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Ethan Kocak - The Unfamiliars on Backerkit!

5 months

Hey, it would really help me (by convincing BackerKit that people actually want this thing) if you stick your email address into this website and share the link.

Get Ready for The Unfamiliars

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@Blackmudpuppy

5 months

Went to the local Asian grocery store for snails, accidentally rescued this soft shell turtle.

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4 years

Just a pro tip for anyone who ever wants to commission an artist: it’s totally ok to respond with “that is out of my price range right now.” In fact, most artists appreciate this answer much more than disappearing off the face of the earth forever. It’s ok.

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5 months

Your hate only makes Stu stronger

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4 years

Imagine if we only knew about beavers from fossil remains. We would 100% reconstruct them wrong. Now apply this to dinosaurs. We are almost certainly not making dinosaurs weird enough.

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4 years

Beaver

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5 months

@DaphniaA Correct on both counts

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2 years

If a catio is a small patio just for cats it follows then that a ratio is a small patio for rats.

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5 months

Update, we have decided to name the turtle Stu.

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3 years

God: A plague of frogs! Me, outside collecting frogs: Fuck yeah

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5 months

I’m trying to ID what species he is. He does not have any spines on the leading edge of his carapace. Any turtle folks want to weigh in?

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2 years

I just remembered the time in 6th grade where we were supposed to pretend to fill out McDonalds job applications and I got in trouble for “not taking it seriously” because I filled it out as Darth Vader.

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5 months

@The_RadicalDino Yeah that’s the plan

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2 years

At least my ability has a nice butt

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6 years

I demand that a biologist working on studying yeasts title a paper “Fantastic Yeasts and Where to Find Them”

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4 years

#stupidXenomorph My quest to find the most impractical animal for a xenomorph to parasitize.

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6 years

Just a reminder that my pet toad is bigger than yours

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5 months

@BarghestBlack lol yeahhh. Also some *actual* racists showed up.

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5 months

@Hargitini_SVU The snails are for my caiman lizard, Neil Caiman

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5 years

What I really want to see in a Little Mermaid movie

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6 years

Koko the gorilla was important. She showed us unequivocally that human beings are not the sole proprietors of personhood. Rest in peace, Koko.

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3 years

@DaniRabaiotti I give you…..slenderpooh

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3 years

1 month old today

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5 years

Unpopular opinion: I don’t think we should be cloning extinct animals like mammoths if we can’t be bothered to keep extant elephants from going extinct.

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5 months

Good morning

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6 years

Brunhilda our cane toad

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2 years

Cozy.

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5 months

@WaffleWasteland He was definitely trying to bite me, hence holding him like a burger

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4 years

I want a two hour Jurassic Park movie where absolutely nothing goes wrong. Just two hours of having fun at a functioning theme park with love dinosaurs. Show me the enclosures. The rides. Interactive exhibits.

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4 years

Note how he handles it with a special hook because muppets are incredibly venomous.

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4 years

You never forget that first time you find a muppet in the wild #fieldwork #lifer

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5 years

My son got a little notepad today and in it he wrote a checklist of things he plans to accomplish: *stop climate change *cure chytrid infected amphibians *plant trees *confirm if information is lost in a black hole He’s my reason for optimism.

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4 years

I’m sorry everyone, I had to.

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4 years

I care about NFTs: Newts Frogs Toads salamanders

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5 years

Forgive me

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3 years

Herpetologists: we need to do scicomm and get people not to demonize snakes. You know, make them more relatable to people. Herp enthusiasts: Let’s give them silly names like snek and nope rope Herpetologists: NO NOT LIKE THAT

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5 months

@ADuckWithSocks It was trying to bite me the entire time

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3 years

Idea: a sci-fi story where one alien civilization abducts humans and releases them on an enemy alien planet as an invasive species.

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4 years

Why is buying a coffee the thing rich people are always telling us to give up when it is probably the thing restraining me most from storming a bastille

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4 years

Believe me, I understand not being able to afford stuff. I promise I will not be mad at you. We’re cool.

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2 years

Make everyone mad by referring to ornithologists as “specialized herpetologists”

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5 years

#axolotl #tattoo

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5 years

That’s....that’s not how arms work, buddy.

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5 years

Ariel better have pharyngeal jaws or I walk

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4 years

If the thylacine turns out to be alive the Bigfoot people are going to be INSUFFERABLE for the next ten years.

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3 years

Don’t tolerate toxic environments. Instead, become more toxic than any other land vertebrate until everyone stops bothering you.

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3 years

Baby

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3 years

Look at these dorks

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5 years

Remember kids, if the landlord says you can have fish, a dog or cat is just fine. Taxonomically, they’re just highly specialized fish.

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3 years

We’re adopting this kitten this week. Her name’s Cricket.

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6 years

Someone called me a beta once and I assumed they meant I was a highly aggressive male anabantoid fish bred for ritualistic combat.

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3 years

The....car vet? -me, trying to remember the word “mechanic”

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5 years

This is awesome....but...*pushes glasses up* it has the wrong number of forelimb digits

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5 years

Just read that in 2022 the Mexican Bank will start running a new 50 pesos bill featuring an AXOLOTL to commemorate the foundation of old Mexico city, Tenochtitlan. This makes me unreasonably happy. LOOK AT ITS FACE!!

