#( fossey; asks )

[ape-apocalypse]

can you reccomend some of the documentaries you watched about apes?

Funny enough, I've been planning on making a list of documentaries so thanks for the push! I’ve watched a bunch to hype up for Kingdom and I’ll keep watching as we wait for POTA news. These are what I've been able to find with my various subscription services and internet access in the USA so their availability may vary for you. Also a warning that, due to these being non-fiction documentaries there is very real footage of animal injuries and death (from both humans and natural circumstances).

Monkey Business (Amazon Prime) - A long running show (9 seasons) about a primate rescue center in the UK. I really loved this one because you got to follow apes of the course of years. I even cried when one ape who had been there from the first season passed away in the final season. The show mostly focuses on chimps and orangutans but also features lemurs, woolly monkeys, gibbons and other species. The center focuses on giving the animals in their care the most natural life they can in captivity, and also assists in breeding programs for several endangered species. Jane Goodall even comes out in one episode to present them with an award for excellent enclosure construction. The theme song is very loud and distinctive, the point that my roommate asked how long this series was because she could hear the theme song coming from my room for weeks as I went through all 9 seasons. Highly recommend this one because the personalities of the apes really stand out when you spend literal years with them; it's worth the time commitment, I loved it.

(Also in making sure I had all the details about this show right, I learned there was a follow up show called Monkey Life that featured Andy Serkis himself narrating the first season and they seem to all be available on YouTube for free so I have a new multi-season show to watch now, thank you!!!)

Orangutan Jungle School (YouTube) - Rescue group dedicated to teaching young orangutans how to survive in the wild so they can be released when they're older. Only the first two episodes of this show are available on YouTube for free but I also devoured any clips I could find. I found this show particularly hilarious because the baby orangs are adorable. They cry when they don't get their cups of milk fast enough or when they can't figure out how to crack into a coconut. I always see adult orangutans as slow moving, so the activity and demanding personalities of the babies delighted me. If nothing else, watch these two clips because I have watched the clips of the babies screaming and the humans overreacting to fake snakes on repeat for ages.

Chimp Empire (Netflix) - Two chimpanzee groups in Uganda's Ngogo forest face off over territory and food, while each group faces their own struggles from within. This one is about wild chimps and it is fascinating to see their natural ways outside of rescue centers. The cinematography is gorgeous; I'd love to know how they got all these shots without disturbing the chimps. It's only 4 episodes; I wish it was longer but it packs a lot into its short run time.

Meet The Chimps (Disney+) - A one season show focusing on chimps living in a rescue center in Louisiana. A single season show so you don't get a lot of time with the chimps but it's got a much smaller number of chimps to get to know than Monkey Business. Also the troops are housed near each other so it's interested to see the dominance displays, even through a fence. My favorite part was near the end with the mystery of who was the father of an accidental baby. I guessed wrong!

Kingdom Of The Apes: Battle Lines (Disney+) - Two separate ape groups, one of chimps and the other of gorillas, sort out fights for dominance and leadership of the troop in their own ways. Personally I didn't like this one. Jumping back and forth between gorillas and chimps in a documentary less than an hour didn't leave me very invested, but I thought I'd add it if anyone was interested.

I'll throw in a couple podcasts too, should be free on your preferred podcast app:

Ologies, one episode on primatology and a separate episode on gorillaology

National Park After Dark, a two-part episode on the life, work, and murder of Dian Fossey, a primatologist who worked with gorillas and wrote the book 'Gorillas In the Mist'

The Wild With Chris Morgan, an episode on orangutans called People Of The Forest

There are a lot more documentaries I want to watch, especially several for free on YouTube. I hope this list is of interest to you and I welcome recommendations from anyone else.

[xenosagaepisodeone]

when people are asked "would you rather spend 24 hours with X animal or Y animal for a million dollars" the conversation often naively pivots to discussing animal nature, with the argument for both parties amounting to "they're fine if you leave them alone". I find that this is the least engaging way to answer the question. you are not dian fossey. if you had a brush with a territorial animal in a mall and you weren't sure how hungry or agitated or tired it was, it would be a huge gamble trying to charm them into coexistence gorillas in the mist style. the most appropriate way to address the question would be asking yourself which animal is likely to end up killing you in a way that would be considered stupid but sympathetic, and which animal is likely to end up killing you in a way that is considered funny enough to be used as ytp fodder.

