#Panthera

[tigerleopardlion]

Sri Lankan Leopard | Mohan Hathnapitiya

[palaeosinensis]

"Wild Hearts" - Continuing to think in linocut terms and imagining if I had access to silver and gold inks as well. Things like this would have to be REAL big. I find carving relaxing when all the artistic decisions are already made. I wonder if the local arts place would ever have a printmaking class that could walk me through their presses or printing technique...I can carve the blocks themselves just fine.

[mammalianmammals]

Bengal Tiger (Panthera t. tigris), family Felidae, walking amongst Black Storks and an Egret at the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve, India

photograph by Punit Dhameja

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A puma rests on a rock where mountains meet the sea in the Chilean Patagonia. 2022.

(Photo: Nicolas Lagos /Panthera Nicolas Lagos)

[wayward-delver]

I made a discovery...

[snototter]

A leopard (Panthera pardus) relaxes in a jackalberry tree at sunset in Botswana, Africa

by Steve Jurvetson

[amnhnyc]

It’s National Cat Day! Behold a black cat of epic proportions: this melanistic leopard (Panthera pardus). Also known as “panthers,” leopards can be found across a wide range in Africa and Asia and can reach weights of 198 lbs (90 kg). Individuals like the one pictured are rare in the wild and are affected by a genetic mutation called melanism, which results in their dark coloring. Scientists think there are some advantages that come with having a dusky coat, including being able to more seamlessly blend in with the darkness of the night and take in heat more efficiently in the Sun.

Photo: Darshan Ganapathy, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

[paleoart]

Panthera spelaea

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[raptorladylover6969]

Every time someone says “the raptors are gonna betray The Handler”, an angel dies; because genuinely, HOW.

How can one look at a bond like THIS and think, “Yup, they’re gonna kill her.”??????

Even with the laser pointer, which is said to “make the atrociraptors kill whoever it targets” I feel like even if the laser were to be pointed at The Handler, the raptors wouldn’t do anything.

When the laser was pointed at Soyona, Red was not hesitant to kill her. If anything, she’d probably kill her when given the chance to. “You can’t engineer loyalty, you have to nurture it.” Clearly Red isn’t loyal to you if she wanted to kill you 💀 and these raptors aren’t dumb, they’re extremely intelligent and are well aware of their actions. So to claim you have “control/loyalty” over these raptors is kinda stupid when you FEAR your own raptors, and when they won’t hesitate to kill you.

Soyona is just the buyer. The raptors might be hers, but deep down, they don’t believe they are hers. She isn’t their alpha, and she definitely doesn’t seem to be part of the pack as much as The Handler is.

In terms of pack behaviour within the atrociraptors, I’ve noticed they seem to value each other over the mission at hand. When Daniel Kon tried to grab and tackle and push one of them, they ganged up on him, killing him. When the T-rex and Allosaurus got out, they completely abandoned mission and started trying to take them out since they posed a danger to the pack. And these don’t just apply to the raptors alone, but also might be towards The Handler as well.

There was a scene in the s1 finale, the warehouse scene, when Mateo crashed into it, the raptors are knocked unconscious, everything comes crashing down, and The Handler is unconscious and stuck underneath a concrete beam. When the raptors wake up, there was a part where they all walk slowly to a specific area, the exact area where The Handler was laying. They all look at her, and each other, like they’re debating on what to do. There is a slight pause, and the sounds of clanging, before the raptors run out of warehouse, finishing what they started. Seeing The Handler atop the building at the end of that episode had me thinking, “How did she get that giant beam off of her?????” Until looking back at that scene with the raptors and realizing, they mightve actually pulled it off of her. They checked to see if she was still alive, and when confirming, they dragged the beam off to let her breathe, and regain conciseness.

So clearly the raptors also value her life as a member of their pack. They’re intelligent enough to know “she isn’t of our species” and yet, they still treat her like one of them.

“The control you can have over these dinos once you really take the time to earn it.” “You can’t engineer loyalty, you have to nurture it.” It wasn’t Soyona. It was never Soyona. The Handler was the one who earned the trust, the one who took time to earn it. Changed her own mannerisms to make the raptors relate to her more. Soyona is scared of Red. There is NO BOND there between them. She doesn’t even have the right accommodations for Red to even LIVE properly. She has her locked in a room inside her PENTHOUSE in the middle of THE CITY where she can’t even get the proper exercise or food probably. And the way Red started randomly crashing out in the van??? Did anyone else notice that and how random it was??????? Red is CLEARLY not comfortable, and yet you look at the rest of the raptor pack, and you can see just how comfortable they seem to be with The Handler.

The Handler most likely created the laser pointer herself just for Soyona so she could have some control, but in reality, the whistle is a more mutual way of communication, and I will say, much more precise. (Srry Soyona 💔)

Yeah, I think the raptors are off the “how The Handler dies” list.

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[tigerleopardlion]

Indian Leopard (Melanistic) | Maxim Korenyugin

[palaeosinensis]

I was trying this morning to distill what makes paleolithic European cave art...well cave art! And then apply it to an animal not seen in Europe. The technique was more important here than the results; I think the big bodies & smaller heads yet otherwise accurate features are a result of the artists having a sort of tunnel vision while working. As one drifts part to part lifting up the implement as little as possible the parts appear in proportion to their immediate neighbor. They are also distilled to their most important details & for the body that's a wide rectangular space. If you picture yourself working on a heavily textured wall as tall or taller than you are with the equivalent of a tea light (oil lamps) or a flickering torch you can imagine how easy it would be to get that kind of focused tunnel vision. While we see tunnel vision as a bad thing while learning art today in terms of cave art I just sort of see it as a natural consequence. You're going to focus really hard on what needs it; there are no erasers. Additional paint can't be bought at the store. Stone walls have limited access. You're going to make the best of every resource while you're there. Besides who said the animal had to be proportional anyway? You know exactly what you're looking at! Artist commentary: it was challenging deciding what was most important but also representing that important thing as accurately as possible. I feel like that's a common thread in all cave art from peoples across the world: draw what's most important. The rest will work out.

[mammalianmammals]

Leopard (Panthera pardus), melanistic, family Felidae, Kabini Forest, Kenya

photograph by Chris Butterworth

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A female puma, surrounded by her cubs, ever on the lookout for prey in the Chilean Patagonia.

Contributed by Angela Ambrosini (Photo: Angela Ambrosini/Panthera)

[wikipediapictures]

White tiger