do other people remember when “camel spiders” were like a meme because everyone swore they could scream and leap and eat people’s faces off
instead watch this fluffy chicken lobster get scared of a tinier cricket for long enough that the guy gives up filming her for a while
It’s a shame they don’t live very long in captivity. They believe they live up to a year in the wild, but it could be more! We just don’t know yet.
I’ve heard that a lot of them pass away after six months when kept as pets. It could be they are missing a vital nutrient or environmental aspect that we don’t know or can’t duplicate in captivity. I hope they figure out how to fix that soon.
But yes, here is another amazingly pretty animal. If you encounter them in the wild and they run at you, they aren’t trying to attack you! They just want to rest in your shadow where it’s cooler 🙂
A hobbyist in Taiwan stumbled onto it first, keeping their solifugid alive for more than two years by feeding it a whole lot LESS than what’s normally advised and giving it a winter dormancy period. There isn’t even scientific documentation that they hibernate, but when allowed to cool off in the winter months, their solifugid stopped eating completely and buried itself until spring!So for all these years, incomplete information on solifugid habits – even from the most professional sources – had hobbyists overfeeding them and just completely running them down in a few months 😦
omg this pic is huge you’re going to have to open it in a new window to see its full size
I’ve officially decided that I will never do a TFP pic with clean decent lineart/shading. It will forever be stuck in sloppy lines and flats because I don’t have time for that
BUT YEAH. Collars, skirts, and glasses on robots. We need a LOT more of those things in this fandom. I tried to make this one mostly just soft, a nice moment between these two. Sometimes its nice to just settle down and read while listening to some soft seeker purring. And for Star, I suppose it’s less of a dominance thing and more of a trusting someone enough to let them take control for a while thing. Still based on the same rp between rahkai and I that the last collar pics were based on, which is why KO is a seeker.
Please don’t repost or delete my commentary, thank you~ >3<
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