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fyanimaldiversity · 1 year
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Melanistic Atlantic Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus atlantica) [x]
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sitting-on-me-bum · 8 months
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An Atlantic grey seal pup on the Isle of Staffa in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland.
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do you have any atlantic grey seals? :]
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Why the Long Face?
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maurysrecources · 6 months
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awingedinsect · 10 days
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-Flood me like Atlantic-
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Warnings: cursing, talks of injury, talks of homelessness, there’s a general 18+ content warning for this entire series and it does get a tiny bit interesting at the end here. Yearning Vessel gets his own warning.
“I got you a present.”
“Oh yeah? What is it?”
The little girl smiled, raking up a fistful of sand.
“It’s a surprise, silly.” She said. The breeze was blowing her hair, and Vessel smiled as she pulled it out of her sweet little eyes. “For your birthday.”
He remembers the smell of the ocean, the sound of the grey waves crashing on the shore. He remembers sitting there for hours with her, watching the tide come in as the sun made its journey behind the clouds.
He chuckled. “Aw heck, you didn’t have to do that.” There was a big smile creeping up on his face. “…Do I get a hint?”
“Well, mom paid for it, but I picked it out.” She said, yanking up a few pieces of grass poking through the grout. “and no.” She made a zipper across her mouth, beaming up at him with specks of sand scattered on her pink cheeks. “My lips are sealed!”
“Hey, Vessel.”
Vessel looks up from the pan he’s scrubbing, turning on the faucet to rid it of the suds. The water soaks into the cuffs of his hoodie.
“Hm?”
IV stands beside him casually, shrugging the leather jacket he performed in over his good shoulder.
“I’m heading into town. Anything I can get for you?”
Vessel sets the pan down on the drying rack, hands spidering a little desperately over the pile of dirty dishes in search of his next target. “Oh, no thanks,” he says, blinking at the guitarist’s reflection in the window then immediately looking down when his is in the pane too. He still looks tired, eyes bloodshot and hollow. Almost like he’d been nearly sacrificed and since possessed by an anonymous deity.
“You uh, driving?” He asks, glancing over at the man’s broken arm. An unprecedented wave of guilt comes over him, and he swipes his nose on his shoulder with a sniff. The sunlight is pouring in through the dusty window and it makes eye contact feel doubly impossible. But IV just shrugs, stuffing his hand in his jean pocket and shuffling a ring of keys.
“Aye, I’m the only one up here with a license. But I don’t mind, going to the grocery is pretty much a special interest at this point. You sure I can’t get you anything? Swing by your house for some clothes?”
It amuses Vessel that there’s an unspoken understanding that he’s staying. It would be sweet, if there wasn’t also the underlying idea that he doesn’t actually have a choice. But then again, he doesn’t have anywhere else that he should be, much less a house. He wonders if they can tell. If the inability to pay another night's rent at that damn motel is as plain as the bandage on his face. God, he wants his keyboard.
Out of anything in the world, he’d take those keys under his fingers.
“I’m fine, honestly. I can take a cab to the motel lat-“
“You’re staying in a motel?”
A horrendous blush creeps up his neck, and he dumps a plate on the rack hard enough to make him wince. “I’m… temporarily a bit displaced?”
There’s not a whole lot to read on IV’s face. He just absorbs information, then says some contemplated thing in return. But out of pity or surprise, there’s something closer to concern in his eyes.
“…You got a job, mate?”
There’s a silence longer than III’s fucking legs, and maybe twice as insufferable as the man himself. Even now Vessel can hear him in the next room, quietly muttering over his collection of herbs and spell-making equipment in an attempt to guard against whatever “bullshit the cat dragged in.” II is watching the tv, sipping a soda and giggling at whatever's on the discovery channel.
Vessel’s big eyes finally gather the strength to look up in the window, mouth twitching as he meets IV’s own.
“…I sing.”
And that’s what he does.
That’s how that day passes, and the next, and the next… at first, he’s nervous. Just settles on the edge of the couch to watch the three of them take positions, falling into the flow of practice as easy as a stream into the sea. II looks about as at home behind his drum set as a tree in the woods. Vessel has never seen so much cohesion between a person and their instrument, and it fills his gut with an almost jealousy, seeing something so flawless performed with such ease.
