Zookeeper Gabe's Animal Thread V6.0

[MusterX]

^that. Is fucking awesome.

Yea I thought it was too. Not sure how the beetle would just know how to mimic the languages of ants but what a nightmare for the ants. I guess the beetle vibrates its antennae at a certain frequency and the ants simply cannot tell that the beetle is an intruder that wants to eat them. Like hypnosis or something.

 

[TrippleOG]

my Geos are breeding again!

 

[Zookeeper Gabe]

Is that Repashy the same guy that makes the gel food?

Yeah, he also coauthored a bunch of books with Philippe. He's a huge breeder in SoCal, but all of the interactions I've seen of him on his forum he's an arrogant prick. He bashes anyone that doesn't use his product. My geckos started refusing his and I switched over to Pangea

Found a baby house centipede at work today. Super cute.

 

[jefferz]

my Geos are breeding again!

Are you keeping the offspring or selling them? That's kind of a rare Cichlid if they haven't been hybridized.
A hint for taking true color pictures in a fish tank is to put a white Styrofoam plate in your tank and set the white balance on the plate.

Yeah, he also coauthored a bunch of books with Philippe. He's a huge breeder in SoCal, but all of the interactions I've seen of him on his forum he's an arrogant prick. He bashes anyone that doesn't use his product. My geckos started refusing his and I switched over to Pangea

Found a baby house centipede at work today. Super cute.

My crested stopped eating it also, the Tokay I had would devour it though. I use a couple of his freshwater fish foods and they're really great. Colors have enhanced tremendously, disease is way down, and breeding numbers have shown about a 15% increase. My clowns hated the saltwater blend

 

[Zookeeper Gabe]

If you are looking at new foods. Try out the Pangea, it's a way finer blend and mixes much easier. My geckos plow through the banana apricot flavor better then ever on the repashy.

 

[PAUonePUNCH]

Awesome. Take a picture, I'm curious as to the species.

Will do if I get the chance. Although I dont want to disturb them anymore.

 

[seatea]

Can it do this for more than one species of ant?

EDIT: With reference to the ant nest beetle.

 

[mrsenor]

So check this out. The ant nest beetle, also known as the flanged bombardier beetle.

This study was just posted this month which I will provide a link to. Apparently this beetle walks into an ant colony and by using an acoustical language is able to fool the ants into thinking the beetle is the queen and is then treated like royalty. It is able to move about in the colony, eating ants at will.

It doesn't stop there though, because the workers, soldiers, and Queen all speak a different language, the beetle can speak all 3. This is like a horror story, every ants worst nightmare. This is the first time that acoustical mimicry has been observed in beetles to prey on ants.

the beetle is transgender?

 

[Thai Otoshi]

Holy cow, I didn't know they got that big.

That's what sh-...

 

[MusterX]

Desert ants, and how they navigate a barren landscape.

Harald Wolf, a neurobiologist from Ulm, is studying the motor control of invertebrates such as grasshoppers and ants. Just recently, the zoologist was able to show experimentally how desert ants navigate in a featureless environment.

In cooperation with their Zurich colleague R

 

[Joe Wong]

Yeah, he also coauthored a bunch of books with Philippe. He's a huge breeder in SoCal, but all of the interactions I've seen of him on his forum he's an arrogant prick. He bashes anyone that doesn't use his product. My geckos started refusing his and I switched over to Pangea

Found a baby house centipede at work today. Super cute.

Gross. I hate those things. They alone make me want to move back to California.

You should pick up that fucker when he's an adult

 

[Zookeeper Gabe]

Gross. I hate those things. They alone make me want to move back to California.

You should pick up that fucker when he's an adult

You mean like this? I picked him up and he ran around on my sleeve and took me a second to get a picture.

 

[Joe Wong]

You mean like this? I picked him up and he ran around on my sleeve and took me a second to get a picture.

Haha, I can't gauge how big that is by the pic, but my god I've seen some HUGE mofos running across the floor. They are seriously the worst bugs I have come across lmao

 

[seatea]

More ant related stuff.

Ants have unique ability to switch between individual and collective action, says study.

 

[Zookeeper Gabe]

Haha, I can't gauge how big that is by the pic, but my god I've seen some HUGE mofos running across the floor. They are seriously the worst bugs I have come across lmao

Full grown, so 2-3" long.

 

[neverwas]

hey babe,I'm thinking about getting a green tree python. any advice,cause I've been out of keeping retiles for about 15 years.

 

[neverwas]

bloody auto correct!

 

[Stargazer Rex]

Let him know, babe

 

[neverwas]

leave me and my auto correct alone. we like calling him babe.

 

[theocean]

As far as I know the guy made bail and is home.

They let a freak that made a homemade suppressor with the express purpose of killing a neighbor's pet out on bail. I'm beyond mad.

This guy has a history of animal cruelty and I don't want him in this neighborhood with his sick history.

Where do you live? I thought silencers were a big nono in a lot of states, espicially one you just make yourself. The dude should face a ton of charges. Any actual new stories of it?