Yasha @Yasha@qoto.org

It's Chucky the Ducky?
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Blessing your timeline with a cute little duck.

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I should probably post this on newyears, but it is just too fitting with the egg-eating-snake post from earlier.
by THESQUARECOMICS
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Followup: The snake belongs to the genus Dasypeltis, also known as the egg-eating snakes (fitting).
"They have extremely flexible jaws and necks for eating eggs much larger than their head, and have no teeth, but they do have bony protrusions on the inside edge of their spine which are used to aid in breaking the shells of eggs.
The process of consuming an egg involves wrapping their mouth around it and drawing it into the throat and then flexing their muscles pushing the egg into the bony protrusions on their spine, which causes the egg to collapse in on itself. Then the snake carefully squeezes every last bit of liquid out of the inside of the egg, ending with regurgitation of the completely crushed egg shell." - Excerpt from wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasypeltis)

It surely looks ambitious, a bit greedy maybe, but it is fascinating to look at nonetheless.
Contrary to common believe, snakes do not dislocate their jaws to eat, as they do not have classic mandibular joints. Instead there are really stretchy ligaments that connect the upper and lower mandibular bones to each other and they fuse at the back of their head. Swallowing things a whole is therefore called gaping. 🐍

PS: I don't know which species this is, please someone enlighten me
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Jumping bristletail or in this case the species Trigoniophthalmus alternatus, is a wingless insect of the family Machilidae. It is found throughout the northern Holarctic (excluding China) and undergoes virtually no metamorphosis during its life cycle. Insemination of females takes place indirectly. Males spin silken stalks on which they place droplets of sperm for females to pick up.
Photography by 'Pierre Bornand'.
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A duck a day keeps the doc... or something like this. 🦆
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