#adorable #oh my god #(unfortunately not for sale) #lizards #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
She may live like a lizard, but is she a lizard in real life?? Checkmate liberevals B)
i’m glad tumblr adopted you
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#that one post with the thing #hey guys I got a living-room humidifier as a Hanukkah present today #the whirr blends very nicely with the whirr of the air purifier #my thermostat says the humidity has gone from 51% to 54% over the first ~45 minutes #(and I’m sure in a month or two the unhumidified baseline will be down in the low 30s) #(unfortunately my sun lamps are cheap and shitty) #(I have been spending a lot of time lately thinking longingly about the $400 ones that all of my friends wax lyrical about) #(someday! someday!) #domesticity #lizards
On snakes, scars tend to heal over with attempted regrowth of scales. Scars often have a weird scale pattern as a result – the scales over the scar might have a weird texture or color. Look at this ball python with a burn scar over their entire spine – the scar is noticeably a different color and texture.
In my experience, a lot of scars on snakes will retain scale growth, but that’s not always true, especially for scars on the head:
Deep wounds tend to heal over white. In wildlife rehab, we mostly see these in snakes who were involved in car accidents or had run-ins with lawnmowers.
But that can happen with any deep wound, like these on a ball python from rat bites.
Deep wounds on wild snakes that don’t heal without veterinary help may look puckered and a bit gruesome:
Lizards are more prone to have scars that are missing scales.
Scars on crocodilians look a little different. Instead of scales like snakes and lizards, crocodilians have what we call “scutes.” On a crocodilian, scutes are large, hardened plates, and instead of shedding at once they’re constantly shedding in teeny-tiny flakes (like us!). On crocodilians, scars look like divots in the scutes, and they will fade somewhat with time (again, like people).
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#snakes #lizards #crocodiles #biology #the more you know #injury cw #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
i was totally about to reblog this gushing about how gorgeous and then i saw that you tagged me!
there is (afaics on mobile) a teeeeensy bit too much green in the blue to be Actually Me but otherwise very acceptable, 9/10 for accuracy but 12.65/10 for Just Plain Gorgeous. like seriously those markings are The Latest Chic and if they’re not then you me and the Fasiion Industry have got some Talkems to’do
honestly on further examination I like the head shape Rather A Lot and the transition from turquoise into yellow around the jawline is A+. i have always liked that kind of colour pattern (upper body and upper jaw one colour/belly and lower jaw another colour) but wouldn’t have thought of this colour combo, it’s actually unexpectedly aesthetic.
also he is a very nice example of nature doing a sparkledog well. lots of busy complex patterns but it never looks like too much.
Brinens and Things 