#justnoodlefishthings

KUHLI

1. Show us three of your favorite animals!

ONE. WEIRD OLD FISH. OBVIOUSLY

TWO. ive just been thinking about dogs all day this is an anatolian shepherd and i just think theyre neat. and huge

they were bred to be livestock guardians, which is a slightly different Dog Niche to like, regular guard dogs or herding dogs. they live almost exclusively within their flocks and deter various predators just by being present, which is a way more ethical and environmentally sound than just like. eliminating every wolf from an entire ecosystem. while also protecting the needs of farmers who, uh, benefit from their animals not being dead. also anatolians are now being used to help protect cheetahs in namibia with the same method; farmers who had issues with cheetahs would kill them to protect their livelihood, but after they added anatolians to their flocks livestock deaths went way, way, way down, meaning there was basically no need to kill the cheetahs anymore.

also to be clear anatolians aren’t the Only livestock guardian breed there’s a handful but i just like anatolians the most aesthetically for basically completely arbitrary reasons. here’s an example of another breed of livestock guardian: 

the komondor. the mop. the fucking mop. these things were bred to protect sheep from fucking wolves and bears. the mop-

THREE. UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH im kind of out of animals ive just had dog brainrot all day. OH uH HERE’S A BIRD I LIKE

IT’S CALLED THE VARIED THRUSH AND IVE NEVER FOUND A RECORDING THAT GETS ACROSS HOW ETHEREAL THEY SOUND IRL. their song is just one long whistley note and when youre walking at dusk by yourself from the library to your apartment in late fall/early winter it makes you feel like youre in a video game cutscene. i can’t explain it at all. also they’re really pretty 

18. What’s your favorite example of of mutualism in the animal kingdom? aOOH THIS IS A GOOD ONE... ITS HARD TO CHOOSE... for some reason my first impulse (after remembering that it is technically mutualism) was like, literally any gutflora? though i don’t think i could even begin explaining why because microbiology and health aren’t really areas of interest for me in any other way. i just kind of think its cool that i’m not just one isolated solitary Thing, but kind of a colony of many other things all working in tandem at once i guess

Head empty no thoughts except to eat mi ce

God same. I literally made my icon in the SEVENTH GRADE, I am a college senior, and I haven’t even had kuhli loaches in years. But it’s my Brand™️ and I refuse to change

Especially zebra otos

I had to Nub it to em. @justnoodlefishthings

Nubby’s photo just clicked a meme switch in my brain imm screamign