eels always look like they’re gasping for breath and it makes me worried

snowflakeeel:

That how they breathe. Water taste nice….

Eels have gills mostly protected under skin, with only small holes as outlets, as opposed to the plate-cover gills on most fish. They have to move their mouth in a large motion to fill the gills with water. The gif above is an excellent demonstration- see how the sides of her neck appear to widen as her gills fill with water? It’s then blown out a bit further back. The motion does look like gasping as compared to other fish, but they’re fine! That’s just Eel Physics.

mgsotacon:

reminder that even though white tigers and golden tigers do have pretty colors, they are the colors that they are because of horrible inbreeding. heres an example of how bad it can actually get:

This is about halfway correct. White and golden tigers can occur naturally, as a result of rare color mutations.

Most of them in captivity are, unfortunately, ones that have been inbred for their rare coloration. Not only can the offspring of such attempts end up being horribly deformed, their normally-colored siblings are often killed at birth or kept in tiny cages until they’re large enough to be slaughtered for parts.

rolonda:

somethingglowing:

turntables-goldcables:

neil-gaiman:

youaintpunk:

sarajevomoja:

talk about perspective. shit.

Fucking hell.

I remember the first time I saw a map of Africa to scale. My jaw dropped.

And I’m wondering how a continent so big can be so conveniently left out of our world history text books. A class on Africa isn’t a requirement for Anthro majors at my school. YOU CAN HAVE A MAJOR ON THE STUDY OF HUMANS AND COMPLETELY LEAVE OUT THIS WHOLE ASS CONTINENT.

Well goddamn

Africa, the fucking continent.

bunjywunjy:

piwnymisiek:

praazlwurm:

pazdispenser:

dimetrodone:

dietmountainmadewka:

zahnegott:

dimetrodone:

Most of our perception of what Goblin sharks looks like comes from dead specimines where they are all mangled and shrivelled, and are always positioned with their jaws protruding out.

When while alive they only ever extend their jaw for feeding, and arnt half as creepy looking

they do look like goblins

this also disregards the fact that they can still propel their jaws forward like an aquatic xenomorph from hell

So can many other fish, I’m just not judging them for their beautiful smile.

personal favourite

why is the ocean like this

what a question

that’s just what ocean is like

if it skulks on a reef, and has two sets of teeth,

that’s a Moray.

howldax:

like not to be a treasonous bitch but the fact that police are forcibly removing homeless people from the streets of windsor – including “confiscating” their sleeping bags, and impounding a bus that’s been repurposed as a sleeping place for homeless people – so that dumb royalists can camp out to watch their fav rich imperialist get married without the fucking view being spoiled is so UNDENIABLY immoral like. how does anyone think that’s ok? last i checked 1 in 200 people is homeless in the UK, and poverty in this country is so overwhelming that they tried to change the definition of the word to reduce the amount of people technically in poverty, but the government will spend millions of pounds on this fucking bullshit wedding and the british public is LAPPING IT UP!

people are throwing parties and sticking up photos of ginger’s face on their walls like these people aren’t responsible at all for the current state of our country, aren’t draining our resources like fucking leeches! children are so malnourished that they’re being treated for rickets! more people than ever before are relying on food banks to live! the government is killing people by cutting their benefits or forcing people to work who physically can’t, and people are celebrating??

this isn’t a day of celebration. this is a day of fucking mourning for the thousands of english people the government has decided don’t have the right to live; the people whose lives are apparently worth less than a fucking wedding. if you’re celebrating this wedding today, fuck off and get some morals, you absolute fucking imbecile

glumshoe:

wanderingartist98:

glumshoe:

I’ve been looking at different designs for small aquariums that I might use to house a betta, and I’m absolutely horrified by what people consider “small”. I’m seeing “betta tanks” that are only half a gallon. That’s not “small”, that’s fucking microscopic. Five gallons is “very small”. Smaller than that and you’d better be making constant water changes, which I doubt is happening if you’re opting for a microtank.

I had no idea you were into fish.

I’m not especially. I’d really like an axolotl but I don’t see that happening anytime soon – I’d like more practice with an aquarium before I opt for something with a 15 year lifespan. I could give an axolotl an acceptable home, or I could give a betta a phenomenal home and indulge in urges towards obsessive detail and caretaking. The frogs belong to my mother, not me, so I only get the satisfaction of tending to the vivarium when I visit my parents. I want to get an 8 or 10 gallon pretty aquarium and fill it with live plants, one rescued betta, and maybe a few cherry shrimp.

5 gallons works for especially long-tailed bettas, which tend to move less due to being weighted down by what amounts to a wedding dress of fins. They need lots of nooks and crannies to inspect, new items placed outside the tank for them to look at, and plenty of soft things near the surface to drape on, though. It works, but it’s the bare minimum. 8-10gal is much better. 

Cherry shrimp are iffy with bettas. Bettas will either ignore them, stare at them but leave them alone, or tear them apart. It’s worth a shot with one or two, though, as long as they have plenty of places to hide and get away from the betta. If he doesn’t try to eat the test shrimp, add more. There’s not really any way to tell short of trying, it’s all down to the individual betta’s personality.