IV forgoes his guitar, obviously. But he still brings a lot to the performance by presence and a few vocals alone. II wasn’t kidding when he said the man could scream. The sound scratches Vessel's ears so gorgeously, he could legitimately start crying.
And then there’s III.
He stands front and center, that same flowery jacket on his shoulders. He looks concentrated. In tune. And yet there’s an ease that rolls off of him so fabulously it can’t help but feel like a subtle challenge.
Vessel watches his fingers move over the strings, rings glinting in the grey-ish light of the foggy forest.
And he feels… something.
He watches them play for an hour before II begs him to join. There’s something in those blue eyes that is undeniable, no matter how out of place he feels. And soon there is a mic stand in front of him, adjusted about three levels higher than he found it.
“Bring Me to Life.” III mutters. And without a piano, the first sounds are nothing but a few chords plucked by his nimble fingers.
The challenge is no longer subtle.
Vessel rocks on his heels, fingers splaying delicately down the side of the mic stand before gripping it low and still for his mouth to caress.
“How can you see into my eyes…”
A very quiet “oh hooo” of impending excitement comes from somewhere behind the drum set, and Vessel smiles.
“…like open doors?”
IV’s screams of “I can’t wake up” ring in all of their ears for several days, so intense it’d be funny if not so impressive. They played for hours that day, only pausing to brew a few cups of III’s jasmine rose tea. II was right; it tasted like ass. And yet in that room, sweaty from pouring his soul into a mic and surrounded by those three, passionate freaks of the industry, he realized he was almost happy. His smile, for the first time in years, wasn’t something he willed onto his face. And if he could hang on forever to the feeling of discovering a smile instead of creating it he would.
II tells him goodnight without any prompting. Just smiles at him, and says it as easy as breathing, before heading off into one of three doors lining the hallway.
IV likes him too. He gets a few changes of clothes and a brand new toothbrush from him, and even shares an intelligent conversation about guitars once Vessel mentions that he likes to play, too. Most of his feeling is in his eyes, he’s realized. They have a way of sparkling and harboring what might be big smiles in another case when he’s intrigued or at peace. The only person who gets him to really smile, is II; When the drummer is curled up in a tiny ball on the couch with his cup of “tea” or going absolutely manic on the drums, closing his eyes and getting carried off in the rhythm.
Even III smiles then.
But not once has he ever smiled at Vessel.
Vessel goes to sleep one night, thinking about it.
What would it feel like to have III’s approval? It’s clear at this point that he’ll never make the guy happy. He resents him too much for that. And yet, he did save his life. Shouldn’t that be good enough?
Vessel doesn’t like him very much, he’s decided. Especially when after belting his heart out at the man’s command he doesn’t even get a “well done”, or a “thank you” when Vessel made a mug of that nasty fucking tea and brought it to him after practice. He just nods his head and half-way looks at him; because at the end of the day, Vessel isn’t worth his attention.
And it makes his face red as a beet.
The moon is pouring in through the window. It’s been a week since it was full, and lighting up the forest outside with him in it. The cuts on his belly seem to be healing well, and he’s planning to take the bandage off his head tomorrow and see what the hell that’s all about.
Why won’t III approve of him?
He turns over on his back, looking up at the ceiling.
“You really are amazing.” II’s voice echoes in his head from earlier in the day, when he was cutting up some apples in the kitchen. “We’re all lucky bastards to have a singer like you messing around with us. Talk to III, we’ve got a gig coming up next week and I don’t know if we’d be half as good without ya!”
His eyes flutter as the darkness becomes staticy, rimmed on the left by faint moonlight and quiet as a grave with the whole house asleep. He thinks about II’s words. Is he in a band? If not, what’s he been doing up here all this time?
He’s not sure he can look at another crowd. Another waiting, patient collection of faces staring at his own until he does something impressive. Until the night goes on and terrible things have a chance to happen.
He shudders hard and closes his eyes, taking a deep breath.
Can he sing for people?
For me.
A voice speaks somewhere between his mind and his eyelids.