[gray-gray-gray-gray]

Chapter 16 of Psychosis, Trauma, and Dissociation: PTSD with Psychotic Features

Even if PTSD and psychotic disorders are classified as seperate, there's increasing evidence that they could be related. Because of co-occurances of each disorders' symptoms, researchers are beginning to question if one could lead to the other. There's two main paths: a) Psychosis may be traumatizing enough to cause PTSD, and b) psychotic experiences are more common in severe PTSD. This will overview A and then B.

On the trauma of psychotic symptoms themselves, and hospitalization: Shaner and Eth (1989) were the first to document that schizophrenia can lead to future PTSD. Since then, many other studies have been done on this topic. Bendall, McGorry, and Krstev (2006) examined some personal accounts of psychosis and came to the conclusion that half of them would meet the criteria for PTSD. Further research concludes that psychotic experiences puts you at risk for developing PTSD, such as a) the fear and terror of psychotic symptoms themselves like paranoia and voices, b) the constant fear of a psychotic relapse, and c) a low tolerance for uncertanties that they have to face.

Though, despite this, researches have debated if psychotic experiences and involuntary hospitalization procedures can be considered 'traumatic enough' for PTSD. The debate was mainly about whether or not psychotic experiences qualified as "actual threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of the self or others." In addressing this, Shaw et al. (1997) proposed that the definition of trauma should be revised to include "a threat to the psychological integrity to the self", which clearly encompasses the psychotic experience. The current DSM-5 definition - "death, threatened death, actual or threatened serious injury, or actual or threatened sexual violence" - does not allow psychotic experiences or their associated hospitalizations to be 'traumatic enough' for PTSD.

Regardless of problems associated with definitions, in a recent review of literature it was suggested that across all studies high levels of distress with both symptoms and hosptializations were apparent. In one study, 69% of PTSD symptoms were reported as being directly attributable to psychotic experiences. Hospitalization and the associated procedures accounted for 24%. Mueser et al. (2002) asked patients to identify the most upsetting aspects of their psychotic episodes, where 66% identified the psychotic experiences themselves, 26% naming hospitalization, and 8% a combination of the two. This shows how the definitions may be problematic: despite hospitalizations fitting the DSM-IV and DSM-5 definitions of trauma more, psychotic experiences happen to be more traumatizing…

On the flip side, several recent studies have suggested that severe PTSD could result in psychotic experiences. Much of the earlier work relies on veteran samples, but more recent work includes non-veteran samples too. Hamner and Fossey (1993) reviewed clinical charts of 214 veterans who previously recieved treatment for PTSD, noting that 15% of the sample had psychotic experiences. This showed that the rate of psychotic experiences in PTSD was higher than originally thought. A later study showed that veterans who received a PTSD diagnosis showed a higher rate of psychotic experiences than veterans not diagnosed with PTSD. Another study confirmed that auditory hallucinations were the most common psychotic experience in those who had PTSD.

For non-veteran studies, once again the presence of psychotic experiences was related to the severity of PTSD symptom severity. In a study of Northern Irish participants that had trauma related to the Northern Irish political trauma, 20 of 40 participants that had PTSD experienced auditory verbal hallucinations. Most of the hallucinations were concluded to be trauma related. Overall there have been similar findings in non-veteran studies as in veteran studies.

As a whole the body of research suggests a psychotic subtype of PTSD.

Dissociation has the potential to play a role in the development of this psychotic subtype of PTSD - dissociation has been associated with PTSD for a long time, after all, to the point where some suggest it could be classified as a dissociative disorder. Recently, a dissociative subtype of PTSD has been introduced in the DSM-5, and this subtype could overlap with the proposed psychotic subtype. Brewin and Patel (2010) found that auditory hallucinations are common in both veteran and civilian PTSD samples and is correlated with dissociation scores. Blevins and colleagues found that their dissociative PTSD group scored higher than the PTSD-only group on a variety of mental health experiences, including psychotic experiences. Overall, more research is needed to explore the association between dissociative PTSD and psychotic symptoms.

