Orion (p***************[email protected]) submitted: HI!! i saw this spider and have no idea what it is, this was in rio (southeastern brazil), it is relatively close to sea level and around 5 centimeters??? sorry but i couldn’t really get a picture of it from the top and thank you

A beautiful woman! She’s an African hermit spider. Obviously non-native, but still lovely. There’s some color and pattern variation between individuals but here’s an example of the other side:

Photo by paulomaioli

uhh the riddlers reactions/opinion on their s/o having a pet rat? Or just an uncommon pet

Uncommon Pet

Riddler Headcanons ok anon i think overall the riddlers would LOVE an uncommon pet that they can spill facts about, so when i was writing this... they all kinda felt the same way! and i didn't want to write nothing, so i thought ok which weird pet would they each prefer? and so i gave all the riddlers uncommon pets instead i hope that's ok! request info • prompt list • send me a request • kofi • masterlist minors DNI!! 🔞 cw: fluff, snakes, spiders, birds, rodents, uh fish?

zero year

he needed a pet that made potential partners go "ooooh" or "eeeeh" or "aaaaaaah"

just something that made them think he was different

dangerous and cool maybe?

and also represented his obsession with phallic symbols

so he is 100% a snake boy

and he will ask if you want to see or stroke his snake and then make horrible suggestive puns afterwards

but he's actually a complete sweetie with his little serpent baby(s)

calls himself their daddy, makes weird comments about how they're just like him when he feeds them mice (like it's obvious he's making some comment about predator and prey but it's weird)

he's not a fan of using them as a prop, so he won't be seen out with them around his neck and using them as a symbol of fear

just in case they get hurt or stressed

gotham

oh ok he is absolutely a bug boy for sure

insects have always been his jam, they are his childhood hyperfixation

man was in love (me too ed) with grissom from csi and wanted to be an entemologist at one point

he got bullied a lot for his love of insects at school, but he found comfort in them

the lesser creatures that were killed without thought

he's owned a variety of different bugs over the years

never any arachnids (too scary)

his favourites were his orchid mantis, his hermit crab, and the butterflies he helped to coccoon one year

right now he's super into snails

he has two giant african snails that he loves with all of his little soul called dill and pickle because of their slight and unusual greenish hue, which is why he chose them duh

arkham

i think i got this exactly right, because he could have had rats, he could have any number of the night time trash animals actually

but he wouldn't have a pet intentionally

it would have to be something that kind of existed in the same space as him, that he vaguely related to

that he caught doing it's thing one night and it just resonated him as their little eyes caught one another and they slowly went back to their own sneaky business

and that's how he ended up becoming the reluctant but semi-caring not-really-an-owner of imp, the possum

he doesn't live indoors with eddie, and he comes and goes as he pleases

but he frequents the dumpster right outside the entrance to the water company

and eddie feeds him leftover scraps and sometimes buys him enrichment toys from pet shops if he's feeling particularly soft

imp probably has some kind of disease, so eddie has never petted him, but he secretly wants to (he could keep his gloves on!)

but it's fine, he sees him more of a colleague anyway, one that is comparatively intellectually equal given how many times he broke into the dumpster

telltale

you know what, i didn't think he would be into pets

and then i looked into his eyes and though

spider boy

something creepy, that is misunderstood but so valuable to society, there's a lesson in there for people to learn about him

slender, poised, quick and strong but nimble

he has a definite preference for the more dangerous species

anything poisonous or completely deadly is something he would be keen to add to his 'collection' at some point

he's spent a lot of time learning how to handle them carefully and respectfully and sees them as little works of art more than pets

and he won't let anyone else touch them or handle them, because no one can be trusted with them

so there's an element of feeling towards them there, definite admiration of his little beasties

unburied

he went into a pet shop and said "what's the spiciest, littlest thing i can get that is also cute"

and he walked out with four terrapins and everything he'd need to give them the best little domestic life possible

they're weird but cute, and so small, but they bite

and he looks at them all the time with adoring eyes like

"they're just like me u-u"

plus he likes how many facts come with terrapins, and that cute thing they do when they stack themselves on top of each other

plus they are absolute catnip for partners

those terrapins have got his dick sucked more than he imagines a puppy would have

hot people like cute sea creatures, who would have thunk it?

but aside from them being a magnet for potential partners, they are also his pride and joy

twojar

ok so he wwanted a tiger, he thought that would be cool as fuck

strong red head just like him? perfect!

but the idea of catwoman on his ass about it put him off

plus having to tame a wild beast? he'd hate for someone to do that to him *wink wink omg shut up eddie*

then he wanted a komodo dragon, cos dragon >:)

but he settled on a monitor lizard, one that had been rescued from some terrible place that had no idea how to care for them properly

and now it lives like a spoiled poodle

it has it's own bed and free range rule of his office

and he swears that it responds to it's name and kisses him on command, which is debatable but god help you if you say anything

he also denies letting it sleep in his bed with him but... yeah

dano

duh, rats, but i think we all knew that

i think it fits him well though

they're misunderstood, they have blame placed on them for things they didn't do (looking at you black plague)

they're the villains of every city, more so than the other pests

but they're geniuses, so clever, capable of intense emotions and acute reasoning

but to look at them, people are either scared or don't think twice

and that's how eddie has lived his life

so taking comfort in knowing that he's there with them, the other outcasts

two lonely creatures sharing in each others space, and their intelligence, and their sadness, and their inevitable entrapment

it's very on-brand for him

btaa

no campy little crime artist would be a true villain if not for his stereotypical dangerous pet

and he really did his research, trying to think about what would be the coolest to have

and which ones weren't already in use by other villains

because god forbid he look like some copycat hack

which is how he ended up with his dramatic fish tank filled with his precious pirahnas

they're an exccellent threat, they're a wonderful water feature

and he genuinely has a lot of feelings towards them

plus the looming threat of having to clean their tank out keeps miss tuesday in line... kind of

also, he's found that people really like the way he rolls his "r" on pirrrrhana

plus he likes how his desk looks in front of it, the lighting really brings out his skin tone and how bright his eyes are

young justice

his desire for companionship and someone to chit chat with

something to stave off the loneliness, to satisfy the need for friendship

and more importantly, that won't leave him or abandon him any time soon

so, while it's not super unique, it is kind of uncommon

that he has a precious little african gray parrot waiting for him at home when he's been beaten up by children

or hogtied by children

or imprisoned by children

or mocked by children

there's someone waiting for him who depends on him

and he doesn't love anything more than his little bird friend

A fic rec of One Direction fics where a character has an unusual pet as requested in this ask. If you enjoy the fic, please leave kudos and comments for the writers! You can find my other fic recs here. Happy reading!

—Louis/Harry—

🐒 Ace of Spades by @allwaswell16

(E, 80k, monkey) Living as a sheltered omega in a farming village has not prepared Harry for life aboard the most notorious pirate ship to sail the Atlantic.

🦜 A Certain Romance by DragMeDownFuckMeUp

(E, 53k, parrot)  the one where Harry and Louis meet on tinder and things are going swimmingly until they realise that their daughters know each other... not only do they know each other, they may or may not be trying to date each other!

🦔 our friendship will never die, you're gonna see it's our destiny by yoobanana

(NR, 43k, hedgehog, monkey, turtle) The adventures of Louis and his hedgehog Bernard and how they inevitably lead to Louis meeting Harry and then even more so inevitably of them moving in together, adopting loads of animals, and then getting married. (Harry and Louis, not Louis and Bernard)

🐿️ But Why Wonder, Why Wonder? by @100percentsassy

(E, 30k, squirrels) The one where Marcel Styles has improbably landed a job in the fashion industry, and Louis Tomlinson is the actor-turned-lingerie-designer he’s been infatuated with for years.

🐹 Lost My Senses by louislittlesuns

(NR, 20k, chinchilla) Your classic university best friends to lovers story but with an unhinged Niall, the fluffiest chinchilla named Peach and far too many descriptions of Louis' mesmerising eyes.

🐮 What To Do With Magic Beans by  LadyLondonderry / @londonfoginacup

(T, 22k, cow) a Jack and the Beanstalk AU featuring Harry as Jack, Louis as a prince, Zayn as a nanny, Liam as the reasonable one, and Niall as whatever the fuck he’s doing.

🦎 I Didn’t Fall For You (You Fucking Tripped Me) by @allwaswell16

(E, 20k, monitor lizard) These days Louis tends to steer clear of dating alphas. He’s dated too many knotheads in his time, and he’s ready to just focus on school and his friends and his pet monitor lizard, of course.

🦎 Apparently by Chance, at Precisely the Right Moment by @lousmoonshine

(E, 19k, bearded dragon) Alpha Harry doesn’t believe in soulmates. Omega Louis has been looking for his soulmate all his life.

🦜 That’s How I Know by @allwaswell16

(E, 19k, parrot) the one where Harry’s African grey parrot spills his dirty secrets to his very hot neighbor.

🐐Maple by tobesokaylee

(T, 5k, cow, goat, pig, snake, hedgehog) Louis is crazy about animals, so Harry is determined to get him all the pets he wants even if they are unconventional

🕷️ Lonely Boy by RBBLivvy

(T, 4k, spider/snake/crab/lizard/gecko/squirrel) He really wishes his resident Harry wasn't so cute, because that's a no-go, but he also wishes Harry would stop trying to keep hermit crabs and lava lamps and every other code violation in the world in his room. 

🦜 Ours is Organized Chaos by ILoveLouis4Ever

(G, 3k, bearded dragon, parrot) upon stepping into their lush estate one is immediately assaulted by children with nerf guns seven dogs of varying sizes and energy levels a parrot with no manners

🐀 a complainy popstar by snsk

(G, 2k, rat) Harry wants a baby. He settles for a pet rat. Louis sort of hates the pet rat very much a lot.

🦆 summertime and butterflies by dadlouis

(T, 2k, duck) Louis and Harry go in for a pet and get something a bit different

—Rare Pairs—

🐒 Hi, Hey There, Hello by orphan_account

(T, 14k, Louis/Nick Grimshaw, monkey) Louis can talk to animals. Nick can't, but he tries anyway. Louis likes that in a guy.

🐀 Creature Fear by @dearmrsawyer

(G, 8k, Niall/Harry, opossum) Louis is an Opossum, and he's moved into the walls.

🦎 I Pray to God I Didn’t Waste All My Good Years (It Was Always You) by versacezayn

(M, 5k, Zayn/Liam, lizard) It’s been four years since Zayn left the band.

