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Velvet worm, Eoperipatus sp., Peripatidae
Photographed in Singapore by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook
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#animals#curators on tumblr#bugs#velvet worm#worm#equatorial velvet worm#Onychophora#Eoperipatus#one nice bug#ok but the lil claws on their peets??#a lot for me to handle
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more worldbuilding woik for the story Logan's the main character of. really just figuring out "okay which bugs are basically people and which ones will be effectively animals that don't share that level of self-awareness"
Consider ChooChoo here on level with Pluto and Rajah. And yes I'm going for the deliberate allusion to dragons with the use of "wyrm" as this longboy is closer to being a larger dog than a wee worm. He's a big fuzzy derp.
#velvet worm#Eoperipatus totoro#fluffy#ChooChoo#wrym#fuzzy#I know they're supposed to technically have scales IRL but it's fantasy I'm allowed to fudge around and apply mammalian traits#original characters#original art#original content#worldbuilding#His name is a ref to another anime character besides his genus being in ref to a ghibli film-#-if you can guess you win a cookie#ocs#animal characters#cute#kawaii#extra cute reinterpretation of a bug-
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eoperipatus_totoro
I just learned there is a specie of worm that is named after the Ghibli Movie Totoro, because it’s squishy legs reminded the guys of the catbus from the movie.
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fun fact: there's a velvet worm called "Eoperipatus totoro", since it's named after the Catbus
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Eoperipatus totoro
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Eoperipatus sumatranus
Photo by: Nicky Bay, found on eartharchives.org
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This very small guy is called the velvet worm, and its scientific name is in fact an homage to the catbus from my neighbor totoro (eoperipatus totoros). apparently they are very soft and blobby, shoot slime at their prey from two little slime cannons and are actually not even worms:
Velvet worms are curious slime-spewing enigmas. They are off on their own odd branch of the tree of crawly things called Onychophora. Not worms, not insects, millipedes, centipedes, or slugs. Genetic data suggests that velvet worms are a sister group to insects; that is, they are descended from a common ancestor, but not from each other. Onychophorans were probably stumping along in tiny moss forests 500 million years ago.
(https://www.wired.com/2014/10/velvet-worm-named-totoro/)
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Totoro Velvet Worm
Eoperipatus Totoro
Source: Here
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Scientists love anime and some have gone as far as expressing it in their research. Creatures like the velvet worm Eoperipatus totoro was named after the...
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画像は2007年にベトナムで発見されたカギムシ（ベルベットワーム）の新種で、その名もトトロカギムシ（Eoperipatus totoros）。大きさは6センチほど。 発見した科学者が、日本のアニメ映画 「となりのトトロ」に出てくるネコバスに似ていると思い名付けたそう。 猫バスと名付けないところが、となりのトトロの映画が大好きだったからなのかな、と妄想してしまいます。 カギムシの西洋名であるベルベットワームらしくベルベットの様な毛で覆われているそう。 撫でてみたいですね。 金曜日から次男の体調不良で休んでいましたが自分も感染してしまったようです。 私の方はなんとか明日には体調が戻せそうです。 ただ、まだ子供の体調が微妙なところなので明日の朝の様子次第。 早く良くなるよう後は神頼みです。 http://ift.tt/2mfhXdR
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