The book argues that a psychotic subtype of PTSD would look like this: the presence of hallucinations and delusions, of which the former are more prevalent; the subtype being pervasive, chronic, and severe; the disorder must be differentiated from related disorders - the subtype can be differentiated in that its delusions are often paranoid and persecutory while schizophrenia's delusions are often more bizarre and complex; the subtype presents without the thought disorder which is common in schizophrenia; the psychotic subtype has a typical course that does lessen in severity over time; the subtype has a typical response to treatment, and distinctive biological characteristics of the disorder should be apparent, such as increased levels of serotonin production and increased monoamine oxidase B activity compared to individuals suffering PTSD alone.

[weaselle]

howdy, I saw your post about the silverback gorillas and it's beautiful and I need to read more. could I please get a link to the study it's from?

for anyone wondering, this ask is referencing this post about gorillas i made

howdy (howdy howdy) thanks for stopping by! i couldn't find an actual study about the silverback and his son on the mountain, my source was a documentary i saw at some point and i've seen so many i have no idea which one...

but i did go looking and i am 90% sure that it was a Gorilla named Titus who is one of the several generations of gorillas that have been studied by researchers in association with the Diana Fossey Foundation

Looking for this information I learned that there have been further developments! Titus finally recognized he was just too old to have the responsibility of protecting a group from threats, and he rejoined his son's group, accepting his son as the leader

here are a couple articles about that

this one is about the two groups reconciling

this one is just all about Titus, a gorilla that the researchers at some point started calling The Gorilla King which i think might be the name of the documentary i saw originally

[lacenvs3000w24]

finding footing in art & nature🦋🌿

This week’s post is about the interpretation of nature through art – I’ll be focusing less on how I interpret nature through art, and more about how I have come to find my footing in doing so.

A quotation from chapter 3 of the textbook (Beck, Cable, & Knudson, 2018) really struck a chord with me for this topic. Talking about studying nature in schools, Burroughs (1916) said that it was:

“Too cold, too special, too mechanical; it is likely to rub the bloom off Nature. It lacks soul and emotion. It misses the accessories of the open air and its exhilarations, the sky, the clouds, the landscape, and the currents of life that pulse everywhere.”

I feel that many of us can relate to this excerpt, as did I. Rub the bloom off Nature.

It sounds silly, and I still sometimes feels pretty embarrassed by it, but I really feel like the driving force behind my choice of major (Zoology) was nature documentaries, photography, and Diane Fossey and Jane Goodall’s stories. The images on a TV screen of people out in the wild, so intimately and genuinely immersed in the beauties and intricacies of nature – that is what drove it home for me.

I can’t honestly say that I was thinking - primarily - about learning the ins and outs of statistical methods. Nor was I considering the how-to’s of data acquisition and manipulation, or even hypothesis formulating.

Realistically, I was thinking about how cool it would be to study a major that was defined by natural historians and explorers like Charles Darwin, or the people I saw on Nat Geo programs.

So… who am I to interpret nature through art? I’m someone in a (to some, surprisingly) technical, scientific major. Someone who didn’t necessarily know what they were signing up for, who was (naively) hoping for an experience akin to these creative interpretations. But I’m someone who has come to love these studies because they’ve immensely deepened the connection I’ve always felt to the beauty of nature. When I see a scenic landscape shot or a charming illustration of anything wild, I have so much more in my interpretive toolset than I ever did before. I can parse through the dramatic editing and enhanced colours to find a deeper meaning, one that is simultaneously more informed and more abstract.

The bloom may have been rubbed off a little, but now I can take steps to paint it back on.

Of course, this need not apply to members of the audience. As the hopeful interpreter, I’m fortunate to have this science + art lens, and it is indeed my responsibility to translate that dual perspective into a single, coherent, and cohesive one.

And how do I interpret the gift of beauty? Through that dual perspective.

One of Tilden’s (1957) Principles of Interpretation is that

“the chief aim of interpretation is not instruction, but provocation”

Philosophers have made attempts through millennia to articulate the importance of beauty. One particularly ephemeral type of beauty has been described as “the sublime”. Crudely, it has to do with the almost agonizing appreciation we feel when we see a mountainscape, the ocean, a sprawling forest – something naturally beautiful, perhaps chaotic, immense (notice that most philosophers can’t help but define it in terms of NATURAL beauty).