The full book title contains 3777 words and reads as follows: 'The historical development of the Heart i.e. from its formation from Annelida: Clam worm, Seamouse, Lugworm, Megascolex, Tubifex, Pheretima, Freshwater leech, marine leech, land leech. Arthropoda: Ladybird, Krill, Rock Barnacle, Root-headed Barnacle, Copepod, Silverfish, Cairns birdwing, Silver - spotted skipper, Scutigera, Cray fish, Large white, Andonis blue, Camberwell beauty, Tiger swallowtail, Regent skipper, Black – veined white, Green – underside blue, Blue Morpho, Apollo, Guava skipper, Cleopatra, Large copper, Millipede, Orb spider, Black widow spider, Giant crab spider, Wolf spider, Bird – eating spider, Tenebrionid beetle, Green Tiger beetle, African goliath beetle, Scolopendra, Diving beetle, African ground beetle, New guinea weevil, Barnacle, Lobster, Shrimp, Woodlice, Mite, Prawn, Housefly, Butterfly, Monarch butterfly, Peacock butterfly, Honey bee, Fairy shrimp, Horsehoe crab, Tick, Bluebootle, Froghopper, Yellow crazy ant, Water flea, Sea spider, Fiddler crab, Shiny spider crab, Hermit crab, Sail swallowtail, Red admiral, Morpho butterfly, Desert locust, Stephens island weta, Speckled bush cricket, Mole cricket, Dung – beetle, Euthalia ynipardus, Small blues, Termite, Hornet, Mosquito, Garden spider, Tarantula, Desert hairy scorpion, Emperor dragon – fly, Moth, Centipede, Wood ant, Stag beetle, Indian red admiral, Blue admiral, Harvestman, Hoverfly, Shield bug, Assassin bug, Cicada, Coreid bug, Rose aphid, Water – boatman, Wasp, June bug, Large tortoiseshell, Frog beetle, Mexican red – legged tarantula, Paintedlady, Sydney funnelweb spider, Small tortoiseshell, Mountain bumble bee, Trapdoor spider, Jumping spider, Daddy longlegs spider, Orchind bee, Asian carpenter bee, Parasitic bee, House spider, Giant longhorn beetle, Flea, Bedbug Beetle, Cockroach, Scorpion, Spider, Ant, Gnats, Grasshopper, Silver fish, Crab, Great green bush cricket, Elephant hawk – moth. Mollusca: Neomenia, Chaetoderma, Chiton, Lepidopleurus, Apple snail, Sea hare, Sea lemon, Dentalium, Freshwater mussel, Marine mussel, Pearl oyster, Cuttlefish, Giant squid, Chambered fish, Devilfish. Fishes or Pisces: African glass catfish, African lungfish, Aholehole, Airbreathing catfish, Alaska blackfish, Albacore, Alewife, Alfonsino, Algae eater, Alligatorfish, Alligator gar, Amberjack - Seriola dumerili, American sole, Amur pike, Anchovy, Anemonefish, Angelfish, Angler, Angler catfish, Anglerfish, Antarctic cod, Antarctic icefish, Antenna codlet, Arapaima, Archerfish, Arctic char, Armored gurnard, Armored searobin, Armorhead, Armorhead catfish, Armoured catfish, Arowana, Arrowtooth eel, Asian carps, Asiatic glassfish, Atka mackerel, Atlantic Bonito (Sarda sarda), Atlantic cod, Atlantic herring, Atlantic salmon, Atlantic Sharpnose Shark - Rhizoprioltodon terraenovae, Atlantic saury, Atlantic silverside, Australasian salmon, Australian grayling, Australian herring, Australian lungfish, Australian prowfish, Ayu, Baikal oilfish, Bala shark, Ballan wrasse, Bamboo shark, Banded killifish, Bandfish, Banjo, Bangus, Banjo catfish, Bank Sea Bass, Barb, Barbel, Barbeled dragonfish, Barbeled houndshark, Barbel-less catfish, Barfish, Barracuda, Barracudina, Barramundi, Barred danio, Barreleye, Basking shark, Bass, Basslet, Batfish, Bat ray, Beachsalmon, Beaked salmon, Beaked sandfish, Beardfish, Beluga sturgeon, Bengal danio, Betta, Bichir, Bicolor goat fish, Bigeye, , Bighead carp, Bigmouth buffalo, Bigscale, Billfish, Bitterling, Black angelfish, Black bass, Black dragonfish, Blackchin, Blackfin Tuna - Thunnus atlanticus, Blackfish, Black neon tetra, Blacktip reef shark, Black mackerel, Black scalyfin, Black sea bass, Black scabbardfish, Black swallower, Black tetra, Black triggerfish, Bank Sea Bass aka Yellow Sea Bass - Centropristis ocyurus, Bleak, Blenny, Blind goby, Blind shark, Blobfish, Blueline Tilefish, Blowfish, Blue catfish, Blue danio, Blue-redstripe danio, Blueline Tilefish , Blue eye, Bluefin tuna, Bluefish, Bluegill, Blue gourami, Blue shark, Blue triggerfish, Blue whiting, Bluntnose knifefish, Bluntnose minnow, Boafish, Boarfish, Bobtail snipe eel, Bocaccio, Boga, Bombay duck, Bonefish, Bonito, Bonnetmouth, Bonytail chub, Bronze corydoras, Bonytongue, Bowfin, Boxfish, Bramble shark, Bream, Brill, Bristlemouth, Bristlenose catfish, Broadband dogfish, Brook lamprey, Brook trout, Brotula, Brown trout, Buffalo fish, Bullhead, Bullhead shark, Bull shark, Bull trout, Burbot, Bumblebee goby, Buri, Burma danio, Burrowing goby, Butterfish, Butterfly ray, Butterflyfish, California flyingfish, California halibut, Canary rockfish, Candiru, Candlefish, Capelin, Cardinalfish, Cardinal tetra, Carp, Carpetshark, Carpsucker, Catalufa, Catfish, Catla, Cat shark, Cavefish, Celebes rainbowfish, Central mudminnow, Chain pickerel, Channel bass, Channel catfish, Char, Cherry salmon, Chimaera, Chinook salmon, Cherubfish, Chub, Chubsucker, Chum salmon, Cichlid, Cisco, Climbing catfish, Climbing gourami, Climbing perch, Clingfish, Clownfish, Clown loach, Clown triggerfish, Cobbler, Cobia, Cod, Codlet, Codling, Coelacanth, Coffinfish, Coho salmon, Coley, Collared carpetshark, Collared dogfish, Colorado squawfish, Combfish, Combtail gourami, Common carp, Common tunny, Conger eel, Convict blenny, Convict cichlid, Cookie-cutter shark, Coolie loach, Cornetfish, Cowfish, Cownose ray, Cow shark, Crappie, Creek chub, Crestfish, Crevice kelpfish, Croaker, Crocodile icefish, Crocodile shark, Crucian carp, Cuckoo wrasse, Cusk, Cusk-eel, Cutlassfish, Cutthroat eel, Cutthroat trout, Dab, Dace, Desert pupfish, Devario, Devil ray, Dhufish, Discus, Diver: New Zealand sand diver or long-finned sand diver, Dogfish, Dogfish shark, Dogteeth tetra, Dojo loach, Dolly Varden trout, Dolphin fish - Corypaena hippurus, Dorab, Dorado, Dory, Dottyback, Dragonet, Dragonfish, Dragon goby, Driftfish, Driftwood catfish, Drum, Duckbill, Duckbill eel, Dusky grouper, Dusky Shark - Carcharhinus obscurus, Dwarf gourami, Dwarf loach, Eagle ray, Earthworm eel, Eel, Eel cod, Eel-goby, Eelpout, Eeltail catfish, Elasmobranch, Electric catfish, Electric eel, Electric knifefish, Electric ray, Elephant fish, Elephantnose fish, Elver, Ember parrotfish, Emerald catfish, Emperor angelfish, Emperor bream, Escolar, Eucla cod, Eulachon, European chub, European eel, European flounder, European minnow, European perch, False brotula, False cat shark, False moray, Fangtooth, Fathead sculpin, Featherback, Fierasfer, Fire goby, Filefish, Finback cat shark, Fingerfish, Firefish, Flabby whale fish, Flagblenny, Flagfin, Flagfish, Flagtail, Flashlight fish, Flatfish, Flathead, Flathead catfish, Flier, Flounder, Flying gurnard, Flying fish, Footballfish, Forehead brooder, Four-eyed fish, French angelfish, Freshwater eel, Freshwater hatchetfish, Freshwater shark, Frigate mackerel, Frilled shark, Frogfish, Frogmouth catfish, Fusilier fish, Galjoen fis, Ganges shark, Geel, Garibaldi, Garpike, Ghost fish, Ghost flathead, Ghost knifefish, Ghost pipefish, Ghost shark, Ghoul, Giant danio, Giant gourami, Giant sea bass, Gibberfish, Gila trout, Gizzard shad, Glass catfish, Glassfish, Glass knifefish, Glowlight danio, Goatfish, Goblin shark, Goby, Golden dojo, Golden loach, Golden shiner, Golden trout, Goldeye, Goldfish, Gombessa, Goosefish, Gopher rockfish, Gourami, Grass carp, Graveldiver, Grayling, Gray mullet, Gray reef shark, Great white shark, Green swordtail, Greeneye, Greenling, Grenadier, Green spotted puffer, Ground shark, Grouper, Grunion, Grunt, Grunter, Grunt sculpin, Gudgeon, Guitarfish, Gulf menhaden, Gulper eel, Gulper, Gunnel, Guppy, Gurnard, Haddock, Hagfish, Hairtail, Hake, Halfbeak, Halfmoon, Halibut, Halosaur, Hamlet, Hammerhead shark, Hammerjaw, Handfish, Hardhead catfish, Harelip sucker, Hatchetfish, Hawkfish, Herring, Herring smelt, Hickory Shad, Horn shark, Horsefish, Houndshark, Huchen, Humuhumunukunukuapua'a, Hussar, Icefish, Ide, Ilisha, Inanga, Inconnu, Jack, Jackfish, Jack Dempsey, Japanese eel, Javelin, Jawfish, Jellynose fish, Jewelfish, Jewel tetra, Jewfish, John Dory, Kafue pike, Kahawai, Kaluga, Kanyu, Kelp perch, Kelpfish, Killifish, King of the herrings, Kingfish, King-of-the-salmon, Kissing gourami, Knifefish, Knifejaw, Koi, Kokanee, Kokopu, Kuhli loach, Labyrinth fish, Ladyfish, Lake chub, Lake trout, Lake whitefish, Lampfish, Lamprey, Lanternfish, Largemouth bass, Leaffish, Lefteye flounder, Lemon shark, Lemon sole, Lemon tetra, Lenok, Leopard danio, Lightfish, Limia, Lined sole, Ling, Ling cod, Lionfish, Livebearer, Lizardfish, Loach, Loach catfish, Loach goby, Loach minnow, Longfin, Longfin dragonfish, Longfin escolar, Longfin smelt, Long-finned char, Long-finned pike, Longjaw mudsucker, Longneck eel, Longnose chimaera, Longnose dace, Longnose lancetfish, Longnose sucker, Longnose whiptail catfish, Long-whiskered catfish, Loosejaw, Lost River sucker, Louvar, Loweye catfish, Luderick, Luminous hake, Lumpsucker, Lungfish, Mackerel, Mackerel shark, Madtom, Mahi-mahi, Mahseer, Mail-cheeked fish, Mako shark, Mandarinfish, Masu salmon, Medaka, Medusafish, Megamouth shark, Menhaden, Merluccid hake, Mexican golden trout, Midshipman fish, Milkfish,, Minnow, Minnow of the deep, Modoc sucker, Mojarra, Mola, Monkeyface prickleback, Monkfish, Mooneye, Moonfish, Moorish idol, Mora, Moray eel, Morid cod, Morwong, Moses sole, Mosquitofish, Mouthbrooder, Mozambique tilapia, Mrigal, Mud catfish (Mud cat), Mudfish, Mudminnow, Mud minnow, Mudskipper, Mudsucker, Mullet, Mummichog, Murray cod, Muskellunge, Mustache triggerfish, Mustard eel, Naked-back knifefish, Nase, Needlefish, Neon tetra, New World rivuline, New Zealand smelt, Nibble fish, Noodlefish, North American darter, North American freshwater catfish, North Pacific daggertooth, Northern anchovy, Northern clingfish, Northern lampfish, Northern pike, Northern sea robin, Northern squawfish, Northern stargazer, Notothen, Nurseryfish, Nurse shark, Oarfish, Ocean perch, Ocean sunfish, Oceanic whitetip shark, Oilfish, Oldwife, Old World knifefish, Olive flounder, Opah, Opaleye, Orange roughy, Orangespine unicorn fish, Orangestriped triggerfish, Orbicular batfish, Orbicular velvetfish, Oregon chub, Orfe, Oriental loach, Oscar, Owens pupfish, Pacific albacore, Pacific cod, Pacific hake, Pacific herring, Pacific lamprey, Pacific salmo, Pacific saury, Pacific trout, Pacific viperfish, Paddlefish, Pancake batfish, Panga, Paradise fish, Parasitic catfish, Parore, Parrotfish, Peacock flounder, Peamouth, Pearleye, Pearlfish, Pearl danio, Pearl perch, Pelagic cod, Pelican eel, Pelican gulper, Pencil catfish, Pencilfish, Pencilsmelt, Peppered corydoras, Perch, Peters' elephantnose fish, Pickerel, Pigfish, Pike conger, Pike eel, Pike, Pikeblenny, Pikeperch, Pilchard, Pilot fish, Pineapplefish, Pineconefish, Pink salmon, Píntano, Pipefish, Piranha, Pirarucu, Pirate perch, Plaice, Platy, Platyfish, Pleco, Plownose chimaera, Poacher, Pollock, Pomfret, Pompano dolphinfish, Ponyfish, Popeye catalufa, Porbeagle shark, Porcupinefish, Porgy, Port Jackson shark, Powen, Prickleback, Pricklefish, Prickly shark, Prowfish, Pufferfish, Pumpkinseed, Pupfish, Pygmy sunfish, Queen danio, Queen parrotfish, Queen triggerfish, Quillback, Quillfish, Rabbitfish, Raccoon butterfly fish, Ragfish, Rainbow trout, Rainbowfish, Rasbora, Ratfish, Rattail, Ray, Razorback sucker, Razorfish, Red Grouper, Red salmon, Red snapper, Redfin perch, Redfish, Redhorse sucker, Redlip blenny, Redmouth whalefish, Redtooth triggerfish, Red velvetfish, Red whalefish, Reedfish, Reef triggerfish, Remora, Requiem shark, Ribbon eel, Ribbon sawtail fish, Ribbonfish, Rice eel, Ricefish, Ridgehead, Riffle dace, Righteye flounder, Rio Grande perch, River loach, River shark, River stingray, Rivuline, Roach, Roanoke bass, Rock bass, Rock beauty, Rock cod, Rocket danio, Rockfish, Rockling, Rockweed gunnel, Rohu, Ronquil, Roosterfish, Ropefish, Rough scad, Rough sculpin, Roughy, Roundhead, Round herring, Round stingray, Round whitefish, Rudd, Rudderfish, Ruffe, Russian sturgeon, Sábalo, Sabertooth, Saber-toothed blenny, Sabertooth fish, Sablefish, Sacramento blackfish, Sacramento splittail, Sailfin silverside, Sailfish, Salamanderfish, Salmon, Salmon shark, Sandbar shark, Sandburrower, Sand dab, Sand diver, Sand eel, Sandfish, Sand goby, Sand knifefish, Sand lance, Sandperch, Sandroller, Sand stargazer, Sand tiger, Sand tilefish, Sandbar Shark - Carchathinus plumbeus, Sarcastic fringehead, Sardine, Sargassum fish, Sauger, Saury, Sawfishm, Saw shark, Sawtooth eel, Scabbard fish, Scaly dragonfish, Scat, Scissortail rasbora, Scorpionfish, Sculpin, Scup, Sea bass, Sea bream, Sea catfish, Sea chub, Sea devil, Sea dragon, Sea lamprey, Sea raven, Sea snail, Sea toad, Seahorse, Seamoth, Searobin, Sevan trout, Sergeant major, Shad, Shark, Sharksucker, Sharpnose puffer, Sheatfish, Sheepshead, Sheepshead minnow, Shiner, Shortnose chimaera, Shortnose sucker, Shovelnose sturgeon, Shrimpfish, Siamese fighting fish, Sillago, Silver carp, Silver dollar, Silver dory, Silver hake, Silverside, Silvertip tetra, Sind danio, Sixgill ray, Sixgill shark, Skate, Skilfish, Skipjack tuna, Slender mola, Slender snipe eel, Sleeper, Sleeper shark, Slickhead, Slimehead, Slimy mackerel, Slimy sculpin, Slipmouth, Smalleye squaretail, Smalltooth sawfish, Smelt, Smelt-whiting, Smooth dogfish, Snailfish, Snake eel, Snakehead, Snake mackerel, Snapper, Snipe eel, Snipefish, Snoek, Snook, Snubnose eel, Snubnose parasitic eel, Sockeye salmon, Soldierfish, Sole, South American darter, South American lungfish, Southern Dolly Varden, Southern flounder, Southern hake, Southern sandfish, Southern smelt, Spadefish, Spaghetti eel, Spanish mackerel, Spearfish, Speckled trout, Spiderfish, Spikefish, Spinefoot, Spiny basslet, Spiny dogfish, Spiny dwarf catfish, Spiny eel, Spinyfin, Splitfin, Spookfish, Spotted climbing perch, Spotted danio, Spottail Pinfish - Diplodus holbrooki, Sprat, Springfish, Squarehead catfish, Squaretail, Squawfish, Squeaker, Squirrelfish, Staghorn sculpin, Stargazer, Starry flounder, Steelhead, Stickleback, Stingfish, Stingray, Stonecat, Stonefish, Stoneroller minnow, Stream catfish, Striped bass, Striped burrfish, Sturgeon, Sucker, Suckermouth armored catfish, Summer flounder, Sundaland noodlefish,Sunfish, Surf sardine, Surfperch, Surgeonfish, Swallower, Swamp-eel, Swampfish, Sweeper, Swordfish, Swordtail, Tadpole cod, Tadpole fish, Tailor, Taimen, Tang, Tapetail, Tarpon, Tarwhine, Telescopefish, Temperate bass, Temperate perch, Tenpounder, Tenuis, Tetra, Thorny catfish, Thornfish, Threadfin, Threadfin bream, Thread-tail, Three spot gourami, Threespine stickleback, Three-toothed puffer, Thresher shark, Tidewater goby, Tiger barb, Tigerperch, Tiger shark, Tiger shovelnose catfish, Tilapia, Tilefish, Titan triggerfish, Toadfish, Tommy ruff, Tompot blenny, Tonguefish, Tope, Topminnow, Torpedo, Torrent catfish, Torrent