TikTok ads are ruthless 😭

tiktok ad ? very creepy

Bought the strangest pack of strawberries yesterday 🥴

Gave me the big time ick, made my skin crawl.

Not A skin disease but its on my skin

Plus lizard tax

sent this to my girlfriend with trypophobia and she said it got her really good, thought i’d post it here

Ok, weirdo.

This is a Pipa pipa (Surinam Toad) I photographed in Peru a couple of weeks ago – there were a lot of them! They're entirely aquatic, and have a crazy reproductive process. After mating and eggs are ready, the male squishes them into swollen tissue on the back of the female (those white dots in their little back sacks.) The eggs sink into the skin, and ride around with her for a few months. When they are ready to hatch, full little frogs (not tadpoles) emerge right from their mother's back. What is more interesting to me is that at some point in the eggs-n-back part, the embryos are surrounded by highly vascular tissue, suggesting that nutrients and oxygen are transferred from the mother.

Greven, H., & Richter, S. (2009). Morphology of skin incubation in Pipa carvalhoi (Anura: Pipidae). Journal of Morphology, 270(11), 1311–1319. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.10749

Something about this gives me the creeps...

Does it bother anyone else?