#mammals

[antiqueanimals]

Gamini Ratnavira (b. 1949), Running Wolves, oil on canvas.

Invaluable

[doglover43]

the taigan sighthound

this breed comes by way of kazakhstan, and i couldn’t help but be floored when i came across some of its lines. visually, this sighthound strikes me as quite unique especially due to the downward turned ears, but the curled tail ends are also equally appreciated.

[fruitblush]

Weird mammals

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[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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[mossfroot]

o to be a fox cub in the bluebells

featuring such activities as:

get stuck in tree sapling

try to steal sibling's rodent

bite sibling's tail

lick inside mum's mouth to see if there's any food left

fall down hole

chase sibling

bite sibling's face

stand on sibling's back

stretch

[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

[moomeecore]

african wild dogs

[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?

[antiqueanimals]

Robert Lougheed (1910 – 1982). Above the Okanagan Game Farm. Oil on board.

Coeur d’Alene Art Auction

[musiclovingmoth]

and when i say "specimens" i don't mean taxidermied mounts made to look lifelike for exhibit, i'm talking about the thousands to millions of specimens lying in drawers and shelves like this:

asking because i didn't know this until i was in high school. reblogs greatly appreciated, i want to reach as far out of science nerd tumblr as possible!

[doglover43]

mother and pup - source

[amnhnyc]

The bat-eared fox enjoys munching on dung beetles, and dung beetles lay their eggs in the poop of ungulates like zebras and antelope. Using its oversized ears, this animal can even hear beetle larvae hatching in dung, which probably sounds a lot like a dinner bell to this wily critter. In fact, dung beetles and termites make up about 80 percent of this species’ diet, and a single bat-eared fox can eat up to 1.15 million termites each year!

Photo: wicus leeuwner, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[rebeccathenaturalist]

She's going to use every hair of dem ears to continue to not listen to you.

[witchstone]

Przewalski's Horse Equus ferus ssp. przewalskii 吐尔洪乡, 阿勒泰地区, 新疆维吾尔自治区 Turhong Township, Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China 45.271788, 88.766909 by almaatai

[paleoart]

"And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual"

Macrauchenia born with polycephaly, inspired by the poem "The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin.

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