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New Community: Looking for moderators and contributors
Please reply here if you would like to be a moderator. I don't expect it to be too much work, and it should be perfect for someone who hasn't been a moderator before.
You can also help get the community off the ground by foraging for content and sharing cool things you find related to tan eggs (articles, photos, images etc.)
We like to announce it here, at Tan Eggs, honestly. It's true, you're awesome. Have great Halloween!
A reminder that we love you here at Tan Eggs. We're proud of you too!
I'll be the one cheering you on! Love from Tan Eggs!
Beautiful inside and out, it's true! Keep shining! I'm proud of you!
And if not, then hear this, you matter to me! May you find happiness today!
The times are interesting, yes, but we still have each other. I'm carbon-based, and so are you, look at all we have in common! So, I hope you have a great day! I'll try too!
Bandicoots, whilst they look like rats, are NOT rodents but marsupials--meaning they carry their babies in their pouches!
📸 by crimsonbutterfly
Meet North America's only venomous mammal, the Northern Short-tailed Shrew!
The Northern Short-tailed Shrew is a tiny but fierce predator, subduing its prey with neurotoxic saliva.
Don't worry, unless you are a small mammal, invertebrate, or a small amphibian, the short-tailed shrew's venomous saliva is not medically significant to humans.
Despite their tiny size, these little hunters have a huge appetite and need to eat up to half their body weight in food a day to keep up with their metabolism.
Not exactly the kind of animal you'd expect to be venomous!
To save you a wikipedia search:
The saliva of the northern short-tailed shrew contains a kallikrein-like protease, used to paralyze and subdue its prey. The toxin is strong enough to kill small animals, up to sizes somewhat larger than the shrew itself, and results in painful bites to humans who attempt to handle the shrew. The venomous saliva is secreted from submaxillary glands, through a duct which opens at the base of the lower incisors, where the saliva flows along the groove formed by the two incisors, and into the prey. The toxin is very similar in structure to the one produced by the Mexican beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum) which independently developed its toxin from the same precursor protein.
For you true shrew-ophiles, a relatively fun article on soricidin and blarina toxin, 2 poisons found so far in the shrew venom, a little on how they work, the people that discovered the compounds, and potential pharmaceutical benefits. With a read!
He may look contained but those walls can’t hold him when he switches to bulldozer mode
For example, I'm loving all the Tan Eggs activity. Friends spreading friendship. Hell yeah! Love love love y'all! Cheers, friends!
(Maximus Meadowcroft is the photographer from Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico)
Just one of our forest friends having a rare fruit treat.
Photo taken by Dorothee Ehrich
The earth is a blessing and we must defend and honor her. Just look at that beauty! Have a great Fri-Yay!
It's low effort, I admit, but providing non AI, free-to-share photographs of small mammals with words of hope feels better than despair and hopelessness. I want you to smile at the beauty of nature and the fact that I care about your mental health. Love to you!
It is so very hard, these days, to stay positive. You know what is the most punk rock thing you can do? Staying positive anyways. Keep up the fight, Tan Eggs sends support and love! We appreciate your efforts!
So from Tan Eggs, to you, we send our love! No need to complicate things.
This is a small Australian marsupial; the males die after their first breeding season (which lasts two weeks) as a result of stress and exhaustion. Death by snu-snu seems like a good way to go.
Yes we are small, yes the world is big. Also yes is the fact that we have each other. I want positive change, and where I can effect it, I do. I trust you do the same. Keep faith in each other. Stay patient. We can make it. Love to you!
Don't let yourself be disconnected. You are a vital part of all of this and we need you. Look at all the beautiful life around you and feel connected. Tan Eggs loves you!
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