#packhunters

[nisafari]

African Wild Dogs The Master Hunters Of The Savannah

Hunting Strategies, Diet, and Life of African Wild Dog in The Savannah The African wild dog, also known as the painted wolf or Lycaon pictus, is a highly social and intelligent predator native to the African savannah. Renowned for their striking coat patterns of black, brown, and white, these canines are not only visually captivating but also exhibit remarkable hunting skills. African wild dogs are pack hunters, relying on teamwork and coordination to chase down prey, which primarily consists of medium-sized ungulates such as impalas, wildebeests, and gazelles. Their hunting strategy involves a combination of endurance and speed, allowing them to exhaust their prey over long distances. 

This cooperative hunting behaviour is essential for their survival, as it increases their success rate and ensures that all pack members benefit from the hunt. In addition to their hunting prowess, African wild dogs have a unique social structure that plays a crucial role in their survival. They live in packs that can range from 2 to 27 individuals, with a strong emphasis on cooperation and communication. The pack is typically led by a dominant breeding pair, while other members assist in raising the pups and hunting. Their social bonds are reinforced through vocalizations, body language, and playful interactions, which contribute to the overall cohesion of the group. Living in the African savannah, these dogs face various challenges, including habitat loss and competition with larger predators. Understanding the life of the African wild dog, including their hunting techniques, diet, and social dynamics, highlights the importance of conservation efforts to protect this unique species and its habitat. 

#AfricanWildDog #Savannah #Predators #Hunting #Conservation #PackHunting #EndangeredSpecies #WildDogFacts #AfricanWildlife #AnimalKingdom #NatureDocumentary

[theallianceofcelestials]

What are some of your favorite headcanons or ideas when it comes to the scp fam

I love all the little bits of lore we get from these asks. (Side note have a wonderful day or night whichever is relevant at the time ☀️🌙)

I'll be honest, all headcanons and ideas fled my head the moment I saw this ask, haha

Well the SCP part of the family are packhunters, and while they behave closer to felines, their hunting tactics are closer to that of canines. Felines are primarily ambush predators, while canines exhaust their prey and start eating while its still alive

Eclipse, if he didn't get mental health crisises from it, could learn to be one of the better hunters of the family simply because of his colour scheme, even if he would be closer to a feline hunting. Deer can't really see red or orange, so Eclipse is good in that area

Eclipse hates caramel on its own

Solar Flare would be the person who didn't ask for the pickles, while Lunar would be the one confronting the poor, underpaid people about the pickles

Bloodmoon doesn't like vegetables nor fruits. You can fool them into eating them though, by frying them

Eclipse refuses to get both Minecraft and Roblox because he's afraid of what Lunar would do

Killcode and Moon log onto the gaming console in the night to play Stardew Valley together by the point everyone's sleeping. They have a whole tactic on how to hide their farm and everything.

Sun knows full well his cats bully everyone but him. He just pretends to not notice so he can be offended

All the lunar part of the family is afraid of mannequins same was as Canon Moon is, while all the solar part of the family hates insects like Canon Sun does

Lunar regularly pulls of cookie heists with either one of his siblings, but he's always the only one caught. He's aware why that is, but he just can't resist the temptation to argue for better deals with them where he's not the only one taking the fall

Killcode would love to be a part of a dad group, but he hates humans and doesn't want to be in any sort of club with any of them. Sadly, most dad clubs barely have animatronic members

Moon gets snacks in the middle of the night sometimes from lunch uncle and lunch auntie. He's like a stray cat they're feeding

That's all the things off the top of my head right now, but you can ask more specific scenarios like what my headcanons would be in this or that situation for them or the like

(It's morning here, a bit over 10 AM Good night/morning to you too! :] )

[ode-to-arecibo]

I think this is a good place to start.

Timelike Empire is my main world, both worldbuilding project and place where actual novels will be set eventually. It's hard~ish sci fi with a timeline that diverges in 2020 and runs to about 2300... so far. So here's Timelike Empire's main sophonts and their sizes.

From left to right, you know this guy it's unmodified human. This one's Solenoid, from the 2050s. You'll see more of him later.

More importantly, Drakes, represented by Viviere Serasifi. Drakes were the first species to develop faster than light communication. Their societies arrange themselves into houses of close relatives which in modern times tend to act as countries or companies, ruling land or holding economic monopolies. Biologically they're hexapods evolved from an arboreal predator like a six limbed jaguar. Their feathers absorb the dyes they eat, which they use to distinguish house identity. Their head feathers are used to emote. Their society is a huge mess when humans meet them, as house Cezyra has taken power and done fascism and completely fucked everything up.

