Aquatic Ambiance

giraffe-in-a-tree:

Electric Blue Jack Dempsey by Ricardo Kobe on Flickr.

ichthyologist:

Black Ghost Knifefish (Apteronotus albifrons)

Native to the Amazon, these popular aquarium fish possess the ability to generate a weak electricity. Receptors are distributed over the length of their body and are used to sense and locate insect larvae.

The black ghost knifefish natively lives in fast moving, sandy bottom creeks in a tropical climate. South American natives believe that the ghosts of the departed take up residence in these fish,hence the name.

animeburger:

Frilled pygmy octopus (- Andrew Newton UW)

(via fuck-yeah-cephalopods)

animals-animals-animals:

Crab (by Andy Lederer)

(via marineanimals)

oceansoftheworld:

(Source of photo here) Juvenile tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier, Bahamas (Atlantic) (see this post)

(via fyeah-seacreatures)

giraffe-in-a-tree:

Portuguese Man-of-war by Lewesrat

100leaguesunderthesea:

by Paul Flandinette

(via fyeah-seacreatures)