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I respect mosquitoes as a part of the ecosystem, they are important and have as much a right to be here as anything else, but also why must their bites be so itchy
She’s a harbor porpoise that I had the amazing opportunity to articulate
She died in a fishing net entanglement in 2016. Her bones were just sitting in storage until earlier this year when I was given them to articulate, it took me five months and a lot of frustration (and a few injuries) to accomplish, but now she’s up in a museum for anyone to see instead of in a dog food box in a basement (yes I was in fact given her bones in a dog food box)
Based on her size and skeletal development I’d guess that she was an older juvenile and likely right handed (or I guess more accurately, flippered)
This is maybe the coolest thing I have ever done and I love Ms. Horse so much, so please look at her
(More pictures of the articulation process under cut)
I spent almost two months of this just doing bone repairs, the front bit of her rostrum was broken off, as well as multiple ribs being broken, and the bones were all very brittle so I broke multiple over the course of this articulation, including multiple vertebrae fully in half while trying to drill through them (and some of the disks just denigrated)
She was missing almost half of her flipper bones so I have to make those, the fake bones were incredibly hard to drill through and I ended up having to tape up my fingers because I kept hurting them with the drill
Everything got held together with pink ducktape and wires while the epoxy was setting because that ended up being the easiest way to do it, my articulation guide recommended building actual supports, but I found that the wires, tape, and foam worked really well
Fun fact, I put the ribs on backwards the first time (thankfully didn’t glue them on) and had to switch them all around (the ribs were the hardest part of this by far
While she was waiting for the supports to be hung so she could get installed in the museum, she just sat between two chairs for an hour
She also was hung with three anchor points despite weighing very little (I could cary her in one hand), mostly for balance and extra security
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Hi, welcome to creature fact Friday, where I make you look at a post about a creature on Friday because you decided to follow my blog
Today’s subject: Crinoids
(Both images sourced from NOAA)
Crinoids are echinoderms, which puts them in the same phylum as animals like sea stars and sea urchins (among others). They can be broadly put into two groups, stalked crinoids and stalkless crinoids. This is more about appearance than taxonomic grouping though since retaining the stalk into adulthood is a trait that has been lost and retained multiple times across their evolutionary history.
Speaking of their evolutionary history, crinoids have been around for a while. They have been part of ocean ecosystems for over 500 million years, and were actually at their peak diversity around 300 million years ago. Currently we know of over 650 living species, but over 5000 fossil species have been described.
They can live in a variety of habitats, from deeper waters to shallower intertidal zones (and in a variety of ocean temperatures as well), although stalked crinoids are not found in shallow waters.
Crinoids are suspension feeders, using their arms to catch food (detritus and plankton) that is moving through the water column.
(Sources and videos below the cut)
These ancient echinoderms use their appendages to not only eat, but to move away from predators gracefully.
NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer: Gulf of Mexico 2017: Mission Logs: Crinoids: Deep-sea Lily-like Animals: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Re
Whales, like humans (and a good amount of other animals it turns out), can be left or right 'handed'. This preference shows up in them favoring one side when engaging in feeding behaviors, and favoring of one side over the other increases as the whale ages. Similarly to humans, most whales appear to be right 'handed'.
PDF | Lateralized behaviour refers to a preference for using a specific limb or direction of movement that is consistent across events. We i
It is once again time for Creature Fact Friday, so prepare yourself for some creature facts
Today’s subject: Pangolins
Image sources
Pangolins are mammals in the order Pholidota, and are in fact the only members of that order. Pholidota only contains eight species of pangolins, all belonging to the family Manidae. Out of those eight species, four live in Asia and four live in Africa. The Asian pangolins all belong to the same genus (Manis) while the African species occupy two genera (Smutsia and Phataginus, both containing two species each).
The image below shows the phylogenetic tree of pholidota and the ranges of each species (image source).
Pangolins are unique among mammals in the fact that they have scales. Like reptile scales, pangolin scales are made up of keratin. These scales cover most of their bodies (25-33%). These scales provide protection to the pangolins, but provide very little thermal insulation, so the ranges where they are able to live are restricted by this (although they used to be more widespread, with fossil pangolins having been found in Europe, Northern China, and North America).
Other traits shared among pholidota include sharp claws and a lack of teeth. Pangolins mainly eat ants and termites, using a sticky tongue that is similar in structure to that of an anteater to do so.
Pangolins are largely solitary and nocturnal animals, though the black bellied pangolin is more diurnal. (Also fun fact about the black bellied pangolin is that they have the most caudal vertebra of any living mammal, they have 47 and their tails make up 2/3 of their total body length).
There is more information below the cut, but it involves talk of animal trafficking and death, so I figured I'd give a warning for that.
Pangolins are also unfortunately considered the most trafficked mammal in the world, it is estimated that one million pangolins were trafficked between 2000 and 2013, with 159 separate international trade routes being used to ship them. Pangolin hunting and trading is banned internationally, and pangolins are considered a protected species in many countries, but this has not stopped the poaching of them. The only continent not involved in pangolin trafficking is Antarctica. The most common destinations for pangolin products were the United States and China.
(The above information was taken from a report focusing on pangolin trafficking from 2010 to 2015, so may not be up to date)
Every part of a pangolin has some trade value, with scales being used in jewelry and traditional medicine, the meat being considered a delicacy in some places and used for sustenance in others, and the skin being made into leather.
Because of human interference, we don't really know population numbers for pangolins, only that they are decreasing. Currently three species of pangolins are considered critically endangered, three endangered, and the other two vulnerable.
There have been attempts to keep and breed pangolins in captivity as a way to conserve their populations, but they do not do well in captivity. They require very specific temperature and humidity levels in their enclosures, and when stressed will often refuse to eat or drink. The lack of data on their ecology and biology also makes it hard to replicate the proper environment for them. Most captive pangolins die within a year, often due to pneumonia or gastrointestinal diseases, though some have lived up to 13 years in captivity. And although they do not do well in captivity, most captive pangolins were rescued from traffickers and without actionable defenses for them would likely just end up back in the hands of traffickers if released. (And of course there is also the factor of human caused habitat loss).
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Little is known about the biology of Indian pangolins (Manis crassicaudata) both in captivity and wild. Nandankanan Zoological Park, India (
Pangolins, or scaly anteaters as they are otherwise known, are unique mammals covered in hard scales, comprised of keratin. They predate alm
Patriomanis americana is the only pangolin (Mammalia, Pholidota), living or extinct, known from the Western Hemisphere. It derives from late
Established in 1964, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has evolved to become the world’s most comprehensive information source on the
I think everyone should take a second to remember that you an animal, you are a part of your local ecosystem, maybe take some time to learn about it, what other animals live there with you, what plants live there with you, what type of ecosystem it is and how that affects things, what it was like in the past before industrial society came around, who lived there then and how were they a part of the ecosystem, just take some time to truly acknowledge that you an animal on the planet earth and learn a bit about what that means
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