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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Translucent spiderlings revealed regular bouts of moving retinas, twitching limbs and curled legs—a striking pattern resembling REM sleep.
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Sabrina trenger ikke løpe rundt for å finne mat. Hun kan vente nær et trygt skjulested og reagere når underlaget vibrerer.
Les ukas dyr
I’m building a personal field log for the animals in your care, and I’m looking for Android and iPhone testers. Watch the trailer and contact me privately to help shape the app.
Watch the trailer & join the betaThe 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
I’m building Introvertebrates Codex, a mobile app for keeping track of the animals in your care: feeding, moults, growth, and observations, all in one personal field log.
I’m looking for beta testers who can try it with their own collection, spot bugs, and tell me what makes everyday record-keeping easier. It’s still in development, and your feedback will help me shape what comes next.
Use an Android phone? Get in touch to take part in beta testing.
Keep on an iPhone? I’d love to hear from you too. Message me about iOS testing.
Tell me whether you use Android or iOS and a little about the animals you keep. Contact me privately by Instagram DM or email; there’s no need to share your details in public comments. — Erlend
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.
