Can we have a thread for aquatic animals that are not fish? Post

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This image has been with me for some time

No idea if it's even real

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>>2335747
Is a baby cowfish. They're normally just clear, the purple is caused by the light from the camera.

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salp is love
salp is life

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>Post crustaceans and cephalopods.

But...

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Just becaus I really enjoy these guys

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>>2335759

Every time I see this guy I just want his T-Shirt.

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>>2335740
>aquatic animals that are not fish
well looks like this is a /herp/ thread now

>>2335773
dragonfly nymph?

>>2335759
Be nice if there were land woodlice that got as big as giant isopods that could be kept as pets.

>>2335772
PLOT TWIST

>>2335772
>"wow that octopuses camouflage is so impress-"
>"FUCK"

>>2335761
Rule #1 of ocean critters: If it's obvious, it's poisonous.
Rule #2 of ocean critters: If it's not obvious, it's poisonous.

Just assume everything under water is some how poisonous.

>>2336288
a lot of stuff is lethally sharp rather than poisonous.

>>2336289
Just don't touch anything underwater. Like, ever.

Octopuses are usually chill, tho.

t. Scuba Diver

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>>2336291
You can touch nostoc colonies without too much harm.

>>2336296
Until you disturb a bobbit worm/other ambush predator that is hiding there.

Hell, even just finding discarded sea urchin spines can be painful as fuck.

>>2336291
>anything
Not even the water?

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>>2336304
Thanks to the Irukandji jellyfish, not even the water is safe.

Remember, underwater, everything is poison.

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>>2335901
>dragonfly nymph?

Seems so.

>>2335789
Cajun Dwarfs, correct? How do these guys compare to dwarf shrimp in terms of care and temperament?

>>2335772
What the fuck was that

>>2336620
Pretty cool lookin nope you have there

>>2335752
What are those?

>>2336666
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudibranch

>>2336663
*reddits*

>>2336667
That is amazing

>>2335759
>WE REQUIRE MORE MINERALS

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>>2335901

>>2335772
>Learn about the ocean and the fascinating animals that live there, when you order ZOOBOOKS!

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>>2336979

>>2336433
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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>>2336979
>>2336982
fug I remember that

>>2335769
Ayyyy

>>2336620

Fukushima sushi...

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>>2335740
right

>>2335752
:3

>>2336459
Some kind of flounder I guess

>>2337973
that's from a horror movie, not real

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>>2338116
>not real

You fucking wish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua

>>2336694
Fucking lost

>>2338122
They exist but anon was saying that that gif was taken from a horror movie

>>2338122
The one in the movie is a scaled down Bathynomus giganteus. The real one is smaller, soft and can barely move on land.

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>>2338115
I like that pokemon

>>2338129
I have been rused!
What movie?

>>2338134
The Bay

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>>2336666
Nice quads dude.

>>2335762
What the fuck? Some kind of janky Crinoid?

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>>2336694
:o

>>2338161
Yep.
Not sure on the exact species. Just some kind of feather star swimming about.

>>2338161
Probably.

>janky

I think it's quite pretty.

>>2335773
Holy fuck. Those arms.

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>>2337685
lamo

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>>2338169
Those aren't arms.

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>>2338167
Janky in the most beautiful way :)

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>>2338166
Very neat. No idea they could do that.

>>2338174
Jesus fuck. That's terrifying but also really, really neat.

>>2338176
Well they were the original inspiration for the Alien. And yes, they do have anus propulsion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkOpWKyM_go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W557aSVdW_g

>>2338160
Satan quads are best quads

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>>2338177
>Well they were the original inspiration for the Alien.

Really?

I always believed it was this

Inner jaws dont really come out though

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>>2338177
Thank you so much. That's awesome.

>>2338180
Giger mixed a lot of stuff. The moray jaws you showed, the dragonfly nymphs and parasitic wasps for the whole pregnancy thing and many others.

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Best Cephalopod Coming Through

>>2335773
Insects are crustaceans.

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>>2338199

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>>2338199
Fight me.

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>>2338211
>>2338215

https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/55/5/765/604304/Linking-Insects-with-Crustacea-Physiology-of-the


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancrustacea

>>2338195
Where can I find high res pic like that? I want to see its skin closer.

