#terrestrial animals

[imthefailedartist]

Evolution Rant

Water/land & water/air animals should very clearly only be water animals. Where did evolution get its wires crossed? Did the meteor fuck shit up that bad?

Walruses, seals, whales, elephant seals, sea lions, sea turtles. Etc. Look at them its unnatural that they be on land.

If the animals only mode of transporting itself around on land is scraping its body against the ground and pushing with flippers, then it is clearly only meant to be in the water. Get back in there.

Watching walruses fight is so unsettling. They have to work so hard to get leverage. The rocking back and forth takes so much energy that is not even a fight is who gets tired the slowest. How is that fair? Then they have tusks, I'm always scared they're going to get stuck or ripped out, and then Wally is dead because it can't hunt or defend itself. The Wally 2 will die of an infection.

Whales! What do you mean whales have to breach every hour, give or take, to breathe air!?!? That's insane. They live in the water. They should have gills. Sharks have gills. Why don't whales?

Watch a video of a seal in the water. It's beautiful it's sleek and graceful. As soon as it's on land, it's a waddling blob dragging itself against the coarse sand and sharp rocks.

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

It’s easy for sci-fi programmes to create alien creatures that seem analogous to Earth animals.

What’s strange is when the programme manages to predict something about a terrestrial animal that hadn’t been seen before.

[artist-issues]

It sounds like Stitch but it just doesn’t have the Stitchiness of Stitch. His mouth is too small. His nose is too small and too low down.

His ears are too furry. There’s too much teddy-bear-bunny, not enough insect-shark.

His ears should look almost-translucent, with fine fuzz, like bat ears! His nose should look stamped onto his face with gigantic nostrils, like a bulldog’s. His eyes should look bigger and blanker.

His mouth should make you think shark, like his whole head is resting on the hinge of his jaw. And the fur around his eyes should be much thinner and more peach fuzz like so that you can see the wrinkles in his flesh when he squints or makes snarly faces.

Why

Why is that so hard

he’s not cutesy and only-pretending-to-be-fierce. he’s not a kitten. He’s not made to appeal to the Minions and Toothless-but-only-Toothless-in-HTTYD-3 crowd.

There are NO BLACK LIPS. He’s not a dog. There are NO CAT-MUZZLE-UPPER-LIP-MUSCLES. He’s not a kitty. OR a bunny. Why are those two-front-teeth so so much smaller than the rest of his teeth? Why are all of the teeth so small??

Don’t you guys understand why he’s supposed to look more than just cute-but-acting-naughty?

He has to be able to look convincingly disgusting, and genuinely fearsome.

Look how whip-thin his eyes and eyebrows are. Look at how, like a snake mid-eat, you can see some of Pleakley’s head swelling Stitch’s throat. It is important that he look like a monster when he needs to because he is a monster.

If Stitch doesn’t look like the kind of small monster that can take big disgusting bites out of you, with jerky, spider-like movements and tiger-scrunched eyes then the whole emotional weight of the movie looks flimsy. We’ll forgive a cat for scratching us and giving us cat-scratch fever because it’s cute. If Stitch looks too cute, then the human brain goes, yeah, he pushed that little girl down and laughed at her pain, but look at his wittle face, he’s a babydoll, who could stay mad at him

We can easily see why Lilo puts up with him.

When the point is, we shouldn’t be able to see why Lilo puts up with him—not in and of himself. Stitch does nothing to deserve Lilo’s love, including being cute— actually, he’s gross and unsettling. He’s not even cute enough to want around as a snuggle-buddy. He’s certainly not cute enough to look unthreatening. Nobody in the movie runs up and asks to pet him. Nobody even looks like they want to. He’s not appealing in that way. The dogcatcher screams at him on sight. The tourists just stare when he walks up dressed as Elvis. Her friends immediately think he’s the ugliest thing in the world and don’t want him anywhere near them. David is sure it’s not a dog. Even the aliens in an intergalactic council find him not-appealing, on sight. They take him, as a threat, seriously, even before Jumba lists his powers.

All of that is not because Stitch really looks outrageously ugly.

