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The #partygame Mate is available Tuesday, May 27 on #kickstarter ! For 24 hours only after launch, an early bird coupon is available. Sign-up on our website to get the discount - 🔗 in bi0. #lgbtqia #feminism

antechinus are mouse-like marsupials in Australia. once a year during mating season, the males enter a mating frenzy - sacrificing sleep to mate with as many females as possible. possible reasons to explain the mass unaliving event include total exhaustion, organs giving out from hormone overload, or even becoming a snack to help the next generation thrive. 📖 Research credit: Andrew Baker, QUT School of Biology and Environmental Science #scientific #marsupial #AnimalFacts #oliviarodrigo [video description: a segment from Olivia Rodrigo's Drop Dead music video is played with the text "male antechinus spend weeks barely sleeping, mating as much as possible... only to literally drop dead once the meeting for the season frenzy ends."]

Join us for another special Game On at Statera Cellars on May 20th! Join us in the tasting room for Game On with the creators of the local game ⁣Mate. 🐛⁣ @fascinarygames ⁣ Mate is an animal mating science party game. With your team of fellow feral naturalists, analyze specimens, answer queries, estimate measurements, and craft illustrations—all exploring animal mating behaviors and anatomy.⁣ ⁣ Multiplayer Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Xbox and classic console video games. 🎮⁣ ⁣ Tons of board and card games including the new game Mate! 🎲 ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Wednesday, May 20th⁣ Starting at 6pm⁣ No cover ⁣ ⁣ Statera Cellars ( @stateracellars )⁣ 109 SE Salmon St., Suite B3⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣

zaddy longlegs reporting for duty 🫡 📒 Dunlop, J.A., Selden, P.A. & Giribet, G. Penis morphology in a Burmese amber harvestman. Sci Nat 103, 11 (2016). [video description: a woman talks to the camera with relevant photos of daddy long legs and the fossils shown.] #spiders #scientificresearch #naturalhistory

If you missed Drink and Draw last night, don’t worry, we will be back at @starbarpdx next week for our first Bug Trivia Night! Test your knowledge, learn cool bug facts, and win some prizes. Featuring questions from locally made board game Mate by @fascinarygames who will also be in attendance! Live bugs on display. $5-$10 per person sliding scale entry fee.

10 points to anyone who kicks off a staff meeting with this fun little personality test. video description: text reads, "anglerfish enneagram." a 30-something woman with brown curly hair and a septum piercing speaks to the camera. images of large female deep-sea anglerfish are shown with no males, a single male, and many males attached to them. #anglerfish #animalfacts #enneagram #myersbriggs #personalitytest

feel free to rate this video's introitus from 1-10 🐁 Scientists are unsure about why the rats' introitus opens and closes like it does. The main theory is that the reproductive females in a colony suppress the reproduction of others using pheromones. Source: Current Biology, Volume 33, Issue 6, 27 Mar 2023. Extreme plasticity of reproductive state in a female rodent. Angela R. Freeman, Danielle N. Lee, Jeremy J. Allen, Bryant Blank, Dean Jeffery, Assaf Lerer, Bhupinder Singh, Teresa Southard, Soon Hon Cheong, Alexander G. Ophir. Photo: Siyabona Africa/Kruger National Park #rodents #scientificresearch #dictionary #linguistics animalfacts

no one puts the photo in photographer quite like her #photographer #SmallBusiness #womanowned [video description: a 30 something woman takes photos amidst a Douglas fir tree with the text "the photographer". then shots of mate: the party game for feral naturalists and a bird necklace are shown with the text "the shot."]

bc no one's talking about how female ducks also have a corkscrew 🦆 art credit: block prints by @robincorboart , shading by Gina Berce Lipor. you can find the game and prints at fascinarygames dot c0m Female ducks have labyrinthine v@gin @l canals, complex corkscrew structures that twist and turn. These v@gin @s contain dead ends and pockets designed to redirect unwanted sperm. And they work! Scientists have found that female ducks control paternity over 95% of the time. Even when forced mating occurs, females retain extraordinary agency over which male actually fertilizes their eggs. Through muscle contractions, positioning, and timing, they choose. This anatomy evolved alongside male aggression. It is not evidence of female weakness, but of female resistance. As Dr. Patty Brennan, an evolutionary biologist and professor who studies the diversity of g3nit@l structures across species told El País: “It’s incredible. It’s a very f3minist story… At the end of the day, the females are winning the battle. They evolved an adaptation which gives the majority of paternity to the male that they have chosen.” video description: a 30 something woman talks to the camera. relevant images of ducks with their corkscrews and cavatappi pasta are shown. #duck #corkscrew #art #scientificresearch

Join us for some feral Valentine’s Day fun this Saturday, celebrating nature, curiosity, and connection! 💘 Kick off the evening with a self-guided pre-game participating in the annual Global Bird Count. Take a sunset stroll at Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge, do a little land-snorkeling, and see what feathered friends you can spot. Then head over to @reclusebrewworks to join us for a round of unhinged, yet educational, gameplay. We're curating a round of Mate perfect for Valentine's Day! Teams will analyze specimens, speculate on wild questions, and sketch cheeky illustrations while learning (and laughing!) about animal mating behaviors and anatomy. #birdcount #birding #explore #portlandevents #pdxevents #valentinesday

We're so excited for Little Red's Lonely Hearts Soirée at @littleredscuriosityshop next Friday! 💘 Along with our games and goods fitting for the special feral naturalist in your life, there will be lots of other sweet treats, booths, and wares. If you are in #pdx, come say hello! 💘 #valentinegift #shopsmallpdx #portlandoregon #portlandsmallbusiness

Ernest Everett Just (1883–1941) was a Black American biologist who researched marine invertebrate reproduction, achieving international recognition for his scientific contributions to the field. One of his most notable contributions is his work on the fertilization and egg cell reactions. Studying the incredible diversity of marine invertebrate reproduction, including sea urchins, marine worms, and sand dollars, he made many important and fascinating discoveries. In his 1914 publication, "Breeding Habits Of The Heteronereis Form Of Platynereis Megalops At Woods Hole, Mass" (1914), Just describes his observations of the mating behavior and anatomy of a marine worm. "He thrusts his tail down into the coil of his own body and so into the waiting jaws of the female... About six seconds after the female has received the an@l segment of the male, the animals separate and eggs stream from the posterior segments of the female. The male may be held for a time by the female; if so he swims around, dragging her." He notes that some males get tuckered out during the process. "The task appears to be exacting. Often I have observed a rather small male... fall apparently too exhausted to complete the courtship." Finally, his book, The Biology of the Cell Surface, offers a stunning look into cell biology and gives words to the profound beauty of nature. "A living thing is not only structure, but structure in motion. As static, it reveals the superlative combination of compounds and matter; as a moving event, it presents the most intricate time-pattern in nature. Life is exquisitely a time-thing, like music." 📷: Özpolat, B.D., Randel, N., Williams, E.A. et al. The Nereid on the rise: Platynereis as a model system. EvoDevo 12, 10 (2021). #blackhistory #historyofscience #scienceiscool #marinebiology #animalfacts