can talk about it.
Oh look it's MerMay.
I was fortunate enough to be asked to make an illustration for an award-winning article for the Journal of Applied Ecology. April 27 is World Tapir Day! Did you know that all...
Apr 27
April 27 is World Tapir Day! Did you know that all tapir babies are born with white stripes and a few dots for hiding in the forest? April 25th is both National Go Birding Day AND ...
Apr 25
April 25th is both National Go Birding Day AND Hairstylist Appreciation Day. What better comic suits these extremely important dates in our lives?
Happy Earth Day! Well tomorrow is Earth Day and I decided to share ...
Apr 21
Well tomorrow is Earth Day and I decided to share my favorite Earth Day-related comic today. It features a very wise octopus considering whether or not to tell its young cuttlefish friend the purpose of the humans. Do you think the octopus should spill the beans?
It's #EarthWeek — print and color this new coloring sheet that you can find for free on my Patreon.com/underdonecomics page.
Well I just read that some rays, like the bluntnose stingray that live along the atlantic coast, grow extra sharp rows of bitey teeth during the mating season. The scientists who reported it think that males’ dentition goes from all rounded molar-like to sharp and pointy in order to grip onto their mates. Did you know that most white sand beaches come ...
Apr 13
Did you know that most white sand beaches come from parrotfish poop? The fish use their crazy parrot-like beaks to bite and scrape food off of rocks and dead corals, grind up the rocky parts in their guts and poop sand!
Here's the annual Easter joke. Remember to be kind to animals and share this with somebody who was once inside their pregnant mother! You know who they are!
April 9 is Unicorn Day!
April 8 is Draw a Picture of a Bird Day. It's a total coincidence that I decided to make today's comic about the harris hawk—and fortunately, when it comes to harris hawks in the wild, you get not one, but many birds. They're pack hunters!
It's another Friday on Quarantine Earth, but do the days really mean anything at all?
Happy April Fool's Day! When you exclaim "APRIL FOOLS!" after you brilliantly make a fool of someone, do you mentally picture the word spelled as "FOOL'S" OR "FOOLS?" I looked it up, and the Internet told me it's "FOOLS." No foolin'. The climbing perch is native to Asia, but it's crawling its way all over the world and is now considered an invasive species. It can live out of the water for 6-10 days, so long as it stays moist—but isn't that the case for all of us? Hey, turn off your lights at 8:30pm local time for...
Mar 28
Hey, turn off your lights at 8:30pm local time for #earthhour —you know, to help the Earth!
Bored? Go to my Patreon and print my first coloring sheets! This one's all about salamanders.
March 24th is Manatee Appreciation Day!
Sure, in some places it’s #worldpuppy day or #kittenday, but around these parts it’s World Meteorological Day! To celebrate, let’s take a look at the wonderful loach.
I knew I forgot a frog comic for yesterday's World Frog Day.
🐸 March 20 is World Frog Day!
Who’d have thunk that the day after St. Patrick’s Day is officially Awkward Moments Day?
Happy St. Paddy’s Day! Feeling trapped? I know I am. I came across this ...
Mar 13
Feeling trapped? I know I am. I came across this quote by existentialist Simone De Beauvoir the other day and wondered what kind of animal would love to repeat it. The African grey parrot came to mind because it's so smart and such a popular pet and often kept in cages 😖.
I live in Seattle, which is pretty much the epicenter of the Coronavirus in the US. I kind of feel like the I’m the inflated blowfish after seeing people touch each other or not wash their hands in a public bathroom!
Well here's something fun! The other day I had the pleasure to be on the @varmintspodcast — we talked about pelicans. They're one of my favorite birds, not only because they're so crazy looking—I love them because of their amazing conservation story.
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Happy World Wildlife Day! Let's get nude and celebrate the naked mole rat!
Alright, I'm declaring this March to be Naked Mole Rat Month. Have you read up on these things? If not, don't worry, because I've got some comics about them.
Which one has dorsal envy? Is it Burmeister's, with its tiny fin that has nodules (bumps)? Or is it the male spectacled porpoise, with that big ol' fin on its back?
Have you ever wanted to spend the day with a blanket wrapped around your lazy bones?
There's no escape from jerks when you're held captive in a tub.
The plecos are a wide variety of catfish that normally live in South American rivers and parts of Central America. You can commonly see them sucking on things in aquariums too.
The third Saturday of every February is World Pangolin Day. This mammal that looks like a pinecone is one of the most trafficked animals in the world. People consider its meat to be a delicacy and its scales to be a cure-all medicine. The truth is, the scales all over a pangolin's body are nothing more than keratin—the same stuff that fingernails are made from.
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Alligator gars are among the largest and "oldest" fishes in North America. Their fossil record goes back 100 million years!