⬆️ THAT is ugly. Can we all agree? That’s ugly. Whereas this:

Less ugly. Obviously I know that. But there are a couple things about Stitch that are not traditionally appealing, when the filmmakers could have made him traditionally appealing. If they wanted his nose to look muzzle-y, they could’ve. If they wanted his spine to bend at the hips like a human toddler’s they could’ve. If they wanted his mouth smaller and more cartoon-y, with kitty-cat lips, they could have done that. They chose to do the slightly more ugly thing instead. He’s still appealing. But he can look and be convincingly threatening, unattractive, and disgusting when he needs to be for the story.

The cuteness was a by-product. It was an artfully-done side. It was not the main course of what he’s supposed to look like. Again I say to you—he is not your Minions-loving Facebook Mom’s bumper sticker. He is supposed to walk the line between most-disgusting-pet-you-could-have and Gremlin-meets-E.T.

These teasers are totally catering to the people who like Stitch T-Shirts from WalMart but probably couldn’t explain the first thing about him as a character. And whatever, that’s fine. But the design affects the story, and the original story was so good.

This does not bode well.

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

This animal was requested!

[onenicebugperday]

New Zealand predatory land planarian, Arthurdendyus testaceus, Geoplanidae

Photo 1-2 by williambrockelsby, 3-4 by schneehagen, and 5-9 by amanhunt,

[themesopelagiczone]

meet the quoll. they're marsupials! they're carnivorous! they're super cute! and there have been 111 cases recorded of them eating human bodies and human corpses!

they used to be abundant in australia before european settlement, but now some species have seen a nearly 70% decline. one species has even disappeared completely from the australian mainland.

australian geographic | bush heritage

photos: picasa web albums | guy nœhringer | jj harrison | michael barritt & karen may

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Extra Terrestrial Visitors | 1983 — a.k.a, Pod People | 1990

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A tapir (Tapirus terrestris) in Kabalebo, Suriname. Tapirs are found almost everywhere in Suriname, both in the coastal plain where most people live and in the southern part of the country, which is heavily forested and includes nature reserves.

Image by Panning Out via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

I don't mean to alarm, but in the Sirpaverse major islands of the inner Baltic like Gotland, Åland, Saaremaa and Öland are probably owned by the Kingdom of Osmeri. Don't worry about it! Don't, uh. Don't ask what Osmeri was doing with Sweden in the middle of the last millennium

[spoopy-moose]

Just thought of like how the Stillwater is described in the p2 design documents as “stretching out” people’s souls and how Farkhad’s vision of the utopian buildings were horizontal and how it is an observatory without access to the stars and how it is a downwards force to the polyhedron’s upwards force. And like considering that next to daniil’s character being described as having an vector upwards and closely connected to the sky and the polyhedron as an skyward force and yet his main place of residence is literally a counterbalance to the sky and grounds him and how he can literally only observe the sky without ever being a part of it.

[crickochetart]

Like if you agree

[deva-arts]

I had nothing better to do at campus so I decided to come to class super early. they finished a different class over here and now the lights all shut off with me still inside. Am I in the backrooms

With that said have some side character doodle

[rinusuarez]

I finished the tapir's family. I had contemplated including the Kabomani Tapir, supposedly a new species discovered a few years ago. However, after conducting extensive research, I found insufficient credible evidence to support its classification as a distinct species. Nevertheless, I did uncover information confirming the existence of four subspecies of Lowland Tapir. Some studies suggest that a black tapir photographed in Malaysia may represent a new species of tapir, yet most scientists contend that it is simply a melanistic variation of the Malayan Tapir. As these examples illustrate, animal classification is not always clear-cut. Therefore, I will continue to study this fascinating animal family and keep abreast of any new developments.

For the time being, this art print provides the most current depiction of the Tapir family, including the four subspecies of Lowland Tapir, the conservation status, and scientific names. You can purchase it by clicking on the link below. Tapir's Art Print Thank you for your support. Please like and share this image if you think it is worth it. See you soon with a new family. A loved one by many.

[atariforce]

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial by Rob Rourk

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

Photos thanks to Katja Schulz & Kathy Shogren!

[vaurien]

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