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On the topic of betta fish:

Hi, I live in Thailand (once called “Siam”). It seems like there is a big, popular understanding about where you’ll find wild “Siamese fighting fish” aka “betta fish” in Thailand. Apparently, the common North American (and European?) idea is that you’ll find beta fish in places like this:

I can understand this misconception, especially if you’ve never experienced what our monsoon seasons are like, nor have ever seen a rice field before… among many other things. The fact is, you’ll never see betta fish in such tiny bodies of water. I have seen tadpoles in small puddles like these… and, in shallow gutters/”khlongs”, I have even found little guppies and fresh water crabs. But try as I might (and I have really tried), I have not once found a single betta fish in these kinds of environments. Betta fish naturally occur in these kinds of environments:

Yes, the water can be shallow (knee-deep), but the territory is often wide, vast, and dense with soft, vertical growing foliage. The water is not stagnant like in a puddle, nor is it barren with wide open space. In this environment, a wild betta fish has many hiding opportunities. I can only assume that betta fish do not naturally occur in small puddles (be it in the jungle or otherwise), or within Khlongs/gutters–because it is not an optimal environment for them and they cannot survive it.  Please note that I do not, nor have ever raised betta fish. I have only looked to admire them in the wild and these are my observations.  As someone who raises a variety of wild/’exotic’ animals, I have found it critical to the animals health and behavior–to recreate their natural environment as closely as possible, while omitting natural dangers from the set-up.  Doing so will allow your animal to exhibit its full range of natural behaviors, and exist optimally. For you, this means being able to watch your animal preform behaviors and show off colors you might never have had the chance to see, otherwise. I my opinion, this is much more rewarding than spending time, energy, and emotions into trying to defend a tiny, barren, and stagnant fishbowl set up.

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Promotional images for the attraction Dinosaurs In The Wild, created by Tim Haines. Graphics by Impossible Pictures.

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The sad part is that this repeats every few years.

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🐝 Here’s what would ACTUALLY happen if the bees died: https://youtu.be/JilYBVrFiLA 🐝

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traditional german father’s day present everyone.

Geschenkidee zum Vatertag

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#MonsterSuitMonday A great new video from studioADI & Almalgamated Dynamics on the creation of the Alien suit from Alien 3, 25 years ago!

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I spent the last year and a half making this film!!! 

Allisk8r is a 3d animated film that highlights snappy, flat cartoon animation style, fast action, and colorful throwback design. Made as my senior thesis at RCAD, 2017

 In prehistoric times, a little alligator with a big attitude gets his kicks skateboarding and being a cool dude. But will Allisk8r be able to catch a break once the dino-law gets on his case??

story, designs, modeling, rigging, animation, editing, lighting, comp, all done by me! 

Title on the board commissioned from Kylee Solari, behance: behance.net/KyleeKayport vimeo: vimeo.com/kyleekayport

Music was commissioned from Waterflame, Website: waterflamemusic.com/

© Anna Prado, 2017

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an alligator has a tapetum lucidum at the back of each eye, which reflects light back into the photoreceptor cells to make the most of low light, and causes its eyes to glow red. photos by larry lynch and david moynahan

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I’m just going to leave this here

@252mya

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Olaf, the sparkling betta!

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Hearing Godzilla’s roar in the theater

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Growing Up German

Always getting a free slice of sausage at the butcher

Hearing stories where people violently died as bedtime stories

Closing your eyes when the Sandmännchen throws his sand so you don’t have to go to sleep

Making your own ice cream with Fruchtzwerge yoghurt

Benjamin Blümchen Cake

Singing a song about chinese people playing contrabass

“Fisher Fisher how deep is the water?”

“Don’t throw snowballs, one time a girl got a snowball with a stone in it in her eye and she went blind!”

“Charlie Chaplin went to Frankfurt…”

A depressed bread called Bernd

Knowing like 2 people who can pronound the English “th” properly

Humilating unathletic students in front of the whole school a.k.a. Bundesjugendspiele

“My grandma rides a motor bike in the hen house.”

Toggo Tour was like Coachella for German kids but you could never go cause they never came to your town

“cat toilet, cat toilet, yes that makes the cat happy”

“Space Taxi to the sky!”

“Now in every 7th egg!”

“Get [insert stupid ringtone here] in the Jamba Sparabo!”

Is it der, die or das Nutella?

Having friends in other states is difficult cause they’ve got school holidays when you’re still in school and vice versa

“Of course with the Mouse and the Elephant”

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only reblogging because of the toads name.

I got E-mail this hat, and wow……….he hates it