#sondaica

[tiifu-ndovu]

[tigerleopardlion]

Sunda Tiger | Ralph Mayhew

[winterpinetrees]

OC-Tober Day 24: Flowers

The daffodil can symbolize many things: joy, resilience, deceit, death, rebirth. Likewise, Marin Sondaica has the chance to become many things.

[ortebcalainart]

Weirder stuff I intentionally drew for this Halloween: my OC Rima Sartika Sondaica cosplaying as a Starfleet Science Officer from the Star Trek TNG era.

[reasonsforhope]

"A 2019 sighting by five witnesses indicates that the long-extinct Javan tiger may still be alive, a new study suggests.

A single strand of hair recovered from that encounter is a close genetic match to hair from a Javan tiger pelt from 1930 kept at a museum, the study shows.

“Through this research, we have determined that the Javan tiger still exists in the wild,” says Wirdateti, a government researcher and lead author of the study.

The Javan tiger was believed to have gone extinct in the 1980s but only officially declared as such in 2008...

Ripi Yanuar Fajar and his four friends say they’ll never forget that evening after Indonesia’s Independence Day celebration in 2019 when they encountered a big cat roaming a community plantation in Sukabumi, West Java province.

Immediately after the brief encounter, Ripi, who happens to be a local conservationist, reached out to Kalih Raksasewu, a researcher at the country’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), saying he and his friends had seen either a Javan leopard (Panthera pardus melas), a critically endangered animal, or a Javan tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica), a subspecies believed to have gone extinct in the 1980s but only officially declared so in 2008.

About 10 days later, Kalih visited the site of the encounter with Ripi and his friends. There, Kalih found a strand of hair snagged on a plantation fence that the unknown creature was believed to have jumped over. She also recorded footprints and claw marks that she thought resembled those of a tiger.

Kalih then sent the hair sample and other records to the West Java provincial conservation agency, or BKSDA, for further investigation. She also sent a formal letter to the provincial government to follow up on the investigation request. The matter eventually landed at BRIN, where a team of researchers ran genetic analyses to compare the single strand of hair with known samples of other tiger subspecies, such as the Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) and a nearly century-old Javan tiger pelt kept at a museum in the West Java city of Bogor.

“After going through various process of laboratory tests, the results showed that the hair sample had 97.8% similarities to the Javan tiger,” Wirdateti, a researcher with BRIN’s Biosystemic and Evolutionary Research Center, said at an online discussion hosted by Mongabay Indonesia on March 28.

The discussion centered on a study published March 21 in the journal Oryx in which Wirdateti and colleagues presented their findings that suggested that the long-extinct Javan tiger may somehow — miraculously — still be prowling parts of one of the most densely populated islands on Earth.

Their testing compared the Sukabumi hair sample with hair from the museum specimen collected in 1930, as well as with other tigers, Javan leopards and several sequences from GenBank, a publicly accessible database of genetic sequences overseen by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

The study noted that the supposed tiger hair had a sequence similarity of 97.06% with Sumatran tigers and 96.87% with Bengal tigers. Wirdateti also conducted additional interviews with Ripi and his friends about the encounter they’d had.

“I wanted to emphasize that this wasn’t just about finding a strand of hair, but an encounter with the Javan tiger in which five people saw it,” Kalih said.

“There’s still a possibility that the Javan tiger is in the Sukabumi forest,” she added. “If it’s coming down to the village or community plantation, it could be because its habitat has been disturbed. In 2019, when the hair was found, the Sukabumi region had been affected by drought for almost a year.” ...

Didik Raharyono, a Javan tiger expert who wasn’t involved in the study but has conducted voluntary expeditions with local wildlife awareness groups since 1997, said the number of previous reported sightings coupled with the new scientific findings must be taken seriously. He called on the environment ministry to draft and issue a policy on measures to find and conserve the Javan tiger.

“What’s most important is the next steps that we take in the future,” Didik said."

-via Mongabay, April 4, 2024

[matter-for-mass]

butterfly egg appreciation post

(insect egg photos under the cut, if insect eggs freak you out be warned but also these are extremely pretty (: )

mourning cloak (nymphalis antiopa)

leopard lacewing (cethosia cyane)

gaudy baron (euthalia lubentina)

euthalia bunzoi

australian painted lady (vanessa kershawi)

question mark (polygonia interrogationis) (yes those are its actual names and yes they stack their eggs)

map butterfly (araschnia levana) (even longer stacks)

jezebel nymph (mynes geoffroyi)

tawny emperor (asterocampa clyton)

common duffer (discophora sondaica)

[spinus-pinus]

Sumatran Tiger Panthera tigris sondaica

11/11/2023 San Diego Zoo Safari Park, California

[rinusuarez]

Working on this one was a real challenge. There are just a few blurry photographs of this animal before its extinction in the 50s, so I had to recreate its features based on written descriptions and the Sumatran Tiger photographs which are its closest relative. I believe I did a great job and I can proudly say this is one of the best illustrations of the Bali Tiger you can find.