Sing for me.
“I can scream loud enough, for you.” His mouth wraps around the words, muttering them softly with hardly a sound. His tongue darts out on his lip.
He really does love singing with bass.
His hand slips under his hoodie, spreading delicately over the bandages decorating him. His fingers are cold against his hot skin, searing between the pieces of himself and what III taped to him. It doesn’t hurt so bad anymore.
His fingers travel down, grazing softly over the faintest of trails till they touch the band of III’s sweatpants.
God, he’s annoyed. He’s a good singer. Why isn’t he good enough for everyone? Why doesn’t that prick of a bassist say thank you when he makes him tea?
“I can scream loud enough...”
His fingertips push past the elastic, the slightest of tremors in his big hands for no reason he feels like guessing. He didn’t realize until right now how aroused he is by nothing in particular. It’s simply been too long, he thinks. Too long since he created release for all the sounds in his mind.
“…for you.”
For me.
“…Yes.”
After only a few minutes his eyes shoot wide open, full of pleading and hate as he cups a hand over his mouth and bites down hard enough to muffle a scream.
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What species of seal is your favorite baby seal ? They all look like little wigglers, I fuckin love it. Pictures welcome :3 🦭
hi kolya!!!!!! it’s very hard to pick one, so i asked my fiance what they think is my favorite baby seal, and they said grey seal, so i’ll tell you about the grey seal. the grey seal is a little guy who yells and screams in a pathetic manner.
it is born with a white coat, which is called lanugo fur, and it can’t swim for the first several weeks after it is born. it will nurse for the first month or so of its life and get as fat and round as possible, then its mother will return to the sea and it will have to figure out everything about life by itself.
it can be found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. the grey seal is actually Germany’s largest predator!! but of course it is equally at home on the coasts of Maine and New England. here are some photos + a video!!!
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p.s. they ARE all such little wigglers
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tigerdrachin · 3 months
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ANIMAL AU LIST
Alabama - black bear
Alaska - Moose
Arizona - Ring-tailed Cat
Arkansas - Mockingbird
California - Brown bear
Colorado - Mountain Goat
Connecticut - Grey Wolf
Delaware - Grey Fox
Florida - Alligator
Georgia - North Atlantic right Whale
Hawaii - Hawaiian monk seal
Idaho - Idaho Giant salamander
Illinois - Northern Cardinal
Indiana - Say's Firefly
Iowa - Hog/pig
Kansas - Western meadowlark
Kentucky - Appaloosa (Horse)
Louisiana - Pelican
Maine - Maine coon
Maryland - Crab
Massachusetts - Tabby Cat
Michigan - White tailed deer
Minnesota - Common loon
Mississippi - Red fox
Missouri - Missouri Mule
Montana - Mourning cloak butterfly
Nebraska - Skunk
Nevada - Vivid Dancer damselfly
New Hampshire - Red tailed hawk
New Jersey - Fruit bat
New Mexico - New Mexico whiptail lizard
New York - Mouse
North Carolina - plott hound
North Dakota - nokota Pike (Horse)
Ohio - buckeye chuck
Oklahoma - Scissor-tailed flycatcher
Oregon - beaver
Pennsylvania - eagle
Rhode Island - Rhode Island red chicken
South Carolina - wood duck
South Dakota - coyote
Tennessee - Tennessee walking horse
Texas - Texas Longhorn
Utah - Bee
Vermont - Labrador
Virginia - Virginia Opossum
Washington - Olympic Marmot
West Virginia - Moth
Wisconsin - American Badger
Wyoming - Bison
D.C. - wood thrush
Gov - Snake
CDC - Dove
ITS DONE FINALLY AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-
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weird-ecologies · 8 months
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Saw two (2) Atlantic grey seals this evening 🦭🦭
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contentment-of-cats · 9 months
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The post you never want to write.
We tumblrinas might not be the most orderly folk, but we know the bullshit when we see it. In some cases, being right is a vindication - chest-bump and high-five. BOOYAH! In other cases, being right is not wanting to be right, not wanting to know what you know and the occasion for a long breath, a shake of the head, and commending that energy to the universe.
