#Platypelis

[markscherz]

Say hello to Platypelis saikamavo, a new Malagasy species of microhylid frog with a bright yellow belly that we just described!

This species was discovered over TWENTY years ago, but it has taken until now for it to receive a name. Why? Because there was some uncertainty about another species with a yellow belly, Platypelis mavomavo. Fortunately, we were able to solve that problem last year, and thus, P. saikamavo could be described!

Photos by Franco Andreone.

[markscherz]

So true, geometry cannot explain Platypelis ranjomena

why are you laughing he's right

[thedailyplatypics]

He’s cool

[prettiestplatypus]

a platypic to be ranked :3

Cute little babies! I bet they're real soft and eepy I give the 2 of them a combined score of 20/10

[voxtechsmells]

A platypus...???

PERRY THE PUCKING PLATYP-

Yes? I don't see what's so shocking.

[thedailyplatypics]

I know Chick-fil-A sucks cause it makes very shitty donations and the ceo is human garbage, but it’s so frustrating how it’s the only one of these companies that I can actually fucking eat at. There’s literally no fucking point for me to go to any of these other places.

Chick-fil-A has gluten free fries, buns, grilled chicken items, sandwiches (that have vegetables too??!!), and entire meals I can actually get instead of just a cup of coleslaw (woohoo) , a depressing salad, or a small cup of roasted chicken bites???.

I did vote for Zaxby’s cause gf/dairy free wings and props to Bojangles for the gf fries, but seriously how does the company that’s goes against human rights ironically, somehow, become the only company that actually takes humans with food allergies and sensitivities into account????

It’s just disappointing.

tell me…

[pomrania]

Yeah I'm starting my Bestiaryposting design work really late; what can I say, time is fake and the world is filled with distractions. Here I'll just put whatever comes to mind, and then later hopefully find a way to put it all together.

carnivore (or at least ingests blood)

greyhound build??

strong jaws

can't turn neck around

"lives on its prey", parasite?

sometimes terrestrial, sometimes carried by the wind ((decided this was the wrong interpretation of the phrase))

hunts far away from its vulnerable young

has paws

tapetum luci-whatsit

wins if it sees a human first; loses if a human sees it first -> ambush predator

it can't literally be a wildcat (even if that's what this is intended to describe) because some of these features don't make sense with actual wildcats

magical patch of hair on the tail

don't eat for a while, and then eat a whole lot at once

manes in so many different colours (between individuals, or in a single individual?)

jumps like Superman; doesn't actually have wings

I'm like 95% sure this is describing some large cat, but it goes against the spirit of the event to just draw the animal I think it might be. There's only one bit here that doesn't make sense to me, like I'm genuinely not sure what it was trying to get across: "It is said to live sometimes on its prey, sometimes on earth and sometimes, even, on the wind." ...unless "live on" doesn't mean "physically reside upon", but rather "be nourished by", in which case things make more sense, but also I'm just left with like, a mythologized lion or leopard or tiger or whatever.

I don't want to draw a normal-ass large cat for something that's prolly a cat, I want to draw something WEIRD. Also because the description given for the creature would feel RIGHT at home in an old D&D 2E sourcebook, if they replaced "Solinus" for a more fantasy-sounding name.

Think I'll stick with a "wildcat as filtered through my vague memory" build though, to reduce the cognitive load. "Mane" can be like a lion's mane, but also like a horse's or donkey's, so that can make it weirder; and even if I stick with just viable fur colours, having a bunch all together will still look weird. Or it could be... I was going to say "tentacles", then I realized I'd end up unintentionally recreating the akata from Pathfinder/Starfinder, and I don't want to do that. "Fibre-optic cables" would be hilarious, but I don't know how I'd pull that off, and not sure if I want to try, depends on what all ideas I get.

"Can't turn head" makes possible sense as something with really highly developed jaw musculature, where everything's going towards force instead of flexibility. It said that strength was "least of all in its loins", but how to mesh that with something that can "tall buildings in a single bound" kind of jump... very springy legs I guess? The creature looks oddly unbalanced, in my head (because I haven't doodled anything yet), I need to consider what kind of features can "balance" it so it seems plausible, yet still deeply odd. Like, platypize it.

The bit about how it lives "sometimes on earth, sometimes on wind", going by the interpretation of "nourished by", that could be that it's an opportunistic insectivore, digging for grubs or snapping up flies. The "mane" could be something like a frill, to help tunnel bugs to its mouth; I don't know if that makes actual biological sense, but it's the "iunno, seems plausible enough" that you get in bestiary entries so I might go with that, if I can find a way to depict it that I like.

So, next stage is "staring blankly off into space while I consider things"; it's going to happen anyways, might as well make it an official part of the process. I might end up including some bat-like features, as there were bits in the description an made me think of bats, even if it was due to a misreading.

[arajionator]

Perry the Platypants

[cowboylexapro]

THE WABBIT PEED ON MY FUCKING PERRY THE PLATYPUS TEAL PANTS

HE PEED ON MY PERRY THE PLATYPANTS

[thedailyplatypics]

The littlest guy landed on my sketchbook literally the size of the pencil lead

[peculiarplatyps]

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[thedailyplatypics]

I’m not a Perry The Platypus simp, but how come literally every other character has so many simps and not him??

I’m just saying.

He literally makes “the women swoon.”

[frogs-from-bogs]

Platypelis ando, source: x

[urtruestvibes]

10/10 not for platyp***ies

Platypeace was never an option

[meatpow]

WOOOO finally drew a reference for my self insert ,, my fingers hurt T__T

++ bonus outfits!!! <3

[finntaur]

You get a baby platypus

FUCK YEAHHHHHH

LET’S GOOOOOOO