#happydarwinday
Most of these suckers have a straw-like mouthpart that they use to slurp up plant parts (like aphids, leafhoppers, stinkbugs, et cetera). This isn't true, however, for the aquatic versions—most of those guys are predators—except for the waterboatmen. Backswimmers would gladly hunt you down, though (if you're small enough)! Speaking of bugs, anybody hear the cicadas yet this year? Of so, where are you?
If not, what's you're favorite insect?
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I dug up some land turtle comics for you to enjoy (sea turtle day is sometime next month, stay tuned).
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Turtles and their ilk have been around for about 220 million years (since the late Triassic Period), and the stegosaurus walked around about 150 million years ago (in the late Jurassic Period). Despite the legend, turtles can flip over once they're upside-down. Unlike this particular stegosaurus. Thus making turtles one of the most successful groups of animals ever to flop around the earth.
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Some additional notes of interest:
Bearded vultures are also known as lammergeiers, which means lamb-vulture, can you guess why?
No they don't look like lambs, they eat them. Well they eat their bones, that is.
Their ruddy color is from adorning themselves with mud or soil, which they think looks neat (it might have some beneficial properties as well, but I don't know know about it). Kind of makes you wonder, though why people kill them so much. The main reason is because farmers believe that by poisoning their livestock after it dies, it will kill animals that would prey on their herds. But it just pretty much kills vultures.
Who knew that such an awesome dinosaur would be slaughtered by people?
Oh wait, these are humans we're talking about, so forget I asked.
What’s your favorite raptor and why?
More to come on these things. There's an amazing story from way back when, regarding a beardy, a playwright and a tortoise. Stay tuned!
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It's Endangered Species Day so tell your friends to play along! if you follow @underdonecomics and tag 3 people when you post which animal you got on your screenshot, you could win a print set of these creatures.
I'll randomly select a winner in the morning of May 16.
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The aye-aye looks kind of cute, if you ignore those hands that look like spiders.
Speaking of their hands, their middle finger has a ball and socket joint, much like our hips! This is great for digging out insect grubs but not great for gripping trees. To make up for their spindly fingers, apparently aye-ayes have evolved a second thumb on each hand—for hanging in there—which is what they're barely doing—since there's about 1000 of the bug-eyed primates left in the wild.
Hunting and deforestation have pretty much wiped these guys out. ◉_◉
Did you notice how they fill the niche of the woodpecker? Isn't that crazy to think about?
To learn more about the aye-aye visit @zsledgeofexistence —they even can tell you how you can help them survive. If you care.
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What do you think?
@microcosmickid , @toddzimmerman77 and @dinosaur_dude sent some photos of their masks they received from @threadless — if you’re interested in getting your own follow the link in my bio or go to
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What’s the best or worst Mother’s Day gift you’ve ever gotten?
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It’s Mother’s Day weekend—and the Big Day of birding starts tomorrow too! Who’s combining the two? Is it going to be freezing where you are thanks to the Arctic Blast?
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With an estimated 100 million sharks that are killed each year, 73 million wind up in shark fin soup!
Even though China has pretty much stomped out shark fin (or fish wing) soup, in places like Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Macau and Taiwan, people are happily slurping the dish—whether they know anything about how cruel and devastating the meal is for our oceans or not.
Some people claim that the food is medicinal, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Sharks are at the top of the ocean's food chain, which means their meat contains dangerous metals like mercury, cadmium, and even arsenic.
Have you ever tried it? 🦈🍵🦈🍵🦈🍵
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These two frogs probably won't be the last venomous frogs to be found. And sadly, nobody knows how many more will never be found, thanks to deforestation.
Do you have a go-to favorite insult? Tell me in the comments!
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What do you think? Top hat or no tophat?
If you've got a pet that needs to be comicified, send me a direct message and we can discuss!
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Do you think Talus the Dog likes his portrait? I think he is recommending this service, no?
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I have a question: what do you think the origin of the mermaid legend is?
If you think it's a manatee with Portuguese man o'war jellies acting like a bikini top, comment with a jelly🎐
If you think it's a person in the mouth of a shark, comment with a shark 🦈
If you think they exist, but use baleen to filter feed, comment with a whale 🐋
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The piece explains a nation-wide study in Switzerland about how neonicotinoid 🚬insecticides are coated on seeds, drilled into conventional farms and then the chemicals leak into the surrounding environment—including pesticide-free organic farms.
I added a sprinkle of animation to it too. I hope you dig it!
Thanks @sciencefindsart for the connection!