Kaledevids, or star crows, and all three of their sexes, represented by literally any kaledevid as they all look identical. Kaledevids were the second species to develop ftl communication, and the first that drakes contacted. They worked together to produce wormholes and Alcubierre drives. They have three sexes, bachelors on the left, herders in the middle and dispersers on the right. Bachelors were originally confused for crows and assumed to be the only sex, giving them the common but impolite star crow moniker. They're expert navigators and significantly more intelligent than humans or the average sophont, but only living 20-30 years. They're the only other species on this list where being naked is ever a crime and they're drawn here with scarves covering their anuses on their chests and their genitals on their backs.

Sapsippers, represented by a pretty average blue drone, are a hive mind or gestalt consciousness, to the point that after they developed an internet analog the entire homeworld could be considered one person. You would never actually see one alone like this, it would have no idea what's going on. Sapsippers form into thrums, groups which communicate through pheromones and tapping the ground. Thrums smaller than six aren't really functional as people. The race pictured here is translucent. That gave them a big head start on medicine, but more important was their biochemistry. They don't use a separate DNA analog/genetic storage system and proteins, they just have self replicating proteins (though not made of amino acids). This meant that as soon as they could isolate proteins, they could genetically engineer whatever they wanted. They started genetic engineering even before they had civilization, rubbing protein rich parts of other creatures in their wounds to make rough and often dangerous modifications. They're called sapsippers because they exclusively consume a sap secreted by a creature they ranch. If you bring a thrum to dinner you can order sugar water for them, they store energy with D-glucose like us. They often act as ship AIs for ships just a bit too small to carry a lect.

Raptors or raptorslugs or various unpronounceable buzzing sounds, represented here by a conventionally attractive male, were contacted 20 years after humans and are the most relatable to the average human. They invariably use cybernetics to speak English or Universal, as the only sound they can make is various kinds of high pitched incredibly irritating buzzing. Their second pair of wings is reduced to just the muscles they now use to pump their blood and lungs. Their main pair of wings is too weak to fly with, but is now used in semaphore and bird of paradise-eqsue mating dances. They're packhunters.

Moths, which I really should give a proper name to, pictured here sitting on the raptor's tail, evolved on the same planet as raptorslugs. While raptorslugs reduced the second pair of wings, got huge, and stopped doing alternation of generations, moths pretty much didn't change from their basal form except getting smarter. They're the sporophyte form of a common photosynthesizer. They're not always included on lists of the sophonts, mostly because they don't particularly want to be included and they're the least common of these, basically just sneaking in because raptors are so common. You'll never see a moth without a raptor, but plenty of raptors don't keep moths. There are hundreds of species of moth and they don't mind being selectively bred by raptors, as long as the raptors protect their gametophytes. Attempting to understand moth culture is a largely futile endeavor that not even raptors attempt.

Not pictured here, artificial intellects, usually referred to as lects. They're often massive godlike intelligences that shape history. Sometimes they're made of flesh. Distinguished from AI by being at least human intelligence and being able to go eccentric. Eccentricity occurs when a lect is given too much free time and infers that whoever told it to do it's job doesn't actually want that job done so much as they want to be happy. This usually results in them deciding that preserving sophont life is the most noble purpose and then accumulating as many resources as they can. Sometimes they go basilisk instead and the Silicon Hydra has to deal with them.

So there we go, there's the blog started. Coming soon: individual species references.

[szkin-art]

A custom SSC Operator-spec Swallowtail, in a PACKHUNT-type mobility configuration. Incorporates features from the KRF Pattern-II Everest lineage, used by the House of Sand. The SIMURGH-class NHP on board is supposedly 'salvage'; it is a Tactical Operations NHP typically utilised by House of Sand covert operatives, the notorious 'Sandmen'.

[goji-pilled]

sits up groggily what would be the p5 cast be as dinosaurs

youre not the first person with this type of question and as much as i appreachiate dinosaur related question i just. cant really answer this.

nowdays we have like modern animals with certain behaviours and characteristics that we connect with certain personality traits, like orange cats, golden retrievers or black cats, but as far as i know there just. isnt something like this with non-avian dinosaurs.

(and im not well versed in avian dinosaurs aka birds.)

not to mention that when it comes to them we can often only make educated guesses on things like function of structures like crests, frills, humps, etc., of stuff like hunting behavior, defense against predators, reproduction, care for young, mating behavior, etc. etc. based on fossils or straight up just speculate.