[ Among the Sierra Nevada, California (1868), Albert Bierstadt. ]

Part of the gift of beauty is in its interpretation; the self-reflection that compels us to ask

why is this sight making me feel this way??? and HOW?

Combining that stand-alone beauty with technical knowledge is a simple step we take after being inexplicably provoked by nature. A step towards appreciating, defining, putting our finger on the gorgeous gift that Mother Nature is, and then making our own creations to try to capture that beauty – kind of like how a painter might study a renowned artist by recreating their work. In this way, we gain some insight into how Mother Nature put all these elements together to make a creation so breathtaking.

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References

Beck, L., Cable, T. T., & Knudson, D. M. (2018). Interpreting Cultural and Natural Heritage for a Better World. Sagamore Publishing.

Burroughs, J. (1916). Under the apple trees. New York, NY: William H. Wise & Co.

Tilden, F. (1957). Interpreting our heritage. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.

[scentedchildnacho]

I did make it to harvest church for a benevolence ..

He wanted to know why homeless for a decade

So I told him it's a trash to people where they just kind of leave many disparate problems

So the over crowding and noise kind of moves me all the time to place structural holes...

I notice people leaving a vintage vase people can't use because it isn't cutting edge medicine and it not making them feel very good to not take it to a repurposing and green job training booth

Its mostly management problems leading to apathy to situations like anti immigration in Germany ...its these creepy ladies that can understand Foucault on the inverse and they show up to flash knives at people or talk in gross disturbing ways or just witch every bodies rest time

Wagner they will sometimes just really hit and strike a project with militant ladies that admit they hit their kid with anything around and themselves

Or the men sometimes they drop off these men sometimes that dont care if their ultimate speed bully...and it's again knife threats or beating people up severely like police footage and again stuff to just ruin people's time

The situation is just not managed and it's just very unfair other psychiatrists work with early Alzheimer's and that psychiatrist just dumps pill restraints

So I would travel a lot to find people's missing services...like someone's domestic abuse shelter a 5 hour train ride away....or someone else's camp...even more states away or someone's largely dark men food stop again several states away....

I told him the push to view things as maximal crisis tends to shove homeless into compounds instead of uplifting it's condition as it's come to live

I said kamala is Indian so to her everyone is a tribe.....and that's homelessness...it's a tribe to live for God not for land grants so something about God has to tell me where God is taking people instead of always positions filled in basic functions not really gainful anymore

Tribe of Levi....uhm there is a Vietnamese priest here and it's the south east Asians that will help poor white with things like fishing or lou ows pig roasts

So maybe I can ask him about sacrificing a young cow or calf because it's spirit haunts and persecutes the people here

That beauty of a young cow face all this car crisis is to turn the children especially into perfect smooth sickly forms

There is maybe a scandinavian wealth here that won't stop stalking me with cow veneration....so it's symbol is we get to be here and stop with how boring

Dian fossey did have like followers who worshipped all she taught them so that is maybe the car terrorists at the children

Vaccines?

They are The native Americans and indigenous diaspora doesn't exist....

They do they try to defile me it's not just trying to hurt me they think my lady is of ill repute at the church and attempt defiling

I watched a film called silentium and the nun was like I think I can't join them because I'm a people and this perverted Marxism or flesh is why isn't correct and they were like you don't have to be perfect

Anyway I guess the immigration has been idle sitting in little shops with all this God art in vista California that some sectarians warn is idolatry and can really summon something people think is demonic

I read this book by a Frenchman called you will not have my hate...because it's been trendy I guess for common people to pronounce in famous ways that they will not be seeking reckonings or retribution

So I mean they were placing strange altars by the side of the road about one young man in vista California....

And I think they blame the emigration because they could be stricter and work more about who is coming and going around their districts and have been willing to open walls or ideas they shouldn't have

But I find myself now at meals with black and tan types so others might say I'm never getting managed or getting out of this unfair objectification because the IRA killed an emigrationist that could have helped

Wagner what is all this if people are lewd or wrong restrain them when there are peoples that understand before wall or before CPS

I'm from Wisconsin but they found out that 20 percent of severely abused emigration issues were from the states so something about that type of emigrationist missing from the homeless here and people wanting to leave them on sidewalks and hog tye them like old gay films all just very crude and no one is interested in that

[serenemy]

in another turning of the Wheel, of course, the anthropologist Zora Fossey Goodall Meade would unearth the text and make the rounds of the world’s great academies. asked by a pre-N’ahtzee megyn karen kelly of the Interrogators Board why historians had assumed such different stories, Meade could only respond, fingers steepled under her chin,

Why indeed?

