#cuon

[mammalianmammals]

Asiatic Wild Dog aka Dhole (Cuon alpinus), family Canidae, China

photograph by Eric Gevaert 

[packpack-killkill]

Dhole | Tarun Singhal

[avakkins-alter]

ばっくばっくばくーん！ | cuon

[photographe-a-roulettes]

Dhole - Contrairement au loup, la femelle dominante n'est pas la seule de la meute à pouvoir se reproduire. Si leur position hiérarchique le permet, d'autres femelles peuvent être amenées à s'accoupler.

Lieu : Parc d'Isle, Saint-Quentin

[tiifu-ndovu]

[birdblues]

Dhole

[saritawolf]

Ussuri Dhole (Cuon alpinus alpinus) - (c) SaritaWolf - please do not repost

[inatcanids]

Dhole Cuon alpinus

Observed by avinashbhagat2, CC BY-NC

[critter-captures]

Dhole (Cuon alpinus), family Canidae (canids/'dogs')

Dierenpark Zie-ZOO, taken in August (first 3 photos) and October (last 3 photos) 2024

[floretspell]

evol/evols - evolveon 3rdp pronouns; not exclusive to evolveon individuals.

loom/looms - loomaine 3rdp pronouns; not exclusive to loomaine individuals.

ri/ris - mercunris 3rdp pronouns; not exclusive to mercunris individuals.

cuon/cuons - mercuonic 3rdp pronouns; not exclusive to mercuonic individuals.

terms/flags by us. tagging @radiomogai & @dimensen.

[packpack-killkill]

Southern Dhole | Narendra Athnikar

[caninecub]

🐾 25 days of agere moodboards - day 1 : fav animal

[nikofortuna]

JTTW Chapter 36 Thoughts

Chapter 36 for the @journeythroughjourneytothewest Reading Group!

We’ve got creatures galore this time around!

Why can’t you give us the slice of life, huh? Why can’t you, the people want to read fluff too! I know I’d love to.

So as I’m attempting to keep track of the passage of time stated in the text there seems to have been a timeskip of multiple years. The changing of seasons up until last chapter only indicated around one and a half years passing, so either Tang Sanzang is exaggerating and only half a year to one year passes, so definitely one Winter since the narration mentioned frost, or it’s really been a couple of years.

Deer, deer, deer! No fallow deer, those are muntjac deer in the Chinese Original. Cute in the silliest way.

River deer basically yes, our lovely goofy Chinese Water Deer.

Now hold it! Those are not wolves! In the Chinese Original they are either Dholes or a kind of jackal. All three are in the family of Canidae. The wolf shares the Canis genus with jackals, while dholes and jackals are of the same tribe Canini.

I’m leaning more towards Cuon Alpinus so Dholes, which range throughout Asia and are also called Red Wolf or Mountain Wolf, but that might also be personal bias for I watched the Wild Kratts episode on them.

They are really social even more so than wolves and just overall very sweet. However they are classed as endangered!

They also come in a fluffy variant.

Jackals are really neat too though, here it might specifically be the Canis Aureus commonly known as Golden Jackal, which are native to Eurasia.

From Anthony C. Yu’s notes I concur the Vajra-guardians definitely do not look like cherubs neither the modern version nor the biblically accurate one. But they might be somewhat similar in function! Cherubim are assigned to protect special places as one of their jobs, so that guardian function might be the similarity that led to the comparison.

Tang Sanzang getting pouty is so endearing, much more than any ‘scared of demon’ instance.

Though in my opinion the monastery should have been able to kick out those guys that were causing needless trouble over multiple years. Give aid to fellow people yes, but if they knowingly and wilfully act out like that they rescind their right to stay.

Again with the property damage, Sun Wukong might have already cut down on violence against people, but no door is safe from him still.

[purplecladmerchant]

I re did a draw from forever Ago : )

this one

[tiifu-ndovu]

Dholes and Jackals

[chervyn6]

Zul, she is a beastman (dhole or Cuon alpinus)🐺

A nun in the Church of St. Rose.