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heyaimsarah @heyaimsarah.bsky.social · Mar 4

Hey ma I’m an ad age Gen z to watch 🥹

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Mia 🦖 (MiaMiacoda on Twitch) @miacoda.bsky.social · Dec 24

GAR MAIL
Thanks @garlab.bsky.social! 🥹

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Mia 🦖 (MiaMiacoda on Twitch) @miacoda.bsky.social · Dec 20

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

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · Dec 20

BEST. #GARWEEK. POST.
GARgantuan thank you @caseydavid.bsky.social for supporting the garsanity!

Casey E. David @caseydavid.bsky.social · Dec 20

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. 🙌🏻🫶

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Casey E. David @caseydavid.bsky.social · Dec 20

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. 🙌🏻🫶

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · Dec 19

This is indeed a gar! Alligator Gar to be exact. The “Bar Gar” is an elusive but exciting find! #GarWeek

Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · Dec 19

@solomonrdavid.bsky.social I’m at a bar with lots of taxidermy. Is this a gar?

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Drew @drewavery.bsky.social · Dec 19

Mummified Alligator Gar {Atractosteus spatulata}
Environmental Archaeology Teaching Collection
Univ. of Florida
#garweek

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Matthew L. Miller @matthewlmiller.bsky.social · Dec 18

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

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.

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robin stumbo @offishial-business.bsky.social · Dec 19

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 🫶

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heyaimsarah @heyaimsarah.bsky.social · Dec 19

It’s refreshing to not have to over- explain this joke on here

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heyaimsarah @heyaimsarah.bsky.social · Dec 19

Me when I see your favorite ancient-air-breathing-fish-species fall out of your pocket #garweek

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 🙏

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Amy 🌸 🌻 🤦 @accessamy.bsky.social · Dec 18

How did I get this far in life without knowing?

heyaimsarah @heyaimsarah.bsky.social · Dec 17

In honor of #garweek day two I’m sharing one of my favorite gems from @hankgreen.bsky.social 🫶
cc: @solomonrdavid.bsky.social

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Titus Seilheimer @drfishsg.bsky.social · Dec 17

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

Wooden fish decoy with a long mouth and metal for fins. Background is yellow with colorful dots.

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Mia 🦖 (MiaMiacoda on Twitch) @miacoda.bsky.social · Dec 17

Anyways! I drew my favorite longnose gar at my local aquarium for #GarWeek

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Zoey Carter @tothatzoey.net · Dec 17

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!

heyaimsarah @heyaimsarah.bsky.social · Dec 17

In honor of #garweek day two I’m sharing one of my favorite gems from @hankgreen.bsky.social 🫶
cc: @solomonrdavid.bsky.social

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Normal Capybara @cosmicapybara.bsky.social · Dec 17

Harmless to humans? It's so beautiful I might die! The gars are among my favorite fishes.

Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · Dec 17

Reminder that Alligator Gars are BEASTLY, but also harmless to humans. #GarWeek

*Fish captured, tagged, safely released👍 @garlab.bsky.social

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heyaimsarah @heyaimsarah.bsky.social · Dec 17

In honor of #garweek day two I’m sharing one of my favorite gems from @hankgreen.bsky.social 🫶
cc: @solomonrdavid.bsky.social

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · Dec 17

“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...

It’s Time to End the Gar Wars

Imagine anglers piling hundreds of dead trout they've killed along stream banks. Not gonna happen, right? But it's still happening native fish called gar.

blog.nature.org

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Gettin' Fishy With It Podcast @gettinfishypod.bsky.social · Dec 17

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

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.

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Matthew L. Miller @matthewlmiller.bsky.social · Dec 17

“I never met anyone as enthusiastic about anything as Solomon was about gar.”— @caseydavid.bsky.social

My profile of @solomonrdavid.bsky.social

#GarWeek #25DaysofFishmas

Afield with the Gar Professor

Meet Solomon David, a “garnado” of enthusiasm for all things primitive fish.

blog.nature.org

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Matthew L. Miller @matthewlmiller.bsky.social · Dec 17

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

Unguided alligator gar caught on a silver plug.

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Spidermax @spidermax3000.bsky.social · Dec 17

#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 🐠

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heyaimsarah @heyaimsarah.bsky.social · Dec 17

It’s gargeous

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Jennifer Clausen @jacsciart.bsky.social · Dec 17

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 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.

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Spidermax @spidermax3000.bsky.social · Dec 15

🐠 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

An alligator gar floats in from the top right of frame to pull focus away from the manatees behind them.

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