Why indeed.

magic pumpkin pendant: amethyst, mystery green gemstone and embellishments, in gold (available)

from the new photo series: “you turn my pumpkins Purple, the second best of the colours following Green”

listening to

you're beautiful

you're beautiful

you're beautiful, it's true

i saw your Grace in a crowded place

and I don't know what to do

'cause I'll never be with you

[mbti-sorted]

Dian Fossey

Anonymous asked: Dian Fossey?

[mainnalle]

My signature Everlasting Syllabub.

It uses lemon for the citrus, on a base of Fossey's Broken Heel gin. And is finished off with the Bickford's raspberry cordial.

Don't ask for the recipe, you just add thickened cream and whip it until it's light and fluffy, tasting as you go to balance the rest of the ingredients.

[ricmlm]

Segasira Politely Asks Taraja To Move | Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund

[is-the-primate-vid-cute]

In celebration of my local zoo’s gorilla Dossi having her first baby this week I was wondering if I could get some neat facts/stories about little gorillas or gorilla moms? I can’t wait to see the little one when they open the building back up and she feels comfortable enough to have the baby out in view.

via 660 News

Above is Dossi's adorable infant Eyare born April 20th!

Some gorilla mom and baby facts:

Gestation usually take 8 months. Newborn gorillas weigh approximately 2kg

Despite being able to eat solid foods by 8 months, they stay breastfeeding with mom up to 4 years.

Photo via Calgary Zoo

Young gorillas sleep in mom's nest for their first 3 years! Once she has a new infant, the older sibling must make their own nest and sleep alone.

Unlike other species, gorilla moms rarely let others babysit the youngster and instead keep the baby on her back at all times. They typically don't even put the baby down once for the first 6 months!

Via Calgary Zoo

Young gorillas learn safe food sources by scrounging from mom's leftovers and choosing familiar foods thereafter.

If mom is still part of the troop when male gorillas mature, they are much more likely to stay with the group rather than assembling their own troop or living as a bachelor.

You asked about moms but gorillas are some of the very best dads out there:

Silverbacks do play a very important part in infant development, serving as important role models. As the only male in the troop, it is very likely all the youngsters of the troop are his offspring. It is not unusual to see silverbacks surrounded by all infants in the group and even to see silverbacks play, entertain and help care for individual infants.

Infants who are separated from or lose their mother will travel near the silverback and also sleep in his night nest, which is extremely important for maintaining warmth.

Silverback Kubaha with Infant Masunzu, Via Dian Fossey Institute

Sources: Dian Fossey Institute and Calgary Zoo

[xxomalley]

fossey wiped the goo from her eyes as she stepped out of the science wing of the university, hershey von schweetz at her tails. “fuck’s sake, hershey, can’t you do one thing in that lab without making it into a damn warzone?” the prince just shrugged and smiled as he left, singing something like ‘yyoouu are sooo beautiful to meeee --’ before he turned the corner. 

goo still all over her, fossey turned around and stopped herself just in time from crashing into someone. “-- it’s not a good time.”

[ossseous]

hello!! hope you're well! just saw ur response to the "properly formed society" comment on the carrier bag theory ursula post, i felt like the way u answered was so gentle but firm and informed. was wondering if u could maybe share some recommendations for texts to read more about this? cos i agree w/ the idea but its hard to find books like that. for example i think yuval's book ultimately has this kind of idea behind it (havent read it but from what ive read OF it, thats the vibe). thank u!!

sorry the word limit probably didn't help me express that right, i meant more books about anthro that focus on exploring human nature and our beginnings with a less "man is violent. man is the best supreme species. progress greatest invention. colonialism good because progress" yadda yadda yadda kind of deal, does this make sense? thank you again. also i think im obligated now to ask u your garbage ship of the week 

I’m much more of an article person than a book person because I can only take so much dry jargon filled writing for so long, but I do have some suggestions.

