#Anthropomorphism

[danskjavlarna]

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See my collection of weird vintage eggs.

[orcinus-veterinarius]

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

Sign literally 10 feet away:

[somaniethperson]

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

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

[rains-melody]

❤︎ ❤︎

[desimonewayland]

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Water, 1566

Oil on alder wood

Kunsthistorisches Museum

[allcatsconstitutethesamefamily]

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My collection of vintage Puss in Boots imagery is stepping out.

[king-k-ripple]

[danskjavlarna]

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Vintage animal friends imagery.

[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.

[diana-andraste]

La tête sans femme, Féebrile

[somaniethperson]

[purplepaigepurple535]

am i the only one that had a stroke reading this

[agirlnamedbone]

The Palmist // Leonora Carrington // 1999

[desimonewayland]

Anthropomorphic Landscape - Portrait of a Woman , ca. 1570 Brussels.

Royal Museum of Fine Art, Antwerp, Belgium