For a lot of us, the first thought was for the humanity we shared with the dead. The shared blood and bone, nerve and skin, love and life. There was anger that anyone could think that spending $250k US to do this was moral or ethical. The whole eat the rich thing seemed to me to be laughing past the graveyard, so for the most part I discount it. After all, I joke about my own cancer. Yes, this seems to be the answer too neo-liberalism/libertarianism and why we have rules, regulations, and procedures. People die without them and 'corporate personhood' acts out as sociopathy.
There are always going to be some twisted assclowns who hate - nothing ever changes them, and it's a waste of my precious and measured minutes to try. Cancer clarifies one's thoughts - a Swedish death-cleaning for brainspace. The block button works as well as a dumpster bag.
We did good, tumblrinas.
Now to the shitty parts
Correction:
The US Navy detected an acoustic signature consistent with an implosion on Sunday in the general area where the Titan submersible was diving in the North Atlantic when it lost communication with its support ship, according to a senior Navy official. The Navy immediately relayed that information to the on-scene commanders leading the search effort, the official said Thursday, adding that information was used to narrow down the area of the search. But the sound of the implosion was determined to be “not definitive,” the official said, and the multinational efforts to find the submersible continued as a search and rescue effort.
Sonar did not pick up the sounds that would have indicated an implosion in the water column. Considering that the northern Atlantic is a hotbed of sonar sensors used for military, scientific, and other purposes, you'd think that they could hear a fish fart. However, the debris field is indicative of just such an event. This may mean that it was slower than a BOOM implosion, but humanity allows us to hope not. The banging sounds picked up do not appear to have had any relation to the sub, which at that point had been destroyed three days ago. That being said, there are reportedly five items of debris that allowed ROV operators to definitively identify the sub. The principal item was the nosecone - the big grey boobie-looking thing on the front.
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Other items might have been the thrusters, the 'feet,' and the camera on top. It's too much to hope for the footage from the camera to be salvageable even if it did survive. at this point, I'm surprised that they didn't stick a Ring doorbell on there and call it good.
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The reports indicated that the nosecone was intact. This is the part that bolted onto the fuselage to seal the passengers inside. It's also the part that meant they'd have to raise the sub if it were found intact since there was no escape hatch. There was a smaller debris field inside the new debris field that contained the tailcone. The part amidships where the passengers and pilot sat has not yet been recovered, I would guess. So, nosecone popped off, tailcone popped off, exterior attachments popped off - the main part that presumably contains the remains compressed within has not been found, though the ships and technology will remain in some number to look for it.
There is nothing that anyone could have done to stop the loss of life other than not putting it into the water in the first place. Those five people have been dead since Sunday morning, an hour and forty-five minutes into their dive, fifteen minutes from the bottom. There would have been an almighty big air bubble the sound of a beer can being crunched.
There's going to be a lot to process over the coming weeks. When the shit hits the fan, that's just one part of it. It's what happens AFTER impact that brings to light the real mess.
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barry-kent-mackay · 1 year
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The Labrador Duck (Camptorhynchus labradorius), native to the northeast coast of North America, has been extinct since sometime late in the 19th century, with the last valid sighting being in 1878.  Little is known about it, although there are some 55 stuffed specimens of it scattered about the world in various museums. One mystery is the cause of its extinction. All accounts indicate it was already uncommon by the time Europeans arrived in North America, to stay. Its meat was relatively little in demand, due to bad flavor, and reportedly it did not keep well. Certainly such commercial demand that did exist for its meat, feathers, eggs and skins would undoubtedly have been the final cause of its extinction.
But I have a theory.  Wherever humans have gone, extinctions occurred. I used to think it would not be possible for the extinction of so many ice-age species in North America to have been caused by the arrival of humans after the last ice age ended.  But we now know that humans arrived in the western hemisphere much earlier, perhaps fifteen thousand years ago. We also know that in the absence of humans, many animals, including large ones, simply are not afraid of humans when they arrive.
We can see examples of that, even today, on islands that were historically uninhabited for sure, but even in less frequented continental areas, where foxes or Canada Jays or Boreal Chickadees, to give three examples from my own experience, will act fearlessly in human presence. Urbanites are constantly told not to feed coyotes, or they’ll become used to people and a threat.