The biggest one is probably Questioning Collapse. For context, Jared Diamond is a man (not an anthropologist) that shares all his theories on how past civilizations, such as the Greenland Norse, or the Rapa Nui, or the Maya, collapsed, in the terribly titled book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (yikes). Let's get some things straight though. Jared Diamond proved in his book Guns, Germs, and Steel, that he is a white supremacist who exploited the people of Papua New Guinea and believes that euro imperialism was just , bound to happen because europeans were more "civilized." So it was no surprise when all his favorite themes, that people, especially "uncivilized" ones, are violent and selfish, showed up in Collapse. 

Unfortunately, many of these theories have become very popular and many people assume them to be correct when they aren't. Some examples: Diamond posited that the Rapa Nui (Easter Islanders) essentially destroyed their own natural resources which lead to warfare, cannibalism, and eventually their own demise. This ignores the fact that the island was ravaged by european expeditions, which included Fuck Boy Supreme James Cook (of the botched kidnapping and eventual killing by Hawaiians fame). Of course these encounters with Europeans led to the enslaving of the Rapa Nui, as well as the introduction of diseases that had a devastating impact on the population numbers.

Anyways, Questioning Collapse, edited by McAnany and Yoffee, is a collection of essays written by different people in the scientific community to dispute the theories Jared Diamond lays out in his book Collapse.

Ancient Civilizations by Fagan and Scarre, specifically chapter 2 “theories of states”

Another one would probably be Almost Human: A Journey into the World of Baboons written by Shirley C. Strum. I cant quite remember if Strum ever addresses this because it has been a few years since I read it, but: some of the earliest "man is just naturally violent and animalistic" ideas actually come from the surveying of baboon (and other primate) behavior and comparative anthropology. However, this came early in the field of primatology when observation methods weren't pinned down. Long story short, the male baboons that were being observed weren't actually being "naturally" violent--they were agitated and scared because the people observing them were literally observing them from a big ol scary unfamiliar jeep/atv thing that they drove up right next to the baboons' band. That was decades ago, and a lot of changes have been made since to how fieldwork is done. Anyways, Strum was one of the earliest groups of people to go out and observe baboons and she continued to do it for decades. Almost Human is essentially a look at her field notes/diary during the time. I have a couple other primatology book suggestions if you are interested. Here a couple: Gorillas in the Mist or anything else by Dian Fossey. Manipulative Monkeys by Susan Perry.

The next book I recommend is Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1900-1960 by Nwando Achebe. From what I remember, Achebe isn't terribly fond of the anthropology field, (which is interesting because much of the book is ethnographic), but what can I say, I personally do not like historians myself so 🤷‍♀️ (also I might be thinking of someone else)

My personal loathing of historians aside, this is a great book that explores the ways in which women... well... navigate power and authority. You get to learn all about Female Kings and how the Igbo do not fit in with eurocentric gender norms--as well as the impact that European colonization eventually has on the Igbo culture and the role women and men play within their families and society.

Some articles that discuss the effects of colonialism, structure of prehistoric societies etc etc from an anthropological perspective:

State Formation: Anthropological Perspectives by Krohn-Hansen and Nustad

Different Types of Egalitarian Societies and the Development of Inequality in Early Mesopotamia by M Frangipane

Change in the Lives of Brazilian Indigenous People: To Pluck Eyelashes (or Not?) among the Canela by William and Jean Crocker

Gender Dynamics in Hunter-Gatherer Society: Archaeological Methods and Perspectives by Brumbach and Jarvenpa

Economy, Ritual, and Power in Ubaid Mesopotamia by Gil Stein

I have a lot of these articles (and more lol) as PDFs. If you would like to read them and cannot access them, let me know, I can put them in google drive or something.

also my garbage ship right now is still beth/borgov from the queens gambit lmao

[fumblebeefae]

Idk what your take on this is (or if you have a take at all) and maybe my view is skewed because I've only ever seen the movie and I don't know much else about her, but we're watching Gorillas in the Mist in my environmental science class and I don't really know how to feel about Dian Fossey. She did a lot of really important research and I appreciate that, but her methods were less than savory and I don't think they were necessary. I think there are a lot of racial implications that no one +

++ seems to want to address in favor of tarnishing her image, but maybe I'm wrong??? I just don't think it takes traumatizing children and murdering other people to stop poaching. I feel like no one ever asks why the poachers are doing the poaching and they're constantly painted in this evil light (and some are actually bad people) but most people poach in order to provide for themselves and their families. It's just a really big problem and no one is attacking it at the source.

