god i love the blue catfish so much. kind of a terrifying superpredator honestly. they like living in muddy water so their eyesight is dogshit, but they've got these huge barbels around their face to feel around, and their whole body is covered in almost two hundred thousand tastebuds to figure out exactly where their prey is, and they've got a special adipose fin to be extra tuned-in to water currents/pressure, and they have super keen senses of hearing at really low AND high frequencies, and they ALSO have a deeply forked tail to decrease drag so they can just cruise around and gulp down literally whatever they want, including other catfish, even in like zero-visibility water where every other animal is basically blind. and they get so fucking stupid huge with this technique that nothing can grab them because they're as big as a person. and if an eagle or something does grab one before it's gotten big enough to be eagle-proof, the catfish has fucking POISON KNIVES on its fins to not only stab things but also envenomate them in the process
you may not like it, but THIS is what peak performance looks like
You are %100 percent allowed to not like, and even hate a queer ship.
Maybe you think they’re toxic, maybe you think they wouldn’t work as a couple, maybe you think they’re better off with someone else, maybe you like them as friends, maybe you like that characters better as single, or maybe you just simply don’t see it. They’re all completely valid reasons.
However, if your reasoning for not liking that ship is “omg no! they’re both straight”
I’m going to assume you’re homophobic.
They’re so <333
the arapaima fish is very special to me. i like him so much. arapaima….
Remember, there is no one way to be goth.
Be aware of the bands that helped form the subculture (Bauhaus, Siouxsie, The Cure, etc.), but also know there are all sorts of goth music subgenres, so explore!
Goth is for everyone. If someone tells you that you have to be thin, white, young, able-bodied, etc. to be a Real Goth, ignore them. They're wrong.
Goth fashion is based in DIY and combining random bits until you have a look that makes you happy. Goth fashion isn't about spending huge amounts of money at various big 'goth lifestyle' websites.
Always support indie bands, artists, clothing designers, jewelers, etc. when you can. Posting about/promoting them is support!
With much love,
Auntie Jilli
Hello and happy day, everybody! Today's fish of the day is the Alabama sturgeon!
The Alabama sturgeon, known by scientific name Scaphirhynchus suttkusi is an incredibly endangered sturgeon found in the American South. Found, as the name implies, in the great state of Alabama, this species once had a wide historic range, stretching the entirety of the Mobile basin and bay, from the Alabama, Tombigbee, and Cahaba Rivers, but now has such limited numbers they are listed as wherever found. The Alabama sturgeon is now found only in the lower 130 miles of the Alabama river, living in fast currents of water 6-14 meters of depth nearby rock or mussel beds.
With only 3 confirmed sightings of them since 2009 confirming the species is still extant. With little hope of proving that the Alabama sturgeon continues to live other than the rare sightings, in 2016 researchers turned to another way. Using eDNA, which is usually sheddings, excrement, or other materials left behind in the environment around an animal, they got a positive result determining that the Alabama sturgeon population is still alive, leading to hopes of a captive breeding program. Despite this, there have been no female Alabama sturgeons caught, forcing plans for a breeding program to be entirely paused until they can secure eggs for it.
Regardless of current conservation efforts of the sturgeon, let's discuss other things known about this fish. This sturgeon's diet is made up of plant materials, aquatic bugs, mollusks, and other small bottom dwelling organic matter. Like other sturgeon, the Alabama sturgeon is a bottom feeder with a protrusible mouth, acting as a vacuum. They can get up to a size of 30 inches, relatively small for sturgeons, and are mostly known within the family for their striking orange-yellow color. Their life cycle is nearly identical to that of other sturgeon: sexual maturity occurs at 5-7 years of age, at which point they swim upstream to lay eggs, repeating this every 2-3 years until their lifespan comes to an end around 12-20 years!
That's the Alabama sturgeon, everybody! Have a wonderful day!
Screams cries sobs (I have not thought about anything but pyro for the past like week)
Reminder that in the X-Men Last Stand novelisation, Bobby saved Pyro from Jean's rampage and in the Rogue Cut we see that Pyro's lighter is in a shrine that Warpath maintains.
TL:DR Pyro was a member of the Free Mutants because Bobby saved him and was killed by the Sentinels
xmen origins logan, you’ll always be my favorite <3
He/it (or fuck around w/ neos idc)Kinda fruityI love fish and ww2 tanks and the x men movies
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