Critterquest 2020: a pretty extensive list of OK moths

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Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

Moon Potato posted:

I recently got back from a trip to the bottom of the world and still have a ton of photos to work through, but here are some Gentoo Penguins and friends from the Antarctic Peninsula. They usually nest on rocky hills that have been smoothed over by glaciers, and build their nests from the pebbles deposited on the back side of the hill by the glacial flow.

Nearly everything on the Antarctic Peninsula feeds on krill. The penguins there have barbed tongues to help capture the small crustaceans, which they later regurgitate for their chicks.

Theft of nesting materials is common, so fights break out between close neighbors fairly often.

Nonetheless, the whole colony joins together to fight off South Polar Skuas, which swoop in to try and knock chicks and eggs loose from the nests.

They wear deep trenches into the snow during their frequent feeding trips to the ocean.

They're fairly clumsy on land, but they're very quick swimmers and can cover large distances by 'porpoising' across the water's surface.

The chicks have to mature before the relatively mild Antarctic summer passes, so they grow pretty quickly.

Snowy Sheathbills, which eat penguin poop, can be found at most of the Gentoo Penguin rookeries.

Pick posted:

holy poo poo, moon potato

What a start!

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Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

Here's the link to the 2016 thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3759659

Could people post links to the older threads so that Moon Potato could add them to the op.

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Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

Psycho Society posted:

I was trying to find some photos of wild turkeys I thought I saved, but can only find ducks.

These two ducks were hanging out together, I assume they are a couple. Crazily colored ducks like these two were with a bunch of others like normal mallards. Why are some ducks white like this? Are they some kind of domestic breed? Wild? The white one definitely didn't seem like an albino, its eyes weren't red. This was at a pond inside a park by the way.

Regy Rusty posted:

Possibly leucism, the other less well known type of condition involving loss of pigment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucism

Or it might be something else, I'm not a duck expert

Yeah it's leucism. I took some photos of a leucistic hooded crow in Finland August 2015:

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Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

Mak0rz posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO-OpFjHRbE

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Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

Pick posted:

Oh yeah?! <>

It's a pubepillar.

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Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

Chinston Wurchill posted:

I got crabs in Hawaii.

Beige tide pool crab of some kind.

Well-camouflaged green crabs.

A really well-camouflaged tide pool dweller.

Hermit crabs are the best crabs. Discuss.