I Need Everyone To Witness What I Witnessed At The Zoo Today

Deep sleep

A house for tiny chicks

Octopus filmed changing colours while sleeping.

the mexican mole lizard is so good

heres a profile shot

and heres its lil mole hands

THE MEXICAN MOLE LIZARD !

i’ve said it before but it genuinely bothers me so much that every convo about animal welfare in ag is so wrapped up in things that are blatantly untrue/things that aren’t actually bad because there ARE problems with welfare (and environmental impact) but no one in ag can ever take time to talk about them because people want to scream about “rape racks” and snapping the legs of every sheep as they’re sheared

There were a lot of freshwater mussels on the 2021 US extinction list. They didn’t leave us with haunting recordings of them calling out for a mate they’d never meet, there were no drawings in vivid color. They were extremely important nevertheless and their loss is frustrating too. That’s why stream ecology and mollusks have always fascinated me. They were silent, stalwart little heroes and entire species were lost to pollution.

video i made back when vine still existed is now relevant again

Not sure what this is but I love him