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Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Wildlife Analysis posted:

Daddy Long-Legs are cool. They were the only spiders I didn't hate as a kid.
you're a biologist you go back and fix this right now

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HEY GUNS
Oct 11, 2012

FOPTIMUS PRIME

a dozen swans posted:

that was a good WW1 post and I learned some stuff, thanks!

also ilu all ladythread

thumns up


G-Spot Run
Jun 28, 2005
Daddy long legs is colloquial for a type of spider in Australia

Aves Maria!
Jul 26, 2008

Maybe I'll drown

Pick posted:

you're a biologist you go back and fix this right now

I will never not refer to them as spiders, it's been scarred into my brain.

Now to atone for my horrible embarrassment to the life sciences, a photosynthetic sea slug!



Elysia chlorotica. Otherwise known as really loving cool.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
volvox always makes me happy :3:

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
hello im cute

Putty
Mar 21, 2013

HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS
this is what pick enjoys everyone

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Putty posted:

this is what pick enjoys everyone

it's an algal colony that spins what the gently caress do you want from life t:mad:

Al Cowens
Aug 11, 2004

by WE B Bourgeois

Pick posted:

hello im cute


You might like Flow for the PS3.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost


i am all bimbo for comb jellies!!!!!!!

Putty
Mar 21, 2013

HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS

Pick posted:

it's an algal colony that spins what the gently caress do you want from life t:mad:

whats the ameoba thing that can survive in space

it has bear in it's name and it looks like a ps2 monster

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
tardigrade AKA water bear

GNU Order
Feb 28, 2011

That's a paddlin'

Sabel posted:

You might like Flow for the PS3.

http://interactive.usc.edu/projects/cloud/flowing/

Not sure what the difference between the ps3 version and this one is but here you go

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost


Aves Maria!
Jul 26, 2008

Maybe I'll drown
Speaking of microbiology, I saw the cutest Euplotes the other day.

Little guy was just jetting around in some muck, he looked so happy.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzrLj-RZPcQ

Putty
Mar 21, 2013

HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS


welcome to the world that lives on the tip of a needle

everything looks like a bad 3D render

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost


my SO is as crazy for fish as I am for things that are usually not fish, we are :spergin: compatible

HEY GUNS
Oct 11, 2012

FOPTIMUS PRIME

Putty posted:

this is what pick enjoys everyone
what i enjoy is probably far dorkier


Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Wildlife Analysis posted:

Speaking of microbiology, I saw the cutest Euplotes the other day.

Little guy was just jetting around in some muck, he looked so happy.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzrLj-RZPcQ

awwwwwwww :3:

Portals
Apr 18, 2012

Putty posted:

this is what pick enjoys everyone

your av is even better now also wb

daddy longlegs can be any of three arthropods - cellar spiders, harvestmen, and crane flies

also tardigrades are great

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
Pick how many of those gifs are from David Attenborough documentaries?

Obligatory Toast
Mar 19, 2007

What am I reading here??

Putty posted:

this is what pick enjoys everyone

its pretty neat tho

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Portals posted:

daddy longlegs can be any of three arthropods - cellar spiders, harvestmen, and crane flies

also tardigrades are great

i will beat the loving poo poo out of anyone who calls a crane fly aka tipuloidid a daddy long-legs i swear to god

tardigrades are great!!!!!

Putty
Mar 21, 2013

HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS

Pick posted:



my SO is as crazy for fish as I am for things that are usually not fish, we are :spergin: compatible

i would bet that you can't go a week without posting about animals

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Putty posted:

i would bet that you can't go a week without posting about animals

you win that bet automatically because I know I would not be able to do it

HEY GUNS
Oct 11, 2012

FOPTIMUS PRIME

Pick posted:

i will beat the loving poo poo out of anyone who calls a crane fly aka tipuloidid a daddy long-legs i swear to god

tardigrades are great!!!!!

oh no they tipuloididn't


Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

Pick how many of those gifs are from David Attenborough documentaries?

I have no idea, a lot? I have folders that together hold probably thousands of animal pics/gifs

Pick fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Jan 31, 2014

Aves Maria!
Jul 26, 2008

Maybe I'll drown
Animal gifs are the best.





Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

stimulated emission
Apr 25, 2011

D-D-D-D-D-D-DEEPER

look at this thing


just look at it

Portals
Apr 18, 2012

nudibranchs yaaay

Aves Maria!
Jul 26, 2008

Maybe I'll drown

Chiba City Blues posted:

look at this thing


just look at it

He looks so dopey. :3:

Portals posted:

nudibranchs yaaay

drat straight

Serious Cephalopod
Jul 1, 2007

This is a Serious post for a Serious thread.

Bloop Bloop Bloop
Pillbug

Post the ones where their heads open up!

Putty
Mar 21, 2013

HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS

well what is it

Portals
Apr 18, 2012

Serious Cephalopod posted:

Post the ones where their heads open up!

you need to post some cephalopods

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Serious Cephalopod posted:

Post the ones where their heads open up!



?

Putty posted:

well what is it

It's a sea butterfly, aka a thecosomatid.

Nessa
Dec 15, 2008

Animals are rad.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Portals posted:

you need to post some cephalopods

I'll help! This is a blanket octopus.



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toe knee hand
Jun 20, 2012

HANSEN ON A BREAKAWAY

HONEY BADGER DON'T SCORE
you know what else is cool?

rocks.



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