the can of worms is infinite

my favorite thing about crocodiles is yeah they're fantastic swimmers and yeah they can run pretty fast and yeah the smaller ones can even climb trees but also. they don't wanna do any of that shit. they just go no, no thanks. that's not for me. i think i'll just wait for someone to mistake me for a log and get too close. and then i'll eat them. many reptiles love this strategy but none pull it off like the humble croc

in a normal year I think we'd have talked more about the fact that recently there were 17 earthquakes in a single day apparently centred on Area 51

This reminds me of my corsetmaker days when i found myself searching for "extra thick boning."

Being an advocate for any Hymenopteran that isn't a honeybee is so exhausting. I saw someone post a picture of a queen Vespa crabro on Reddit, and to my dismay, I saw a comment stating to "kill every one because they kill honeybees which are vital to the ecosystem." I tried to politely educate them, but these situations often seem futile, as they retaliated with a very rude and ignorant comment. Someone else agreed with me, to which I replied and said that honeybees compete with native pollinators, and can spread diseases to native bees and wasps as well. I also defended wasps and native pollinators because they are more crucial to the ecosystem. For some reason that comment got downvoted. I just find it amazing how so many people are uneducated when it comes to nature in general, but especially towards wasps and other Hymenopterans. It's definitely an uphill battle, and quite discouraging. I couldn't just ignore that comment however, since it was totally misinformed, and I felt it was necessary to provide some education, even if it fell on deaf ears. It will be so refreshing to see the day where someone posts a photo of a wasp and the general consensus isn't to immediately eradicate it. I'm so tired.

Kind of fucked thinking about the fact that there is one single American legally authorized to research the critically endangered pygmy raccoon in Mexico and it is, in fact, the same person who did Dashcon.

This is the reason this hellsite is truly a homesite. We grow here. You can go back and see how it happened. I was a Bachelor’s student when I started my tumblr. Now I’m an Associate Professor and Curator, with my own lab and Denmark’s national collection of 70,000ish reptile and amphibian specimens in my care.