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[theworldismyoysterandiamthepearl]

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Chores suddenly got very pawsome. 🐾 Animal care volunteer Barb had some excellent moral support from Nuniq during one of her recent window washing session!

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[owosa]

Owosa’s Pets Zoo MASTER POST

“The "Pet Zoo" as a concept was born well after having created the first 4 original pets (Kitty, Pupyrus, BB and Foxpy)”. 

“(...)Since I have never thought of the pets as an alternate version of the ut characters, but rather as beings inspired by them, the Pets Zoo does not follow the logic of the fanon multiverse and therefore, its location is not within any of its territories (the void or the anti-void for example)”.

Extract taken from "The Zoo", channel of my private discord.

This is the post that will contain all the important links and very basic information related to The Pets, adoptables created by me.

The Pets

Before starting this part, I must clarify that the pets in the stories ( The Fell owners / The Tale owners / The Reddish owners / The Purplish owners) and the pets from the zoo (The Adoptables) are not the same nor do they follow the same rules. Like I said at the start, the zoo is off cannon-fannon territory.

What are the pets?

Simply put, the pets are a "type" of monster. A species that, although it shares something as basic as the need of a soul to exist, it has its own characteristics. The best known, the fact that they can change shape for periods of time.

Its default form is the animal one, not the skeleton. For the same reason, pets are much more primitive than a skeleton monster. Because they are essentially animals. They are much more conscious than any animal, but even so, they cannot speak any spoken language.

 Do they have a reason for being?

In their concept, pets are creatures made to bring happiness, affection and comfort to their owners. A virtual pet that is there for you and only needs love to cope with any problem. They are not real, just imaginary, but that was the feeling I wanted to convey when I thought about making the pet owners manuals.

I honestly feel that it was more a coincidence that I ended up creating the pets within the UT fandom than a consequence of it. But here we are and I don't regret anything.

Do they have their characteristics as a species?

The pets are their own type of monster, but even among them, there can be differences. Depending on these differences, each pet is classified within a Typer: Common , Mini , Aquatic and Mythical

There is one last type, the Special Pets. As the name indicates, they are a particular type of pet, that can only be won as a prize for participating in the ask games.

- Costume Adoptables info here

- Adopted Pets here

- The tag is #owosa’s pets zoo

The Zoo Staff

“Support and inspiration; The zoo staff (within this context) have been those in charge of taking care of the pets during the period they were in the zoo (before they were adopted)”.

CC ( @leivyathan​):  Chief of security and Coach of new owners

Eru  ( @eruerushi​) : Responsible for comfort and cleanliness

Mika ( @angisam​) : In charge of Food and Exercise

These are the best friends that the ut fandom gave me and to this day, they still are by my side supporting me. Love you girls <3 

The Permanent Exhibition

Well, this would not be a zoo if it does not have pets constantly inhabiting it, therefore, there is a group of pets that live here 24/7. The pets that you've met in the stories (the fell, tale, reddish and purplish owners), the staff pets and a small group of pets that for one reason or another came to stay at the zoo and never be for up adoption.

The Originals: Kitty, Pupyrus, BB, Foxpy, B-lord, Doggy, Batchis and GG.

The Zoo Staff’s pets: Pipi, Silver, Bunnyrus, Kaus and Ain. 

My pets: Glitchy, Cinnamon & Mint, Gaspar and Mallow. 

These pets will never be up for adoption, their home is the zoo and their owners, me and the staff. They have their own dynamics and relationships, even those pets that were part of the stories.

I never expected pets to be so famous, let alone spend so many years working with them, but what can I say other than thank you very much for your support so far and in the future, especially for your patience and nice words.

I really love this community that has been formed and hope you all have a really nice time here too.

[uncanny-tranny]

Learning to internalize the message above, but art is in all of our bones. If you feel afraid to create art because it won't be "good enough," it's worth it to explore why you feel that fear. Creating art is one of the basic impulses of people, and if you want to create art, then you absolutely must.

[orcinus-veterinarius]

So... it seems I accidentally deleted an ask rather than answering it. To whoever asked "is it okay to visit SeaWorld? Does the money go to giving the orcas good care?"... here is your answer!

The SeaWorld parks, as well as Busch Gardens, Discovery Cove, and a few others, are operated by the recently renamed United Parks and Entertainment, a for-profit theme park company. Like any other corporation, their first goal is to remain profitable. Obviously, a large portion of that goes to corporate leadership and shareholders. But that's far from unique to United, or theme parks in general. It's a byproduct of the greedy world we live in. If you're willing to buy a ticket to Disney or Six Flags, then buying a ticket to a SeaWorld or Busch Gardens is no more immoral.

According to the AZA, approximately 46% of their members are for-profit. And while AZA zoos certainly vary in quality (anywhere from "acceptable" to "exceptional" in my opinion), for-profit status does not cheapen or detract from the work they do. In fact, for-profit institutions often have more financial freedom for animal care and conservation efforts than their non-profit counterparts. Non-profit zoos and aquariums are wonderful places, but believe me when I say there's a startling amount of politics in every aspect of their management. Non-profit status does not automatically make a zoo better, and for-profit status does not automatically make a zoo worse.

Now... do SeaWorld ticket sales go toward giving their orcas (and other animals) good care? Yes.