fish, Trahira, Treefish, Trevally, Triggerfish, Triplefin blenny, Triplespine, Tripletail, Tripod fish, Trout, Trout cod, Trout-perch, Trumpeter, Trumpetfish, Trunkfish, Tubeblenny, Tube-eye, Tube-snout, Tubeshoulder, Tui chub, Tuna, Turbot, Two spotted goby, Uaru, Unicorn fish, Upside-down catfish, Vanjaram, Velvet belly lanternshark, Velvet catfish, Velvetfish, Vermillion Snapper - Rhomboplites aurorubens, Vimba, Viperfish, Wahoo, Walking catfish, Wallago, Walleye, Walleye Pollock, Walu, Warmouth, Warty angler, Waryfish, Waspfish, Weasel shark, Weatherfish, Weever, Weeverfish, Wels catfish, Whale catfish, Whalefish, Whale shark, Whiff, Whitebait, White croaker, Whitefish, White marlin, White shark, Whitetip reef shark, Whiting, Wobbegong, Wolf-eel, Wolffish, Wolf-herring, Worm eel, Wormfish, Wrasse, Wrymouth, X-ray fish, Yellowback fusilier, Yellowbanded perch, Yellow bass, Yellowedge grouper (Hyporthodus flavolimbatus), Yellow-edged moray, Yellow-eye mullet, Yellowhead jawfish, Yellowfin croaker, Yellowfin cutthroat trout, Yellowfin grouper, Yellowfin Tuna - Thunnus albacares, Yellowfin pike, Yellowfin surgeonfish, Yellowfin tuna, Yellowmargin triggerfish, Yellow moray, Yellow perch, Yellowtail, Yellowtail amberjack, Yellowtail barracuda, Yellowtail clownfish, Yellowtail horse mackerel, Yellowtail kingfish, Yellowtail snapper, Yellow tang, Yellow weaver, Yellowtail catfish, Zander, Zebra bullhead shark, Zebra danio, Zebrafish, Zebra lionfish, Zebra loach, Zebra oto, Zebra pleco, Zebra shark, Zebra tilapia, Zebra turkeyfish, Ziege, Zingel. Amphibians: Frogs and Toads, Painted frogs, Disc tongued frogs, Fire Belly toads, Litter frogs, European Spadefoot toads, Parsley frogs, Tongueless frogs, Clawed frogs, Mexican Burrowing Toad, American spadefoot toads, Screeching frogs, True toads, Glass Frogs, Poison dart frogs, Ghost frogs, Shovelnose frogs, Tree frogs, Sedge frogs, Southern frogs, Narrow-mouthed frogs, Australian ground frogs, True frogs, Moss frogs, Seychelles frog, Giant Salamanders, Asiatic Salamanders, Mole Salamanders, Pacific giant salamanders, Amphiumas, Lungless salamanders, Mudpuppies and Waterdogs, Torrent salamanders, True salamanders and Newts, Sirens, Common caecilians, Fish caecilians, Beaked caecilians. Reptiles: Turtles, common snapping turtles and alligator snapping turtle, pond turtles and box turtles, tortoises, Asian river turtles and allies, pignose turtles, softshell turtles, river turtles, mud turtles, sea turtles, leatherback turtles, tuataras, scaled reptiles, agamas, chameleons, casquehead lizard, iguanas, Madagascar iguanids, collared and leopard lizards, horned lizards, anoles, wood lizards, Neotropical ground lizards, geckos, legless lizards, blind lizards, spinytail Lizards, plated lizards, spectacled lizards, whiptails and tegus, Lacertids, skinks, night lizards, glass lizards, American legless lizards, knob-scaled lizards, gila monsters, earless Monitor lizards, monitor lizards, worm Lizards, shorthead Worm Lizards, two-legged Worm Lizards, snakes, wart snakes, false coral snakes, dwarf pipe snakes, African burrowing asps, stiletto snakes, boas, anacondas, Old World sand boas, Mauritius snakes, Colubrids, typical snakes, Asian pipe snakes, cobras, coral snakes, mambas, sea snakes, Mexican pythons, pythons, dwarf boas, pipe snakes, shield-tailed snakes, vipers, pitvipers, Fae's viper, night adders, pitvipers, rattlesnakes, true vipers, sunbeam snakes, blind snakes, primitive blind snakes, slender blind snakes, thread snakes, blind snakes, typical blind snakes, Crocodiles, alligators, garials. Aves: Ostrich, rheas, cassowaries and emu, kiwis, elephant birds, upland moas, great moas, lesser moas, Tinamous, Australian brush turkey,megapodes, chachalacas, curassows, and guans, Guineafowl, pheasants and allies, New World quail, pheasants and relatives, mihirungs, screamers, magpie-goose, ducks, geese, and swans, grebes, swimming flamingos, flamingos, pigeons and doves, sandgrouse, mesites, Tawny frogmouth, Nightjars, oilbird, potoos, frogmouths, owlet-nightjars, treeswifts, swifts, hummingbird, cuckoos and relatives, turacos and relatives, bustards, hoatzin, cranes and allies, cranes, limpkin, trumpeters, rails and allies, adzebills, finfoots, flufftails, rails and relatives, thick-knees and allies, thick-knees and relatives, sheathbills, Magellanic plover, plover-like waders, golden plovers, ibisbill, oystercatchers, plovers and lapwings, jacana-like waders, painted snipes, Egyptian plover, jacanas, seedsnipes, plains-wanderer, sandpipers and relatives, buttonquail, gulls and allies, coursers and pratincoles, crab-plover, skuas and jaegers, auks and puffins, gulls, skimmers and terns, sunbittern, tropicbirds, penguins, albatrosses, austral storm petrels, northern storm petrels, petrels and relatives, White stork, storks, frigatebirds, boobies and gannets, darters, cormorants and shags, ibises and spoonbills, hamerkop, shoebill, pelicans, herons and relatives, New World vultures, secretarybird, osprey, hawks, eagles, buzzards, harriers, kites and Old World vultures, barn owls, true owls, mousebirds, cuckooroller, trogons and quetzals, hornbills, hoopoe, woodhoopoes, bee-eater, rollers, ground rollers, todies, motmots, Kingfisher, jacamars, puffbirds, African barbets, Asian barbets, toucans, toucan barbets, American barbets, woodpeckers, honeyguides, seriemas, falcons and relatives, kakapo, kea and kakas, cockatoos, African and American parrots, Australasian parrots, Pesquet's parrot, vasa parrots, Pitta cyanea, Lyrebird, New Zealand wrens, suboscines, Old World suboscines, sapayoa, Calyptomenid broadbills, pittas, broadbills, asities, New World suboscines, bronchophones, manakins, cotingas, sharpbills, royal flycatchers and allies, becards and tityras, spadebills, many-colored rush tyrants, mionectine flycatchers, tyrant flycatchers, tracheophones, crescent-chests, gnateaters, antbirds, antpittas, ground antbirds, ovenbirds, oscines, scrub-birds, lyrebirds, bowerbirds, Australasian treecreepers, Australasian wrens, bristlebirds, gerygones and allies, honeyeaters and relatives, Australasian babblers, logrunners, quail-thrushes and jewel-babblers, cuckoo-shrikes, whitehead and allies, sittellas, wattled ploughbills, whipbirds and quail-thrushes, Australo-Papuan bellbirds, crested shriketits, painted berrypeckers, vireos and relatives, whistlers and relatives, Old World orioles, Boatbills, woodswallows and butcherbirds, mottled berryhunter, ioras, bristlehead, bushshrikes and relatives, wattle-eyes and batises, vangas , fantails, silktail, drongo fantail, drongos, blue-capped ifrits, Australian mudnesters, birds-of-paradise, monarch flycatchers, shrikes, jays and crows, berrypeckers, satinbirds, Australasian robins, stitchbird, wattlebirds, rockfowl, rock-jumpers, rail-babbler, fairy warblers, hyliotas, penduline tits, chickadees and true tits, Nicators, bearded reedling, larks, African warblers, cisticolas and relatives, marsh warblers, pygmy wren-babblers, grass warblers, Malagasy warblers, swallows and martins, bulbuls, leaf warblers, bush warblers , Bushtits, true warblers, parrotbills, fulvettas, white-eyes, babblers and relatives, fulvettas, ground babblers, laughing thrushes, kinglets, spotted wren-babblers, Hawaiian honeyeaters, silky-flycatchers, waxwings, Palmchat, hypocolius, wallcreeper, nuthatches, treecreepers, wrens, gnatcatchers, dippers, thrushes and relatives, flycatchers and relatives, oxpeckers, mockingbirds and thrashers, starlings and mynas , sugarbirds, dapplethroat and allies, flowerpeckers, sunbirds, fairy-bluebirds, leafbirds, olive warbler, accentors, pink-tailed bunting, weavers and relatives, whydahs and indigobirds, weaver finches, Old World sparrows, wagtails and pipits, finches and relatives, longspurs, snow buntings, rosy thrush-tanagers, Old World buntings and New World sparrows, American sparrows, palm-tanager and allies, New World blackbirds and New World orioles, Cuban warblers, wood warblers, cardinals, grosbeaks, and New World buntings, tanagers and relatives. MAMMALS: Rat, Bat, Horse, Standardbred, Throughbred, Saddlebred, Arab, Palomino, Australian stock, Appaloosa, Barb, Lippizaner, Mustang, American Shetland, Falabella, Percheron, Shire, Mule, Bullock, Setter, Oxen, Camel, Tiger, Lion, Hyaenas, Leopard, Bear, Cat, Dog, Sheep, Goat, Cow, Cob, Pig, Chamois, Bulldog, Borzoi, Loris, Longspur, Harvest mouse, Spiny – ant eater, Duck – billed platypus, Elephant, Rhinoceros, Tonkinese, Ragdoll, Margay, Tapir, Seal, Sea lion, Walrus, Dolphin, Bactrian camel, Arabian camel, Bushbaby, Burmese cat, Whale, Porpoise, Aardvark, Ape, Monkey, Gorilla, Chimpanzee, Flying Lemur, Hare, Pika, Macaque, Rabbit, Colobus, Antelope, Caribou, Cattle, Deer, Grizzly bear, Hyrax, Armadillo, Porcupine, Hedgehog, Arctic hare, Mole, Shrew, Beaver, Asian black bear, Polar bear, Sloth bear, Spectacled bear, Mouse, Squirrel, Dugong, Moose, Fallow deer, Reindeer, Red deer, Manatee, Egyptian Mau, Scottish fold, Himalayan, Birman, Red squirrel, Hippopotamus, Weasel, Whale, Wither, Blue whale, Sperm whale, Killer whale, Wallaby, Beluga, Baird’s beaked whale, Grey whale, Bryde’s whale, Pygmy right whale, Southern right whale, Seal, Ape, Indri, Aye – aye, Alaskan Malamute, Dobermann, Beagle, Kinkajou, Afgan Hound, Rough Collie, Cardigan Welsh Corgi, Sheepdog, Pointer, Poddle, Weimaraner, Bloodhound, Zebra, Giraffe, Yak, Arctic fox, Polecat, Golden Retriever, Kerry Blue, Prairie dog, Airedale, German spitz, Pekingese, Otter, Shih Tzu, Proboscis monkey, Orang – utan, Red Howler monkey, Spider monkey, Sloth, Koala, Pangolin, Mustelid, Mongoose, Guinea pig, Malayan Porcupine, Naked Mole rat, Capybara, Pallid Gerbil, Brown rat, Somali, Ocicat, Balinese, Bengal, Cymric, Chartreux, Devon Rex, Turkish Angora, Russian Blue, Yellow – necked woodmouse, Hamster, Grey squirrel, Chipmunk, Fox, Blue Longhair, Chinese Pangolin, Blue – cream shorthair, Tortoiseshell and white shorthair, Brown spotted shorthair, Red and white Japanese bobtail, Javanese, Red Persian Longhair, Brown classic tabby maine coon, Lilac angora, Seal point Siamese, Brown and white sphinx, Red classic tabby manx, Vampire bat, Proboscis bat, Franquet’s fruit bat, Bengal Tiger, Horseshoe bat, Noctule bat, Funnel - eared bat, Blue exotic, Foreign lilac oriental shorthair, Boxer, Bay, Cream point colour pointed british shorthair, Abyssinian, Cinnamon silver Cornish rex, Wolverine, Skunk, Human being, Pine marten, Stoat, Chocolate point longhair, Husky, Ant eater, Kangaroo, Gray Mouse Lemur, Musk oxen, Raccoon dogrie, Pasnda, Bouto, Pembroke Welsh corgi, Whippet, Whisker, Indus river dolphin, Franciscana, Sorrel, Finless porpoise, Jerboa, Harbour porpoise, Bottlenose dolphin, Border Collie, Diana Monkey, White – beaked dolphin, Atlantic white – sided dolphin, Bobcat, Alpaca, Aberdeen angus, Lynx, Pacific white – sided dolphin, Rhesus monkey, Irish wolfhound, Baboon, Slivery marmoset, Puma, Ocelot, Norwegian Forest Cat, Basenji, Keeshond, Akita, Samoyed, Briard, Brittaney, Vizsla, Weimaraner, Saluki, Greyhound, Rottweiler, Bullmastiff, Newfoundland, Puli, Bombay, Sphynx, Kangaroo rat, Humpback whale, Red panda, Maltese, Pug, Chihuahua, Papillon, Pomeranian, Schipperke, Aardwolve, Cheetah, Civet, Red – Bellied Lemur, Moustache, Monkey, Yorkshire terrier, German shepherd, Clumber spaniel, Bouvier des Flandres, Belgian sheepdog, Boston terrier, Italian greyhound, Chesapeake Bay retriever, Genet, Musk deer, Bichon fries, Rock Hyrax, Pony, Mink, Mammoth, Mastodon, Giant sloth, Llama, African Elephant, DeBrazza’s Monkey, Siberian Tiger, Hackney Pony, Bonnet Monkey, German wirehaired pointer, Ferret, Jaguar, Dalmatian, Red Bengal Tiger, Badger, Shunk, Skye terrier, Great dane, Grampus, Bandicoot, Wolf, Marmot, Squirrel monkey, Sable, Minke whale, Spectacle porpoise, Opossums, Airedale, Wombat. etc , Ramapithecus, Australopithecus bosei or Paranthropus bosei, Zinjanthopus bosei, Homo – erectus ( Java man, Peking man, Heidelberg man ), Homo – Sapiens ( Neanderthal man, Cro – Magnon man) to the modern humans with their development and structure of their Heart, their contributions to the formation of the modern humans. What is the origin of the heart? In which place the heart is situated? What is the weight of our (modern humans) heart? Can a person live without a heart? What is the function of the heart? How heart pumps blood to the body? What type of circulation takes place in the human heart? How big our human heart is? Why is our (modern humans) heart considered as the most developed in the world? Why does heart stop? What are heart sounds? What are the types of heart sounds? What causes the heart sounds heard with a stethoscope? What is the anatomy of the heart? Why heart is considered an important organ in the body? Why can’t people live if heartbeat stops? Where is heart located in? How many chambers are present in the heart? What is the number of heart beats per minute? What is the amount of blood pumped by heart? How much blood does the human heart pump in a lifetime? And Short notes on heart attack i.e. what is the definition of a heart attack? Why does a heart attack occur? What are the types of the heart attack? What happens if human get a heart attack? What are the symptoms of Heart attack? What are the causes of the Heart attack? What are the risk factors related to the Heart attack? What are the types of risk factors cause the Heart attack? What are the complications of a Heart attack? What types of diagnosis useful in detecting and treating a heart attack? What treatment is needed to treat heart attack patients? What are 5 strategies to be maintained after the heart attack? What to do after recovery from a heart attack? What is cardiac rehabilitation? Why cardiac rehabilitation is needed to heart attack patients? Does cardiac rehabilitation create positive effects? What are a lifestyle and home remedies are to be maintained? What type of coping and support should be given to heart attack patients? What are the immediate measures should be taken when you encounter an emergency of heart attack patient? What signs and symptoms list should be made to consult a doctor? What is a widow maker heart attack? What is the definition of a widowmaker heart attack? What are the symptoms of Widowmaker heart attack? What are the causes of Widowmaker heart attack? What are the risk factors related to Widowmaker heart attack? What are the complications of a widowmaker heart attack? What types of diagnosis useful in detecting and treating a widowmaker heart attack? What treatment is needed to treat heart attack patients? How to make over your lifestyle? What type of measures should be taken to stay away from a heart attack? What are 20 types of foods should be taken to keep your heart healthy? Solutions and answers of above questions, material and topics are included and cleared in this book.'

