Jimothy Bobert and Ofus

I love all reptiles

don't reblog this ^ addition and similar additions (especially ones shitting on the pronunciation in any way). as a native american speaking about a native language (albeit not my own) i think it's VERY important that words from native languages specifically must maintain their integrity. this word has not been loaned, it has been colonized. there's a huge difference and it's important for everyone to learn how to pronounce it correctly becoz of this.

(This post is for the video, I'll try to get a more recent photo of Nani later)

The hyena biologist that arranged for Disney animators to come sketch captive  hyenas for The Lion King film (Laurence Frank) was so incensed when the animals were depicted as villains in the movie that he later included boycotting the film on a list of ways the average person could help hyena conservation.

Though it’s commonly known that Charles Darwin’s distaste for parasitic wasps played a role in his development of evolution theory (since he felt no loving God would create animals with such a disturbing life cycle), the biologists who study these wasps find it an unfair characterization. When they were tasked with coming up with a common name for the family of parasitic wasps (Ichneumonidae) that old Charles so disliked, they proposed the name “Darwin Wasps” to spite the famous naturalist who had insulted their beloved family of insects.

Parasitologist Tommy Leung was so frustrated with the way people write about parasites to evoke horror and gore that he started writing a Parasite of the Day blog, that specifically avoids inflammatory or unsettling language to describe them. He also illustrates different species in colorful anime art on Twitter in a series called Parasite Monster Girls—which he calls his “love letter to parasites.”

you can have several!