Anonymous asked:

How… do snake farts work, then? Like… what, biologically speaking, allows/causes them to be so loud?

is-the-snake-video-cute:

This is actually a really great question and involves some super interesting biology!

The majority of the time, snakes fart pretty much only when they’re passing waste, and the noise is just caused by air passing through the cloacal sphincter - the muscles on the side of the snake’s cloaca. When not passing waste, snake farts are often pretty quiet. Because snakes are carnivores, they don’t build up gas in their gut the way animals who eat plants will, so regular gas-buildup farts are so quiet you won’t notice them.

But there’s another reason a snake will fart, and it’s the most interesting one! Sometimes, snakes will fart as a self-cleaning mechanism, when their stomach feels a little upset or if they feel they have something stuck in their cloaca. What they’ll do is forcibly move air through their digestive system. The snake will open their mouth wide, suck in air (enough you’ll see them puff up), and then push air out of the cloaca with an often very loud fart. The sheer volume this one often has, paired with how the snake will open their mouth and contract their body to move air through, resulted in many new keepers being absolutely horrified that their snake is farting so hard they’re going to die.

Interesting stuff, huh? Snake farts are super weird, but it’s important to note they shouldn’t be happening super often. If your snake is farting on a very regular basis, it’s worth checking out with a vet visit to make sure everything looks good.

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arguablysomaya:

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Anonymous asked:

All of your snakes are so gorgeous! I’m not asking to be rude and I’m not a snake expert at all but is Cappuccino a healthy weight? I know captive snakes can become obese really easily

sneepis:

Thanks! I believe she is a healthy weight, if not on the chunkier side, however she’s not fully grown yet. She receives 1 small rat every 2-3 weeks. Ball pythons are thick bodied compared to colubrids, they’re meant to have a thin neck and wider body. Here’s a helpful chart, sorry if the resolution isn’t too high, you could also google “ball python weight chart” for more examples :)

grizzlyadventures:

sleepy-bebby:

Shedding 🐍

Snope (snake pope)

fatsoupy:

eye-opening tumblr post for me included the words “people are meant to be burdens” as in humans rely on and support one another and it’s not a bother it’s our purpose; to love and be loved in return. so if you ever think you’re being annoying just remember we were made to love and it’s going to be okay

guerrillatech:

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crabrangoonluvr:

alright so during into the spider-verse’s introduction to peter b. parker, we see his wedding, and he stomps on the wine glass right? this is a jewish wedding tradition, which makes this version of peter parker jewish (further confirmed in interviews – however, i believe this is enough by itself). it’s a nice nod to the jewish roots of the character.

we get to see a bunch of peter parkers throughout the spider-verse films, and none of them have any explicit religious associations like peter b. parker. except for one!

here we have gwen stacy’s peter parker and aunt may, from earth-65, saying grace over a meal. from my understanding, this is generally a christian practice – in judaism, we prefer to say short prayers before eating, and save the long, in-depth ones for afterwards. so to me, this was a clear example of the character being coded as christian. i was a little disappointed that they didn’t make peter parker jewish here too, but since across the spider-verse discusses variants and the differences between instances of the same person between different universes, i interpreted this as a continued commentary on peter parker’s ethnicity – although he was initially jewish-coded and one of his two creators, stan lee, is jewish, this is often erased, especially in more modern interpretations of the character.

and then i remembered that this peter parker also literally turns into the lizard.

and y'know what? good call on that one guys.

Also I heard on twitter from a mutual that Gwen’s peter is the only one without a Jewish voice actor.

Earth 1610 (miles’ peter) is voiced by Chris Pine

Earth 616 (peter b parker) is voiced by Jake Johnson

Even Ben Reiley (who’s a clone of peter parker for yall who don’t know) is voiced by Andy Samberg

But Gwen’s peter is voiced by Jack Quaid

bittersweetish:

milf (myself i’d like to forgive) and dilf (despair i’d like to forget)

pjharvey:

feel like every few months a new post goes around making fun of people on tumblr for never having had sex or kissed anyone which ironically is the most immature high school behavior out of anyone even though supposedly you’re using it as a statement on the immaturity of people on this website. i think people forget that a lot of this site is teenagers too and not having sex until ur 20s is completely normal and common. especially since a lot of this site is autistic and a lot of this site is trans and a lot of this site is exclusively attracted to the same gender and all these factors complicate things when it comes to sex and dating lol but also you can be a straight cis neurotypical person who doesn’t kiss anyone or have sex until your mid-late 20s and that’s still normal. there’s no timeline