Experiments with a Medium

Those alligandors turned into sheemp.

“Nothing feels better than 100% natural wool”

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Cats go absolutely mad for wool, possibly because the lanolin oils smell like mother cat pheromones. My auntie's Siamese used to nest in and also chew on her woolly jumpers.

And apparently the best wool experience is direct from the source.

Time to FROLIC!

Videos i like so much i painted them

wales

Sheep sheltering at a bus stop on a rainy day in Ireland.

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That’s an insane amount of sheep to shear in nine hours.

A Scottish farmer at Auchingarrich Wildlife Centre fools tourists into believing that her flock produce tartan wool with the help of some harmless sheep marking spray. The visiting Americans were told that the animals were being raised on a diet of Irn Bru and shortbread.

wales in 1984, photos by my grandfather:)

I love this fucking gif so much. Violence and killing and destruction

On my way home from work tonight I saw a white tail doe with five fawns of varying ages. Ma’am. Those are not all yours.

Some sort of tax fraud scheme I’m guessing.

White tail deer will herd in small groups, especially near or during the winter. They also have been recorded having four kids at once. Female yearlings often stay with their mom longer, and so if some of the fawns are smaller than the other, it would just be older siblings. so, while it is possible that a Doe could have five, it's also likely that it was just the one watching the herd and the other mom/moms were out of sight.

A field near my place has a pair of doe who raise their kids together in the summer. Not sure why as its not very common. But they visit our garden sometimes and the fawns go zoomies and race around the place while the mom enjoy our veggies.

So deer and sheep and goats all are reasonably related and share a lot of characteristics including body language.

Sheep absolutely will plonk their babies with one sheep for babysitting ( often the Ram). Seems likely deer find it useful too.

The other moms are nearby usually.

It's fascinating how "one of the mums takes everyone else's kids off their hands for a bit" is a parenting strategy that's evolved in species as different as sheep, deer, cats and humans.

3 sheeps chilling at the farm

this is exactly the sort of information we the public needed to know 🥺

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