Animals worth a closer look
Introvertebrates is about the animals that get flinched at, misread, and underestimated — explored through video, writing, and tools for people who find them genuinely fascinating.
Latest from Introvertebrates
Fresh research, Sunday animal stories, new videos, and meaningful additions to the living collection.
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The comeback update follows a paludarium build while catching up on the move, the new animal room, enclosure work, Siuzi, the Codex, the website, and what comes next.
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Hyptiotes cavatus launches its triangular web at prey, and a 2025 silk-gene study adds a new chapter to the remarkable mechanism.
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En ravn kan ligne andre svarte kråkefugler på avstand. I flukt blir formen på halen et nyttig spor.
Les ukas dyr
The collection profiles bring verified species information, keeper observations, original photography, video, and public-safe Codex records together around each animal.
Meet the current collectionThe living collection
Tarantulas and other spiders, an assassin bug, sun beetles, and Sonja, a Reeves’s turtle. The full collection now has its own room to breathe.
Research journal
New papers, unusual behaviour, evolution, and discoveries from across the invertebrate world — collected in a growing research journal.
Introvertebrates on YouTube
Close observations, animal behaviour, care, and the details that are easy to miss when we only glance.
Learn
Visual anatomy, remarkable biology, careful health guidance, and conservation—grounded in published sources and illustrated with animals from the collection.
See how body regions, sensory hairs, mouthparts, legs, spinnerets, and respiration fit together.
Explore anatomy 02 · BiologyElectric fields, structural blue, airborne sound, regenerated limbs, and silk as an information network.
Discover nine facts 03 · CareRecognise possible warning signs, document them well, and know when qualified veterinary help is needed.
Read the keeper guide 04 · ConservationUnderstand habitat pressures, trade rules, conservation status, and how responsible keepers can make provenance visible.
Explore conservation
Conservation
What do Ruby’s and Sabrina’s wild relatives face? Explore documented conservation assessments, their dates and the difference between national and global status.
From the living Codex
Public-safe totals and standout measurements from the same field log used to follow feeding, moults, growth, and time in care. Missing measurements stay missing rather than becoming estimates.
Introvertebrates Codex
A dedicated digital companion for tracking the animals in your care. The Codex is currently in development.
Community field log
A moderated home for remarkable measurements, keeper photography, and individual animal stories. Every published claim shows the evidence level behind it.
Your own Codex data stays private unless you deliberately prepare and share a public-safe submission.
Follow the close-ups
A lightweight selection of original photographs links to the matching posts and reels without loading an Instagram feed into the page.
Behind Introvertebrates
I’m Erlend, the keeper, photographer, writer, and builder behind Introvertebrates. The project grew from a lifelong interest in animals and a desire to replace reflexive fear with closer observation.
Here I bring together my current collection, original photography and video, research notes, and digital tools — all built around the same idea: misunderstood animals become far more remarkable when we take the time to look.
How the site is made: The animals, photographs, video, keeper observations, and final editorial decisions are mine. AI assists with drafting, organisation, image-processing workflows, and technical development; scientific claims are checked against named sources before publication.
