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Omg im obsessed i loved yout lgbtq doggos. Could you make a Cat version?? I honestly loved them. Would hang them in my house
Thank you! I love cats but I’m kind of clueless when it comes to cat breeds, so
LGBT (Leopard, Garfield, Bobcat, Tiger)
'The Moon Falls a Thousand Times' by Naeemeh Naeemaei
There is an old Iranian folk tale about Leopard, who is very proud and wants to look down on all others. One night he finds Moon in the sky and seeks to supersede her, so he goes to the top of a cliff and jumps to catch Moon, but instead falls to his death. It’s a warning about hubris. There is another folk tale about Leopard based on a 100-year-old true story from the small village of Kandelous, Iran. There was a girl named Mina who befriended Leopard. After some months of friendship, a man courting Mina shoots Leopard out of jealousy and Leopard tragically dies. The story is about humans encroaching on animal habitats and the destruction that that can cause. Naeemaei explains that the painting is about both of these stories at once: Mina lovingly carries the body of her friend Leopard and “I poured moons under their feet to respect Leopard’s wish to be above Moon.”
(from narrativepainting.net)
Yknow the thing where red pandas just lay down on a branch and let their legs hang and they’re just like vibing
they’re just vibing yknow?
porcupines do this too :)
i have excellent news about the manul cat
Manul cat is an automatic reblog from me.
I am porcupine.
Pretty much most cats that spend any time in trees, tbh
Honestly tho, in terms of lazy chill I don’t think anyone’s gonna beat this bear:
look at this squirrel
And let’s not forget the time an entire pride of ten lions decided to take a nap in a single tree
Yes these photos are real
This is the spoopy content you need on your dash
This is so precious I can’t even…
Everybody loves pumpkin enrichment!
These are great items because they’re fun for the herbivores to each, the carnivores to tear apart, and everybody to roll and throw around. They’re tactile, olfactory, and edible enrichment all in one!
I believe they’re acceptable on-exhibit enrichment for naturalistic facilities like Brookfield in Chicago, too.
I think of this time of year as Tumblr’s Annual Pumpkining of the Animals Post.
Not to critique evolution, but I would think orange and black stripes wouldn’t be as good for camouflage in a forest as, say, green and black would.
It turns out a lot of animals can’t see the difference between orange and green! Elephants, for instance, have dichromatic vision (two types of cones, rather than three like most humans.)
Check out this diagram from ResearchGate. It deals with the color vision of horses, who are also generally dichromatic. (I think, though I’m not sure, that zebras would have the same color vision as horses.) See how orange and green look to them?
Not to critique evolution but I think prey animals should be better at telling when their predator is dressed like a traffic cone.
It doesn’t matter what zebras see, because tigers are not native to Africa and do not naturally hunt zebra. Tigers are Asian and mostly hunt animals like deer, elk, and buffalo. These aren’t animals with great color vision. They don’t need to have it because they don’t eat fruit and so don’t need to know when the berry is ripe vs when it’s not. Good color vision is too expensive to have if you don’t need it. Deer put their vision stats in a wide field of vision that is sensitive to motion, low light capabilities, and possibly seeing UV light. They don’t have great color and lack a lot of acuity, but have a great sense of smell and good hearing. That’s way more useful if you’re prey. Deer see well in the blue end of the color spectrum and less well in the red. This makes sense because deer are most active in the dawn and dusk periods, when there is more blue in the light. Tigers are taking advantage of deer eyesight by being orange.
We see tigers are being obviously colored because tigers are fruit colored to our tree ape brains.
I don’t know what the best part of this is: implying that deer chose their attributes on a character sheet, or the fact that we get to see tiger colors because they look like a snack.
Ok but like, I think you underestimate just how well they blend in when actually in the environment. Like, just using tigers as an example.
or how about a leopard?
It’s called ‘disruptive colouration’ because the markings help to break up the animal’s outline against the grasses or rocks. And the rosettes on leopards and jaguars? Sun spots shining through the trees and leaves on the ground.
And this is how hard it is to spot them WITH colour vision. Now imagine the above images but with the limited coloured mentioned above?
I’m sorry but there is not an animal in that first leopard picture
Are you, sure about that?
“Tigers are fruit colored” is my new favorite phrase.
I sorta finished my Lisa Frank bookmark, I just gotta figure out where to add the glitter (background or all over?) and wait to finish two or three more bookmarks in order to laminate it. :D
