#mammals

[blancamzlooksat]

price-winning wigpig

oh okay

[rebeccathenaturalist]

A recent study confirms what wildlife experts have been saying for years: hunting coyotes just gets you more coyotes. In areas where wolves have been extirpated, coyotes have often taken on the wolf's mantle as "that evil beast that must be destroyed at all costs or else they will eat our flocks and our families and ruin the world". This disproportionate hatred for a native canid often ends with people indiscriminately shooting, trapping, or poisoning any coyote they possibly can.

Instead of ridding their areas of coyotes, they often find that the coyotes return in larger numbers. The study doesn't surmise why that is, only reporting that the populations do not drop in response to killing. But Team Trash makes some good educated guesses.

Maybe we can stop responding to an animal that is inconvenient to us with "kill it!" and instead look at some of the many nonlethal ways to protect livestock, pets, and ourselves. We may have hunted and trapped wolves, bears, and mountain lions out of much of their historic ranges, but it's apparent coyotes aren't going away. they're a reminder that nature will persist in spite of our attempts to control it to the nth degree, and I see that as a good reminder to remember our place as part of nature, rather than separate from it. We can find better, mutually safer ways to coexist, but it starts with us ratcheting back our most extreme responses to anything that doesn't immediately do what we want it to.

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

This animal was requested!

[akku-sketchbookvol2]

Ink on paper. This was part of the 100 days of art challenge. Reference used for study.

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[twelvebooksstuff]

this songs intriguing

Hoffmann, Felix (Aarau, Switzerland, 1911-1975). Snippet from Joggeli Wott Go Birli Schüttle : Neui Bilder Zum Alte Värs 4. Aarau: Verlag Sauerländer, 1963. This children's book in Romansh language is about a progressively intensifying series of obstacles encountered in a quest to pick pears. I appreciate the canine representation.

[fruitblush]

Weird mammals

Prints

[horrormogai]

[PT :: Monachoric]

(this term was inspired by kenochoric and is meant to function similarly, but is related to ways in which I personally experience gender)

MONACHORIC: an umbrella term/label based on the emotion ‘monachopsis’, which is the ‘subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place’. it is something that affects one’s gender identity overall, and while it isn’t inherently a gender itself it can be used as such. there are multiple qualities of monachoric and a monachine individual may identify with all, one or some

- a disconnect and apathy towards humanity, not feeling like one fits in with other people (this may, but does not have to be, due to autism or a personality disorder)

- dogs, dog metaphors or relating to canine behaviour

- teenage behaviour, being awkward, being a loser, misfit or an outcast

- angry, messy and indignant emotions

- concepts of making dumb mistakes, bruises on knees and knuckles, old videogames, CDs and DVDs, being a burnout, making found footage films, rebellion, posters and baggy clothes

NOTABLE TERMS

monachine/MOIN: masculine/feminine equivalent / monachoric in nature

MOINgender: any gender under monachoric

monachism: masculinity/femininity equivalent

a loser: man/woman equivalent

transmona: individual transitioning to a monachoric identity alongside/instead of fem, masc, neu, xenine etc

TAGGING: @radiomogai @io-archival @obscurian

[paleoart]

I just realized that apparently I never shared this series here on Tumblr??  

I call it Living Paintings, as they are recreations of extinct animals that some artists actually saw and painted from memory, a long time ago.

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[sticksandsharks]

little cenozoic guys

(hyaenodon, langstonia, smilodon, dromornithidae, stegotetrabelodon, glyptodon, moropus)

[hellsitegenetics]

Hello! I run the social media for my local library and I was just wondering what sort of plant or creature might emerge if I talk about books here. Just a lil guy perhaps, to encourage public library use. A new library mascot to say "Books are cool! Reading is fun!" etc. Thank you for your time and efforts. 📚

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Closest match: Lutra lutra genome assembly, chromosome: 14 Common name: Eurasian Otter

[therizinosaurus--cheloniformis]

This painting is simultaneously mournful and beautiful, the way the giant anteater almost seems to be being assembled out of the darkness, one with it's surrounding environment, while also seeming thoughtful and introspective.

Also I love anteaters :)

Great Ant-Eater by Cuthbert Edmund Swan. From Wild Beasts of the World, Vol. Two. Written by Frank Finn, published in 1909.

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[moomeecore]

african wild dogs

[doglover43]

vancouver sea wolves 🐟

[horrormogai]

[PT :: gloeyeeric - from glo(w), eye, (d)eer, eeri(e), (mal)ic(ious) [gloh-eye-ear-ik or gloh-ee-ear-ik]]

gloeyeeric - from glo(w), eye, (d)eer, eeri(e), (mal)ic(ious) [gloh-eye-ear-ik or gloh-ee-ear-ik]

an umbrella term for identities centered around hunger, rage, the desire for revenge, reshaping oneself into a monster, the colors black, dark green, and bright blue, deer, birds, the concept of not-deer, glowing eyes, the feeling of being watched, uneasiness, the idea that there is something malicious lurking in the woods, creatures made of goo or ooze, monsters that move too humanlike, humans that move too animalistic, the feeling of betrayal, and the feeling of no longer having a home to go back to. can be related to the umbrella terms oozsteren, anaestian, oracrystular, ocularic, feruvel, kenochoric, or tenethesia, but isn't inherently related to them. coined with the concept of palismonsters from the owl house in mind, but isn't connected to it inherently. however, this umbrella is strictly and inherently NOT related to the cannibalistic creatures starting with W, from some native american folklores. do not tag this post or this umbrella with that word/term.

gloeersterity - equivalent of masculinity/femininity gloeersterine - equivalent of masculine/feminine betreer - a gloeyeeric person GLOEYiN - gloeyeeric-in-nature gloeyeer - gender alignment deeriec - (gloeyeeric4gloeyeeric, betreerLbetreer) a gloeyeeric person being attracted to another gloeyeeric person. (from deer and eerie, with the suffix -iec) transgloeyeer - transitioning into gloeersterity maliglow - a gloeyeer gender

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[great-and-small]

Im a bit obsessed with these images from Hope For Wildlife rescue of a wild mammal with alopecia.

Can you tell what critter this is?