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u can call ur skull-head deer oc literally anything else u don't even have to change the design

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happy pride month to the fuck tree I guess

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my empire of dirt!!!❤️❤️❤️ #MyDirt

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solidarity with california.

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On conservation and survival

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pulled lower back from hacking up phlegm

Ice pack and heating pad my true loves

Please I need to heal my job on the farm starts next week 🦍

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world's first marine psychiatrist trying to wrestle a knife out of a suicidal sea sponges hand in serbia

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sad high and in desperate need of someone to go to an art museum with

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if you hired a galapagos finch as a linecook it would perfectly evolve a beak to optimally smoke cigarettes behind the dumpsters

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Rain Locust (Lobosceliana cinerascens), female, family Pamphagidae, Gorongosa National Park, Mosambique

Females in this family are wingless.

photograph by Piotr Naskrecki

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it's called duckweed. one hit and you'll be lining up behind mom

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Climate change is real, even if your government denies it. You know that the summers and winters of your childhood are gone, even if your leaders say otherwise. Keep fighting even when things seem hopeless.

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Uh oh...

naturalists of tumblr, reblog with your iNaturalist 2024 year in review "Species Observed" wheel

i think i got a fairly balanced, representative sampling of my local biodiversity

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Happy flat fuck Friday to the Hellbender salamander (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis)

the Americas only giant salamander species! The little guy above is the eastern subspecies and the most common to find. Though they are elusive and declining in numbers because of sediment pollution and habitat fragmentation

Photo source:

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#2579 - Ripogonum scandens - Supplejack

AKA kareao, and pirita ("twisted rope").

A common rainforest vine endemic to New Zealand, widespread in North island forests, and very common along the west coast of the South Island. It starts off as a small shrub, but once it gets going it can climb surrounding trees at 5cm a day. Lianas over 100m long are not uncommon, and frequently grows into impenetrable tangles, putting down fresh roots where it brushes the ground again.

The fruit is cherry-like. The vines were used to make eel-traps, as binding and tow-ropes, and young shoots collected as a vegetable. Schools used to use them as canes when they thought it was fun to physically assault children.

Fossils from the Miocene seem to be indistinguishable from the extant species.

Not considered threatened, also plants can be damaged by introduced pigs, goats, and other mammals.

Greymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand