#animal release

[bumblebeeappletree]

Meet the pangolin: This adorable creature plays a crucial role in maintaining healthy forest ecosystems, yet it’s the most trafficked mammal on this planet. They’re hunted at an alarming rate, with over 100,000 poached every year.

For our 22nd mission, we traveled deep into Vietnam’s jungle to help rescue, rehabilitate, and release pangolins back into their natural habitat.

With Trishala Naidu on the ground and Markus Gilles in the studio, we’re reporting on the struggles of pangolins and how we’re helping to save them.

Chapters

0:00 Meet the pangolin

1:51 The most trafficked mammal in the world

3:29 Preparing the release

5:10 The journey begins

6:50 Why are pangolins important?

7:20 Our support

8:26 The journey continues

10:12 The first steps into the wild

[leaf-thief]

i found a gopro for dirt cheap at a flea market, my partner fixed it up and guess what it's used for now 🤠

Balkan crested newt (Triturus ivanbureschi)

Bistritsa, Bulgaria

you can see him swim so well!!!

[eurydike-on-media]

Pickles!

He's an octopus called Pickles and will have been released back to Neah Bay in Washington by the time I return to the Seattle Aquarium.

At the Seattle Aquarium, they have an octopus on display for a few months, captured from nature and nurtured until they mature. Maturation is marked by increased activity, an indicator that the octopus is ready to reproduce and is looking for a mate. When they reach this active stage, they are released back to where they were captured where they may live out their natural life.

Pickles is a male Great Pacific Octopus, the largest species of octopus. They live three to five years but in that time can grow to be over ninety or even a hundred pounds. Pickles is guessed to be about sixty to sixty-five in these photos. Sexing an octopus is surprisingly simple, a male octopus will not have suckers on the tip of his third arm, whist a female octopus will.

I am sad to see Pickles go but happy to have been able to volunteer with him to educate and inspire aquarium visitors on all things Great Pacific Octopus. If you're ever in the area, I promise it's worth the visit, and maybe I'll get to say hi.

[pemprika]

a love so eternally bedeviled 🌏

[milkdongcomics]

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[pansylair]

almost a year ago the boyfriend dropped the first volume of dungeon meshi into my lap and got me hooked. now i’ve finally found time to sketch out some fanart :)

[monotcchi]

dragon roast dreamin' 🍖💨✨

[pokimoko]

I can't keep being fundamentally changed as a person by animated movies, it's just not sustainable.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

The Bronx Zoo has just released Flaco's necropsy results.

He was not thriving, as the people championing the ideal of "freedom" claimed.

He was poisoned.

He was sick.

He was suffering.

"Freedom" would have eventually killed him. A building just happened to do it first.

"Postmortem testing has been completed for Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl that was found down in the courtyard of a Manhattan building a little over a year after his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo was vandalized on February 2, 2023. Onlookers reported that Flaco had flown into a building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on February 23, 2024, and acute trauma was found at necropsy. Bronx Zoo veterinary pathologists determined that in addition to the traumatic injuries, Flaco had two significant underlying conditions. He had a severe pigeon herpesvirus from eating feral pigeons that had become part of his diet, and exposure to four different anticoagulant rodenticides that are commonly used for rat control in New York City. These factors would have been debilitating and ultimately fatal, even without a traumatic injury, and may have predisposed him to flying into or falling from the building. The identified herpesvirus can be carried by healthy pigeons but may cause fatal disease in birds of prey including owls infected by eating pigeons. This virus has been previously found in New York City pigeons and owls. In Flaco’s case, the viral infection caused severe tissue damage and inflammation in many organs, including the spleen, liver, gastrointestinal tract, bone marrow, and brain.   No other contributing factors were identified through the extensive testing that was performed. Flaco’s severe illness and death are ultimately attributed to a combination of factors—infectious disease, toxin exposures, and traumatic injuries—that underscore the hazards faced by wild birds, especially in an urban setting."

The naturalistic fallacy kills animals in horrible ways. The romanticism of what humans want to think of as a "free, wild, pure life" cannot be allowed supplant the reality of injury, sickness, and death. Releasing captive animals (or keeping them from being recaptured) because it's "better" for them to suffer untethered than live a healthy, safe, captive life is inhumane and horrific.

Flaco's life didn't have to end in pain, sickness, and suffering.

Flaco's death didn't have to be tragic.

But once the idea of "freedom" entered the chat, Flaco's fate was unavoidable.

[egophiliac]

(looks at upcoming card releases)

I'm in danger :)

[paintedcrows]

Holiday Classics

Been thinking about Ford watching the 70s Animated Lord of the Rings Movies... (companion comic to this post!)

[curioscurio]

I'm rewatching Steven Universe and I will never forgive Fandom for what it did to her

[ladyaugment01]

this morning, I discovered that this kid in Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla is meant to be the kid from Hamtaro

so while GxM doesn't exist in any prior Godzilla timeline, it does exist in the Hamtaro universe, which to me implies that the sentient hamsters are some form of mutation as well, possibly irradiated by-

[x333141xd]

"really? a centipede..?"

[hedgypipes]

I HATE HATE HATE DAVID ZASLAV!!!

I HATE BOTH WB AND DAVID!!!

[o0kawaii0o]

Spring's Harvest!