(note that all im about to say is based on my current knowledge and might change in the future or has changed already)

for example something i learned recently is that allosaurus seem to be considered to have been highly aggressive animals as apparently many fossils from areas that co-existed with them had bite marks of them.

other stuff thats speculated for example is that yutyrannus might have lived in groups as the only speciments we have of them were found together. the same idea exists for albertasaurus as multiple have been found at the same place before and it doesnt seem like it was a predator trap.

dromaeosaurs are also always shown to be packhunters when theres apparently 0 evidence for this.

for other things we have fossil evidence though like maiasaura having cared for their young (their name literally means "good mother lizard") and that similarly oviraptorids were brooding animals that guarded their eggs, and we literally have a fossil of that. even though it was misinterpreted at first as the oviraptor intending to steal the eggs of a protoceratops 😔

or that majungasaurus, a type of abelisaurid from today madagaskar, were cannibalistic animals that definitely ate others of their species

and then theres the problem child spinosaurus aegypticus, the animal that goes through identity crisis after identity crisis to the point you better just avoid talking about it and should instead focus on other spinosaurids 😭

none of these are like. fitting or match with certain personality types though in my eyes.

best i can do is say morgana would probably be one of those little mammals (i am also not well versed in mammals) who was found fossilized fighting a dinosaur that was like three times its size because hes a little guy fighting stuff many times his own size lol 🤷‍♀️

[mtgbirthdays]

Happy birthday to Baloth Packhunter (ANB), who's turning 4 years old today! Wow, that's sweet art. I don't think I'd ever seen this Arena Beginner Set card before.

[demigirlboss2girlrotboogaloo]

No, but they're short, and they have brittle bones, and I'm pretty sure they were packhunters. I just need to keep it away from my guts and I'll live, even if I'll end up in the hospital.

[freakoutgirl]

ur blur / oasis posting reminds me of when i was 13 my dad gifted me an oasis cd even tho i KNOW he also knew blur. like he was trying so hard to make sure i was straight poor guy :(

doing his absolute damnedest, my condolences 😔

[eskewcity]

4 and 14! 📖

4. sections of a bookstore do you browse?

Usually it depends on my mood but these days I tend to look at the horror or sci-fi section.

14. do you ever mark/dog ear books you own?

Honestly no, I tend to just grab the nearest thing to me and use it as a bookmark instead

[charlestrask]

have u seen mikes mic's glee recap :)

i have NOT im aware of it and it seems like it could be fun to watch but for this period of time where im obsessed with better call saul i am physically incapable of watching any youtube videos that arent related to better call saul

[smithcollegegirls2004]

24 & 26!

24. what’s something you do to de-stress?

honestly going for walks + drives and also writing + rewatching the same shows (spn always helps turn my brain down)

26. what movie would you want to live in?

i really cannot answer this question because my mind went blank as hell but. something with good vibes and good aesthetics in the city. pick a movie like that and its that one skdjsjs

tysm!

[alecscudder1987]

destiel <3

DESTIEL

[calvinandhobbes]

HAPPY BDAY J!!!! love u i hope you have a good day <33

omg i missed this one yesterday!!! thank u sm niko it was a lovely chill birthday <3

[eldritch48]

Some more creature ideation. #creaturedesign #scifi #conceptart #packhunters (at Vancouver, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/But1kDWFr3o/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12ix9tmw5lmuq

[clairewolf]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY I FOUND THE GIF <3

HAHAHA I LOVE IT. THANK YOUUUU <3333

[gopu89]

High voltage action! A failed attempt to kill a sambar deer and fawn by a pack of wild dogs. This action was happening too near to the human inhibited area of the PTR unfortunately. The wild dogs got alert by a few tourists screaming and fled. These are some downsides of eco-tourism. Either the tourists should behave or the entry must be limited to those who are interested in wildlife and know how to behave in forests. Unaware, and not bothered tourists are a reason behind the increasing accidents and unfortunate incidents happening in forest reserves! This one is from Gavi, PTR. The sambar and fawn get a 2nd chance to live, but it's a hard failure for the 14-17 membered dhole pack! #Nikond780 + #nikon200500 #Letsexplore #sambardeer #dhole #indianwildlife #wildlifekerala #naturephotography #natgeoindia #natgeowild #indianwilddog #hunting #packhunters #hunt #westernghats #nikonindiaofficial #nikonqatar #nikonkuwait #nikon #nikonasia (at GAVI,PATHANAMTHITTA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaBlsZuv_5p/?utm_medium=tumblr