Bali Tiger This animal owes its extinction exclusively to humans. It was exterminated in order to make the land habitable for humans in the 1940s. Finally in the 1950s was declared extinct. This tiger form belongs to the second subspecies of tiger (sondaica, the one that lives in islands), along with the Javan Tiger which is also extinct, and the Sumatran Tiger, the only survivor. There is some hope that this animal might still survive in Bali because there are a lot of unexplored lands that haven't been studied. However, is already 70 years since its last sight. It is upsetting that an animal was brought to extinction on purpose. And a loved one. What concerns me the most is that if this can happen to an animal that we all love and care about, imagine those that we don't know or we don't care much about.

I care about animals and I want to do something to protect them. And I think of this project as a way to help. If we know the animals we share the world with more, we are more likely to feel about them and protect them. You can help too by sharing this project.

___________________________________ Credits: Bali Tiger __________________________________ Behind the scenes Store

[yuki-shipnoda]

How do the Super Formula teammates of the Yurem handle the whole vampire thing? There could be a chance for the Yurem to love them as Pierre and Yuki.

Do the grid girls of Super Formula also interact with the Yurem and Yuki? Sometimes their cooing and poking and petting gets a bit too much for Yuki so he squeezes into Pierres camera bag to hide and get a break from the attention.

Has Yuki and the Yurem shifted into other animals for a change? If the mood strikes him, Yuki can appear as a platinum Japanese fox and act as his living stole.

If there's no spark of romance or they just wanna be friends, then so be it. If they don't want, then they don't want. Plain and simple, love is a two-way street after all

The grid girls do exist and interact with the Yurem, esoecially when they got podiums. If you're a bird as cute as Yuki, you'd get lots of coos and pets too. Juju also gets this treatment and it annoys her to the max.

Yes, they have! They gotta do it to disguise themselves in non-bird friendly scenarios and whenever they feel like it. Here's other disguises they've done:

Yuki: Ezo red fox (Vulpes vulpes schrencki)

Kazuto: Eurasian wolf (Canis lupus lupus)

Toshiki: Japanese badger (Meles anakuma)

Liam: American shorthair (Felis catus)

Nyck: Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica)

Juju: Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis)

[emooooonart]

Some head studies I did of Sumatran tigers! (+ a sneak peek at my next one... the bodies!) I got this random thought at one point, like "huh I wonder how different tigers look?" looked it up and saw these fur babies! they are so interesting and cool! Decided they'll be my first study! And with each one I post, some facts! here we go!!!!!!!

ღ They are the smallest of all tigers! (that are alive) weighing between 242-308ibs!

ღThey originate from Sumatra, Indonesia's western most and largest island

ღ Panthera tigris sondaica is their species' name

ღThey have a longer/fuller beard compared to other species and thinner stripes

Thats all for now! Sources:

https://www.fauna-flora.org/species/sumatran-tiger/

https://zooatlanta.org/animal/sumatran-tiger/

[saritawolf]

Sumatran Tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica) - (c) SaritaWolf - please do not repost

[tiifu-ndovu]

[tigerleopardlion]

Sunda Tiger | Sarah Medway

[winterpinetrees]

OC-tober Day 16: Different Time Period

Exactly one hundred years before her son set off on his adventure, Emer Sondaica... took a break. Life as the apex was unbearable, so she handed the scepter and helm to a cousin and rented an apartment in New York City just as the Harlem Renaissance began.

She’s not in any census, but even a century later you can find old phonograph records by Emma S. There’s a group who love them and wonder about the mysterious artist. Her life fits a common story well enough. She must have come north after WW1, joined in with the Jazz Age, and then left without a trace when it ended. Still, they wonder. Well, they mostly hope. Maybe she was happy somewhere else, living another life through the rest of a tumultuous century.

They’re right that she lived another life. They’re less right about the rest.

[ortebcalainart]

Late, but Merry Christmas nonetheless. Have a nice holiday, everybody 🎄 featuring OC Rima (left) and Esti (right).

[topikberitaco]

Ancaman Kepunahan Yang Menghantui Harimau Sumatera

KARYA ILMIAH, TOPIKBERITA.CO – Dari delapan sub spesies harimau yang ada di dunia, tiga di antaranya ada di  Indonesia. Namun dua dari tiga tersebut telah punah. Dua di antaranya, harimau jawa (Panthera Tigris Sondaica) dan harimau bali (Panthera Tigris Balica), telah punah pada tahun 1940-an dan 1980-an. Sejak tahun 1996, IUCN mengkategorikan harimau sumatera sebagai Spesies yang Berisiko…