21 Tag Game

was tagged by @eggmeralda  ^^

Rules: Answer 21 questions and tag 21 people you want to know better

Nickname:  I collect these like fleas.  Lemme see, the latest ones are Weather-girl, Rat-on-Acid, Lieutenant, Squirrelly, and the tried and true Jojo

Zodiac sign: Libra? Virgo? A horse?  

Height: 5′6″

Hogwarts house: p sure I would still be a muggle, lifes too short to spend it wearing a dress and waving a stick around 

Last thing googled:  a bunch of ffxiv stuff, but before that was “African Dandy Man”

Favorite musicians: Steely Dan, Alan Parsons Project, pretty much anything that gives me a case of the feels.  

Song stuck in head: “Trouble” - by totally enormous extinct dinosaurs

Following: 223, a third of which I am p. sure are posting blogs that post classical/impressionist/romantic art 

Followers: 78 on my main blog, 298 on my secret Legend of the Galactic Heroes fanblog.

Do I get asks: Every once and a while.  It’s always a good time answering them.  

Amount of sleep: my body refuses to sleep more than 6 hours and will wake me at 4 am no matter my bedtime.  send melatonin.

Lucky numbers: 13

Wearing: >not blogging in your underwear, otherwise I guess a tshirt

Dream job: hermit in the woods (p much my current job)

Instruments: i have no natural sense of rhythm or tone, but I used to play in band (piano, clarinet, badly)

Languages: English, with a special focus on effective English.  Every once and a while I play around with Spanish.  

Favorite songs: Uh, anything on my “Angst” playlist. I’ll pick a favorite EP tho: “Nightlife” released by Phantogram.   

Random fact: I average about one gigantic spider in my hair a week.  They are my woodland friends.  

Aesthetic: Byronic Heroes, bad destiny, Prussian uniforms, forest fires, and cypress swamps, botanic prints, and paintings of the sea

Tags:  I’m taking the introverted way out and tagging anyone who sees this on their dash.  It’s very likely that those who see this will take the introverted way out as well and leettttt this slide on down.  

Could you make a post abou the vermin class of creatures?

Your wish is my command :-p

How much creepy crawlers do you need? I have a lot of them in my project, and a lot of vermin-based creatures which aren’t vermin in Mythika, but which do have insectoid/mollusk based features.

I count most creepy creatures as vermin in these lists, like true insects, arachnids, crabs and centipedes.

In the list below this I also added Worms, Jellyfish, Starfish, Leeches and other such non-vermin, but creepy crawler based creatures which could function as vermin. (they do in D&D)

Now for the lists, I’m gonna post a huge list of new-creatures-to-my-project soon with small descriptions of what role/story they have, many of these insect-monsters are in it. For now I only name the vermin they were based on.

Aristotiles (M-European) – Vermin (Medium)(Hostile) – Eurypterid Brucha (Irish) – Vermin (Small)(Hostile) – Locust Cagn (African) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Mantis Choukeshin (Japanese) – Vermin / Swarm (Small)(Neutral) – Swarm of Butterflies Con Rit (Vietnamese) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Ragworm Con Rit, Skolopendra (Greek) – Vermin (Huge)(Hostile) – Ragworm Deathcrawler (Brazilian) – Vermin (Medium)(Hostile) – Centipede Djieien (N-American) – Vermin (Medium)(Hostile) – Solifugid Eintykara (Paraguay) – Vermin / Swarm (Small)(Neutral) – Swarm of BeesGux (N-American) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Toe-Biter Inulpamahuida (Mapuche) – Vermin (Huge)(Hostile) – Walking Stick InsectItzpapalotl (Aztec) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Butterfly Jba Fofi (African) – Vermin (Small)(Hostile) – Wolf Spider Jba Fofi, Aasivarluut (Inuit) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Tarantula Jinshin Mushi (Japanese) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Rhinoceros Beetle Karkinos (Greek) – Vermin (Medium)(Neutral) – Crab Karkinos, Saratan (Arabian) – Vermin (Colossal)(Hostile) – Hermit Crab Kugdlughiak (Inuit) – Vermin (Huge)(Hostile) – Centipede Minceskro (Romanian) – Vermin / Swarm (Small)(Hostile) – Swarm of Carrion Beetles Musca Macedda (Sardinian) – Vermin / Swarm (Small)(Hostile) – Swarm of FliesMyrmecoleon (M-European) – Vermin (Huge)(Hostile) – Antlion Polypus (M-European) – Vermin (Huge)(Hostile) – Lobster Scarab (Egyptian) – Vermin (Small)(Neutral) – Scarab Beetle Scarab, Khepri (Egyptian) – Vermin (Medium)(Hostile) – Bombardier Beetle Scorpios (Greek) – Vermin (Medium)(Hostile) – Scorpion Tcaridyi (Romanian) – Vermin / Vampire (Small)(Hostile) – Caterpillar Tcaridyi, Kranokolaptes (Greek) – Vermin / Vampire (Small)(Hostile) – Moth Tsutsugamushi (Japanese) – Vermin / Parasite / Vampire (Small)(Hostile) – Tick Tsutsugamushi, Nitus (Spanish) – Vermin / Parasite (Small)(Hostile) – Tick Ulagu (N-American) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Wasp Xan (Mayan) – Vermin (Small)(Hostile) – Mosquito Xan, Moskitto (Fearsome Critter) – Vermin / Vampire (Medium)(Hostile) – Mosquito Xan, Alkuntane (N-American) – Vermin / Parasite (Small)(Hostile) – Mosquito / Parasite WaspZarronco (Spanish) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Dragonfly

The following creatures are not vermin-types in my project, but they do have many vermin-features, most of them are Oni which took over the bodies of vermin, or fae/demonic variants of vermin which are called Fey and Fiends.

