#ecologies

[littlealienproducts]

Ecologies: Hidden Habitats by MontroseBiology

[mmechanicat]

haunted house palette sketch

[montrosebiology]

We are pleased to announce a new game in development: “Ecologies: Ancient Areas.” Players will be able to build food webs in Cambrian ocean biomes, Cretaceous forest biomes, Pleistocene Tundra biomes, and many more. Award winning artist Dani Navarro ( @playerdng ) will illustrate the game and use the latest paleontology research to bring these ancient areas to life! It will take time to lovingly craft this project, so you shouldn’t expect an imminent release date, but know that we are working hard to bring you these beautiful creatures as fast as we can. In the meantime, check out Dani’s amazing art at www.artdng.com or using the instagram account tagged in this post. I’m not going to lie, I’ve been listening to John Williams music circa 1993 on repeat for the past week. 🦖🌎🦕 #paleoart #playerdng #montrosebiology #ecologies #dinosaur (at Barcelona, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoslcIpO9aw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[confoundedpangolin]

hello everyone for your mental health check out the ecologies card game. I just played it and it's fun not the art on the cards is amazing! I could flip through the deck for hours just looking at the way and reading the cards! and there's three of them! three!

I'm almost hyperventilating right now I just. love nature and how organisms interact with each other and this art! this art! The game is really fun too not going to explain it here but it's a food web game

[oncorhynchus-nerka]

VERY IMPORTANT a dam in the Netherlands, the weerdsluis lock, is directly on a migratory path for spawning fish. They have a worker stationed there to open the door for the fish, but they can take a while to open it. So to keep the fish from getting preyed on by birds they installed a doorbell. Only, the fish don't have hands to ring the doorbell. If you go to their website, they have a LIVE CAMERA AND A DOORBELL that YOU RING FOR THE FISH when they're waiting, and then the dam worker opens the door for them! I can't express how obsessed I am with this. look at this shit. oh my god.

Please check on the fish doorbell once in a while :)

[theantiazdarcho]

The Lancetfish is a species that looks like it comes straight out of a realistic fantasy world building project.

[hawkpartys]

POV you made a popular post about insects

[animentality]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[wumbologyandecology]

Some of my favorite showcases of insects arranged by color from the Montreal Insectarium

[goddamnshinyrock]

I had a new "oh, my family were the weird ones" moment recently: it seems no one else's family celebrated Frog Night (the first warm rainy night of spring) by going down to the local vernal pool after dark to help the amphibians safely across the road and listening to the spring peepers. (We'd then go back in daytime later on to observe the egg masses, of course.)

Apparently "Frog Night" as a holiday is a thing my mother invented and not a widely-accepted idea, which is a shame because I've been referring to it as if it was for the past 30 years.

[mmechanicat]

some werewolves are always on the run

[whoisandyloam]

[aplpaca]

I got a fish book from the library and I just think everyone should know that archerfish aka the guys that spit jets of water at bugs to knock them off plants and eat them aka these guys-

-are a social species (like a lot of fish), and that the jet spitting is actually a learned behavior rather than one they just do instinctually. They have to watch older members of their social groups do it a bunch of times (like up to thousands) before they're able to successfully do it themselves. If you take a young one and isolate it from its species, they just never get good at it (they also catch prey like "normal" fish tho, so an archerfish that can't archer won't starve just bc of that)

When they do learn to do it tho, they can compensate for light refraction, vary how much water they spit based on the size of the insect they're aiming for, and will learn to shoot insects that are midflight by spitting in the bug's flight path rather than where the bug actually is

[perfectlyripeclementine]

calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.

[theantiazdarcho]

The Takin is such a whimsical herbivore, like God commissioned Dr. Seuss for this one.