Freya | Snake Identification Enthusiast

im on that other app now

@colligocritters tbh i have no idea im no animal psychologist LOL i don't even work w domestics i fear

@FreyaTheWolf im a dumbass thank you for correcting me on this oh my 🫣 i figure cats/dogs still get the gist of it tho right? probably through hormones nd stuff?

Ignoring the first one, genuinely dont selfharm or smoke infront of your pets* because it's both harmful for them

@scarmigliones @syrupmermaid Less than 0.2% of venomous snake bites in the US result in fatalities (7-8,000 bites per year, about 5 deaths) For context, domestic dogs kill about 30-50 people a year in the states and deer kill 200-400

@syrupmermaid Will kill you in one bite btw

fuck you all for abusing animals

@shadow_avatar @syrupmermaid freesnakerelocation.com it actually doesn't cost hundreds of dollars. There are hundreds of people who offer the service FOR FREE.

@syrupmermaid You do know Rattle snakes are deadly right? both to this man & his livestock. Yes he could have someone come get it, but it would likely cost him hundreds of dollars or more. So would you risk your life removing it? and to where? or pay what is likely over $600 to someone else?

Blessed by pre-exam campus woodcock today

@colligocritters I fear only primates, bats, spiny mice, and elephant shrews have periods, yes other species have heat cycles and may bleed but true menstruation is actually really rare among mammals

it, THEY CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PERIOD BLOOD AND OTHER KINDA BLOOD!!!!! These animals themselves have periods bruh don't even try to use that argument 😵‍💫 thank you if you've done this before ur not a bad person, you just didn't know. Just don't do it again ❤️

@OverClockLasor @Visceral9000 If you need to have a rattlesnake moved, freesnakerelocation.com is a directory of FREE snake relocators all across the US. Or you can give it a gentle spray with a hose. Or, better yet, just leave it alone. There is no excuse for animal abuse.

@OverClockLasor @Visceral9000 This is absolutely not true. Snakes have a lot of very thin bones, especially in the skull and jaw. A hard strike like this is very likely to break the spine or skull of this snake, paralyzing it and dooming it to a slow and agonizing death.

If this was a cat or dog, people would justifiably be disgusted and horrified. And yet, I see no one else condemning this. Especially saddening since rattlesnakes are very shy and surprisingly intelligent animals :(

@nvolpewild the Council

Interrupted an important meeting between an Amazonian Salamander and a Stick Insect last night! 👀

@MustelidDwyer exactly you get it

@FreyaTheWolf I would be slobbering on that trunk

can't trust me around this id be gnawing on that tree ice like a feral animal i looooove the taste of maple sap. whenever we tapped trees id drink that shit straight from the bucket. its so good

@thisisntoptimal @erebuspalooza i think that was the one he was looking at!!

@FreyaTheWolf @erebuspalooza Yes that's cool as fuck!! You should ask him if he looked at any Belgica Antarcticas

Ice to your ship name a subantarctic insect

@ChelseaHerps really obsessed with their rumbling sounds

The way these frogs love this pond omg. I’m surprised there’s room to move with all those eggs

to be clear i do mean the sap not syrup. it's mostly water plus some sugars. natures electrolyte drink

@AdvancedFRobot @coughdropsh @elpg1578 spring peepers can be heard in the background of this video

@coughdropsh @elpg1578 youtu.be/4Owj52XhoxI?si…

YOURE JOKINGGGG IT’S ACTUALLY REALLLL

@Lostmyinhaler2 @HonkIfUrHoary Be careful with montelukast, it can cause really horrible mental side effects. I was on it for chronic hives and it did weird shit to my brain

@HonkIfUrHoary So, you may want to have a tryptase test. I’m supposed to go for one to confirm MCAS, but my response to meds has my primary treating it without the confirmation. But without being on montelukast which incidentally was just prescribed for asthma support but if I’m off it I’m/

I’m at the point with chronic fatigue that I would take literally any diagnosis. Vitamin D deficiency? Sure. Thyroid? Great. Cancer? I’ll take it. Just fucking give me an answer.

@HonkIfUrHoary Gotta love the mystery illness fatigue purgatory. Well, not really mystery for me, it started after a mono infection 6 years ago, but still not anything that can be treated it seems :/

@arctotherium42 @lefineder And why the longest living unisexual vertebrate lineage (unisexual Ambystoma salamanders) do not exactly clone, but rather steal genetic material from other salamanders in the area

@lefineder This (and also some parasite/pathogen related stuff) is why asexual lineages regularly appear in record, thrive for a while, and then go extinct.

"Muller's ratchet" In sexually reproducing species, the descendants are not identical to the parents. This means some offspring inherit deleterious mutations from the parent and are weeded out by natural selection, while others do not. In an asexually reproducing species, this mechanism to weed out mutations does not exist. Since offspring are genetically identical clones of the parents, mutations accumulate and accumulate. The ratchet is only turned in one direction until lineage death (Muller's ratchet). This survival advantage brought about by sexual reproduction is likely a major reason why sexual reproduction evolved in the first place. Many single-celled organisms that reproduce by asexual reproduction also engage in a type of sexual reproduction in which genetic material is exchanged between them (e.g., conjugation in bacteria or protists).

@oreoeocat I'm definitely not biased at all towards them (yes that's my arm)

@FreyaTheWolf Fantastic beast

You can burger many creatures if you are gentle and your heart is pure (@KiwiCat0703 doing the shadow burger)

@oreoeocat I didn't know you were a herpetologist! Nice cottonmouth. No snakes yet for me but I got wet beasts

Important info, myself and the pictured burgerer are herpetologists