Adze (African) – Fey / Vampire / Shifter (Medium)(Hostile) – Firefly Amikiri (Japanese) – Aberration (Large)(Hostile) – Mantis FeaturesApocalypse Locust (M-European) – Fiend (Medium)(Hostile) – Locust Arachne (Greek) – Beastman / Centauric (Large)(Hostile/Boss) – Spider HumanoidAsanbosam, Abuhuku (Colombia) –  Troll / Vampire (Large)(Hostile) – Mosquito TrollAtuikakura (Japanese) – Aberration (Large)(Neutral) – Sea Cucumber Awd Goggie (English) – Fey (Large)(Hostile) – Caterpillar Awd Goggie, Okiku Mushi (Japanese) – Fey (Large)(Hostile) – Caterpillar Bisan (Malay) – Nymph / Shifter (Medium)(Neutral) – Nymph (fantasy, not young insect) of Insects, mostly Cicada Bisan, Thriae (Greek) – Nymph / Shifter (Medium)(Neutral) – Nymph (fantasy, not young insect) of Insects, mostly BeesBitoso (Romanian) – Aberration / Parasite (Medium)(Hostile) – Parasite Worm Burach Bhadi (Scottish) – Aberration / Parasite (Small)(Hostile) – Leech Burach Bhadi, Alukah (Israel) – Aberration / Parasite / Vampire (Small)(Hostile) – Leech Cagn, Mandarangkal (Philippine) – Oni (Huge)(Hostile) – Mantis HumanoidDeathcrawler, Omukade (Japanese) – Oni (Colossal)(Hostile) – Centipede Druj Nasu (Persian) – Fiend (Medium)(Hostile) – Fly DemonEk Chapat (Mayan) – Alien (Huge)(Neutral) – Centipede Erymanthian, Bonguru (Solomon Island) – Fey (Large)(Hostile) – Boar which body functions as living hive for HornetsFormica Aurum (M-European) – Construct (Small)(Neutral) – Ant Girtablilu (Mesopotamian) – Beastman / Centauric (Large)(Hostile) – Scorpion HumanoidHeikegani (Japanese) – Fiend (Small)(Hostile) – Heikegani Crab Jba Fofi, Jorogumo (Japanese) – Fey / Shifter (Large)(Hostile) – Black Widow Jba Fofi, Tsuchigumo (Japanese) – Oni (Huge)(Hostile) – Trapdoor SpiderKarkinos, Traicousse (Belgian) – Fey (Large)(Hostile) – River CrabKurage Hinotama (Japanese) – Aberration (Large)(Neutral) – Jellyfish Kurage Hinotama, Muirdris (Irish) – Aberration (Huge)(Hostile) – Jellyfish Lakuma (Chilean) – Aberration (Huge)(Hostile) – Giant Isopod Lakuma, Charybdis (Greek) – Aberration (Colossal)(Hostile) – Giant IsopodMambabarang (Philippine) – Hag / Shifter (Medium)(Hostile) – Hag which controls and summons all types of verminMerrow, Sazae-Oni (Japanese) – Oni / Centauric (Medium)(Hostile) – Sea Snail HumanoidMothman (North American) – Alien (Medium)(Hostile) – Moth HumanoidMulilo (African) – Aberration (Medium)(Neutral) – Slug Mulilo, Lou Carcolh (French) – Aberration (Huge)(Hostile) – SnailMyrmidon (Greek) – Human (Medium)(Hostile) – Humans which were created from AntsMyrmidon, Korybante (Greek) – Human (Medium)(Hostile) – Humans which were created from Queen AntsNocnitsa, Shtriga (Albanian) – Fey / Mara (Large)(Hostile) – Moth Ohdowas, Nuno (Philippine) – Dwarf / Shifter (Medium)(Hostile) – Dwarves which control AntsOlgoi-Khorkhoi (Mongolian) – Aberration (Large)(Hostile) – Worm Pyrausta (Cyprus) – Drake (Small)(Neutral) – Moth Dragon Qinyuan (Chinese) – Chimerae (Small)(Hostile) – Bee / Hummingbird Rhinelapus (Fearsome Critter) – Alien (Huge)(Hostile) – Pond SkaterScorpios, Pioial (Australian) – Fey (Large)(Hostile) – Scorpion Scorpios, Sandwalker (Arabian) – Oni (Huge)(Hostile) – Scorpion Shen (Chinese) – Aberration (Large)(Hostile) – Bivalve Shen, Pua Tu Tahi (Solomon Islands) – Aberration (Huge)(Hostile) – Giant ClamSkolex (M-European) – Aberration (Huge)(Hostile) – Sea Worm Skolex, Lagarfljot (Icelandic) – Aberration (Colossal)(Hostile) – Worm Stella (French) – Aberration (Small)(Neutral) – Starfish Stella, Mooldabbie (Australian) – Aberration (Large)(Hostile) – Crown of Thorns Stella, Decarabia (Demonology) – Fiend (Large)(Hostile) - StarfishTculo (Romanian) – Aberration / Swarm (Small)(Hostile) – Urchin Tlanusi (N-American) – Aberration / Vampire (Large)(Hostile) – Leech Ulagu, Awahondo (N-American) – Spirit (Large)(Hostile) – Parasite WaspWether (M-European) – Beast / Parasite (Medium)(Hostile) – Ram which has maggots in its brainWhowie (Australian) – Chimerae (Huge)(Hostile) – Half Lizard half Insect

Bosses/Friendly Encounters who have vermin-based features.

Beelzebub (Demonology) – Demon / Shifter (Large)(Boss) – Fly Serket (Egyptian) – Beastman / Centauric (Huge)(Boss) – Scorpion HumanoidAnansi (African) – Fey / Shifter (Medium)(Friendly) – Spider Shussebora (Japanese) – Drake / Shifter (Small)(Friendly) – Sea Snail DragonShamir (Israel) – Aberration / Swarm (Small) – Wood Worm

Others who have insect/arachnid/mollusk like features, but which aren’t in my list.

Abatwa (African) – Humanoid / Swarm (Small)(Neutral) – Small humans which ride on AntsAtui Koro Ekashi (Japanese) – Aberration (Large)(Hostile) – Sea SlugHaakapainizi (N-American) – Fiend (Huge)(Hostile) – Locust Horerczy (German) – Demon (Huge)(Hostile) – Giant Demon which spits out swarms of Moths/ButterfliesNozuchi (Japanese) – Aberration (Small)(Hostile) – Hairy WormPelesit (Malay) – Vermin / Swarm (Small)(Hostile) – Locust Sarmatian Sea Snail (M-European) – Aberration (Large)(Neutral) – Snail Schilalyi (Romanian) – Chimerae (Small)(Hostile) – Centipede / MouseUshi Oni (Japanese) – Oni (Huge)(Hostile) – Spider Crab Ah Muzen Cab (Mayan) – Beastman (Medium)(Neutral) – God of BeesApshait (Egyptian) – Undead (Small)(Hostile) – Carrion Beetle Areop-Enap (Nauruan) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Spider Bedudu (Maltese) – Vermin (Large)(Hostile) – Centipede Caballeros Del Diablu (Spanish) – Vermin (Large) – Dragonfly Furia Infernalis (Swedish) – Aberration / Parasite (Small)(Hostile) – Parasite Worm Gadfly (Greek) – Vermin (Small)(Hostile) – Gadfly Gigelorum (Scottish) – Vermin (Small) – Mite Guchong (Chinese) – Vermin (Small)(Hostile) – Assassin Bug Kokopelli (N-American) – Fae / Shifter (Small) – All types of Insects featuresMuhnochwa (India) – Vermin (Medium)(Hostile) – Carnivorous crickets/locusts with spikes?Muryan (Welsh) – Fairy / Shifter (Small)(Hostile) – Faeries based on insectsTi-Sikh-Puk (Inuit) – Vermin (Huge)(Hostile) – Caterpillar Weewillmekq (N-American) – Drake / Sea Serpent / Vampire (Huge)(Hostile) – Leech Ya (N-American) – Vermin (Medium)(Hostile) – Flea

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African clawed frogs

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alligators

alpacas

amphibians

animals

anteaters

arthropods

badgers

ball pythons

bats

bearded dragons

bears

beetles

belugas

birds

blue-tongued skinks

bugs

capybaras

cassowaries

catfish

cats

cephalopods

cetaceans

chameleons

cheetahs

chickens

cicadas

cobras

cockatiels

cockatoos

common snapping turtles

corvids

crabs

crayfish

crows

dinosaurs

dogs

dolphins

doves

ducks

Dunkleosteus

eels

electric eels

equids

European starlings

ferrets

finches

fish

flies

frogs

gars

geckos

geese

giraffes

Guinea pigs

hamsters

hedgehogs

hermit crabs

herons

hognoses

horses

hummingbirds

iguanas

insects

invertebrates

jellyfish

kangaroos

Komodo dragons

leopard geckos

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lions

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mammals

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mice

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monitors

monkeys

moose

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mourning doves

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pelicans

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pigs

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pink iguanas

puffins

pythons

quails

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rats

ravens

rays

reptiles

rodents

salamanders

scorpions

sea turtles

secretarybirds

Senegal parrots

sharks

sheep

skates

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snakes

snapping turtles

spiders

squids

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starlings

swans

swine

tarantulas

tegus

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Useless post about what pets I’d like/not like

Pets I’d like to have:

Rescue turtles in a big ass luxurious pond with kois

Rescue tortoises with both an indoor enclosure and an outdoor one

Rats

Ferrets

Rabbits

maybe mice or gerbils

Dogs (rescues and an icelandic sheepdog)

INDOOR Cats (rescues and adoption from suprise litters)

A nice saltwater tank with clownfish and anemones

Bettas

cute nano tank with shrimps

Leopard gecko

Either a bearded dragon or a blue tongue skink or both

Budgies

chickens!!!!

maybe a giant african land snail

maybe a goat, depends on the garden I’ll have

maybe a cockatiel

maybe a conure, but I don’t know much about those

Pets I won’t get unless maybe they really need a rescue or a foster:

snakes (I really love the aesthetic of snakes but I’m just so not attracted to keeping one as a pet idk)

spiders, millipedes, crayfish and other arthropods

any type of small bird except any psittacines

iguanas and tegus (only foster)

Small reptiles that haven’t been listed yet

maybe hedgehogs or tenrecs but I’ve never heard of anyone having one around here

maybe an owl? I don’t know they seem like a really huge commitment, haven’t researched those ones

hermit crabs

frogs

fish that don’t have very specific requirements and that don’t grow to absurd length

cotopus maybe??? can you even really keep them happy?

Pets I really don’t want:

Parrots (I LOVE parrots but I can’t dedicate 70 years of my life to a perpetual toddler)

foxes, wolfdogs, raccoons, ... and other such “exotic pets”

Horses, ponies, donkeys, but i WILL ride them be sure of that

Emus, ostriches and the like. I love them but where the fuck am I supposed to put those

all farm animals that haven’t been listed yet

Crocodiles/alligators/monitors and the like

rays

If there’s one thing South African Mamma knows best, it’s how to keep the kiddos entertained with activities that still manage to be fun for the adults. Surrounded by stunning natural beauty, Cape Town hosts a handful of nearby sights and must-see attractions. Whether you’re looking for a family-friendly day hike or an afternoon at a museum, South African Mamma’s list has it all!

