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FISHY BUSINESS

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I'm Bunjy (they/them), part-time internet goldfish and full-time goofball. I answer biology asks under the #Cursed Biology series tag. feel free to send a bio request but BEWARE THE MONKEY'S PAW. I'm the owner of Wexter the Extreme Chompin' T-Rex, and I post updates about her in the #wexter tag. see #TAGGING SYSTEM REF for a list of my current tags. This blog is SFW.

look at this

midnight parrotfish. 4 feet long. beak that can take a chunk out of you. the average parrotfish shits 700 pounds of white sand a year. thats 700 poinds per fish per year. just on average. they contribute greatly to sand bars, coastal beaches, and coral reefs. theyre ghe best fish ever. they have an additional set of teeth inside them to help grind up the limestone they ingest. because they just wanna eat the polyps! but they gnaw on that shig. wheres my fideo

look at this. that's stone. these motherfuckers can EAT yIur bones. and your fingers. but they are very sweet and just kind of horny and very pretty. there are 80 species of parrotfish that have been discovered thus far

steephead parrotfish

spectacled parrotfish

tricolor parrotfish

baby tricolor parrotfish

stoplight parrotfish

striped parrotfish

blue-barred parrotfish

bluemoon a.k.a. black crescent parrotfish

ember parrotfish

they are so beautigul

“My criterion for accepting a role isn’t based on what I would like to do. I try to consider what the audience would like to see me do and I thought kids would adore Star Wars.”

- Peter Cushing

Dude with a serious villain face looking at roles at 65 going ‘ok which one of these would be good for me and which ones would make the kids go “oh fucking AWESOME”’ *sweeps all the dramatics on the floor and goes to play with a giant cyborg*

LEGEND

it's been almost 80 degrees in the house for days and I think I'm starting to lose my mind a lil bit

Downy woodpecker (Picoides pubsecens) anatomy

Drawn for my colleagues. On the left, the axial skeleton + pectoral girdle (without any limbs) and the longis colli: the primary muscle responsible for woodpecker drumming. As you might expect, it’s much larger in woodpeckers than other birds.

On the right: all of the above, plus the ol’ pectoralis major, responsible for the downstroke/powerstroke in bird flight.

I will eventually shade the rest of the skeleton.

I absolutely adore this scientific illustration. So many people only focus on woodpeckers’ tongues (which wrap around their head as a cushion from the banging) but never see the muscles that actually facilitate the motion!

good stuff

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everyone always talks about the andean cock of the rock but what the hell is this

Hi benny. Im a month late to this post but did you know that almost 40% of the males of this bird species engage in homosexual behavior with an even smaller percent practicing it exclusively.

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hi thats fucking awesome. birds are such wonderful creatures.

I know this last week I've been asking for a lot, but we're hurting with rent still and I can't seem to get the funds to work out. We're 215 short, give some change but it's fine. Idk what more to do, we've been selling our things and there's not much left worth selling. I'm kinda hurt to admit it. All I can do is this.