Formal citation:
Humann‐Guilleminot, S, Binkowski, ŁJ, Jenni, L, Hilke, G, Glauser, G, Helfenstein, F. A nation‐wide survey of neonicotinoid insecticides in agricultural land with implications for agri‐environment schemes. J Appl Ecol. 2019; 56: 1502– 1514. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13392
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Perhaps the Malayan tapir mom is starting a new style trend?
Asia's only tapir, called the Malayan tapir, with is distinctive black and light gray coat, is found in Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
There are 5 kinds of tapirs, all of which are considered endangered in one way or another—so follow @worldtapirday to see how you can help these trunked critters!
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Bluejays usually molt gradually as the summer comes to an end. But sometimes all the features on their heads will fall off at once.
Thanks once again to @the_peck_deck for photographing a bald blue jay for me to miss over.
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(1) The crow might be grim, but seriously try to listen to those robins—they sound so positive! (2) Speaking of positivity, check out the new product on Threadless—face masks with comics on them (link in bio). All proceeds that go to Threadless will be donated to @medshareofficial ! I can't wait to see some facemask selfies with these things. (3) Also, look at the naked mole rat shirt! Who wouldn't want that? (TeePublic link in bio) (4) AND don't forget—check out my giphy page: giphy.com/roblang for your gif and sticker needs (like this new robin)! @giphy
Lastly, the totally random winner of the parrotfish beach towel is: @maya_ganapathy and oddly enough she's an ocean scientist! 👏👏 Remember, if you're jealous and feel like you need that towel, you can get it in the Threadless shop too.
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Speaking of bean spiing, tomorrow I'll reveal who wins the beach towel so tune in!
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Send your beautiful work to me and I'll share it!
You know, for somethin' to do, if you need it.
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If you had to live in the ocean as an animal, would you rather be a fish or a mammal?
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Parrotfish can get really big, so they poop and poop and poop, and the next thing you get is an island!
Enjoy the sand between your toes!
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CONTEST: if you're an Underdone Comics Instagram follower, tell me your favorite fish and tag 3 people in the Instagram comments. I'll randomly select a winner to receive said towel—for free (that's no cost to you)! Just promise you'll take a pic of the towel in use, preferably at a beach. I'll announce the random winner on Earth Day (April 22). #parrotfish #fish #fishing #reef #coralreef #coral #beach #nature #comic #webcomic #outdoors #conservation #vacation #fishy #tropicalfish #sandybeach #beachvacation #getaway #naturelover #whitesandbeaches #cocacola #cocacolaart #animalfacts #savetheocean #earthday
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New comic tomorrow! 🥚
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So let's celebrate by looking at the looong extinct baculite, or what I like to call the OTHER unicorn of the sea. Even though they died out in the Cretaceous, along with the dinosaurs, perhaps this baculite—in the face of extinction—tried to wedge its way into folk memory. Little did it know that humans would remember them differently!
Fortunately, eons later, this amazing cephalopod showed up in the fossil record.
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People who know these things believe that the harris hawk became a pack hunter because of where it lives, especially in the winter. In the Southwest of North America, the winters have few small animals for a hawk-sized bird to hunt. So a jackrabbit, which could way a lot more than a hawk, needs to be taken down by multiple birds, so they evolved a cooperative hunting technique.
They also evolved a behavior called back-stacking, where they stand on each other's backs, possibly to shade their friend, possibly to get a better view, possibly to annoy each other, nobody knows why! Do you have any ideas?
If you're into further reading, and who isn't these days, check out the article about them on Audubon.org.
And how's the quarantining going? Does it feel like you're being backstacked on?
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If you're looking to fill up time, then get yourself some coloring sheets. I don't care if you color inside the lines or not—just share your work with me. Maybe even get a kid to do it too!
Go to the Underdone Comics Patreon page, download the PDF, and the next thing you know, you'll be transported out of our apocalyptic hellscape and into coloring tranquility.
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Since it's invasive, I guess it's good that people eat it. The fact that they can live for so long out of water makes them a valuable source of food at markets.
Are you one of those people who hates the word "moist?" Are there any other words you hate? Let me know!
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Know what you can eat during Earth Hour? Something on a stick—because today's National Something on a Stick Day! The one day everyone is encouraged to eat like a loggerhead shrike!
The loggerhead shrike is a small but mighty bird. Scientists think these songbirds came up with idea while they were smacking their prey on branches to make the kill. Lo and behold, some of them stuck, just like a spikey talon would—and so they invented the insect kabob. And besides, who doesn't like eating food on sticks or skewers or whatever you call 'em?
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Share with a pal you'd like to eat a meal on a stick with!
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Let's celebrate by taking a look back to 2012, when a Floridian decided to take a ride on a manatee—possibly because she wanted to appreciate them more than anybody else, maybe?
