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So we all know that pretty much all cephalopods can shoot ink as a self defense method, but are there any other sea critters that practice "defensive secretion"? I know there are some sea hares that do it, and obviously most animals on earth produce some form of fluid, but I was wondering if there are any other creatures that do it at the same levels as cephalopods. Googling this question is very hard.

Besides hagfish making huge clouds of slime that suffocates predators, there's a bunch of deep sea creatures that release luminescent clouds! The best known is a shrimp:

There's also sea cucumbers that can release a cloud of toxic slime and likely quite a few others. There's also at least one case of an *offensive* chemical cloud; some cone snails release a cloud of insulin to paralyze nearby fish. It's invisible but works almost instantly, sending them into shock. Then the snail can take all the time it needs to swallow them in its big giant stretchy mouth:

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photo credits to pinterest.

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The hunger

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Yk what the funniest paleontology fact is? When scientists wanted to name a genus found in Aotearoa "water bird" in Te Reo Māori, but fucked up and named it "birdwater" instead, because they didn't know the head-placement of compounds in Māori.

WAIMANU

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The Intentions Were Good.

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They are so so so beautiful!

Oh to be an iridescent sea creature 💚 💙 💜

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3rd Law | Mage

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Conversation that Tumblr is not ready for:

A Vampire's fangs are also it's reproductive organs

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Shoutout to the sexy bitches who are unhealthy attatched to an obscure video game man that no one in the fandom you're in cares about. I see you and I love you

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the sexual tension between two gas stations on the same intersection

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Pink bitch named Breakfast

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screaming and crying and throwing up knowing I will NEVER get to see living Perucetus colossus

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when the character who's like "i will never reveal my trauma to anyone" gets a high fever and, while weak and delirious, starts spilling every.

last.

secret.

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crowley must have known that aziraphale was also in love with him, he tidied the bookshop, he was planning on taking him to the Ritz after his confession, he had their song queued in the car these are not acts of someone who wasn't sure what the outcome will be.

which makes it so much more painful that he still confessed his love for aziraphale with tears in his eyes and on the verge of a full blown panic attack, he left saying "don't bother" but he still waited by his car til the elevator doors closed. all because