-
Nudibranch nudibranch nudibranch nudibranch!
Nudibranchs are all carnivores. Most of them (all of them, if in too dense an area) are cannibalistic. Some of these very cool/scary invertebrates even actively hunt down Portuguese Man o’ Wars for food…you know, the ones that have the second most painful sting of any sea creatures? Yeah, they eat those, and take the nematocysts that make up the tentacles for their own protection.
Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London. 1906.
-
Galago crassicaudatus [syn. Otolemur crassicaudatus] - Greater Galago, aka the Thick-Tailed Bushbaby
Superficial musculature of the Bushbaby - This is the largest of the galagos and lorises, and a good generic example of the Galagidae.
I love bushbabies for how they raise their infants. The mother of course stays in the trees when her infant is a newborn so that it doesn’t get eaten by predators, but after just 6-8 days (while the infant is pretty much unable to move by itself and can barely see), the mom brings it with her while she feeds. I totally get the need to eat, but she carries it around in her mouth…and sets it down on a branch while she eats o_O There was a BBC show that had bushbabies on it, and two separate infants fell off the branch onto the ground….they both survived, but still! Every other primate has their baby hanging on like a good infant that doesn’t want to die! Why are you putting yours on a branch when they can barely move, but can just squirm enough to fall off?!
Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Volume VII. 1872.