The story goes like this: after being photographed riding a sea cow, the woman turned herself into police, claiming that she was new to the area and didn't realize that riding manatees was illegal. At least she did the noble thing. I wonder if the ride was a lot less exciting than she was expecting it to be.
Manatees can move quickly in the water when they feel like it in order to escape danger. I guess the manatee in the comic didn't really feel threatened by this strange aquatic wannabe-rodeo rider.
If you knew you wouldn't get caught, what animal would you most want to ride?
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It must be very confusing for weather loaches that live in aquariums. They seem to get irritated and antsy when there's a change in barometric pressure. They always sense storms that never come. Do you think they annoy their tank mates, like the tiger barb in the comic?
How’s the weather in your area?
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The paradox frog (Pseudis paradoxa) lives in South America. They earned their name because the tadpoles actually "grow down" — the adults are about a quarter the size of the tadpoles! What's more, the tadpoles only feed on plants, while the adults eat the usual frog diet of invertebrates and tiny fish. So you've gotta wonder, if the plant-loving froglets ever interact with adults, how angsty they'd be!
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Did you know that while we shutter ourselves in, CO2 levels and air pollution are dropping? There's some glass is half-full news, eh?
I fished up all the frog comics I could find—some of which I think are my very best works.
Which one's your favorite? Are there any that I'm missing?
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I was considering doing a comic about the Irish elk, which was one of the the biggest deer ever, but times are so strange, I decided to keep going with quotes by some of the great existentialists.
I feel like this is an especially useful one, since so many of us feel like that bullfrog, being squeezed by our schoolless children.
Do you/have you ever had any pets that are just completely annoyed by you? For me, it was the newts I had as a kid. They didn’t reciprocate much affection.
Hang in there!
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The birdcage, in my mind, is one of the worst human inventions of all time. What could be more typically humanly arrogant than not allowing a bird to fly?
What are other terrible inventions we can think of (torture devices excluded)? I'll start: math homework!
Any philosophy majors out there? What are you doing with yourself? While not on virus lockdown, that is.
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Did you know that this species of blowfish, the long-spine porcupinefish, can nearly double its body size when it's attacked or upset? Not only does it turn into a nearly inedible spiky ball, it can also secrete poison from its spines.
Do any of you out there remember this comic from 2016? Were any of you alive back then? Are any of you that young?
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If you don't know about it, just listen to the podcast. It's a good one and great for kids.
And if you're wondering about that pelican horn, the American white peli is the only pelican that grows the appendage. Both sexes grow them during the mating season and they fall off around egg hatching time.
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Did you know that somehow these rodents pretty much lost their ability to regulate their body temperatures, just like cold-blooded reptiles and such? So very weird. And weird looking.
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Scientists have tested and confirmed that these nudist colonists will eat their Queen Mom's poop for 2 reasons: 1— because they have to eat poo to help them digest the tubers they eat and 2— so they can tell whether or not her Magesty is preggo.
And yes, in case you didn't know, they have a queen. Their society is structured more like eusocial ants or bees than mammal colonies.
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Have you ever been to a nudist camp? What was it like the first time? If you haven't, would you ever go?
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Basically everything about them is fascinating.
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What would you rather have? Knobs or a giant sail?
Both of these small cetaceans live around the southern part of South America. The spectacled swims mainly around the southeast part, making its way over to Australia, while the Burmeister's sticks mainly to the continental shelf on both sides.
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Meet the crab that does just that. An international team of scientists lead by the Smithsonian discovered 3 new species of the little-known blanket hermit crab. It turns out that when these crustaceans are young, a certain kind of sea anemone attaches itself to the crab's rear end and grows with it. In an amazing example of a snuggly symbiotic relationship, the crabs evolved special legs that raise and lower the anemone, so it can be just like a scared kid hiding in their blanket at night (I have a lot of experience with that).
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We all know that dolphins are really smart. So what happens when really smart things are cooped up in a small place, when they've evolved over millions of years to swim free in open water? They go crazy and bully each other with bites and other kinds of aggression.
Free or not, animals aren't always nice to each other, but just imagine being stuck in a prison together, with no escape.
Help prevent this type of torture from happening by NOT going to dolphin shows or paying see captive cetaceans (unless they were rescued and can't be released—but that's kind of questionable too!)
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One of the most interesting things about them is the bristlenose pleco's mating behavior. Males seduce females into crevices in rocks, to show off the clutches of eggs or fry that's currently in their care. But what if they don't have any kids yet? Well, that's what biologists believe is where those bristles come in.
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As you would imagine, the demand for pangolin pseudo-medicine increases, the pangolin population decreases. Sadly, these animals have a very stressful time in captivity, so breeding them for reproduction in the wild seems to be nearly impossible.
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