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>>2338221
>"the hexapods have been shown to be evolutionarily derived from basal crustaceans, and the clade Pancrustacea recognizes this relationship"
>"Pancrustacea is a clade, comprising all crustaceans and hexapods."
>"Hurr durr Insects are crustaceans".

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>>2338233
Hexapoda are deeply nested WITHIN Crustacea, not a sister group to them, so the name Crustacea still applies to the entire group by definition. The new name "Pancrustacea" was created because the entomologists got butthurt.

It's like calling reptiles "Panreptilia" because we realized birds have to be included. Luckily the ornithologists weren't as buttblasted about it.

>>2338240
>the ornithologists weren't as buttblasted about it.
because there's less than 50 of them and nobody cares what they think.

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>>2338249

>>2338249
>>2338251
Holy shit, thanks.
That is so out of here.

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>>2338266
Out of where?

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>>2338243
The fuck you say, bitch?

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>>2338529
>maining one shot johnny
shitter

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>>2338536
Your image shows different amphipods, the thin one is known as a ghost shrimp. Attaches itself to seaweed with the back legs and then grabs prey like a mantis with the front legs. This image >>2338529
shows a sea spider, which is quite different. They are thought to be Chelicerates but we're not entirely sure.

>>2338594
Sea tomato

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>>2338529
Sea spiders are fucking wack. Like, what even.

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>>2338605
They even come in beetlejuice flavor.

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post cute squids, lads

>>2338596
That thing looks like something I made in the game Spore when I put too many mantid legs on the front.

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>>2338616

>>2335766
What the fuck?

>>2335772
did he dead?

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>>2338846
Pyrostremma spinosum

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>>2338844
TRIPLE DUBS
(btw I love Melibes)

>>2338852
>Pyrostremma spinosum
Holy shit it's fucking real
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EQGA_4BZ5s

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>>2339255

Thinking about picking up a bamboo shrimp again soon, they're delightful little creatures if you've never owned one. Watching them feed is really fun.

Anyone else own any?

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>>2335740

Thats the cutest goddam thing Ive seen in weeks.

>>2339255

That made interesting reading, ty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitoky

I didnt realize such things existed. It reminds me of how the Aliens reproduced in those movies. I'd have never guessed such reproduction could be real.

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>>2338603

Is it mortally wounded or will the halves regenerate, do you think?

I saw these all over South Beach

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>>2338609

lel

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>>2339255
>>2339328
Wat is

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>>2339569

This board is such an adventure. To come to a 4chan board and discover such wondrous life forms on my own planet that I never knew existed.

I often discover more things here than I do at zoos.

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>>2339569
See >>2339387
Polychaetes are weird.

Any scubadivers here?

>>2335773
why on earth is there no real precedent for keeping aquatic insects? I want to do that so fucking bad.

>>2339688
I am

>>2339729
>>2339729
I haven't done scuba diving but I would fucking love to
How do I get started?
I heard you need to rain for a scuba diving liscense?

Planet Earth is fucked up. The sea has stuff that's just as alien looking as anything we can find out in space.

>>2335769
What are these called? They look like faries/aliens. Its rad as fuck.

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I have been waiting for this moment!

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>>2339688
Yeeeeeee boi

>>2339706
http://shop.bugsincyberspace.com/Aquatics_c11.htm

They don't even require good water quality—just live prey for the predators.

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>>2339742
www.naui.org
www.padi.com

Those are the two biggest instructing associations. I like NAUI more and am certified with them, but PADI's bigger. They basically do the same things—check their website and I'm sure there'll be a place for you to start getting certified nearby unless you live in a literal shithole.

You should totally get certified though—getting certified can be kind of a pain, and the bookwork's annoying, but it's SO worth it. Being able to breathe and swim around underwater is such a cool feeling, and you get to see so much more than snorkelers could dream of.

>>2339345
>>2339501
Wait what. Octopi have parachutes now?

>>2338148
FHTAGN

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>>2339729
>>2339824
Nice!
Where did your best dive happened? What's your favourite underwater animal? Have you actually met it?

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Obligatory

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>>2339688
Yep but i have less than 15 dives. Sea-sickness drove me away but i plan to come back.
>>2340025
At night, the colors are amazing.
I don't have but i met pic related and that boy is fucking huge.
>>2339742
>I heard you need to rain for a scuba diving liscense?
What do you mean?
>>2339839
It's a cape, they are super-heroes.

