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why-animals-do-the-thing:

merswine:

crecrecreature:

ignem-aeternum:

Found this and thought y’all would appreciate it 😂 I call it “The Flight of the Scallops”
If anyone knows where this is from please add a link because this is awesome .

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of many things in this world, i still can’t believe scallops are real

It’s so weird to thinking of scallops swimming, but they totally do. It’s accomplished by clapping their shells together forcefully, which propels a jet of water out of the back on either side of the hinge – do it enough times in quick succession, and you’ve got forward momentum! 

This looks like a whole bunch of scallops trying to run away from the potential predator (the diver). I have no idea if this is a normal response since I’ve never dove in places where they lived. Normally, they’ll use swimming as a way to get away from potential predators that are harassing them a little too much for comfort. 

aquaristlifeforme:

goldfishgalaxy:

Here is the first trial of Bisquick’s new enrichment! This is the Wurm Ball. The general idea of enrichment is to make Bisquick’s life as interesting and fun as possible, and that includes new ways of offering him food! This is a slightly modified ping pong ball which I then stuffed with red wigglers (his favorite). So instead of just eating the worms as I toss them in he can engage his brain in how to get the worms out of the ball. I started off with a few big holes as you can see, and it was unsurprisingly very easy for him to figure out the general gist of it. This was his first interaction with it, so it’s really neat to see him investigate the ball in the beginning. Trail II will use a pingpong with more worms and smaller holes, that is if I can get the worms into smaller holes. I do apologize for the shaky camera, I’m not 100% used to using my DSLR for video applications.

For those of you who have not yet met Bisquick he is a species of freshwater stingray (Potamotrygon motoro).  Although he is currently small and cute this species (as well as many others) grow to incredibly large sizes; this combined with the fact that they are venomous means they are not for inexperienced keepers. I strongly encourage the average person to merely visit the stingrays at their local aquarium rather than going out and purchasing one. 

Ok. This is really really cool.