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The Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository is live!

You can find it at: https://www.animal-photo-references.com!

Here's how this repository works: all photos were taken by me, a human, at zoos, aquariums, sanctuaries, and other facilities with animals in human care. There is no AI involved in the photo editing or creation and there never will be. Right now there's 56 species on the site; my catalog has over 300 and I will be uploading the rest of them as fast as I can.

Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission to use these references. Yes, even for work you're going to sell.

All other usage/reproduction requires permission, but assume I'm friendly and please do ask! That's educators, researchers, the media, people who need images for a school presentation, etc. This is just to retain copyright/control in case they're scraped/reused unethically - it doesn't meant I don't want folk to have access! So please do reach out via the contact form on the repository website, I don't bite and I'm most likely going to say yes.

Please don't repost the repository photos to your own blogs: I've created @animalphotorefs as a dedicated blog to share photos from the site, and of course I'll reblog a lot of it here! That again just helps with retaining copyright and sourcing of the images. If you really want to repost some for a specific purpose, please just ask me first!

Also, folks, this project has no funding. It's just me and my camera.

There will never be a paywall on the site - I believe resources like this absolutely must be free for everyone to access. So please, please, please support the repository if you use it. Want sneak peeks at photos, cute videos I take, or to help choose what I photograph and what gets posted first? You can do that through Patreon (and there's a free trial on the most interactive tier!) If you'd like to just drop a tip, I've also set up a Ko-Fi.

I can't wait to hear what everyone thinks of the repository.

To whet your thirst for cute photos, here's an Indian rhinoceros contemplating a goose.

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The answer to "What the h*ck goes on on those islands to the North and West of mainland Scotland?" by Derek Guy @/dieworkwear on twitter [x]

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Is love real? I feel like it can be but I've forgotten what it feels like to be in love.

I’ve seen it, I’ve felt it, I’ve been it.

Love is how I know I’m alive.

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"EIGENBLUTVERZICHT (BLOOD DONATION)" GÜNTER BRUS | MIXED MEDIA, 1983

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I could introduce you to the part of you that you didn’t know existed, the piece that has always been waiting to be found.

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where's that masterpost of quotes that have no right going as hard as they do. I'd like to submit "Protagonism is best left to teens and the insane"

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A policeman of GIPN (French National Police Intervention Groups) is seen during a training session in Nice, southern France,Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011, ahead of the G20 leaders summit.

Lionel Cironneau, October 26, 2011

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Why do I need to dislike u?

And why can’t I hate u

Then maybe let me scratch my bones till my skin bleeds

Find Life.

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Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

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hang on I’m trying to see something

don’t tell me the name of your pet, just tell me in the tags the name you call them that’s got nothing to do with their actual name

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not all of it is bad i think….…. we are going to be okay i think.

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French RAID police during a raid on an apartment in Saint Denis aimed at capturing Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected culprit behind the 2015 Paris attacks.

Francis Pellier, November 18, 2015

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One look can say a thousand words or whatever 😔🖤

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just needed to map out his scars for science reasons, I promise...