#BADGER.

[beardless-bearded-vulture]

The badger, otter and red fox dioramas at the natural history museum in Bern were so cute

[sniffanimal]

AFFIRMATIONS

There is no shame in taking a few tries to get it right

Everyone struggles with fine motor skills from time to time

I can do fine motor activities

I can locate a port and plug in a cable

I can plug my phone in on the first try

I can plug my phone in while sober

BBC Sherlock does not exist

I can do hard things

this post got too popular so I'm sniffering it and muting notifs!

[interpolationz]

the wildlife photographer of the year peoples choice award is always fun

there's a stoat hiding in that last one

source - go check out the rest of the awards too, they're really incredible

[wouas]

Beasts - 19x15 cm paper, ballpoint pen

[sakrafka]

european mustelids

[mammalidentifier]

Well, that’s length-wise rather than height-wise, but yes! That would be the giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis), fellow countrymen of mine!

In fact, saying they’re 170 cm (5’7”) from head to tail is lowballing it a little. Some individuals as long as 180 cm (5’11”) have been recorded! Which is longer than I am tall 😔

You might have noticed that giant otters have a bit of a big cat-like look about themselves. That’s the origin of their name in Brazilian Portuguese, ariranha, which is a term from the Tupi-Guarani language and means “river jaguar”. And, just like ground jaguars, giant otters are apex predators as well: they mainly eat fish, but will hunt anything from snakes, turtles and even small caimans if given the opportunity!

Besides their size, giant otters have other traits that set them apart from their smaller cousins. For one, unlike most mustelids, they’re social animals who live in familial groups of up to twenty individuals, which whom they communicate constantly through a variety of different noises. Also, unlike other species of otter, whose tails are thick at the base and pointy at the end, giant otters’ tails also start out with a thick base, but they end up flat, which helps propel them through the water. The interesting thing about it, however, it’s that it’s not flat in an horizontal way, like the tails of other semiaquatic mammals such as beavers and platypuses. It’s flat vertically, not unlike the tail of a newt!

Source of the 2nd image: @resgateariranha on Instagram

[queenoftheantz]

'Til I can hear it crack

There's this urban legend that if you have to pass a den of badgers, you should fill your boots with onions, because when a badger bites you it will hold on until it can hear your bones crack.

[kendyroy]

Logan wearing the TVA jacket his boyfriend gave him.

+ Proof of his boyfriend giving it to him

[fizpup]

sticks fans we ride at dawn

[beardless-bearded-vulture]

Some of the fluffy babies from the reproduction exhibition in NHM Basel: raccoon, tanuki, and european badger

[sniffanimal]

god I could be so wealthy if I had no ethics. that's so fucking frustrating. I'm living paycheck to paycheck because I'm not grifting vulnerable idiots on TikTok. I feel like I have the ability to very easily scam people. I could make a killing with AI. but god. I have morals and ethics and so I get to be poor as shit. I hate this fucking world

this post got too much attention so I sniffered it

[tomiyeee]

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i love animals where your first impression is "oh this is a PUPPY!" and then it opens its mouth and you realize you're looking at a living weapon that, if domesticated, would commit war crimes. repeatedly.

[valentinebugzee]

Stone in sonic boom, this au is FRYING MY BRAINNNNNN

also read the first one in sonic's voice

Edit: since you guys liked this AU so much here's the fic I'm writing about it <3