The Beothuk people, themselves exterminated, were seal and caribou hunters who once inhabited the area now called Newfoundland and Labrador, thought to be the former breeding grounds of the Labrador Duck (Audubon’s son claimed to have found a nest in Labrador, and probably did.) My theory is that the Labrador Duck was one of a plethora of “ice age fauna” that went extinct as a result of how easily they were killed by humans, having always lived in remote areas.  Animals exterminated in North America between the arrival of the first people, and the arrival of Europeans -- horses, elephants, large condors, giant sloths, camels and other species, included ones that were rare when Europeans arrived with their own weaponry. Many that were extirpated or exterminated were from the same region – sea mink, Great Auks, Newfoundland wolves, eastern cougars, eastern elk, Eskimo Curlews (who migrated through the region), even the Atlantic grey whale  -- the list is large, and the depletion of native wildlife of the region continues into the present – Canada’s rarest mammal is the northern Atlantic right whale, and of course the collapse of the northwest Atlantic northern cod is recent and well known.
I have researched the species for years, photographed every specimen (and collected photos of every other specimen I could find) and studied renderings of many other artists, most of whom, like me, could only do “best guess” restorations.  The painting is about 18 by 24 inches, in oils on a birchwood panel.  I am also including a much earlier painting I did of some Labrador Ducks in flight over the Labrador coast at dawn. It was in watercolours on paper.
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bestgullpoll · 11 months
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Round 1, Side A: Match 5
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[Image ID: Two pictures of gulls. The left is a western gull standing on a rock. The right is a great black-backed gull standing on a rock. /End ID]
The western gull (Larus occidentalis) is a large gull that lives on the west coast of North America from British Columbia, Canada to Baja California, Mexico. They typically measure 55-68 cm (22-27 in) in length and 130-144 cm (51-57 in) in wingspan. They have a white head and body, dark grey back and wings, pink legs, orange eye ring, and heavy yellow bill with red spot. They rarely venture more than 160 km (100 mi) inland from the ocean. In the northern part of their range, they hybridize so frequently with glaucous-winged gulls that the hybrids ("Olympic gulls") are more common than either species. They feed on fish, invertebrates, and carrion, and occasionally other birds. They are even known to steal milk from sleeping mother seals.
The great black-backed gull (Larus marinus) is the largest gull in the world, measuring 64-79 cm (25-31 in) in length and 150-170 cm (59-67 in) in wingspan. They live and breed along the European and North American coasts and islands of the northern Atlantic. They have white underparts and head, dark grey back, dark grey wings with white "mirrors" at the tips, pink legs, and large, powerful yellow bill with red spot. They are apex predators and are known to frequently and aggressively hunt prey such as other smaller birds and mammals, unlike most other gulls. They also eat fish, crabs, and other invertebrates, and steal food from other birds.
western gull image by David Iliff
great black-backed gull image by Andreas Trepte
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pendragonloki · 1 year
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Selkies time
Selkies are a race of semi nomadic seal like people who transform by shading their coats transforming into humans or if they focus they can become hybrid forms
Selkies have a very rough relationship with most land dwellers but often do have some select families who they have connections to and trade with.
Selkies have many different family fleets who have their own little territory of the Atlantic ocean they control. But they do have an overall government call the admirality. The selkies believe the ocean is their garden and have alot of rules for when to fish seasons to fish what species and so on which is another reason they hate land dwellers for disturbing their balanced ecosystems. They worship many animalistic gods of the sea such as gaint octopus who they see as trickster gods, large jellies who are the gods of peace etc not a fully fleshed out pantheon but i am willing to hear any ideas one strong thing is their hatred towards serpents seeing them as demonic which is why they like sky gods because of their histories of destorying great serpents thor is the only land dwelling god welcomed onboard their ships until his death in ragnarok
Outside of religion and culture they have a long history of pirating during the golden age od piratacy they were the most feared pirates across the entire ocean they made billions sinking the treasure ships of the spanish empire and fishing up the platinum they foolishly dumped overboard (the spanish actually did this thinking it was worthless) they even disrupted the slave trade not believing in enslavement believing like the sea all life should be free though unable to send them home they assisted the freed slaves with starting new home across the Caribbean (this is subject to change after sensitivity testing)
Most selkies in human forms have either salt white, pepper grey, jet black or most common salt and pepper hair while all of them have alittle fur over their human body and alittle extra fat for their adaptation to the sea plus a natural way to drink salt water
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southpacifictravel · 3 months
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One of the largest colonies of Atlantic grey seals in England is found on the Farne Islands 2.4 kilometers off the Northumberland Coast.