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>>2339816
Is a siphonophore, Rhizophysa sp.
Basically, instead of being one big jelly, the whole thing is a colony of little tiny bits.

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>>2339839
Wouldn't you carry a fleshy blanket around too, if you could?

>>2340039
Nice beast! Getting the colours right is always an issue. At some point, I might invest in decent lighting to snap good pictures. Otherwise, it is hard to explain to surface people how beautiful it is.
That said, I have never done a night dive (too chicken).

Sea sickness is awful. Find yourself some shore dives!

>>2340058
>That said, I have never done a night dive (too chicken).
At night you see colors you wouldn't see at any other time because of the lantern and the setting in general is divine.
You should do it.
>Find yourself some shore dives!
There are none near me.

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>>2340025
My two favorite dives were a reef dive near Pueta Vallarta, Mexico, or a really sick night dive off Catalina Island.

Favorite animals are nudibranchs, and I've met plenty!

>>2340025
I've gone diving in the Atlantic, Pacific, and the Red Sea. The Red Sea is definitely my favorite even though I saw more cool creatures in the Atlantic.

The Red Sea was fun because I got to dive through a bunch of ship wrecks and I did a night dive. The night dive was a little scary because I am admittedly scared of the dark and there were lion fish EVERYWHERE. The ship threw out a big light and we all had good deep-sea flashlights though so it was all good.

In the Atlantic I got to see fun things like lobsters, a nurse shark, and a sea turtle that kept trying to rest on a bald man's head.

I've seen more things and have more stories but I don't feel like typing them out ATM. Let me know if you want them or anything in particular

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>>2339742
>tfw landlocked

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>>2340213
Plenty of inland places to dive.

>>2335759
I want his shirt something awful

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>>2340213
You can still easily get certified. I know a lot of people in the Midwest have flooded quarries or lakes nearby to get certified in.

>>2340213
>couple of slavs
with a £53 million budget

>>2340314
>>2340133
:3

>>2338199
>cows are humans

>>2340213
My university has a half semester course in our pool to get certified. I personally got certified within a couple days on vacation through PADI

This thread. It is a good thread.

>>2338199
birds are dinosaurs

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>>2338199
Crustaceans, Myrapods, and Insects are Mandibulates, but they are still distinct classes of Arthropod.

Also, have a life-recreation of an extinct Chelicerate. Jaekelopterus, most-massive example of sea scorpion, and Arthropod, ever recorded. It lived in freshwater and grew up to 2.5 meters in length. Its closest living relatives are horseshoe crabs and scorpions.

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>>2338321
Those worms look much lovelier underwater. No-less frightening, however.

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>>2338621
0/10. Would not share sperm-packet with.

>>2338148
What am I looking at here?

>>2335772
outfuckingskilled

>>2336982
>SHWOOOOP

>>2340855
Of course, that hasn't changed. The ranks are different now though, Hexapoda are now just a subphylum of Crustacea, with Remipedia as the possible sister group. This is WITHIN the former Crustacea, not a basal split. That is what made the entomologists angry, so they renamed the group to Pancrustacea to prevent the shitstorm they knew would be heading their way. It has nothing to do with scientific discourse, this was just a matter of hurt pride.

>>2340892
clam

>>2335772

Such wonders in the deep

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I love the goofy ways some of these things move

I got a rabbit snail at the local fish store today, after verifying my tank was alright for it. I noticed that it's having a hard time traversing the gravel, but its not sick or anything because it was fine when it was on brick. Will it adapt over time, or should I move it to a sand-bottomed tank? I tried to look it up but there's sparse information.

>>2336266
That thing will fuck you up.

>>2338228
Why does that matter to you BIGOT?!

>>2340032
>the ocean is filled with horrifying abominations that need to be eradicated

>>2341228

The odd thing is that they are deadly poisonous, but last I heard, legal as pets.

Although I hear octopi dont live long as pets. I heard 6-8 months

It was a long, long time ago, but when I was a kid, you could buy them special order for about $80

I never kept one. But Im told its difficult because they figure their way out of the habitat and then once out, get confused and die from whatever the reverse of drowning is.

>>2335752
:3

>>2341247
Yeah, octopus are hard to keep in captivity since they're always escaping and all

>>2335762
Go home nature you're drunk

>>2339823

"Steals light"? I'm sorry I dont follow what I am seeing.

>>2336433
World's most devastating blowjob.

