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Does anyone else find baleen whales to be creepy as hell? Is this just me being odd again?
(hexbear.net)
Seriously, these things are the closest we have to an eldrich abomination in mammal form. They're so bizarre, probably because they're mammals, so familiar yet alien enough that it turns into uncanny valley.
Their weird upside down mouths give me the heebie jeebies. Who the hell has hair for teeth? That is the stuff of nightmares. Imagine getting tangled up in that gross stuff. I bet they wouldn't even notice because they're terryingly huge.
The way they float in the deep blue void of the ocean reminds me of some kind of alien creature floating through space. How can a giant air breathing mammal live like that?
Dude gives me the willies.
I think they are very weird but they don't creep me out. My terror is on the other side of the size scale. Parasites freak me out.
And on the minute scale - bacteriophages. A bacteriophage is a virus that parasitizes a bacterium by infecting it and reproducing inside it. Something inside my brain refuses to accept they are real and they must be spacecraft or something from sci-fi. Nature makes some fucked up shit.
haii im a bacteriophage! this is my collar and this is my whiskers and my tail :3
You could turn that into a song lyric.
I'm a little bacphage,
Short and stout,
Here is my handle
Here is my spout
When I get all injecty
Hear me shout,
I land on it 'n pour me out!
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Not my best parody lyrics but everything has too many syllables.