#Anthropomorphism

[allcatsconstitutethesamefamily]

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They've had many lives and many ages: cats I've met in my time travels.

[orcinus-veterinarius]

Woman at the zoo: Why do they look so sad? 😔

Sign literally 10 feet away:

[imperceiveable]

[danskjavlarna]

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Here's my modest collection of vintage sharks.

[diana-andraste]

Alban Berg's opera Lulu, 1980

Poster art, Franciszek Starowieyski, 1979

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Ha! Ha! Ha! | 1934 — a Betty Boop cartoon

[rains-melody]

❤︎ ❤︎

[desimonewayland]

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Water, 1566

Oil on alder wood

Kunsthistorisches Museum

[purple-paige-purple]

am i the only one that had a stroke reading this

[allcatsconstitutethesamefamily]

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They've had many lives and many ages: cats I've met in my time travels.

[orcinus-veterinarius]

I remain baffled and disturbed by the sheer number of people who genuinely believe a zoo animal can survive, let alone thrive, in the wild. Animals that are bred for reintroduction programs are handled completely differently than general collection animals, and even with all that preparation, many will not make it. To think a random animal in a zoo can be set loose and do just fine is more ignorant than I can comprehend.

"Freedom" is a human concept. And projecting your very human desire for freedom onto animals is one of the most gross froms of anthropomorphism.

[imperceiveable]

[danskjavlarna]

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My collection of vintage fish imagery is swimming along.

[diana-andraste]

Untitled (Transformation), Laura Makabresku, 2016

[king-k-ripple]