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does my gay little dance

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i love illegal immigration like yes bitch get in here

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Some photos I took during my zoology terrain excursion this May :)

Green rose chafer (Cetonia aurata)

Giant peacock moth (Saturnia pyri)

Calosoma sycophanta

Eurasian scops owl (Otus scops)

Dorcus parallelipipedus

Left to right: Protaetia lugubris, P. cuprea, C. aurata

European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)

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spider eye arrangements

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Random fact: Although jumping spiders can't move their eyes, they can move their retinas to change their field of view. It's as if they're looking through a window.

If the spider is clear enough, you can even see the retinas moving through the cephalothorax:

Image sources: Melvyn Yeo, M.F. Land, and wmaddisn

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Let it be known that I have no problem with people following me because they want to study me like a bug HOWEVER as a bug scientist I know my rights. I am a terrestrial species you will NOT be putting me in a jar, my enclosure needs to be wider than it is tall, and at least 3x the width of my leg span.

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my friends jerk off to more avant-garde concepts than your friends do

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I GOT ACCEPTED INTO THE MASTER'S PROGRAMME I WANTED INTO YIPPIEEE🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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me after 5 minutes of socializing: i’ve earned 3 days of silence

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when mutual tell me two fictional men i dont know had gay sex

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made this in protest of censorship

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Hey don't cry, okay? We just found Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, a species thought to be extinct for the past 60 years.

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dont take bird noises for granted

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ive been sure of my curse since i was 11