Dive Into Cape Town’s Natural Beauty

Cape Town is jam-packed with activities for the adventurous soul for every age, all the way from 4 to 64. The whole family can enjoy marvelous Mother Nature, thanks to Cape Town’s proximity to various beaches and scenic favorites such as Table Mountain.

On the way up to Table Mountain

Table Mountain Cable Car

Table Mountain is a top-rated activity, and rightly so. This sky-high attraction presents wow-worthy views of the city on the way up, and from the summit. The ride up only takes about 5 minutes, but expect to linger at the top to enjoy the 360-degree visibility. Some opt to hike up to the top, but the cable car is a truly unique experience—and much easier when traveling with kids.

Camp’s Bay Beach

Although there’s a grand variety of beaches to choose from in the area, Camp’s Bay makes our list for being a top-rated family destination. The calm waters are great for a dip, and we can’t complain about the nearby restaurants either. You might even have time to grab a glass of local chardonnay from one of the sea-facing restaurants with outdoor seating, right on the bay.

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

You certainly don’t have to be an avid botanist to appreciate the beauty at Kirstenbosch. This relaxed garden is great for aimless wandering, picnics, and those classic family photos everyone takes on vacations. Since it’s right next to Table Mountain, you might be able to explore both on the same day.

Embark On An Educational Afternoon

If there happens to be a rainy day during your visit to Cape Town, turn it into an opportunity for an afternoon of learning. From science and technology to marine biology, families can take their pick depending on which subject they fancy most. South African Mamma recommends a stop at each—why not become an expert in giant spider crabs, while you’re at it?

Two Oceans Aquarium

Carve out a full afternoon for this one, because the kids won’t want to leave. Say hello to jellyfish, seahorses, and more—perhaps even some creatures you had never heard of previously, such as the “spotted grunter” fish. Children will love the touch pool and microscope exhibits, where they can come face-to-face with hermit crabs, starfish, and sea plants.

Get up close and personal with sharks at Two Oceans Aquarium.

Cape Town Science Center

One of the best ways to ignite proper curiosity in a child is by a visit to a science museum. With more than 250 interactive exhibits and hands-on science experiments, this discovery land will keep everyone busy, and probably scattered across a handful of different areas in the center. Kids can travel to space by trying out the gravity-free human gyroscope, one of the more unique experiences available.

Iziko Planetarium

Cape Town is home to Africa’s most advanced digital planetarium, specializing in both research and “edutainment”—the winning combination of fascinating education that hooks you in like a binge-worthy TV show. The planetarium features a full dome theater, interactive learning exhibits, and enough digital displays to make you feel like you stepped into the future.

Hang Out With Local Wildlife

Both children and adults will love the experience of meeting some of Cape Town’s resident animals—considering there are plenty of them in both wildlife preserves and their natural habitats. South African Mamma recommends introducing the whole family to the local wildlife at these top picks.

Boulder’s Beach Penguins

In addition to soft waves and tremendous granite boulders, this beach is home to an energetic crowd of penguins, drawing thousands of visitors each year. These popular birds are most active during the summer months but can be seen year-round in the area.

  Meeting the locals at Boulder’s Beach

The local colony has grown over the years, as a result of funded conservation efforts from a small entry fee. The beach has rock pools and powdery sand, making you feel like you’re much farther away from the bustle of Cape Town.

Penguins, boulders, and blue waters at Boulder’s Beach.

Seal Island

This small 5-acre island lives up to its namesake. Over 65,000 cape fur seals call this area home, which seems a bit cozy due to the size, but they don’t seem to mind. Getting to the island is an event in and of itself, with occasional shark sightings and thorough background information.

Stellenbosch Eagle Encounters

Combining fun with an important cause is definitely South African Mamma approved. A visit to this non-profit organization supports conservation, research, rehabilitation, and eco-tourism. Visitors are welcome to have a meet and greet with the eEagles, with the guidance of an experienced handler. The birds do not live in cages at Stellenbosch, creating a truly authentic experience.

  You’re going to want to bring your camera to Stellenbosch.

Ostriches, seals, and eagles are only the tip of the iceberg for Cape Town animals, but they happen to be a few of our favorites.

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Well. I did it ! I picked Saffron up and took her to school and later I went to her piano recital  and brought her home. I am VERY happy.

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The hermit is an important figure at the outset of the hero’s journey, represented in folklore and mythology as the wise encouraging guide, the dispenser of protection, counsel, and well-being. The hermit may be presented as the solitary wise one dwelling in a forest or cave, that is, the source of strength in the receded consciousness that represents stability and a reservoir of compassion and wisdom, stern but reassuring. Thus, as the adventure begins,

Whether dream or myth, in these adventures there is an atmosphere of irresistible fascination about the figure that appears suddenly as a guide, marking a new period, a new stage, in the biography. … The first encounter of the hero-journey is with a protective figure (often a little old crone or old man) who provides the adventurer with amulets against the dragon forces he is about to pass …

The crone or fairy godmother in European fairy tales, the Virgin in Christianity, the African Mother of the Gods, the Native American Spider Woman, the Eastern Cosmic Mother, Dante’s Beatrice, Goethe’s Gretchen -— all manifest supernatural guidance, especially representative of the peace of Paradise and the cosmic womb. Masculine figures of aid and guidance are usually “some little fellow of the wood, some wizard, hermit, shepherd, or smith.” In higher mythologies, the masculine guide is the teacher, and especially the ferryman, such as Hermes or Thoth. [An accessible example, not mentioned by Campbell, is the character of the ferryman in Hesse’s novel Siddhartha.]

AUTUMN TREES AND MUSIC Well. I did it ! I picked Saffron up and took her to school and later I went to her piano recital  and brought her home.

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Commensalism, Mutualism and Parasitism

Symbiosis describes several types of living arrangements between different species of organisms in an ecosystem. These relationships can be beneficial, neutral, or harmful to one or both organisms which are called symbionts. In the complex web of nature, species often have several symbiotic relationship at a time.

Symbiosis can take two forms known as obligatory and facultative. In obligatory symbiosis, one or both organisms are entirely dependent on the relationship and will die without it. Conversely, organisms in facultative relationships can live independently from each other.

Symbiotic relationships are also described by the physical relationship between the symbionts. Conjunctive symbiosis occurs when the symbionts have bodily contact with each other. In contrast, symbionts that do not have physical contact have a disjunctive symbiotic relationship. The term ectosymbiosis is when one organism lives on another, like a flea living in a dog’s fur. Endosymbiosis is a relationship where one symbiont lives in the tissues of another such as bacteria living in the human gut.

Commensalism, mutualism, and parasitism are the three main categories of symbiosis found in nature.

Commensalism

In a commensal relationship, one species benefits and there is a neutral effect on the other—it neither benefits nor is harmed. An example of this relationship is birds building nests in trees. The nests don’t interfere with photosynthesis and are light weight, so they don’t put a strain on the trees. The birds, on the other hand, benefit by having their young protected from predators on the ground and hidden by the leaves and branches of the tree. The tree may also provide an accessible food source for the birds such as berries, grubs, and insects. Other examples of commensalism are spiders spinning webs on plants and hermit crabs that use discarded snail shells to protect themselves.

Commensal relationships are sometimes hard to identify because it can be difficult proving that one symbiont does not benefit in some way from the relationship.

Mutualism

In this type of symbiosis, both organisms benefit from the relationship. A classic example of this is the relationship between termites and the protists that live in their gut. The protists digest the cellulose contained in the wood, releasing nutrients for the benefit of the termite. In turn, the protists receive a steady supply of food and live in a protected environment. The protists themselves also have a symbiotic relationship with the bacteria that live in their gut, without which they could not digest cellulose. This relationship between termites and protists is obligatory—the termites would die of starvation without the protists to digest their food.

Other examples of mutualism are the algae that live in the tissues of coral in reefs, clownfish that live in the tentacles of sea anemones, and the relationship between the Oxpecker bird and zebras and rhinoceroses on the African plains.

Parasitism

Parasitism is a relationship where one symbiont benefits (the parasite) and the other (the host) is harmed in some way and may eventually die. Parasites can damage their hosts or sicken them and make them weak. There is usually a built-in selection process that slows down the rate of damage to the host, giving the parasite time to complete its reproductive cycle and for its offspring to find a new host.

A tapeworm in the digestive tract of a human or other animal is an example of a parasitic relationship. The worm feeds on the food the person eats and grows within the intestines, sometimes reaching 50 feet in length. Other examples are the malaria parasite spread by mosquitoes, fleas and ticks, and aphids that suck the sap from plants.

References

Nelson, D. (2018, February 6). Mutualism, Commensalism, Parasitism: Types of Symbiosis with Examples. Retrieved May 23, 2018, from https://sciencetrends.com/comparing-examples-mutualism-commensalism-parasitism-symbiosis/

Symbiosis. (2018, May 9). In Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Symbiosis&oldid=840414702

Warning!!!

This post describes experience while visiting Georgia Aquarium last November 2015. What I saw at that time may probably different right now as the aquarium went to renovations and improvements for the past two years.

Since it was my last day in Atlanta as the next day was my return flight to my country, I felt like I have to see more as much as I can while I was still in the city. After an hour of leisure walk at Peachtree Street NE, I turned right at Baker Street towards Pemberton Place where Georgia Aquarium is located.

When I visited World of Coca-Cola, I bought Atlanta City Pass which is a bundle tickets for the most popular tourist places to see in Downtown Atlanta and that includes the aquarium, therefore I already have ticket for the Largest Aquarium in Western Hemisphere which is Georgia Aquarium.

Walking at Baker St NW towards Georgia Aquarium

Georgia Aquarium at Pemberton Place

It’s past 6:00 PM in Friday evening and I just have around two hours left before Georgia Aquarium will close that day and Friday is the only day in a week that it close late at 8PM, and because of that I was a bit lucky to still have time to sneak around the place.

Because I came two hours before it close, most of the shows inside the aquarium were over, so typically I haven’t seen any shows anymore and all I can do was see what was available for me at that time. But when I walked inside the aquarium I still felt amazed in the surroundings and overwhelm how huge it was.

I will described here the following things and marine species that I saw while wandering inside the former World’s Largest Aquarium.

Cafe Aquaria

While inside the Georgia Aquarium before I get inside of one of the gallery, the first thing to notice was the cafeteria. Cafe Aquaria is located almost at the center of the aquarium. So wherever you are, whether you are in the first or second level, the cafeteria is still visible.

River Scout

The first area that I explored inside Georgia Aquarium was River Scout which according to my brochure it is a place where I will discover the wide diversity of animals found in the rivers and lakes of Africa, South America, Asia and the state of Georgia.

Amazon Exotics

The species exhibited here are came from Amazon River – world’s second’s largest river. As per experience, I saw colourful fishes in this part of River Scout.

Blue Discus

African Cichlids

Lake Tanganyika and Lemon Cichlids

Overhead River

Longnose Gar

Trouts

Fishes of New Guinea

Neon Dwarf Rainbowfish

Southeast Asian Fishes

Harlequin Rasbora

Emerald-eye Rasbora

Archer Fish

Spotted  Scat and Banded Archerfish

Banded Archer Fish

Silver Moony

Green striped hermit carb

Freshwater Turtles

River Cooter

Yellow Belly Slider

American Alligator

Piranha

Red Piranha

Red-bellied Piranha

Leaving River Scout

Dolphin Celebration (Dolphin Tales)

Just beside River Scout, there is escalator that goes to Dolphin Celebration area. Since no more shows available, I just took my chance to see the Dolphins at the lobby area where they were playing and swimming.

Common Bottlenose Dolphin

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I saw Dolphins couple of times in different places that I had been with, but their charm towards me are still there. I still stop for a moment just to watch them after I took some photos of them.

Cold Water Quest

The area which just next to Dolphin Tales gallery is Cold Water Quest where the focus of the exhibits are species that lives in waters with cold temperatures and found all over the world.

Beluga Whales

Sea Otters

African Penguins

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Big-bellied Seahorse

Weedy Sea Dragons

Rock Fish and Sea Star

Spotted Ratfish

Giant Plumose Anemone and Japanese Spider Crab

Sea Star, Sea Urchins, and Sea Anemones

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Ocean Voyager 

After enjoying the animals in Cold Water Quest, I went to Ocean Voyager where the former World’s Largest Aquarium until 2012 can be found. I do honestly enjoy such kind of aquarium that allows people to virtually walked underneath of it. It is said that this is the only Aquarium in North America to house whale sharks.