While it's certainly simplistic for parks to claim, as they do, "just by buying a ticket today you're helping save animals in the wild!"... it's not exactly a lie. Being for-profit, SeaWorld doesn't ask for donations to fund park operations or outreach endeavours. That revenue is generated by selling tickets, merchandise, food, etc. The same goes for their wildlife rescue and rehab program, Rising Tide conservation program, Coral Rescue Center, and the SeaWorld-Busch Gardens Conservation Fund, as well as partner organizations like OCEARCH and the Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute.

Take ticket sales away, and they can't care for their animals, or continue to fund conservation projects. While I don't know the whole story of what exactly is going on with Marineland Antibes, it appears that the park is in a dire financial situation due to plummeting attendance, to the point that they can no longer maintain their killer whale habitat and are trying to offload their animals onto an Asian aquarium or, potentially, an as-of-yet non-existent third party sea pen. While certainly well-meaning, years of boycotts against Marineland ultimately put their animals in a position where they are not being properly cared for. And it would be horrifying if the same thing happened to SeaWorld. I don't think many people, in their fervor to punish the parks for their perceived misdeeds and save the animals, thought about what the reality of driving a zoological facility into financial ruin would look like.

Don't get me wrong, SeaWorld's shift toward promoting itself as a thrill park that also does conservation rather than a marine facility that happens to have roller coasters annoys me. I would have rather they built a separate, neighboring park for the rides, or at least integrated them into the existing park less obtrusively (Disney's Animal Kingdom, for example, seemlessly integrates the theme park and zoo elements, although they have the benefit of the incredibly talented Imagineering team behind them). But as tiresome as the constant roller coaster announcements are, they are what kept the company afloat financially in the years immediately following Blackfish, drawing in a crowd that previously had no interest in the parks, and for that I'm grateful. Thankfully, SeaWorld is in a better spot nowadays. But the only way to convince them that their animals, not their roller coasters, are what people want to see... is to visit and see the animals.

In short, yes, part of your SeaWorld ticket funds care for their orcas and their many admirable projects. Now if only more of it went to giving their staff better salaries.

[linddzz]

Luckily the "what if the SHARK impregnated our ray???" seems to be dying down and bigger news organizations have the corrected information in their articles, but I wanted to share this great blog post by marine conservation biologist David Shiffman that covers both the cool actual science that got overshadowed while actually calling out the facility for how unscientifically they handled it and for the fact that they doubled down (esp since newer media they've put out is softly backtracking and it looks like they're attempting to play it off as a joke that the news misreported. Nope. They put the idea out there like it was as possible as parthenogenesis while calling themselves scientists at a "shark lab")

From the conclusion:

Unfortunately, poor handling of this story has made it likely that we are on track for another year where the most-shared news story about a shark or ray is pseudoscientific nonsense, rather than about their dire conservation needs, their importance to marine and coastal ecosystems, or amazing new discoveries about them. As a longtime supporter of zoos and aquariums and the roles they play in public science education, I am especially troubled by some of the public-facing communications here. If your goal is sharing knowledge with the public, there’s value in gaining accurate knowledge about the subject yourself first. Sharing wrong facts is not “raising awareness” or educating the public, and falsely claiming “anything is possible, don’t trust the experts” is, to put it mildly, not helping the ocean.

It's a great article to drop in if the "omg shark/ray babies???" keeps spreading. Or if you just enjoy niche science drama. The aquarium world doesn't get much of that

[batfambrainrotbeloved]

Im way too early to campus because I wanted good parking, and im in a like "computer lab" chill room.

ANYWAYS-

Let me say- there is nothing more entertaining then watching over a dozen people try to open the wrong set of double doors before having to do the walk of shame an extra 10 ft to the wide open set at the end of the room.

Like- what is the option, do they push? pull? how long do they jiggle the handle before giving up hope? do they think its stuck? or do they know, intrinctiscly the moment they try, they were doomed to fail.

[housedyke]

Studying for the primatology section by creating a layout for a primate-only zoo organized by taxonomy in Planet Zoo

[craftingcreatures]

Why does everybody think capybaras are so chill. Every capybara I've ever interacted with has been one withheld orange slice away from committing a homicide

[byteofsoup]

Like if you would ask him where the bathrooms are reblog if you would watch the elephant shrews with him

[evilroachindustrial]

There’s a special circle of Hell for the person fucking with the Dallas Zoo.

[zouisalmightie]

has a bad day at work and drank a bottle of wine and now everything is a lot less of a problem

[tysonfurybattlepass]

me screenshotting cute snow leopard face number 4727472744 knowing i’ll probably never get around to drawing it

[arb0k]

sonoran-inspired zoo i've been working on.... this courtyard has all the staff buildings and a fairly private habitat for some oryxes (or is it just oryx?)

[animblog]

The Debutante -- 2022 Elizabeth Hobbs 08:43

[softbuzzyman]

I love arguing with people on the internet so much like they get so mad and I'm just over here doing it for free entertainment

[madigoround]

My birthday is on Sunday but my aunt can only hang out tomorrow so we’re going to the zoo because I haven’t been before and I’m so excited among all the cool animals they have a cheetah and a dog that are best friends I’m obsessed 😍🥰