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4 years

When you’re just really excited about blood worms

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5 years

Person: Why are your axolotls so expensive? Me: They aren’t. I raised them from eggs myself. Person: I’ve seen them for cheaper at X. Me: ok, then buy them at X. Person: but I like yours. Me: then buy them at my price. ಠ_ಠ

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4 years

The eel is 2020 and we must all strive to be the octopus

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8 years

I just noticed the salamander genus pseudotriton literally means FAKE NEWTS

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5 years

@Rschooley @jonrosenberg It’s like someone tried to grow an Eric Trump in a vat.

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4 years

I was expecting to do several reptile shows this year so I raised so many axolotls up and lol now I have 102 axolotls + more eggs and larvae than I can count

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4 years

Appreciate my marbled newts you cowards

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5 years

Some people have all the goddamn luck

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5 years

Your pool noodles could be harboring snakes:

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5 months

@fosterthebeeple Yeah they have all kinds of stuff

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3 years

Everyone shut up and admire my snake

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4 years

I enjoy this image whenever I see it, but the insufferable salamander nerd in me needs to point out that he is clearly holding its foot

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4 years

Wildlife biologist and photographer Mario Aldecoa holding hands with a giant Japanese salamander

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4 years

I propose we call any running away from your problems to go on vacation a "Ted Cruise" from now on.

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@Blackmudpuppy

5 years

Every time I see this I have to resist the urge to jump in there and explain that this is an alligator.

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@Blackmudpuppy

5 years

Well this was unexpected. Went to clean Eekum’s cage (our female crested gecko who hasn’t been with a male in almost a year) and there was this little guy hanging out in the plants.

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4 years

I made this inspirational poster for you all. (I am sorry).

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4 years

*sends myself an email* 1 second later: ooo an email Every. Time.

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5 years

Appreciate my fire salamanders dammit

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3 years

The only crypto you’ll be hearing about from me are the cryptobranchids in my book

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2 years

Comic idea: all the ways in which nature does not conform to heteronormative ideas and call it Pronouns in Bio

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6 years

I just blocked someone for arguing with me about what a newt is.

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5 months

Hey, I’m actually a reptile and amphibian keeper and breeder with a lot of animal experience as well as an artist and illustrator. I have a graphic novel on the way that you can sign up for updates on here:

Get Ready for The Unfamiliars

From Ethan Kocak - Get Ready for The Unfamiliars

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7 years

I have arrived.

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3 years

They’re having a meeting apparently

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4 years

*Me reading about Dr. Seuss books being racist* Wait till they hear about Roald Dahl.

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2 years

A #MoistlyHarmless PSA

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3 years

Look at this shlub

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6 years

Currently nursing this poor axolotl back to health (she got in a fight, lost an arm, and then stopped eating). She’s on the mend now, though and look at her tiny baby arm.

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2 years

Today in ‘this book is slowly driving me mad’:

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3 years

Fire salamander babies. Almost a month old.

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3 years

So….I’m working on a thing

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3 years

@DaniRabaiotti

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4 years

If a person was inserted into a blue whale’s anus, could the whale shut its sphincter with enough force to kill a person?

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3 years

Went to a reptile show and came home with button quail because taxonomically birds are reptiles

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6 years

UPS person: Can have your absurdly long tracking number please? Me: I’m pretty sure my package is the one behind the counter there that says LIVE HARMLESS REPTILES. UPSP: are you Ethan? Me: Yes. Yes I am.

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1 year

The other day at the aquarium shop a customer literally called clownfish woke and I had to just stare at them

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1 year

“What are you mad about today daily mail?” “Just facts in general”

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5 years

I’m sorry I keep RTing this, but I’m so happy with it. I’ve never thought of myself as a “tattoo guy” but I can’t imagine a better thing to have on my arm.

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5 years

#axolotl #tattoo

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6 years

What if, instead of buying a grave plot, you could buy like a small parcel of land and declare it a conservation area in your name

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3 years

@JessiSheron Hermit crab impression. They can swim perfectly fine, they would do the little walk only to do this impression

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3 years

Babby

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5 years

Humans: look at that animal, it has no intelligence, just robotically doing what it’s instincts are programmed to do. Also humans: welp, time to work and earn imaginary points to exchange for food and shelter

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@Blackmudpuppy

5 years

Your regular reminder that the red salamander’s genus name is Pseudotriton which literally means FAKE NEWTS.

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7 years

Guys I think this means I’m a legit artist now.

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4 years

Baby axolotls. First person to say axolittles gets blocked.

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4 years

I quite like the south. For one thing, the lizard to person ratio is top notch. It's the racists I dislike.

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5 years

Being an adult is constantly feeling like you’re just about to get your shit together but never quite managing to.

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@Blackmudpuppy

4 years

Was informed yesterday that some members of my extended family were hurt by my anti-Trump posts and I’d just like to say: I’m not sorry at all

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@Blackmudpuppy

4 years

If it’s a sin to see by screaming into the darkness and eating my own weight in insects every night, then baby I don’t want to be right

Pope Francis

@Pontifex

4 years

When we are in a state of sin, we are like "human bats" who can move about only at night. We find it easier to live in darkness because the light reveals to us what we do not want to see. But then our eyes grow accustomed to darkness and we no longer recognize the light.

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5 months

Good morning from one of my Surinam toads