Giant Guitarfish and Giant Grouper

Giant Grouper and Golden Trevally

Giant Grouper, Zebra Shark and Doctorfish

Giant Grouper and Doctorfish

Giant Grouper and Zebra Shark

Giant Guitarfish and Smallmouth Grunt

Smallmouth Grunt

Shanks and Rays

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Tropical Diver

One thing that I really enjoyed here were watching some of the Jelly Fishes inside Tropical Diver gallery. Knowing that jelly fishes can sting people in the water but seeing such species on its sea like environment makes them look so beautiful. Below were some of my snapshots captured while exploring the gallery.

Tropical Diver gallery has a look of a biodiversity coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific which commonly called “rainforests of the ocean” which can allow divers to experience such similar environments.

Cuttle Fish

White Spotted Jelly

Japanese Sea Nettle

Weedy Scorpionfish and Warty Frogfish

Flamboyant Cuttlefish

Clown Anemonefish

Striped Eel Catfish

Aquanaut Adventure

Before I totally left the Georgia Aquarium, I still tried to explore other areas that I probably missed and I was correct. When I walked at second level I found Aquanaut Adventure area which in my impression was designed for young at heart (or kids).

Seaside Touchpools

This area allows visitors to touch three different kinds of rays but at the time of my visit, that opportunity is not available anymore as the aquarium nears its time for closing for the day.

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Other things to see inside Georgia Aquarium

Deepo’s Undersea 3D Wondershow

Treasures of the Sea (Gift Shop and Exit)

I left Georgia Aquarium just few minutes after 8PM in the evening. Then, I walked back to my hotel via MARTA Train. And that time I hopped on the train at Peachtree Center Station, therefore, I walked a bit in Peachtree Street and took some photos in that part of Downtown before ending my last night in Atlanta.

Peachtree Center where I took MARTA train going back to my hotel near at the airport.

Notes: 1. Plan to visit Georgia Aquarium ? – Please check latest information here 2. Entrance Fee – Please check here for latest updates Note: If you plan to visit other tourist spots in Atlanta, I suggest to get Atlanta City Pass to get discounted prices. 3. Public Transportation Ticket – Use MARTA Breese Card,  here’s the official website, here’s alternative site for the card 4. Directions to Georgia Aquarium using train : If you will ride within Red Line or Gold Line regardless which station you will come from, just remember to get-off at Peachtree Center Station. If you will ride in any of Blue or Green Line, you are required to transfer at Five Points Station and take Red or Gold Line and get off at Peachtree Center Station. At Peachtree Street, turn Right until you reach Baker Street NW and turn left towards Pemberton Place.

It’s all about Georgia Aquarium Warning!!! This post describes experience while visiting Georgia Aquarium last November 2015. What I saw at that time may probably different right now as the aquarium went to renovations and improvements for the past two years.

Your Brief And Far-Out Guide To Afrofuturism

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Your Brief And Far-Out Guide To Afrofuturism

“Time is that this really fluid factor. Now’s now, however the past has become and also the future too.”&nbsp

This is the way curator and anthropologist Niama Safia Sandy describes the main concept of Afrofuturism, a cultural aesthetic mixing aspects of sci-fi, magical realism and African history.

The artistic, musical and literary movement is frequently tracked to jazz composer and cosmic philosopher Sun Ra, who, attending college within the 1930s, were built with a hallucinatory experience of that they was kidnapped, introduced to planet Saturn and proven a prophetic future.

“My entire body altered into another thing. I saw through myself. And That I increased … I wasn’t in human form … I arrived on the planet which i recognized as Saturn … they teleported i and me was lower on [a] stage together. They wanted to talk to me. They’d one little antenna on every ear. Just a little antenna over each eye. They spoken in my experience.Inch

However the actual term Afrofuturism was initially utilized by critic Mark Dery in the 1994 essay “Black towards the Future,”&nbspwhich examined why there have been so couple of black sci-fi authors at that time, because of the genre’s inextricable links to another and existence around the margins.

“Can a residential area whose past continues to be deliberately applied out, and whose powers have subsequently been consumed by the quest for legible traces of their history, imagine possible futures?” Dery asks within the text.&nbsp”In addition, isn&rsquot the unreal estate for the future already of the technocrats, futurologists, streamliners, and hang designers — white-colored to some man — who’ve engineered our collective fantasies?”

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Afrofuturism is frequently considered like a cultural genre or style, a re-imagining of African tradition that projects techno-advanced options. However for Sandy, the movement is greater than a literary genre — it’s real existence.&nbsp”It&rsquos not only an ideological factor, it&rsquos how people live,” Sandy described towards the Huffington Publish. “Magical realism can be used to speak about literature from the other, literature from virtually everywhere except free airline. However I want to isn&rsquot only a literary genre, it&rsquos the way we comprehend the earth&nbsp– an ambulatory cosmology, the way we undertake the planet.Inch

Sandy describes how — with the lens of Afrofuturism — certain myths, signs, colors and feelings have grown to be like literary symbols to become decoded. How background and nature have grown to be texts to become construed.&nbsp”Becoming an adult, when we walked outdoors also it was sunny and out of the blue it began raining, to my mother, that will mean something,” she states. “It&rsquos this imbued in everything that you simply do. That’s something that’s been passed lower to all of us through generations through our ancestors.”

Within the last 2 yrs, Sandy continues to be curating an exhibit known as “Black Magic: AfroPasts/AfroFutures,” featuring multidisciplinary visual artists in the African Diaspora. Photographers just like a. Delphine Fawundu deconstruct ideas for example black femininity, exploring its relationship to memory and history in her own photographs, a few of which were photographed around the plantation where Nat Turner’s Rebellion happened. “There’s lots of searching back and searching forward happening within this work,” Sandy stated. “Celebrating individuals journeys whether or not they are intentional or forced journeys.”

Beyond Fawundu, artist like Roger Bonair-Agard contributed video installations and poems, like&nbsp”How the World Was Made — a Super Crown.” Bonair-Agard’s poem involves the standard West African character Anansi&nbsp–&nbspa spider, a god, along with a figure utilized in children’s fables told all over the diaspora. “Within the poem, he’s Anansi, finding out how to move from as being a spider to as being a person,” Sandy stated. “It connects these ideas in the folklore and tales we have developed with.”

Delphine Fawundu, Mende Lady around the Nat Turner Plantation, South Hampton, Veterans administration #8, 2014. In the photographer’s Deconstructing SHE series / ODDKINCREATE, THINK AHEAD, 2013 MIXED MEDIA

Within an exhibition statement, Sandy summarizes the essence from the exhibition, an enchanting conjuring of past and offer forces: “Intersections of history, present and future grounded within the magic which was already within the soil, in mid-air, handed down by our ancestors through breath, bonds, bloodstream, ritual well as we discovered the Atlantic many of these many occasions. We feature it around wheresoever we go — this abundant color, rhythm, swagger … Due to this, we hear and see magic in everything across water, space and time.”&nbsp

Awaiting her “Black Magic” exhibition, Sandy shared a few of her favorite authors, artists and musicians adding towards the Afrofuturist vision. Continue reading for any far-out summary of the ruling makers of black magic.&nbsp

Octavia Butler,&nbspauthor

“Who shall we be held? I’m a forty-seven-year-old author who are able to remember as being a ten-year-old author and who expects at some point to become an 80-year-old author. I’m also easily asocial — a hermit … A pessimist if I am not careful, a feminist, a Black, an old Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.”

Books to see:&nbspKindred, Parable from the Sower, Fledgling

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American sci-fi author Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006).

Ytasha Womack, author

“Mainstream feminism may need a feeling of balance that Afrofuturism has around expression. Afrofuturism is extremely nonconformist and often I feel like mainstream feminism wants women to convey their liberation in very specific methods to particularly counter damaging narratives produced by men. Afrofuturism doesn&rsquot create towards anything. Consequently, women Afrofuturists can do what they need and just how that turns up is distinctively individual …&nbspSelf-expression in Afrofuturism isn’t about making a statement, it’s about being.“

Book to see:&nbspAfrofuturism: The field of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture

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Steven Barnes, author

“His mate Lamiya lay sunning around the hardwood deck using their kids, Aliyah and Azinza. Lamiya herself was descended in the Afar people around the shore of Lake Abbe in Old Djibouti. Just one aged servant, Yohela, had supported her about this trip, yet her hair, braided and beaded in to the intricate patterns usual for the Afar, never bore exactly the same configuration 2 days consecutively. 4 years Kai’s senior, Lamiya is at both face and make up the most stylishly sensual lady Kai had seen, and that he had admired her since childhood.” -from Zulu Heart

Books to see: Lion’s Bloodstream, Zulu Heart

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Nnedi Okorafor, author

“I&rsquove always had difficulty covering space. I’m greatly an earthling. I don&rsquot see myself ever departing the earth as i am alive (I might become more adventurous once i die, heh). There’s a lot yet to uncover (and connect) on the planet, why look elsewhere? And my spiritual beliefs and also the systems of magic I&rsquom drawn to are earth-based, born and rooted deep within the soil. They aren’t within the ‘heavens.’ Also, after i talk about something, I must get and feel near to the subject. Irrrve never feel near to &ldquospace&rdquo, no matter how much research I do.“

Book to see:&nbspWho Fears Dying

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Maryse Cond&eacute, author&nbsp

“Paradise isn’t for me personally, I imagine an afterlife where we are able to express all of the feelings and needs we’ve needed to stifle during our lifetime: an afterlife where we’d be free finally to become ourselves. Since I had been little, I&rsquove wondered when the Christian religion isn’t a white-colored-folks religion designed for white-colored-folks, whether or not this&rsquos suitable for us who’ve African bloodstream within our veins.” -from&nbspWindward Heights&nbsp

Books to see:&nbspWindward Heights, Segu

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Ellen Gallagher, artist

“The main one area that is sensible to speak about race within my jobs are my concept of the subjective. Many people can stand before my work not getting any relationship into it, yet others can see the twelve signs, making cohesive readings according to either the formal or subjective characteristics they see. Whenever you make something, you permit yourself readings which are sometimes mistaken. Being an artist I&rsquom creating fiction on the top of the existing readability. It&rsquos that which you spoken about doing whenever you were a child with Colorforms or things i did like a kid, stapling layers of paper costumes onto my dolls, that improvisational layering, implying call and response. It&rsquos not about audience. There&rsquos a friction between your material made to be highjacked. It’s improvisational to create another readability through blindness, through a private act on hand with imagination.”

See much more of her work here.

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Artist Ellen Gallagher in the Institute Of Recent Art.

Underdog, artist

“My work is simply a method to recontextualize and stretch a persons eye.&nbspI flirt with images and produce them in to the ‘now chapter’ of reaffirming and envisioning ourselves.&nbspI would like to break peoples hearts and reassemble them in a single image.”

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Cyrus Kabiru, artist

“Becoming an artist, for me personally, was which i would be a digital rebel — I had been a little rude to everybody. I don&rsquot care. I don&rsquot follow what individuals want — I follow things i want. I don&rsquot enjoy people. I wish to go my very own way. And So I try everything the alternative to other people, plus they feel this person is a little a digital rebel. After I would be a young boy, grownups thought I had been a poor example. They accustomed to tell their children, ‘Work hard. Should you won&rsquot strive, you&rsquoll end up like Cyrus.’ I had been completely different. I had been forever in the house, doing art, painting and making sculptures, with no one understood things i was doing. I didn&rsquot study, I used shaggy clothes. For them it had been a little weird. I didn&rsquot know Sunday, I didn&rsquot know Monday, I didn&rsquot know.&nbspIn Africa, we live in a package.” 

See much more of his work here.

Thanks to the artist and SMAC Gallery

Cyrus Kabiru

Lina Viktor, artist

“I&rsquove been obsessive about gold. I believe humanity in general happens to be obsessive about gold. It&rsquos been valued and revered and sacred. It&rsquos a kind of commerce now. I&rsquom some an astrophysics nerd I truly love stuff concerning the world and researching the foundation of metals. I understand that gold, for instance, is made of the dying of the star — a supernova. So essentially, all of the gold which has have you been found on the planet today are only able to easily fit in three Olympic-sized pools. It&rsquos really a percentage — it&rsquos a really scarce resource, hence why, I&rsquom sure, it’s a lot value. However I think there’s something a lot more implicit in the need for gold — if you notice gold, real gold, it features a kind of emotional quotient into it that you could&rsquot really get if you use fake gold. There’s an emotional reaction when people see real gold.“

See much more of her work here.

