This is may be a very silly question but is it okay for a snake’s mental health to watch videos of prey animals?
regardless of answer Salsa hunting digital shrews was hilarious
no smell?? what is!?
This is adorable. I’m not sure how you’d tell if the snake is responding to the sight of a prey animal or just the movement, but if there was a distinct curiosity response it may be decent enrichment. I’d love a video at some point, if possible.
I’m honestly not sure. I don’t think snakes are smart enough to get frustrated at not being able to catch the food, for one thing. Nor do I know if snakes really have mental health, aside from avoiding boredom and stress.
I suppose it might strike and bump its face trying to get the food, but I can’t think of any other problems. I’m also not certain whether or not they would recognize the video as a prey animal, without the scent and heat input. Keep in mind that snakes are deaf.
The question is, why? If you’re looking for enrichment, new objects or new smells are good for snakes, plus making sure they have enough to do.
If you just want to see what happens, it’s not going to hurt the snake to see a prey item and then not catch it once or twice. If you’re really worried, you could offer food afterwards, but it should be fine.
I’m suddenly seeing this posted all over the place but it’s completely false, sorry guys.
The largest species ever discovered is only three feet in length, and it’s the least scary, most normal looking one there is:
Those giant mouths and super long needle-teeth just aren’t very efficient at larger sizes.
Most of the especially freaky ones are only about actual-football-sized or smaller.
Large deepsea fish are extremely rare, due to the amount of food they need. Also, keep in mind that anything with a body shape like that, the large mouth and stretching stomach, is like that because it mostly eats large prey items. For an anglerfish to have a reason grow that large, it would need to primarily eat large prey items. Now, off the top of my head, the only deepsea animal that gets that large (aside from giant squid, which would probably put up too much of a fight) is the sleeper shark, an extremely slow-moving shark that almost entirely eats dead things. There aren’t many of those, so the angler in question wouldn’t get much to eat, and would pretty quickly wipe out all the sleeper sharks in the area. Plus there’s the fact that a mouth like that gets slower and slower as the animal gets bigger, and the angler’s tactics rely on a fast bite.
Now, if you want to invent an anglerfish-like animal that grows to that size because it lives in shallow water (think frogfish), lurks on the bottom, and eats things like seals? That could work.
New yorkers with unlimited metrocards: please #SwipeItForward
when you exit the station. Low income people of color are targeted by
police for asking for swipes. But it is entirely LEGAL for you to offer
one when you exit. If you see someone standing by the side of the turnstiles, they usually
need a swipe but don’t want to be ticketed for asking. Offer it first. You are literally not paying more and you are preventing someone from
being criminalized for not being able to afford a ride.
Smh ‘fare evasion arrests’ cops are so fucking evil
story time: i taught my little cousin her first longer word when she was very young. i taught her to say “tax benefits”. and to this day my aunt still doesn’t know where she got it from, but it was a hilarious sight to see a little toddler waddling around the house, wearing a big diaper, all the while yelling “TAX BENEFITS!!!!”
My parents did this with me and “nuclear disarmament”.
I taught my little brother to say “micro-surgical vasectomy reversal” (saw it on a billboard) on a road trip, and he didn’t stop saying it for literal years.
My parents taught me to chant “Get your laws off our bodies!” for a pro-choice rally when I was like four and I went to preschool and taught all the other kids the chant and led them on a mini-parade around the playground and the teachers were like ?????????? ?????????? ????????????
whenever my brother threw a tantrum as a baby my parents would chant “live free or die” until he calmed down it was fuckin weird
when i was a kid whenever we got stuck in traffic my dad would say “what the fuck?!?” in a very comic voice and i would repeat it and then he would say it with a slightly different inflection and i would repeat that too and so forth and so basically my poor mother would be stuck in standstill traffic listening to her husband and 4 yr old daughter swearing at each other without end
i’m a preschool teacher and we like to joke around using radical vocabulary with the children, the other day i overheard one kid say ‘this is my truck’ and the other one said ‘no, this truck belongs to the collective’; they all say it now
whenever anyone picks up my daughter or she goes upstairs, she announces “I ASCEND” it’s the best thing
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These guys can actually be good tankmates for goldfish, depending on whether or not the goldie tries to eat them. They need cooler water, like goldfish do.
Which is why you shouldn’t keep them with bettas. Bettas need water at a minimum of 78 degrees, preferably 80, while these guys need water at 76 and below. While that doesn’t seem like much, keep in mind that (almost all) fish are ectothermic. Their body temperature is the same as the temperature of the water. 2-4 degrees is a lot when we’re talking body temperature, especially on something that small.
Can you imagine being that bird? You see a big falling dot off in the distance, so you go to investigate. And it’s a human. Just, like, hanging out, in the middle of the sky. Plumbing toward earth at terminal velocity.
“Huh, that’s weird” you think to yourself.
You land on them. They seem nonplussed by their predicament.
But you’re a busy bird, you’ve got places to be. So you just fly off. Good luck, crazy human. Hope you make it.
@why-animals-do-the-thing Is it just me, or does this bird actually look curious? I’m guessing it’s never sat on a perch that high up and/or is unused to seeing humans just floating around.
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