#pachiderm

[coffeenuts]

[fishgeraldthealmostincel]

I can stand the sight of worms and look at microscopic germs but technicolor pachiderms is really too much for me!

☆▪︎☆▪︎☆▪︎☆▪︎☆▪︎☆▪︎☆▪︎☆▪︎☆▪︎☆▪︎☆▪︎☆▪︎☆▪︎☆▪︎☆▪︎☆▪︎☆▪︎

This isn't normally my art style but I had some bright ass sticky notes left over from tabbing books and I thought it would be fun to draw this asshole with highlighters i stole from my mom 🤎 sorry for the shitty photo quality I have an android phone this is so sad guys💔💔😔

[freakenomenon]

I CAN STAND THE SIGHT OF WORMS AND LOOK AT MICROSCOPIC GERMS BUT TECHNICOLOR PACHIDERMS IS REALLY 2 MUCH 4 ME!!!!!!!!! XDDDD HEHEHEHEHE

[bayporwave]

I want to draw more rakii and lore

But I'm about to switch my fixation back to Happy Hills

Sorry spec evo followers. Be prepared for a small influx of two colorful pachiderms

[peniswizard69]

I feel like 4-5 polar bears could take down a bull African elephant if they worked in unisom, but I doubt they can manage the cooperation. It would probably take 6+ brown bears but they're smarter and less solitary so they'd probably be a safer bet. They're ominvores also, compared to a polar bear's obligately carnivorous diet, so feeding them's probably cheaper. And idk about habitat size and excersize requirement but still I image that 6 large grizzlies are cheaper to keep than 4 polar bears. For sure cheaper to acquire a bunch of brown bears, got way more of those. And yeah. Black bears (both American and moon) would probably take in the 10+ which would just be a nightmare, spectacled bears and pandas lack the aggression, sloth bears have dull claws and teeth, and sun bears are such little guys like if you're trying to overwhelm a 6 tonne pachiderm you're better off with a buncha rottweilers. So yeah in conclusion I would advise 6-8 brown bears (Ursus arctos, particularly U.a. arctos or U.a. horribilis) if you wanna take down a ephelant

[liminalhymnal]

Patchy the Pachiderm is now done! He's hand-sewn, knit, and embroidered with love & care in order to bring good tidings! He's got a lil' music box in his side that plays Jingle Bells, too!

BONUS music:

[1greenameba]

and the funniest bit is how there was a time period in wich putting feathers on tyrannosaurus was kinda trendy in paleoart , locally findings of back impressions and analisis of pachiderm thermoregulation showed that chicken scale t.rex is plausible ...

but yeah this was like few years before php came out , imagine the outrage if this was hank

wich btw even tough inacurrate i think looks fucking awsome , it feels alive ...

I love dinosaurs as much as robots. It is very funny to me when ppl freak out about their childhood icons having feathers maybe.

But it is actually more boring if they are all just like Hollywood imagined.

[elizjjwold]

Rear View of an Elephant by Elizabeth Johnson-Wold

[roctownlive]

📷📸📷 from @6scared789 - Although, it doesn't snow much in Africa, elephants are equipped to handle frigid temperatures because of their very dense, very thick skin. The classification pachiderm mean exactly that. #pachiderm #elephant #zoo #zoophotography #AZA #azaphotography #winter #ROC #roctopshots #roctownlive #rochesterny #senecaparkzoo (at Seneca Park Zoo) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYSLk57uD_j/?utm_medium=tumblr

[theredhookian]

#electionday #manhattan #newyorkcity #newyork #election #flag #scaly #pachiderm #tattered #weathered #distressed #rag #runny https://www.instagram.com/p/CHI0XTDnMrG/?igshid=jrsrufj7hidc

[pierre3215]

ES673 

septembre 2014

[romondonews24]

Peste 350 de elefanți au fost găsiți morți în nordul orașului Bostwana: cauzele deceselor rămân misterioase

[halfbloodfanboy]

That last paragraph is exactly why South America is so interesting from a paleoecological perspective! Since the end of the cretaceous, it became isoñated from the rest of the continents, and remained as such for a long long long time. That means, that while the big modern land mammal taxa and their cological roles where being defined and interchanged everywhere else (except maybe Australia and Antarctica) South America was doing its own thing, . Sure, they were external contributions that trickled in, monkeys and rodents being the most notable, but for the most part

Marsupials were one of the star of the show. Like in modern Australia, the insularity led them to dominate and diversify into a lot of habitats, especially early on. Unlike in Australia, the greater latitudinal span and prominent North-south mountain range (along other things) meant greater climatical variance, causing these groups to specialize even further, to the point that the main mammal predator groups for a long time were marsupials (Sparassodonta my beloved), to the point studios suggest some of them had greater hypercarnivory adaptions than even cats!

