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Wanna play a fun game? It's called "try to ID the animal depicted in a medieval illustration." This one was from "Der Naturen Bloeme" by poet Jacob van Maerlant, circa 1350.

Tomorrow night at 9pm EST I'll be streaming Planet Zoo on Twitch!

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every edgy movie monologue: "in this world....... you're either a predator....... or you're the prey"
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Hi its me, the Fun Police, here with a thread about some common things animals are shown doing in ✨fiction✨ that they don't actually do in real life! 🧵

Toxapex & Mareanie are based on the crown-of-thorns starfish! These starfish eat coral by inverting their stomach out of their mouth, & have caused a lot of damage to reefs in the Indo-Pacific. Mareanie's Pokédex entries even say that they eat Corsola 😬 (thanks @beccalachuchi!)

Fennekin is based on the fennec fox! Those HUGE ears are a special adaptation for life in the desert. Blood circulates through the large ears, cooling off & keeping the fox from overheating. They're cute, but you do NOT want one as a pet!

Clawitzer is based on a pistol shrimp! Pistol shrimp snap their claws shut at such high forces that it creates a cavitation bubble, producing acoustic pressure that kills their prey as well as a 210 dB sound and heat nearly the temperature of the sun. (thanks @franzanth!)

Heracross is based on the Japanese rhinoceros beetle! These absolute units spend most of their live as a larva underground. Once they emerge as a fully grown beetle, the males compete with each other by lifting and flipping each other over with their impressive horns!

Paras and Parasect confused me as a kid because I thought they were just weird crabs. They're actually based on cicada nymphs, and the "mushrooms" are a reference to a fungus in the Cordyceps genus which PARASitizes cicadas! 😬 (thanks @Michael_Stahler!)