It’s funny I was having a conversation on poaching on my discord server with other scientists the other day about this. I 100% agree with you, poaching is such a complex issue and it’s not ethical to be murdering or punishing the people who do the actual poaching because 99.9% of the time those people are doing it because they are poor and need to feed their families. 

I’m not okay with a white women going to these countries and actively contributing to harming the people there without giving any in-depth thought into why these people poach and how it’s largely a social-economical issue. 

[iscream4starscream]

25 and 31 for the ask meme!

25. Role model

Jane Goodale, Diane Fossey, and Steve Irwin! Both of these women said degrees arent real and went out and helped their favorite animals out of pure love and willpower (not because they were “technically” qualified). And Steve Irwin was really just an amazing human who really changed the way we look at animals and who really got me to love the natural world.

Other notable role model mentions are Emilie Autumn and Florence Welch. Emilie Autumn is just such a strong individual with SO MUCH talent. Like, she can art, sing, play like every instrument, sew, costume design, stage design, mix and write her own music, the list goes ON. And Florence Welch, besides my absolute pure fascination and love for her regardless, is also extremely talented and I really appreciate how transparent she is about her struggles in her past and present.

31. 3 random facts

Are these suppose to be about me? We will go with that

1. Pretty sure I’m considered a deadbeat gifted child because I’m not using either one of my two degrees and I’m not going to graduate school until 2021 when I was supposed to go this previous year so 🤷‍♀️ whoops

2. I stopped eating pork around late 2015/early 2016 and for some reason this annoys like...50% of the people I speak to about it

3. After moving in with someone who has a cat, I have realized I am definitely not a cat person unless that cat has a very specific personality type. Unfortunately my roommate’s cat is the exact opposite of what I want a cat to be.... but he’s absolutely obsessed with me so I have to learn to love him and deal with it

Thanks for asking!

[scentedchildnacho]

I did make it through a crisis intake......I made it out of the your on uncle toms cabin program to the confessions that it was a suicide program...out to the school of life....but if I was in the woods in any way voices kept harassing me to kill myself

I told police I was really fatigued they kept placing me in this hare krishna program for felons with a lot of time in the meat industry and they wanted me to serve some bodies punishment

I explained I didn't have adequate food and water and these scary people from every imaginable company kept rolling by in their kept fantasies and leaving me by the side of the road like none of it has any community fund obligation

So I had to infer the voices to kill myself were related to the neglect and those were mafia parties intent on using me to kill guys

It was like all winter long of housing always having an inappropriate party with no obligation to do anything at all for homeless people then after neglect a lot of gun related threats

So I was like look nigger selling liquor down the way and expecting me to publicly defecate and build your wood house I'm really tired of your attitude and your mean creepy tan faggots that can never help anyone with a common courtesy

Dian fossey I don't care about liquor freaks saving something out there from my people....if you must know if I could let people develop that area near the welk i would

If I don't have to trap people by the coast line I would

I told police there may be are nano technologies out there...I don't know if it is my mentality there maybe are documents to keep people trapped near the coast line

Natives report people coming out around them to suicide so

They asked me if I wanted to harm people so I said according to universiteit Leiden homeless people have a right to enlist in militaries and commit terrorist acts...people so abandon the issue right to retaliate is allowed...so some programs manipulate that right with torture with tools but I'm not actually aware of what I would be targeting so don't act without evidence of what did it....

I am a mental so I'm not aware of what to target and feel to manipulated to do so if you ask me the compass program creates suicide bombers and they break HIPPA laws they know I studied with Ruth mas and called me a suicide bomber

Because I can retaliate no your housing has too many hazards and you need to leave

They asked me what I would do if money wasn't a problem so I said I would go to Dublin to learn the universe bomb threats housing terrorism is to become a Chicago based philanthropist and approve everyone for free stuff they like and prefer yes we see your insurance claim

Doomsday is more relevant then simm theory

People tried to earthquake and blow up a lot of my birth city