[ARTS]: Random Photo Thread

[Byokan]

Way cool.

Gassho
Byōkan
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[Troy]

Salamanders at the dentist office. They look like fish with legs


Sat2day

[Byokan]

Salamanders at the dentist office. They look like fish with legs


Sat2day

Little dragons!

Gassho
Byōkan
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[Jundo]

The Chinese-Japanese Giant Salamander. Yes, they eat them.

Looks like the creatures from "Stranger Things", for any fans. Nonetheless, all beautiful in their way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ayeTclTnWY

Gassho, J

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[Jakuden]

Salamanders at the dentist office. They look like fish with legs


Sat2day

Isn't that a mudpuppy? And those are external gills? I found them super fascinating for some reason in college vertebrate anatomy.
Gassho
Jakuden
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[Kotei]

Isn't that a mudpuppy? And those are external gills? I found them super fascinating for some reason in college vertebrate anatomy.

My first thought was "Axolotl" (Ambystoma mexicanum), these being leucistic (albino, but black eyes).
If I remember right, the mudpuppy has done it's metamorphosis partly, but kept the external gills. The Axolotl is technically a mature larvae, without paedo-metamorphosis? But that may be both the same... Can't remember exactly.
I know Axolotl for being an object of research regarding regeneration. They can not only regenerate legs and tail and stuff, but also organs, even partially heart and brain.

Thank you all for posting the pics and showing a glimpse of your world.

Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Jakuden]

My first thought was "Axolotl" (Ambystoma mexicanum), these being leucistic (albino, but black eyes).
If I remember right, the mudpuppy has done it's metamorphosis partly, but kept the external gills. The Axolotl is technically a mature larvae, without paedo-metamorphosis? But that may be both the same... Can't remember exactly.
I know Axolotl for being an object of research regarding regeneration. They can not only regenerate legs and tail and stuff, but also organs, even partially heart and brain.

Thank you all for posting the pics and showing a glimpse of your world.

Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

Ah yes! Neoteny! A wave of geeky Biology nostalgia, thank you!

Gassho,
Jakuden
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[Troy]

Random Photo Thread

When I did a google search, it came up with Axolotl as Kotei mentioned. Wikipedia said yes those are gils sprouting from its head which I found fascinating. Why would a vital organ evolve in such a vulnerable spot?


Sat2day

[Kotei]

Why would a vital organ evolve in such a vulnerable spot?

I am too, fascinated by them. Every spring, thousands are swimming through my garden pond.
Not these of course, but their small (< 10cm) cousins. Normally they develop quite fast, develop lungs and leave the water into the woods.
Maybe it's not so bad giving some gills away, when you can regrow them quite fast. Maybe there is an advantage in that Mexican lake, they came from, for not developing lungs and staying in the water instead.
When you give the Axolotl the missing thyroid hormones, they develop lungs and remove the gills, leaving water like the giant cousin from Japan.

Something completely different (but also external gills), but as this is about pictures...
I've kept a 1m long, fish hunting, marine worm for some years as a 'pet' (of course not in this bucket).
In the attached pic, there are also external gills (between the 'legs').

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Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Troy]

Random Photo Thread

Wow cool worm! Look at all those tiny gills


Sat2day

[Kyonin]

Axolotl!

They are very dear little animals here in Mexico. We love them because the are always smiling and in a good mood. Plus they are super cute and make wonderful Pokemon!

Gassho,

Kyonin
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[Eishuu]

Cool salamander/fish with leg things!

Here is a photo of my cat Merlin an hour after we doubled his insulin dose - totally sparko and blissed out...

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Gassho
Lucy
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[Jishin]

Outside my window this Morning:

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[Jundo]

My Daughter Chao Chao's 7-5-3 (Shichi-Go-San) celebration yesterday ... with wife and mother-in-law. Whole family came out.


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Shichi-go-san
FESTIVAL, JAPAN

Shichi-go-san, (Japanese: “Seven-Five-Three”), one of the most important festivals for Japanese children, observed annually on November 15. On this date girls of three and seven years of age and boys of five years of age are taken by their parents to the Shintō shrine of their tutelary deity to offer thanks for having reached their respective ages and to invoke blessings for the future. In former times the day was also marked by five-year-old boys of the samurai class being dressed in a hakama (pleated, divided skirt) and presented to their respective feudal lords, seven-year-old girls wearing the formal obi (stiff sash), and the three-year-old girls having their hair arranged on top of their heads, all for the first time.

http://www.japanvisitor.com/japanese-festivals/shichi-go-san

Gassho, Jundo Papa

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[RichardH]

congratulations!


gassho
Daizan


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