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pleistocene-pride · 1 year
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 The common cuttlefish also known as the European cuttlefish or the European common cuttlefish is one of the largest and best-known cuttlefish species from the genus sepia. It is native to the waters of the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, North, and Baltic Seas. They are a migratory species that spend the summer and spring in shallow inshore waters (sometimes even brackish estuaries) for spawning and then move to depths of 330 to 650ft (100 to 200m) during autumn and winter. Common cuttlefish tend to spend there days resting underneath sandy/ muddy substrate and emerge at night to hunt prey such as shrimp, small fish, crabs, clams, and snails. Common cuttlefish are themselves preyed upon by sharks, larger boney fish, seals, dolphins, porpoises, octopi, squid, and other cuttlefish. They have many defensive mechanisms to help protect them from predators including a siphon which they can use to shoot water out of to propel them at high speeds away from danger, ink which can distract and disorient a predator as the cuttlefish escapes, and their camouflage abilities which can help them avoid predators altogether. Reaching nearly 3ft (90cms) in length the common cuttlefish is amongst the largest species of cuttlefish. They have an internal cuttlebone, often washing up on beaches and used to supplement the diet of pet birds. The cuttlebone assists in buoyancy. The common cuttlefish has two highly developed eyes, eight arms which are located around the mouth and are used to hold and move objects, and a pair of feeding tentacles, longer and thinner than the others, that are normally hidden from sight. Like many cephalopods, their skin is covered in chromatophores, special coloured cells that can stretch and contract to allow the cuttlefish to rapidly change colour. The colours created reflect the health and mood of the cuttlefish, and special patterns and colours are used in courtship and to startle predators. Breeding occurs during the spring and summer in shallow waters, male cuttlefish will display a black and white zebra pattern on their mantle to attract females and females will display a uniform grey colour to indicate they are ready to mate. Around 30 to 90 days after mating the mother Cuttlefish will lay 100 to 1000 eggs and attach them to seaweed, shells, or other substrates to prevent them from drifting away and have ink deposits on them to aid in camouflage. Under ideal conditions a common cuttlefish will reach sexual maturity at 14 and 18 months of age and may live just 2 years.
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iridescent-moon · 1 year
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🌊Games For Seal/Pinniped Therians!🌊
This will be a series of many posts where I'll be listing off games that I feel are good for therians! Whether you're RPing or playing as your theriotype, or doing something that your theriotype might do! (I.e. fishing/hunting, swimming, etc.). And feel free to suggest games for me to add to this or future lists!
Here's how this will work. I will start by listing the name and devs, the price (in USD, for now!), a description of the game and my opinions followed by pictures/gifs!
And one last thing before we get to the list of games, I will tag all of these game posts with #iridescentmoongames that way they will always be easily accessible! I may also add a masterlist to my pinned post in the future.
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Small disclaimer, I have not played all of these games but I've done my best to at least go through any that are free to play!
1: Seal Game by TheFriendlySealStudio. (Available on Itch.io, free)
This game is a prototype so it's a big WIP, but it has a lot of potential. I only played for a few minutes and while there's not a lot to do, I still enjoyed it.
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Features (to be) included in this game will be the ability to swim and dive underwater to hunt for fish, a large world to explore, socialization with other seals, and you'll be able to raise your own pups.
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I'm not sure if it was a glitch or not but I was unable to find any fish to catch. Swimming, at this time in development, is alright! It didn't feel very immersive but it was at least fun to explore around in the water. Using WASD you can move forward, back, left or right and your mouse controls the camera. There's also plenty of visual bugs but hopefully those will be sorted out in the future!
