#oeh

[puddleorganism]

Let’s jump on mama

A gaggle of Sunseeker fledglings use one of their guardians to practice flying

[kiirumi]

Nakajima Yuka (Digital Lover) D.L. Action 45

[off-the-edge-of-the-horizon]

The Jellybug Umwelt

The umwelt (plural umwelten) is the perceptual world of an organism - the slice of reality that they can sense.

Jellybugs are both predator and prey, hailing from sodden swamps and mires where the sun rarely shines in full. Their umwelt is tuned to evade hidden danger and locate hidden treasures.

Jellybugs’ most prominent, umwelt-defining sense is taste. Their mouths are lined with chemical sensors that analyze the water they so often wade in or live near. By taking in mouthfuls of water they can taste everything that water has swept by, and everything that has swept into it. They can sense the presence of other organisms (such as food or predators), nutrients in the soil, other jellybugs, and dangerous contaminants in the water - making this sense excellent for determining if a site is suitable for settlement.

An offshoot of this incredible sense, is smell. The very same sensors in the mouth can sense particles in the air - particularly if they’re bound to the ample water vapor that makes their world so humid. As such, smell and taste are not distinctly different senses for a Jellybug.

The companion of taste is electroreception - the ability to sense electromagnetic fields (which are often produced by animals submerged in salty water). When hunting for prey hidden in muck or murky water, a Jellybug can work out the general location with taste, then when close enough they can pinpoint the exact location with electroreception. For Jellybugs electroreception is almost like an extended touch, similar to whiskers. The sensation is often described as a faint pressure, or a sudden awareness, like proprioception or the feeling of being watched. An invisible certainty.

Other notable Jellybug senses are hearing and sight. Jellybugs hear with facial disks composed of small densely-packed quills, similar to an owl’s. They are always tipping their head to and fro, angling the disks to pick up noises from various directions. Jellybugs’ sight is specialized for low light levels, dense clouds and canopies always whittling away light from their star. They have vertical peanut-shaped pupils, specialized to focus above and below them. This is to better see small prey items under their feet, and aerial predators above their heads.

[doctor-octiddius]

the eeper <3

[usernamesoft]

when the whole rachel storyline starts i need disney+ and rick to actively blame percy for his annoying hormones like. all the time.

[puddlereblogs]

@is-it-a-dragon

California Condor Gymnogyps californianus

11/11/2023 San Diego Zoo Safari Park, California

[iswiminnachos]

you really got me bru

[fleshwerks]

[simcardiac-arrested]

waht if insteed of robots we talk about the drunk man and the guy in an orange jackcet? would that get rid of the horrors??

ARE YOU KIDDIGN ME IM JUST AS INSANE ABOUTT HEM . THEM

[puddleorganism]

I drew Maldoror from Tiger, Tiger by @pepurika as one of my aliens because I am obsesseddddddd with its design Maldoror my beloved you make me insane

[kiirumi]

 ひぐらしのなく頃に 園崎詩音

[off-the-edge-of-the-horizon]

The Kooci Umwelt

The umwelt (plural umwelten) is the perceptual world of an organism - the slice of reality that they can sense.

The Kooci Umwelt is dominated by distance. Being migratory desert creatures they spend their lives navigating far-flung horizons, and as such their senses are tuned to vastness.

Smell is the Kooci’s most worldview-defining sense. Smell interprets information carried from vast distances on the wind, and seeping up from beneath the sand. Kooci use this sense to detect food and water, and either chase it down or dig it up from underground - among many other things. Kooci can also sense storms, competition, landmarks, and each other. They can identify another Kooci’s pack, sex, age, and many things about their health by scent alone.

Sight and electroreception are also notable senses of the Kooci, and both are inextricably linked. Kooci are far-sighted, and have very limited color vision. They have a wide field of view, but they still have fairly good depth perception thanks to having multiple fovea (focal centers) in each eye. Electroreception is handled by a small sensory organ on the top of the head. The input from this electroreptor is combined with input from the eyes, meaning the two senses are experienced as one by Kooci. They can literally see and navigate by the magnetic field high in the sky. Severe storms and magnetic ore deposits can have a faint glow as they develop their own electromagnetic fields.

[athaza1082]

HOLY SHITITIT!!1!1!1!1!! THIS IS SO SCRUMPTIOUS 😇

I'm alive.

[true-blue-sonic]

Yeah I can see that happened if they were given a chance or saw their sight.

Clutch sipping juice in his place when the wall was crushed by a giant car from outside. He was frightened and sees the sight of a raging white hedgehog with psychic abilities.

Mimic in hiding in the alleys when someone grabbed him from behind a kunai is pointed on his neck ready to be slice.

That's how I interpret their scenario.

Love these differences in approach, haha. Espio's sneaking around in the shadows, and Silver just... psychokinetically kicks down a wall, I guess! Opposites attract has never been more true <3

[sandy-castle]

I’m trying to clean my room but I keep getting distracted by the pieces of my sandman cosplay scattered across it