>>2336694
Topkek

ITT:

>grotesque shit that makes me glad to live in a landlocked country.

Seriously, fuck the sea.

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Posting freshwater lovelies

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>>2341469

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>>2341470

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>>2341471

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>>2341472

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>>2341473

>>2341332
Cephalopods also have very particular environmental requirements as well as the unfortunate fact that they have very short life spans, even shorter than in the wild.

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>>2341469
>>2341470
What are these chordates doin' in here?

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>>2341537
Was going to post troglodytes, but couldn't find my folder.

>>2341546
Trilobites?

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>>2338176
Yeah that's its face. They're pretty big guys, and their labium folds up over their face like a mask whenever they're not using it as an extendable claw

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>>2338921

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>>2341673
Did someone say dragonfly larvae

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>>2341724

>>2341657
No, cave critters but I only had a couple olms

>>2341673
>They're pretty big guys
>their labium folds up over their face like a mask
I see what you did there

>>2341657
>>2341789
My bad, I misunderstood. In my language troglodytes is only used for humans.

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Was out fishing one day and came across these two on a beach.

>>2341546
I thought troglodyte meant cavemen

>>2341923
these are everywhere on jekyll island. really interesting animals

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>>2341929
Live in Florida.
Used to live down on St. Pete Beach, and once every year or so during storm season, there'd always be a bunch of dead horseshoe crabs that would float past our dock. Not sure what caused it, maybe red tide, I dunno.

>>2341932
yeah a lot of dead ones wash up too. you can usually see where birds pecked through their shells

>>2341932

I've seen some in New Jersey, I think it was. They can get quite enormous. I seem to recall one being the size of a small dog.

Lemme find a pic to see if its true or Im senile.

Well, I couldnt find any reliable pictures of the size I remember. Google says they can get up to a foot and a half. I seem to remember a few being substantially larger though.

>>2341969
memories are fake

>>2338167
>>2340253

Why are people from /an/ so incredibly special?

>lol look at me guys sewer rats are KYUTE
>teehee i love bad t-shirts!
>like omg puppies!
>W-W-WELL I LIKE TO HIT CATS IN MY 4X4

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>>2342001

>>2340032
brilliant!

>>2341413
>Why the fuck aren't we calling octopodes "Sea Wizards"

i know lmao n y aren't we calling /an/ reddit?

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>>2341927
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_troglobites
Darn autocorrect

>>2342001
Nothing wrong with appreciating the beauty and splendor of nature. Watch a surinam toad video and see people yelling "kill it with fire" while I'm astounded by the lengths a mother will go to protect her offspring.

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>>2341923
>>2341932
Horseshoe crabs are great. You gotta respect an animal that has remained almost completely unchanged for over 250 million years, through every major extinction event thus far.

It's just about time to start spotting them, too, in the Northern hemisphere anyway. The full moons of spring, especially June, is when the begin congregating on the shores to mate.

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>>2335772

>>2340195
The turtle one sounds adorable, if you don't mind

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>>2342212
>You gotta respect an animal that has remained almost completely unchanged for over 250 million years, through every major extinction event thus far.

Still has to bow down to >>2341537 >>2341546, specifically Triops cancriformis. 300 million years and not "almost completely unchanged" but actually completely unchanged. The oldest fossils fit our modern species description and the only thing that has changed over the aeons is their average size. That's the record I think.

I always wonder why people assume old species like this are "primitive" or "less evolved". If you think about it they're a lot better at doing their thing than anything modern. They are so perfectly adapted for what they're doing that any change is detrimental, so they stay the same. As close to evolutionary "perfection" as you can get.

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>>2342268
I goofed, it was over 450 million years.

>>2342268
>>2342271
Limulidae ranges from Ordovician to recent. Triops from Permian to recent.

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>>2342272
Either way, both are impressive examples of finding what works very early on.

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>>2342271
>>2342272
Well, the old ones are not species that exist today so Triops cancriformis still wins. Take that ocean spider freaks!

>>2335789
>You're in the wrong part of town kid...

