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[Cheetahs aren't "big cats" (under the genus panthera) so they aren't capable of roaring unlike other larger wild cats you may be familiar with]
Blue-cheeked Jacamar (Galbula cyanicollis), male, family Galbulidae, Brazil
photograph by Hector Bottai
The most pathetic little arms on this fellar
I support him.
well that's a relief since obviously those absolutely dogshit biceps won't
Dreaming, 2023
Art Fight of curbs by CherishLoveArt. Rigged and animated from scratch! Curbs are fantasy thylacines that pop up in @alhilton's wonderful novel Hunters Unlucky. With permission, I entered my own version of the curbs in Art Fight this year. Absolutely blown away by the wonderful art I received!
Source: artfight.net
Cryptid vibes
(Lesser Egyptian jerboa, Sunda colugo, bearded pig, bat eared fox)
Forgot I made these quick refs once!! It’s not that you should feel obligated to portray every part of an animal correctly, but in some cases these are very unique, interesting features that very few artists are ever utilizing creatively!
morgulsquirrel
You inspired me….
Pure and perfect!!! Here I was revisiting the post only to consider adding even more facts about each. I will anyway!
*Some toads do have a *forked* tongue that works like a set of tongs.
*The sperm whale’s thin shape is how it can dive so deep so fast, cutting through the water.
*The whale’s weird jaw is for hooking squid tentacled. Its small throat is only for slurping those up.
*The blue ringed octopus can kill you, but the bite of other octopuses is merely a painful burn, which may be why it’s not common knowledge.
*Rabbits are freaks
*There are also jawless leeches that swallow whole prey such as earthworms, and leeches with a drilling proboscis that often specialize in hosts like turtles and crocodilians.
*Few arthropods have limbs ending in only a “point” other than certain crustaceans! In many spiders, the foot is simply very tiny.
*Some ticks are eyeless, relying entirely on the chemosensitive “hallers organs” in their legs. Ticks are the only animal group to jave these.
*Different leech species have different numbers and sometimes different arrangements if eyes, much like spiders, and there are some with eyes on their tail ends as well.
*Sea star abd leech eyes are both quite simple, mostly only detecting light.
*Only the box jellyfish have eyes, but they are actually complex ones with lenses that can make out shapes! Box jellies navigate catefully instead of drifting with the current. They are also the deadliest jellies :)
Bringin all this back (including the cute leech drawings) also I should have added that goats don’t have any upper front teeth either
One last thing about the mantises, though–they can actually fold their front feet when not in use, so then their front legs actually *do* end in the sickle claws!
Yeah like a reverse switchblade, the harmless part folds in!
The Tarsus in this photo is folded up on the left, unfolded on the right! (Our left and our right)
Desmoxytes Purpurosea - Shocking Pink Dragon Millipede
Anonymous asked:
Do you know what the weathers called when it’s like winter, and the snow is kind of glowing and everything is just light out? But it’s cloudy and snowing???
that's the albedo glow, babyyyy
Anonymous asked:
whats your favorite unjustly hated animal? mine is wasps they are very cute just needs personal space :)
also wasps! my favorites are yellowjackets, ours are super chill and have tons of personality c:
Did you know that leeches were once used to predict storms? Well, a tornado warning just dropped and my squad is climbing
My dad is a meteorologist and he has never once warned me about an incoming storm. My leeches, however......
https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/19/weatherwatch-forecasting-tempest-prognosticator-storm-leech
*urgently* Lads, the leechometre is at 12 bong, I repeat, 12 bong!
"tempest prognosticator" absolutely sounds like some kind of arcane device a wizard would have lying around in his workshop
It would also probably have leeches in it.
i don’t care what anyone says, the “multiple floating weapons controlled by telepathy/whatever” is, has been, and always will be cool as shit
no more "in my humble opinion", from now on it's "from my grandiose and objectively correct deductions".
This bird is a male standard-winged nightjar
During breeding season it grows primary feathers on each wing, elongated to 38cm (15 in) making it appear like 3 birds in flight
These are raised like standards/flags in display flight to impress females
A mask/puppet of a green lion devouring the sun, an alchemical symbol representing the dissolution of gold in nitric acid and hydrochloric acid
[ID: a photo of a person in a brightly-lit room holding a papier-mâché sculpture that resembles a green lion’s face in profile, superimposed on a yellow sun. The person’s face is obscured by the sculpture. There is green fabric hanging behind the sculpture, covering part of the person’s body.]