Decorator crabs decorate themselves by sticking mostly sedentary animals and plants to their bodies as camouflage, or if the attached organisms are noxious, to ward off predators.
great mouse detective saving disney animation studio’s ass is so fucking funny imagine being the executives of that branch of the studio and you’re being threatened with closure after black cauldron got the shit beaten out of it by the motherfucking care bears movie and you go to the creative team (the only ones who actually care about making good shit) and you’re like “okay guys we need a HUGE hit to save us, what have you got” and they’re like “mouse sherlock holmes with a striptease scene. vincent price is here,”
Im sorry there was a striptease scene in the great loud detective????
The striptease scene is explicitly what saved Disney. The execs were getting ready to shut down the animation branch altogether, and the only scene the GMD team had finished was the bar scene. They showed that to the higher ups, and it impressed them enough to let them keep working on the movie.
Mouse burlesque is the sole reason why Disney Animation still exists today.
i genuinely love the neopets jewelry so much. like i hate when people buy expensive jewelry just to buy it but like if you wanted to flex on me with your $145 kougra necklace i really couldnt be mad
see, unlike almost every other bird of the planet, toucans are completely unable to grow down feathers.
that might sound a little nonsensical, but down feathers are the fluffy underlayer that other birds have between their regular flight feathers and their skin! this layer of fluff provides the birds with extra insulation and shock absorption, and are so damn good at their job that humans regularly steal them for use in jackets and pillows.
oops?
and since toucans just straight don’t have this layer under their body feathers, you can actually see their translucent skin under there if you hold them right!
(most bird skin is translucent, you just can’t see it like this because there’s down in the way. unless the bird in question is a toucan. weirdos.)
but more importantly, down USUALLY serves as insulation for vulnerable chicks, and is replaced/covered up as the chick’s body feathers grow in!
BUT NOT TOUCANS. baby toucans are born completely naked-o, and they stay that way until their body feathers decide to show up.
which looks really weird, actually.
in timelapse, it looks like a chorus of tiny old men spontaneously grew their own tuxedos.
but anyway this really has no bearing on your day-to-day life, but the next time you see one of these:
just know that they’re hiding a REALLY WEIRD secret under there.