>>2339345
Fun fact about blanket octopuses:

>Tremoctopus violaceus exhibits the most extreme degree of sexual size-dimorphism known in any non-microscopic animal. Females may reach 2 m (6.6 ft) in length, whereas the males are 2.4 cm. The weight ratio is at least 10,000:1, and can probably reach as much as 40,000:1. The males have a large arm in a spherical pouch modified for mating, known as a hectocotylus. During mating, this arm is detached, and kept by the female in her mantle cavity until used for fertilisation. The male almost certainly dies shortly after mating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanket_octopus

>>2341469
Nice penis you got there

>>2339836
not bat rays; they're cow nosed rays

>>2335758
what is this thing

>>2335761
Where do those live? I was in Cuba and that looks familiar.

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>>2342340
Melibe leonina, a nudibranch known for its sweet, fruity aroma. Kinda like watermelon.

>>2342262
Should we make a separate thread for diving stories?

>off the coast of Belize a couple years back
>were warned that there was a sea turtle that was curious but typically didn't approach on one of our diving paths
>oh cool, never seen a wild one
>diving with dad, and 2 couples
>one of the guys was bald
>second dive of the day
>oh shit there it is
>probably green or hawksbill
>it starts swimming with us about 10 metes away
>starts approaching bald guy on the edge of our group
>swims over him
>guy starts freaking out
>turtle stops swimming, resting instead on the guy's head
>guy keeps pushing it off
>turtle keeps coming back several times over the dive to lay on his head
>almost drown laughing into mouthpiece

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>>2342356
That one in particular is from the Indo-Pacific.
If I had to guess what you saw in Cuba, maybe some sort of zoanthid coral like this pic? They come in a million color combinations, wouldn't doubt there is one with similar colors to the urchin.

>>2342364
Heh, turtles are that awesome.

In the Caribbean sea, some buddies had a fish (don't know which) staying along the belly of one of the divers during the whole dive. This smart guy used the divers to fend off predators and from time to time, dipped to catch a prey then would come back to safety.

Is it cruel to frag anemones?

>>2342364
How large was this turtle?

>>2342440
This was about 8 years ago but I don't believe it was any more than a meter in length

>>2342362
I actually did an informal study on it's aroma for a summer program in high school! I showed that presence of 2,6-Dimethyl-1-heptanol on food made food items much less palatable to multiple species of crabs that have been reported predators on Melibes. The chemical didn't seem to have an effect on other predators (anemones and rockfish).
After working with concentrated Melibe aroma for weeks, I'm 100% fine with never smelling that smell again.

>>2336982
What in Satan's domain is that?

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>>2342475
Sounds interesting.
I wanted to do something similar, but lived next to the wrong ocean.

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>>2342001
Go be a negative nancy somewhere else, faggot.

>>2342477
Angel shark eating a smaller horned shark.

The horned shark got away after it though

>>2342477
Some sort of bottom dwelling shark, possibly one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_shark or these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_shark

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Amphiumas need more love. One really has to wonder if there is any purpose for their comically tiny limbs.

>>2342001
>STOP ENJOYING THINGS

>>2342535
Possibly for mating, but otherwise vestigial.

>>2335752
Nudibranchs aka sea slugs

>>2342001
What...?

>>2342537

Actually, if we're being honest. It's just the opposite.
It's about a lack of sincerity in enjoying things.

You people can't enjoy a damn thing unless it publicly fits some sort of format.

Even your anger here is meme'd out for the sake of fitting in; you couldn't have an original thought if you tried.

>START ENJOYING THINGS

Spread the message you fucking twat.

>>2342788
Fucking hipsters

>>2342541
Best crustacean. No contest. I will get one of those, eventually.

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I love how these guys look like big dopey sock puppets.

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>>2342908

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>>2342909

>>2335771
Aristocrat octopus

>>2338846
my used condom

>>2338115
Bunny!

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>>2342868
The opinion is mutual, my friend. Just be sure to invest in a reinforced enclosure.

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>>2342868
Just make sure your tank is THICK acrylic.

>>2342911
I just read about these they are interesting as fuck. The skin in some of them is so thin that it will tear if they try to crawl up on rough dry land. That's incredible that a snake just lives entirely in the water and can't even handle itself on land. And yeah, they do look creepy as fuck. One of the only snakes I'd actually describe as "ugly"

>>2343459
They look like too big socks.

>>2343459
What are they called? Just sea snakes in general?

>>2341537
Fuck yeah triops!
>Tadpole shrimps
Never heard them called this before.

>>2343365
>>2343378
>reinforced enclosure
>thick acrylic
Why?
How does a little shrimp break acrylic enclosures?

