Hulia

marine bio and BLM. she/her. pfizer princess

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

I just want you to remember. That we live in a world where octopuses dream, otters have a favorite shell that they carry with them all their lives, cows have best friends, and bees have different "dialects" of dance depending on the region. Cats purr at a frequency that accelerates bone healing, the forest grows flowers first after a fire, and dolphins give each other names and respond to them. Penguins make proposals by giving each other the most beautiful pebble

[♱ @yareishaa]

what's a lil smoke to a girls lungs in a world that's already burning

[horse dentist @equine__dentist]

i bet it feels good as hell to be a fat bear floating down the river

[ᴅᴏᴏᴍᴇɴɪᴄ @dinosaur_info]

I'm going to burst into tears

[Joe @JoePostingg]

Printers never work because they are an affront to God. Man was not meant to pull objects from the digital realm into the real world. Icarus is flying too close to the sun.

[gal౨ৎ @prtygal777]

the way the parents are mogging with that eyeliner lipstick and pose while their chopped baby is just there is killing me

[𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑒 @purelivn]

three blues pretending not to know each other

[KUSO 🔞 URAGONER @kuso_otoko]

no, whales are cool, I just didn’t expect them to be chinese

[Aaron! @c6_shanky]

You take for granted the humble car napkin until you really need one

[Hoops @Hoopss]

Windows 98's iconic underwater screensaver, peak digital tranquility before the internet got loud (1998)

[g @34rths]

How the last day of the trip feels when you realize just how big the world is and that there is still so much more to see and experience

[Gülce @exitsenses]

Sometimes I’ll have an incredibly profound emotional experience and immediately cheapen it by opening instagram

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I can't believe I exist on a planet with the aurora borealis, coral reefs, snow-capped Alps, mossy stones, sparkling waterfalls, trees that communicate with each other, bees that dance to show the way, and ants that build, and I have to do... like a career.

[Hulia @JJGoneCrayCray]

just tryna be a flexible intellectual

[🏹 @missmewhenyougo]

I hate you blue light I hate you infinite scroll I hate you ai customer support I hate you onedrive I hate you no usb port I hate you two factor authentication I hate you accept all cookies I hate you autoplay I hate you subscription I hate you buy more storage I hate you

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Went down the rabbit hole on this. The dancing is the tamest part of the story. Marine biologist Amanda Vincent has spent decades studying seahorses, and what’s underneath that morning ritual goes way deeper than a cute video.

The morning ritual lasts about 6 minutes. Both seahorses brighten their skin, link tails, and pirouette around a shared piece of coral or seagrass. Researchers call it “the carousel dance.” But it has a specific biological function: it synchronizes their reproductive cycles so the female’s eggs are ready the exact moment the male’s brood pouch is empty. That timing matters because the male can’t accept new eggs while he’s already pregnant.

The male gets pregnant. The female transfers her eggs into his pouch through an organ called an ovipositor (a tube for depositing eggs). The whole transfer takes about 6 seconds. His pouch seals shut immediately. Inside, he grows a network of blood vessels that works almost exactly like a human placenta, delivering oxygen and nutrients to up to 1,000 developing embryos. Research from the University of Sydney, published in the journal Placenta, found the pouch wall thins and builds new blood vessels during pregnancy in ways that closely mirror what happens in a mammalian uterus.

He gives birth using skeletal muscles, not smooth muscles like in mammalian labor. That means he has conscious control over the process. Labor can take hours. And within hours of delivering up to 1,000 fully formed babies, he’s ready to mate again. The female already has her next batch of eggs prepared, sometimes the same day.

Less than 0.5% of those babies survive to adulthood. Fewer than 5 out of every 1,000. No parental care after birth. They get swept into ocean currents, eaten by crabs, or starve before they find food. That survival rate is why the morning dance matters so much. Every lost mating cycle is hundreds of offspring that never existed.

The monogamy is extraordinary for a fish. Only about 3% of mammals form lasting partnerships. For fish, it’s rarer still. But in species like the Australian H. whitei, pairs are genetically monogamous across multiple breeding seasons. They greet each other every morning and ignore other seahorses entirely. The bond only breaks when one partner disappears. Amanda Vincent once watched a female keep visiting a male whose brood pouch had been punctured by a predator, making pregnancy impossible. She showed up every morning for weeks until his pouch healed. Then they remated.

About 150 million seahorses are pulled from the ocean every year for traditional medicine and the pet trade. Most pet seahorses don’t last six weeks. 14 of the 47 known species were only identified in this century, meaning we’re losing populations of animals we barely knew existed.

[hunter @hunter_hhhh]

CHUCK NORRIS died today and NO ONE has photoshopped him next to harambe going up to heaven. we used to be a proper fucking country.

[miia @miiagarro]

so full of love and rage, very yin and yang of me

[ravn @mfnravn]

i can’t wait for spring so i can photosynthesize

[hunter @3gpmh]

micro dosing hell by staying informed and educated