🌊 WHALE SHARK 🌊
Scientific Name: Rhincodon typus
Family: Rhincodontidae
Class: Fish
Status: Endangered
Length: 18-33 ft. (5.5-10 m)
Weight: 41,000 lbs (18,597 kg)
Lifespan: 60-100+ years
Origin: Open waters of tropical oceans and is rarely found in water below 70 °F / 21 °C
Diet: Krill, jellyfish and crab larvae, which are strained from the water through their gills by gill rakers
Behavior: Despite they're size they're very gentle and safe to be around! They swim slowly, no faster than 5 kph and are solitary, only coming together occasionally during plankton blooms or mass coral spawnings. Not much is known about how they communicate, but researchers think they do so through vibrations since sharks have very good hearing especially at lower frequencies.
Offspring: Whale shark eggs hatch while inside their mother. A mother shark will give birth to about 300 pups.
ANIMAL CARD REQUESTS: OPEN
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stray dragon (acrylic & digital ‘24)
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Goldfish exploring a rotting rib cage. Inspired by a fish bowl shaped like a torso that I saw while out with friends.
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sockeye salmon animation for day 2 ^_^!!!
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Man, I been writing quite a bit about Izzy Hands and toxic masculinity and his arc with that and here's the thing: the arc DOES NOT WORK if you just pretend he does not have a huge amount of deeply complicated internalized homophobia. His hatred of Stede and Lucius in Season 1 is about their masculine presentation and their not falling into and remaining in the correct categories and he makes that everyone else's problem because he's been warped by a painfully toxic masculine culture. The arc is about showing how horrific that culture is and how it nearly KILLS not just Ed, but the entire crew including Izzy himself, and how being freed from all those assumptions literally saves them. The whole dang thing is poison into positivity, but if you don't accept that the poison exists, that the gangrenous limb has to come off, then positivity isn't going to do shit.
I dunno, man, it makes me mad that such a fantastic and complicated arc has been just ignored or explained away by some folks because they don't want this angry, unhappy white man to be an actual antagonist who finds redemption.
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this meme is about catfish evolution, catching catfish, eating catfish, invasive catfish, and catfish cannibalism
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local high school agriculture teacher released her non native pet turtles into a river
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A very rare and elusive digital doodle of mine that only happens every 1000 years. Have a random shark, reposting is prohibited. <3
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