>>2343559
Buddy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gj1QJfzR0Vs

>>2339501
>But she promised she's a virgin bro

>>2343562
Cool thanks.

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>>2343507
Nah, these live inland instead of out at sea; though, they can be found in estuaries too. The baggy ones are called file snakes or elephant trunk snakes in general.

Here is a tentacled snake, they have a more brackish water distribution.
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/suppl/2010/01/12/213.3.359.DC1

>>2341386
It tore off one of the blinking lights from whatever that thing is.

>>2341537
>>2341546
I really should buy another pack of triop eggs again one of these days. Little buggers don't live for long, but they were fun to watch.

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>>2343586
Make sure you get them in a proper setup, like a 10 gallon tank with plants and some water movement. They live a lot longer and they can grow much bigger than you'd expect.

>>2341473
>see thumbnail
>cosmic hotdog

Oh.. wait..

>>2343559
Thick acrylic as in NOT GLASS. If you aren't familiar with how strong a Mantis Shrimp's punch is, you should check it out before you buy one (fisherman sometimes call them "thumbsplitters"). They dudes hit HARD, and aquarium glass/flimsy acrylic is not problem for them.

>>2343641
Im not going to be buying one, just curious.

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>>2336291
Seconded. If you are curious, poke it with a stick. I can't remember how many times I've been surprised by the unexpected underwater. Like these things.
>wtf is that weird bit of cora-
>fuuuuck its 5ft long and has teeth!!

>>2341332
Could you like make them a little fake beach? Like an enclose inside an inclosure to make them think they escaped their inclosure but really theyre inside another enclosure?.

>>2338115
Oh my god this thing is so precious! This is either fake or deadly poisonous, isnt it?

>>2341471
Aww yea boiii brine shrimp, my dude! Wish i kept them i loved these little derps.

>>2344339
Jorunna parva, it's only poisonous if you eat it.

>>2335761
>sharp edges
>paper thin
>clamp down on human skin
retard

>>2338148
>uncloak the fleet and engage fighting maneuvers

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>>2341923
I love horseshoe crabs, they are a always so interesting to me. I wish I could keep a few in captivity, however it seems they do not live for very long out of the wild for reason we don't understand, yet. Do you suppose it might have to do with water pressure?

>>2341932
>>2341969
I go down to see them every year when they bread in NJ. Its crazy. I throw a bunch of dying ones back in because they get stuck every place and die in the sun. Buts its a really cool to me. The big ones are still scary when you pic them up to throw them back in the water. If you count that spike it has to be more than a foot and a half.

>>2342535
damnit can you help me I use to own something like this for my freshwater aquarium. but no little legs. and more wormlike. they use to sell them in fish stores 20 years ago.

>>2343589
damn can you provide more details of your setup for triops

>>2344368
Water pressure and temperature effect the metabolism and internal pressure of aquatic life in the same way atmosphere does for land creatures.

Horseshoe crabs dwell in deep waters and only really come ashore for short periods.

Without the right parameters, most exotics that need those specific requirements will suffer various kinds of stress and die sooner than they could.

Similarly some creatures survive longer in captivity because they won't be exposed to predators and disease.

This shit really fucks up my desire for owning a variety of exotic creatures.

>>2344918

What was the sea lion doing? and was this diver in danger of dying?

>>2344888
adult horseshoe crabs are straightforward to keep in captivity (if you have the money - none of you do), the trick is breeding them. they won't mate in captivity. if you can establish a viable breeding line you would be richer than kings due to the fact their blood is so valuable for vaccinations.

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>>2344865
See if searching "rubber eel" gives you anything similar? It's the common name given to a bunch of aquatic caecilians.

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>>2344920

>>2345135
>spots on its tongue

for what purpose?

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>>2342001
>hates animals
>posts on the animal board

>>2344920
Mouthing it. It's how allot of seals identify things underwater since they obviously cant smell underwater.
>>2345242
Because it's a leopard seal.

>>2336660
>I AM THE OVERMIND THE ETERNAL WILL OF THE SWARM

>>2344918
>>2344920
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUfFqjAFKcI

>>2344922
What is it about their blood?

>>2343507
the typical sea snake family looks like >>2335901 and they are highly venomous. they are in the hydrophiinae family.
the baggy snakes are non-venemous and in the achrochordidae family.

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>>2339345
I guess anything really can happen on Halloween.