#elephant birds

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Another Saturday another formation stream!

This time we visited the subfossil wonders of Madagascar!

[pizzashowgirls]

Over the Garden Wall by Julia Tveritina, via Cartoon Network

[dandanyokunaru]

Birds from the Isle of Harrows

Ok, this is the third and final bird variant of the elephant bird skeleton that I’m going to do. I want to make some more progress in the “Designing Creatures & Characters” book I’ve been studying. It’s my least favorite of the three. Which do you like better? Share your thoughts in the comments. As a little writing exercise let me describe these three birds. Description The birds of Helios…

[hauntedtoybox]

assorted sunlemon fluffy tatton/fuwafuwa plush (x x x / x x x / x x x)

[prairiegh0st]

Beetbirb

[inatungulates]

African bush elephant Loxodonta africana

With African spoonbill Platalea alba

Observed by cuihenggang, public domain

[herpsandbirds]

If you were in danger, what bird would you trust to save you / guard you from the enemy?

Oh thats an easy one!!

Elephant Bird (Aepyornis maximus), family Aepyornis, order Aepyornithiformes, Found in Madagascar

EXTINCT (Sometime around 1000 AD)

These huge birds reached a height of up to 3 (9.8 ft), and a weight of up to 1,000 kg (2,200 lb).

illustration by George de Lodge

[the-witchhunter]

DP x DC: Of Cooking and Ghosts

Danny is a single father. Dani is now physically her actual age making Danny, at the tender age of 20 the father of a 4 year old(5 in a couple months)

Danny moved to Blood Haven. He's got a decent paying job, lives in a decent neighborhood, and his schedule allows him to take Dani to and from school. It had been a bit of an adjustment, but he and his daughter are doing alright. There's just one problem...

Danny can't cook

Danny never learned how to cook and frankly he can't just keep eating fast food and takeout. His parents weren't the best cooks but at least his dad could make flapjacks that didn't come alive and attack them. Hell, he missed going over to Tuckers and getting fed by Mrs. Foley, because that woman could really cook. Danny needed something homemade, surely cooking couldn't be THAT hard...

Dick was quite alarmed to find smoke coming out of his neighbor's door as he came back from walking Haley. His instincts kicked in, leading to one officer Grayson bursting in and putting out a small grease fire much to the chagrin of his neighbor, Danny. Dick invites Danny and his daughter Dani to his place down the hall while the smoke clears out. So Dick makes them the one food he knows how to make

Pancakes

Turns out neither of them are the most robust of chefs. Dick calls Alfred and gets some recipes to try and him and Danny make plans to go over to Dick's place and learn a couple. Dani likes to "help" aka play with Haley, and Danny and Dick bond over learning to cook and eating just a bit healthier

OR

I rewatched an episode of Sweetness and Lightning and am still on my Romcom bullshit. So Danny and Dick get a meet cute and then learn how to feed themselves. Frankly I'm not sure how or if secret identities and ghosts work into this, i just am feeling sappy and wanted something cute. Could be romantic, could just be friends, could be found family, idk

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

T H I S T H I NG

this. This is the closest living relative to the elephant birds

You know, the biggest birb ever

I think

like what

Why are ratites like this

[fieriframes]

[Purple socks argue with the spaghetti moon. The sky whispers algebra into a bowl of soup. Bananas wear hats and sing to forgotten trains. A toaster floats by, dreaming of electric clouds. Elephants knit sweaters out of melted clocks. The sidewalk hums like a jellybean in space. Chairs do the tango with invisible birds. A watermelon tells secrets to a laughing shoe. Time hiccups and spills mustard on the stars. The universe sneezes, and the trees turn blue.]

[mysharona1987]

Not even getting started on the 5% to 6% of Americans who genuinely think they could take on a gorilla or a grizzly bear unarmed (So that many Americans are totally batshit insane!?)

But this many British people really shouldn’t be afraid to fight a goose.

[gregor-the-man-man]

Day 17: Transform

[greencheekconure27]

Hot take

[textless]

I mostly stayed close to home in Arizona in 2023, except for a giant amazing trip to Kenya in July. These are five of my favorite photos from the trip, for this year's Gray-Card Memorial Top Five:

Baby elephant, keeping up

Lions together

Lilac breasted roller

Mother and baby giraffe

Sunset acacia

I feel lucky to have seen these things, and would remember them anyway... but it's awfully nice to have pictures to look back on.

Happy new year, Tumblr.