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Lina Viktor

Sun Ra, composer, poet, philosopher

&ldquoI&rsquom a fantasy, I&rsquom exactly like you. You don&rsquot appear in this society. Should you did, your people wouldn&rsquot be seeking equal legal rights.&nbspYou&rsquore a fantasy. Should you be, you&rsquod possess some status one of the nations around the globe. I don’t come your way like a reality, I come your way like a myth because that&rsquos what black individuals are: myths. I originate from an aspiration the black man imagined lengthy ago.&nbspI&rsquom really a name delivered to you against your ancestors.&rdquo -From&nbspSpace is where

Books to see:&nbspThe Earth Is Condemned

Janelle Mon&aacutee, music performer

“I am a cybergirl with no face a heart or perhaps a mind /&nbsp(an item from the man, I am an item from the man) /&nbspI’m a saviour with no race (with no face).” -from “Purple Stars Happy Hunting“

Albums: “The ArchAndroid,” “The Electrical Lady”

Ibeyi, musicians

“Carry away my dead leaves Allow me to baptize my soul with the aid of your waters Sink my pains and complains Allow the river bring them, river drown them My ego and my blame Allow me to baptize my soul with the aid of your waters Individuals old means, so ashamed Allow the river bring them, river drown them” -from “River”

Albums: “Ibeyi”

Blitz The Ambassador, music performer

“I have always felt hip-hop like a culture has not really yet accepted its worldwide roots.&nbspThe more I traveled, the greater I recognized that you have a specific role that I have to be playing, which role is all about bridging gaps and expanding the culture that I have been so fortunate enough to take part in. That’s why I went with the Ambassador.“

Albums: “Soul Digital rebel,” “Diasporadical”

“Black Magic: AfroPasts/AfroFutures,” curated by Niama Safia Sandy,&nbspruns from April 24 until May 22, 2016 at Corridor Gallery in Brooklyn, New You are able to.

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Recent Updates

These are all the recent changes I’ve made to my big list, which you can find here: https://myth-lord.tumblr.com/post/170870848094/final-monsterenemies-list

I’ve also removed the Zlatorog and the Tsemaus from the list. Zlatorog will join with the good-natured creatures, Tsemaus is replaced by the Sverdhvalur. 

Akheilos, Utelif (M-European) – Beast / Fish   - While these monstrous sharks have less evolved teeth, the giant saw-like nose of these fish is feared by even the most brave of sailors.

Akkorokamui (Japanese) – Aberration / Cephalopod   - Enormous octopi which use their eight powerful tentacles to hunt for whales and humanoids in the depths of the dark oceans.   Akkorokamui, Migas (African) – Aberration / Cephalopod - This stalking machine often uses one of its fifty tentacles to drag prey into its calm waters turning it into a splash of tentacles, blood and gore. Akkorokamui, Lusca (Caribbean) – Aberration / Cephalopod   - Lusca love to live in and around black holes in the oceans, where the oceans reach the deepest.  

Alraune (German) – Plant - Enormous roses which crave the blood of other creatures and which grow humanoid clones to lure prey into their thorny vines. Alraune, Abere (Melanesian) – Plant - Clever and cunning carnivorous plants which grow beautiful humanoid clones to lure in foolish prey.

Amarok (Inuit) – Beast - Enforcers of Darkness and the night, these giant wolves will hunt and kill anybody foolish enough to travel at night. Amarok, Akhlut (Inuit) – Beast - A magical force of nature, these shapeshifters can shift between the forms of killer whale and giant black & white wolves.

Caspilly, Swamfisk (Swedish) – Beast / Fish / Ooze / Parasite - These deep sea horror fish use their own stinking ooze-like flesh to lure in prey, the oozy flesh will eat the victim from inside. Caspilly, Marool (English) – Demon / Fish - When they come to the surface they attract sailors by giving away a beautiful but haunting light-show underneath the waters of the ocean. 

Cirein Croin (Scottish) – Dragon / Sea Serpent / Shifter   - These beautiful female sea serpents use their beguiling polymorph ability to appear as a beautiful and small silver fish or mermaid.  

Cuero, Vatnsandi (Icelandic) – Aberration / Fish   - Also known as the mothers of rays, these enormous manta-like creatures are as majestic as they are vile.  

Cyclops (Greek) – Humanoid / Giant   - These one-eyed giants keep herds of sheep or humans and are good metalworkers. Cyclops, Bungisngis (Philippine) – Humanoid / Giant - Enormous savage Cyclops species which destroy more than they create, their huge fangs are too big to fit in their abominable mouths.   Cyclops, Papinijuwari (Australian) – Aberration / Giant / Alien - These monstrous blue-skinned Cyclopean giants race through the sky in the forms of meteors, anywhere they crash down, diseases spread. 

Dorotabo (Japanese) – Elemental / Spirit - Created when a human dies within nature and its body doesn’t get a proper burial, the spirit will taint the mud beneath it and create a new elemental. Dorotabo, Ahi At-Trab (Arabian) – Elemental - These living sandstorms are created when an entire caravan perishes together, the spirits of the deceased bound to the hot desert sands. Dorotabo, Land Wight (Norse) – Elemental / Spirit - It is almost impossible to kill a Land Wight as their extreme regeneration will heal any wound that is inflicted to their earth-like bodies. 

Ebajalg (Estonian) – Elemental / Spirit - Capable size-shifters, these dangerous air elementals can appear as a small dust devil or as an enormous hurricane at will. Ebajalg, Hala (Serbian) – Elemental / Spirit - Evil wind and cold elementals, Hala combine the forces of hail, air and snow into a dangerous living whirlwind of frozen death. Ebajalg, Iya (Native American) – Elemental / Spirit - These evil air elementals have a more humanoid shape and greater intelligence, one of these can destroy an entire town. 

Enenra (Japanese) – Elemental / Spirit - To kill a victim, these cruel smoke elementals simple enter the lungs of their victims, slowly choking them to death. 

Erymanthian (Greek) – Beast - Always irritated, always aggressive, always in a bad mood, Erymanthians are probably the most nasty of all boar species. Erymanthian, Bonguru (Solomon Island) – Beast - These boars bodies function as living hives for aggressive hornet-like creatures and for all types of parasitic fungi which grow from their backs.

Fossegrim, Katsura-Otoko (Japanese) – Fae / Nymph - During full moons these charismatic male nymphs with their pink hair come down from their hidden moon castle to hunt for beautiful victims. 

Gegenees, Virabhadra (Hindu) – Humanoid / Giant - These beautiful eight-armed giant women are actually the female variants of the Gegenees species, each of their 8 hands hold different weapons.

Goblin, Amadan (Irish) – Fae - Mostly used as fools and jesters by Unseelie leaders, these nasty goblinoids can make a victim laugh itself to death.  

Gulon (Swedish) – Beast - Also known as Dire Wolverines, these voracious eaters have been known to eat themselves to death.   Gulon, Taotie (Chinese) – Aberration / Alien - There are ancient legends about these gluttons, which tell about entire planets being stripped of all life by these voracious eaters. 

Hrokkall (Icelandic) – Undead / Fish - These undead eels with razor sharp saw-like fins love to cut through living flesh, separating limbs from bodies with ease. 

Hyakume (Japanese) – Aberration - These fat, many-eyed monsters love to collect information and secrets, they can send their eyes on spy missions.

Inulpamahuida (Mapuche) – Beast / Vermin - These large stick-like vermin fake being fallen trees to lure smaller creatures into a deadly trap. 

Itzpapalotl (Aztec) – Fae / Vermin - While these giant black and purple butterflies look beautiful, they gather around in places where death’s energies are strong.

Jba Fofi, Djieien (Native American) – Beast / Vermin - They are born with necrotic blood, which means they automatically rise as undead solifugid when they die. Jba Fofi, Jorogumo (Japanese) – Fae / Vermin / Shifter - All types of arachnids are drawn to their lairs, fighting a Jorogumo always means fighting an eight-legged army. Jba Fofi, Tsuchigumo (Japanese) – Demon / Oni / Vermin - When the spirit of an Oni enters the body of a Jba Fofi, they transform into one of these dangerous trapdoor spiders.

Jubokko (Japanese) – Plant / Vampire - Trees growing near battlefields and which drink a lot of blood instead of water are eventually corrupted into these vampire trees. Jubokko, Umdhlebi (African) – Plant / Vampire - A very nasty and dangerous tree which drinks the blood of its victims and which is extremely poisonous. Jubokko, Waldgeist (German) – Plant / Vampire - Instead of blood these horrifying trees drain the spirits of their victims, these spirits become the trees guardians.  

Karkinos (Greek) – Beast / Vermin - A blue, aggressive crab the size of a big dog, one of their pincers is much larger than the other. Karkinos, Heikegani (Japanese) – Demon / Oni / Vermin - Whenever a creature attacks a Heikegani, the trapped spirit of a samurai will appear with a spiritual sword and attack the soul of the attacker. Karkinos, Traicousse (Belgian) – Fae / Vermin - Bizarre green crab-like monstrosities with countless pincers and legs, these Fae vermin claim entire rivers as their own.   Karkinos, Saratan (Arabian) – Beast / Vermin - These enormous Hermit Crabs place rocks, plants and earth on their backs to merge with their surroundings and hunt for prey.  

Lamia, Ajatar (Finnish) – Demon / Beastman / Reptilian - After biting a victim, the poison of these winged snake-women will transform the victim into a new demon. 

Leshy (Slavic) – Fae / Shifter - These plant-like tricksters love riddles, and may remove their cruel plant-curses from victims that can tell them a good riddle. Leshy, Kayeri (Colombia) – Fae / Shifter - These nature spirits protect the mushrooms, toadstools and other fungi, they harvest their deadly spores to use against their enemies. 

Manticore, Sphinx (Greek) – Beast / Chimerae - These cruel monsters love to toy with intelligent prey before they eat them, answering their difficult riddles will gain their respect. Manticore, Piasa (Native American) – Beast / Chimerae / Shifter - These are the offspring of Sphinxes and Manticores, these creatures can become like a living cave painting on the wall. 

Nguruvilu (Mapuche) – Beast / Chimerae / Reptilian - Extremely evasive creatures, these Fox-Snakes are almost impossible to hit with ranged attacks. 

Peryton (M-European) – Beast / Chimerae   - Their humanoid shadows betray their tragic pasts, Peryton were once cruel humans and were cursed into the forms of these killers.

Rat King (German) – Beast - These giant rat creatures are covered by swarms of smaller rats, these swarms form a living barrier around the Rat King. Rat King, Lavellan (Scottish) – Beast - These deformed giant rats spread a deadly poison through the air with their poisonous aura’s. Rat King, ColoColo (Mapuche) – Beast - These monstrous rats feed on the breath and saliva of sleeping creatures, it becomes harder to breath when these horrors are near.  

Succarath (Patagonian) – Aberration - Their many young are protected by their huge hairy tails, a Succaraths psychic abilities are enhanced by every young that is carries on its back.

Tiyanak, Myling (Finnish) – Undead - Looking like five year old children, these undead horrors jump on the backs of their victims and then increase their weight to crush the life out of them. Tiyanak, Munkur (Turkish) – Undead / Parasite - These horrifying undead children grow from the bellies of huge monstrous ogres, they command their ogre-hosts to choke the life out of victims. 

Unhcegila (Native American) – Dragon / Alien - These vile horned lake dragons love to toy with their humanoid prey, they use their antlers and horns in battle. Unhcegila, Amhuluk (Native American) – Dragon / Alien - Amhuluk corrupt the lakes in which they settle, turning the waters into a mutant goo which mutates any creature that drinks from it. Unhcegila, Gaasyendietha (Native American) – Dragon / Alien - Gaasyendietha travel the cosmos in the form of a burning meteorite, crashing down on random planets and reaping away all life they find. 

Valravn, Nachtkrapp (German) – Undead / Avian   - If a Valravn by accident devours the heart of an evil individual they perish and their corpse grows into a huge crawling monstrous raven.

Ziphius (M-European) – Beast - These small whale creatures use their extremely sharp beaks to break the shells of giant clams and the bones of other creatures. Ziphius, Hrosshvalur (Icelandic) – Beast - Also known as Horse-Whales as they have so much power, Hrosshvalur use their heads as battering-ram against the ships they hate.   Ziphius, Sverdhvalur (Icelandic) – Beast - These bizarre whale monsters have an enormous sharp dorsal fin, which with they can cut boats and other creatures clean in half. . Ziphius, Skeljungur (Icelandic) – Beast - Enormous monstrous whales which are covered in hard shell-like barnacles, they let ships crash against their bulky bodies. 

Zombie, Draugr (Norse) – Undead / Shifter - While most Draugr spawn in the sea as groups, there are also solitary Draugr that haunt lonely swamps and lakes. Zombie, Mummy (Egyptian) – Undead - Ancient, monstrous undead which command the very sands of the desert to do their horrid bidding.