And if we are talking predators, I cannot let terror birds, Phorusrhacidae, my big beautiful oversized chuñas, go unmentioned. A whole continent to themselves to run and chase around, diversifying and prospering where similar huge birds either were far and in between or kept to fruits a

Similarly, another sudaca original were the xenarthra: specializers amongst specializers, with unique bodyplans and habits with only partial parallels else where, from the greatest of the giant sloths to the least pichiciego, and notably one of the few local groups to stick it to North America and invade them right back during GABI.

And I would be doing a disservice to my mentors if I didn't mention the third of the greatest local freaks: UNAS, or in English, SANU: South American Native Ungulates. Starting as little mousey things with weird ass teeth at the feet of giants, while the rest of the vegetal world bent the knee to hares, horses, deer, elephants and more, they evolved into a myriad forms and took over all those places and more. From camels with trunks and horse-like-teeth to weird rabbit things to huge toothed pachiderm beasts

AND EVEN THEN, the molecular evidence we do have of some of the terminal taxa (Toxodon and Macrauchenia to be precise) of those groups have them be closer to Perissodactlya than any other mammal group: that is horses, tapirs and rhinos; all of whom present parallelism with the UNAs, not only as hoofed mammals, but in dentition, life habits, body plans...

All this to say, South America is a great recent and documented model for illustrating how much evolution and ecosystem can vary within the continents of a single planet, and yet, they all share common ancestry with the rest. That's the beauty of evolution.

I really really really should be going to write for my job now but I want to write one of these days about how "habitable" planets in fiction don't make sense... You can't eat like 80% of plants here on Earth and they evolved alongside us, and even common molecules like glucose and proteins are indigestible if they have the same chemistry but different structure (stereoisomery). And that's just operating with our own biochemistry.

If you went to an alien planet with an ecosystem as complex as Earth and tried to eat some alien fruit (I'm assuming alien life is parallel enough that biological concepts such as forests and fruit exist), you would at best find it tasteless (or strange) and completely indigestible and at worst poisonous or more likely, you'll have a deadly allergic reaction... in fact that's the more likely thing, alien ecosystems may produce compounds that are harmless and even vital for them but would be absolutely deadly to us. I think even walking in an alien forest will expose you to all sort of allergens and toxins. The good thing is that microbes from both biospheres will be too incompatible to infect each other. Probably.

All that ol' timey science fiction about going to colonize and make a farm of alien fruit or sometimes even introducing Earth life no problem (something for a larger post, but connected to US Manifest Destiny ideology) or space operas like Star Wars or Star Trek where you visit a hundred alien planets and they're all alike and you can even eat the Exotic Food and Mate with the aliens are nonsense. If you visited a living alien planet you'll better keep your spacesuit on... hell it even might be better to keep your suit on in those planets that in say, a terraformed Mars.

[tounkane]

Un cheval

[liminalhymnal]

I'm in the process of making a stuffed elephant for my niece; Patchy the Pachiderm is in his (very) rough stages but give me a day or so and he'll be looking better for Chrimbo

[thaienpavelande]

Jour 24 : Géant

Comme prévu, c'est le jour des éléphants ! Une petite réserve qui récupère les éléphants ayant été maltraités dans le pays. Il faut savoir qu'en plus des attractions déjà limites comme les Zoo, et safari à dos d'éléphants, certaines villes s'en servent de tuk tuk de luxe pour touristes, ou tout pour porter du bois.

On espère donc que cette réserve est bien éthique et s'occupe bien des éléphants retraités. Le moins qu'on puisse dire c'est qu'ils ont besoin de plus de touristes.

Nous étions absolument seul pour notre visite, et vu comme ils nous ont remerciés d'être là, ils ne doivent pas être sûr bookés.

Une petite heure pour donner le repas à deux éléphantes, de 31 ans et 56 ans ! Menu préparé avec soins : Bananes, mangues et herbes garantis sans pesticides, et suppléments calcium et protéines.

On est tous les trois sous le charme, au contact direct des pachidermes, imposantes mais élégantes. Pavel se fait littéralement manger dans la main, moins inquiet que nous.

Mention spéciale à la maîtrise de la noix de coco, l'éléphante est capable de l'ouvrir en marchant dessus, puis sélectionner la chair avec sa trompe en laissant le reste.

Pour finir en beauté, on dîne au plus bel hôtel du coin, on est en manque de luxe. 5 étoiles impressionnant, avec plus de personnels que de touristes évidemment, tous fan de Pavel, qui a du mal à manger tellement les gens le sollicitent.