2: Seal World (Available on Steam, $1.99)
This game is more on the silly side! You play as a seal living a forest(?) full of other seals. You collect fish-- ahem, I mean fibsh! As well as hats!
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And there's lots of other silly seals you can meet and talk to. I haven't played this game yet but I think this one is my favorite, love the face, love their energy. Overall, it's just a nice chill game to play. Also I love the colors used for the world. The grass, the water, it's all very aesthetically pleasing and in a way kind of gives me Super Mario Sunshine vibes.
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3: Planet Zoo (Available on Steam, $44.99. DLC packs are $9.99 each)
This entry is definitely more on the price-y side. With the base game you won't have any pinnipeds. If you want their Atlantic grey seal you'll need the Aquatic pack. And if you want the California Sea Lion you'll need the North America Animal Pack. IAt this time those are the only pinnipeds, however there are plenty of mods which use those models as a base for other species. I recommend using the Nexus to search for mods.
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Unfortunately I don't have any nice looking seal exhibits atm so these will have to suffice! Also note that I have my graphics lowered so the models/textures are not as detailed.
While you can't play as any of the animals, you can still build an enclosure for for the animals to live in however you like! I like to imagine I'm building a little home for myself as if I were playing The Sims. If you've ever played Zoo Tycoon 2 but with a lot more room for creativity! You can play campaign or sandbox, build zoos from scratch or maintain pre-built ones.
4. Abzu (Available on Steam, Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox 1. $19.99)
A relaxing exploration game where you swim through the ocean and discover the animals living in it. You don't play as a seal and there are no pinnipeds in this game as far as I know, but if you're looking to find a game that focuses on swimming then this is the game for you!
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The graphics and art style for this game is incredible! If you like Journey or Sky: Children of The Light I think you'll enjoy this! I have not played this game to completion however so I don't know if there's any scares at all. So for those with thalassophobia just be careful!
5. Rain World (Available on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4. $19.99)
Content Warning for bugs and violence. I will not post any images containing either, but if you do intend on researching the game or purchasing, please keep that in mind!
In this game you don't play as a seal either, however I find some aspects of the game remind me of my seal self. In this game you play as a nomadic slugcat. A small white creature with black eyes. Every so often heavy rains will come, flooding the land, which means you must frequently hibernate in shelters. But in order to do that you must hunt and keep yourself fed while also doing your best to survive in a hostile environment with deadly flora and fauna.
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Rain World is a very difficult survival game and can be quite stressful or frustrating. But if you're willing to put in the time and effort, it is well worth it and it has a lot of interesting lore. There is also some DLC coming out for this game soon, adding 5 additional characters. One of which being the rivulet which can breathe underwater and are very fast and agile.
6. Minecraft (Check link for available platforms. $29.99)
Minecraft is a game that most likely does not need an introduction. But in case you haven't heard, it's a sandbox game where nearly everything is a cube! You can play survival or creative. On it's own, I wouldn't say it's an ideal game for seal therians, however with the use of mods (Java edition only) you can put together an experience more suited to that theme!
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The first way to make Minecraft a better seal experience™ is to change your skin! You can make you own, commission an artist, or if you're playing Bedrock edition you can get one from the in game store (most packs cost money but some are free!). I don't have any pictures of my old seal skin but here's one I made recently. An important note, if you are playing on the PC version for Bedrock, you can upload higher resolution skins. It's possible to use higher res skins on Java as well but not without mods as far as I know. If you want to use them on Java, I use this mod.
Some other mods you can use are the Origins mod (fabric/forge), Biome's O' Plenty, Aquaculture 2, and Alex's Mobs
7. Tap Tap Fish AbyssRium (Available on Mobile, free)
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Tap Tap Fish is a mobile idle game. You can collect fish and other sea creatures. I don't know if is still the case, I haven't played this game in a couple years, but harp seal pup was only attainable through IAPs. I don't know if this is the case now or for other seals. If anyone knows please let me know!
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That's all the games I have for now, but as I find more on my own or through suggestions I will edit this post!
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