April 6, 2023: Toad, Norman MacCaig
Toad
Norman MacCaig
Stop looking like a purse. How could a purse
squeeze under the rickety door and sit,
full of satisfaction, in a man's house?
You clamber towards me on your four corners -
right hand, left foot, left hand, right foot.
I love you for being a toad,
for crawling like a Japanese wrestler,
and for not being frightened.
I put you in my purse hand, not shutting it,
and set you down outside directly under
every star.
A jewel in your head? Toad,
you've put one in mine,
a tiny radiance in a dark place.
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Hi! 🦎
This is my friend's leopard gecko, Titan, and he is looking for a forever home. My friend has a young son and other reptiles/fish and feels her leopard gecko would thrive more under the care of a more experienced owner.
This boy is two years old and pretty sassy! He vocalizes and bites my friend, but as a lizard owner, I know lizards can be just as picky about people as a cat or a dog.
Here are some more pics of Titan
If you are interested, please shoot me a message and I can get you in touch with Titan's human!
Update: Titan has been rehomed! But please enjoy his cute lizard smile
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Thursday May 26, 2022- Wednesday June 1, 2022
This Week’s Theme is Amphibians!
Thursday: Mudkip, Marshtomp, and Swampert
Friday: Wooper and Quagsire
Saturday: Poliwag, Poliwhirl, Poliwrath, and Politoad
Sunday: Toxel and Toxtricity
Monday: Froakie, Frogadier, and Greninja
Tuesday: Palpitoad and Seismitoad
Wednesday: Fakemon
Next Week’s Theme is Eevolutions!
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Weird question so feel free to ignore, but in your different species AU can gecko!Donnie lose and regrow his tail like real geckos?
I think a lot about the fact that he dropped his tail during the fight with Shredder at the end of the first season
don't worry, the tail will grow back!
...but it's much worse than the first one, which will make Donnie hate it. inactive and inappropriate in color. over time the tone will even out, but it'll take him a long time to get used to it (this idea is still raw, so perhaps there will be an update in the future)
AND THIS
@khlegacynexus yes, he won't lose his arm (unless I change it-)
@j3llyfishssh
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Hello! Since March 8th is International Women’s Day, I was wondering if you might share with us some females from various species? (Since the more vibrant males tend to get the spotlight lol)
International Women’s Day!!!
Yes yes yes! With many animals, the females are more impressively large or more colorful than the males. Let's have a look at some impressive and amazing females...
(Southern) Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus), female, family Boidae, Ecuador
With many snakes, the females get to be much larger than the males. Female Anacondas grow to be the heaviest snakes in the world, as up to 97.5 kg (214 lb 15 oz).
Though reports have claimed that Green Anacondas can grow up to over 30 ft long, the longest ever ACTUALLY measured was about 19 ft. long.
photograph by Alejandro Arteaga
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Brahminy Blindsnake aka Flowerpot Snake (Indotyphlops braminus), family Typhlopidae, found in tropical and subtropical areas around the world
This snake is native to somewhere along the Indian Ocean, possibly somewhere in SE Asia or coastal Africa.
The fossorial (burrowing) snake feeds mainly on the larvae, pupae, and eggs of ants and termites.
All known specimens of this snake have been female. They reproduce through parthenogenesis (asexually).
photograph via: UGA Coastal Ecology Lab
Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius), female, family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, near Barrow, Alaska, USA
Female Phalaropes are larger and more colorful than the males. They court the males and defend the nest site. The males incubate the eggs, and raise the chicks.
photograph by Mark A. Chappell
Sonoran Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis sonorae), females, family Teiidae, Arizona
This is another all female parthenogentic species.
There are other closely relates species, other whiptails and racerunners, that are also all female populations. Some of them are completely parthenogenic, and some combine parthenogenesis with sexual input from closely related species or populations nearby.
photograph by Tom Brennan
photograph by Forrest Fanning
photograph by Giuseppe Mazza
Asian Yellow-spotted Climbing Toad (Rentapia hosii), females, family Bufonidae, found in SE Asia
The females of this species are large, gorgeous, ornate frogs, while the males are much smaller and much less colorful.
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