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GAR MAIL
Thanks @garlab.bsky.social! 🥹
As we approach the end of #GarWeek please behold my favorite gar at @okczoo.bsky.social who is full of whimsy and confusion about glass
BEST. #GARWEEK. POST.
GARgantuan thank you @caseydavid.bsky.social for supporting the garsanity!
It’s #Garweek! When you’re married to the gar guy, gars are along for the ride too! A few examples: gar to help celebrate our wedding, gar to help announce a pregnancy and gars to welcome our kids into the world . Here’s to these awesome fish and the man behind #garweek. 🙌🏻🫶
This is indeed a gar! Alligator Gar to be exact. The “Bar Gar” is an elusive but exciting find! #GarWeek
Mummified Alligator Gar {Atractosteus spatulata} Environmental Archaeology Teaching Collection Univ. of Florida
Mummified Alligator Gar {Atractosteus spatulata}
Environmental Archaeology Teaching Collection
Univ. of Florida
#garweek
Leucistic gar at Mystic Aquarium, Connecticut.
Albino muskrat taxidermy, part of an exhibit of albino/leucistic animals at Osborne Nature Center, Iowa.
Albino alligator at California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
Albino gray squirrel at Osborne Nature Center, Iowa.
I’ve been fascinated by leucistic/albino animals since childhood, when my grandpa told me a story of a white deer he encountered.
Here are a few I’ve found in aquaria & exhibits.
#GarWeek
do you like cool stickers and also funding native fish conservation? if so, check out my #GarWeek sticker fundraiser at
offishial-business-art.square.site
each sticker is $5 (shipping included) and all profits will go to @nf4t.bsky.social 🫶
It’s refreshing to not have to over- explain this joke on here
Mario is holding a photoshopped gar, and says you dropped this . This is very funny and please share because I’m not exhausted at all thank you 🙏
Me when I see your favorite ancient-air-breathing-fish-species fall out of your pocket #garweek
How did I get this far in life without knowing?
Wooden fish decoy with a long mouth and metal for fins. Background is yellow with colorful dots.
This gar decoy was a gift from a friend who knows I would appreciate it!
Decoys are used to attract fish during winter spearfishing.
#GarWeek
Anyways! I drew my favorite longnose gar at my local aquarium for #GarWeek
It's Gar Week! Alligator Gar are Illinois' largest fish and due to overfishing and a lack of public knowledge were functionally extinct by 1966. However, in the last few years, we have been reintroducing them!
As a resident of a river town, these fish are integral to the ecosystem. Also super cool!
Harmless to humans? It's so beautiful I might die! The gars are among my favorite fishes.
In honor of #garweek day two I’m sharing one of my favorite gems from @hankgreen.bsky.social 🫶
cc: @solomonrdavid.bsky.social
“What’s the deal with GARS?”
Here’s a #GarWeek mega-thread of gar stories (aka GARticles) over the years:
First up: Gar Wars by @matthewlmiller.bsky.social
blog.nature.org/science/2015...
An alligator gar skull displayed as a biofact, being held by an educator from the New England Aquarium. The skull is over a foot long and features many conical teeth.
Alligator #gar are an incredible fish, and one of the largest freshwater fish in North America- reaching over 6 feet long and weighing over 100 pounds. They may even reach 8+ feet and 300+ pounds!
This skull was photographed by @nerdrvt.bsky.social on a BTS tour of NEAQ several years ago. #GarWeek
“I never met anyone as enthusiastic about anything as Solomon was about gar.”— @caseydavid.bsky.social
My profile of @solomonrdavid.bsky.social
#GarWeek #25DaysofFishmas
Unguided alligator gar caught on a silver plug.
Solomon David with our alligator gar.
The trip culminated in DIY alligator gar day where a “short stop” turned into an all-day pursuit of gar in canals.
After running out of food & water we landed this gar on an artificial lure. One of my favorite catches ever.
#GarWeek
The head of an Alligator gar fills the frame in profile facing left of frame
#garweek continues! Here’s another picture of snoop log from last year. (Alligator #gar - Atractosteus spatula)(Shot at Cincinnati #zoo 5-27-23) #photography #fishsky #fishmas #fish #monsterfish 🐠
It’s gargeous
An illustration of an Alligator Gar eyeing a duck. The point of view for the illustration is underwater looking up at the surface. The gar is positioned directly beneath a female mallard duck, who is blissfully unaware of her impending doom. The bottom of the water is rocky and silty, and a fallen tree branch juts of the water on the right side of the image.
I'm a day late for the start of #GarWeek, but I thought I would share some of my old #GARtwork in celebration of these awesome fish.
An alligator gar floats in from the top right of frame to pull focus away from the manatees behind them.
🐠 Guys, it’s freakin #garweek!! The coolest and silliest monster #fish you’ll ever see! (Alligator #gar - Atractosteus spatula) (shot at Cincinnati #zoo 11-17-24) #photography
Celebrating #garweek with this rad Platinum Alligator Gar
It’s so beautiful 🥹
A screenshot from the movie "A Muppet Christmas Carol" with the lines "There's only one more sleep 'til... Gar-mas"
Some special #25DaysofFishmas features are on deck for the next week! Trim the #Fishmas tree and hang up the GARland because it's almost time for #GarWeek - starting December 16! @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social
Glad you asked, the thing about Cuban Gars…
#GarWeek #GarPuns
Life update: #garweek
