Literally-just-moss - Danimals

I love shrews because they’re such strange little guys. They have the largest brain-to-body ratio of any vertebrate and some species can even be toxic. Anyway, give it up for these weird little guys!

Also, shoutout to anyone else that loves rodents and other strange little guys. Let’s be friends.

If I put a white pigeon in the bottom right, I win

A list of some beaver facts:

1. There are currently only two species of beaver: the North American beaver and Eurasion beaver. However, there's an extinct genus of beaver that existed during the ice age called the giant beaver and they could get as big as a black bear.

2. Some Eurasian beavers have been found to hold sticks and jump up and down (stick display) to communicate to and warn others about territory boundaries.

3. The basic social unit for beavers is a family consisting of the parents and several children and they live in and maintain lodges made out of logs. One family can maintain one or more lodges in their dam.

4. The entrance to a beaver lodge is underwater and is made by the beavers chewing tunnels into the bottom of their lodges. The inside of the lodge is elevated above the water. Oftentimes,the lodges will have to platforms—one for eating and grooming and one for sleeping.

5. Not only do beavers chew down trees for their dams and lodges, but they can also eat the inner tree bark and twigs.

6. Beavers will build and repair dams when they hear running water. Researchers proved this by playing recordings of running water to beavers.

Love that one of the America's most important keystone species is a fucked up rat with anxiety

(Beavers are the world's second largest rodent and I could probably talk abt then all day)

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what is your all time favorite predator? and prey animal?

Idk if I have any absolute favorites, but I have some I think are funny. For predators, I think archer fish are pretty funny because, like, wdym a fish learned how to nerf its prey? For prey, I have an unwavering obsession with beavers.

Also, I’m scared of seagulls because I had to fist fight one for my food once and I lost.

Spotted skunks do handstands when trapped or startled! Here’s a skunk I drew 🦨

I am covered in hickies how am I supposed to be a respected scientist looking like this!?!

Don't be sad babe, look at this funny photo of a kakapo.

Porcelain crabs aren’t actually crabs! They’re another one of those freaks who has achieved the ideal body shape and gone through carcinization (becoming crab-like)!! All hail the crab!