Nature Space (And Yelling)

Black saddleback caterpillar moth, Acharia nesea, Limacodidae

Found in Central and South America

Photo 1 by heimatlos, 2 by berniedup, and 3-5 by lilatomazelli

I 100% thought that was a plush in the first two photos.

Just learned that tadpoles with injured tails sometimes regenerate them with extra legs

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So that's neat.

#hexapod....

Sandgropers in the family Cylindrachetidae, Orthoptera

Sandgropers are flightless, subterranean insects related to pygmy mole crickets and, more distantly, to grasshoppers. They are found only in Australia, New Guinea, and Argentina.

Photo 1 by cheloderus, 2-3 by abritton, 4-5 by ezattara, 6 by mreissig, and 7 by strongie

HEY I KNOW THIS STATUE! I got to see it at the CA Academy of Sciences, and it's INCREDIBLE because it's right next to a statue of the largest land mammal ever:

You can *kind of* see the twig it's on on top of the box labeled "Smallest" in the bottom right.

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400884452-011/pdf

I didn’t know cheetahs meow I’ve always thought they roar my whole life has been a lie

Ok but the other one is purring so hard

If I ever don’t reblog this assume I’m dead

Fun fact: technically, because of its inability to roar and its ability to purr, the cheetah is not a ‘big cat’ (or Great Cat) - they are still classified as Lesser Cats.

Also you haven’t heard anything until you hear them cheep.

YOU CANNOT JUST SAY THAT AND NOT PROVIDE A VIDEO

I HAVE REALISED MY MISTAKE AND SHALL RECTIFY IT:

Cheeps.

Filed under: Things I Was Not Prepared For

Neotropical land planarian, Geoplaninae, species unidentified

Photographed in Colombia by teodoro_chivatabedoya

Things I might never get to see : (

fellas I’m knee-deep in a wikipedia hole (not unlike these horses), and I just