Reasons Why Being A Nature Photographer Is The Best Job In The World.

The tiny velvet clay sculptures of Evgeny Hontor [x]

me: i cant move, a cute animal is asleep on me

person: push it off

me: [enraged and offended] 

Rain & Snow Reminders for Cats

Brrr. When it’s rainy and cold, you want to be inside. But what about your kitty? Can she get sick, even deathly ill, if she stays out in the cold rain? Cats can and do succumb to hypothermia – a condition that literally chills a kitty to the bone.

Symptoms of Hypothermia

The main symptom of hypothermia is a lowered body temperature. Other symptoms include cold skin, shivering, weakness, stumbling, lethargy, muscle rigidity, slow respiration and heartbeat, shallow breathing, sleepiness, coma and death.

Treating Hypothermia

If your kitty is hypothermic, you need to warm him up and get him to the veterinarian immediately. In mild cases of hypothermia where the cat is still conscious and fairly alert, bringing him to a warm place inside and wrapping him in blankets will probably do the trick. In moderate and more severe cases of hypothermia, you must seek veterinary attention. You can use heating pads or hot water bottles filled with warm (not hot) water. Place a towel between the cat and the heating pad or water bottle to avoid burns. Check the cat’s rectal temperature every 10 minutes to make sure you do not overheat him.

Preventing Hypothermia

Use common sense. Don’t leave your cat out in the cold rain. Don’t let your cat go outside during the winter. Your kitty will be much happier lying near a warm, cozy fire than getting rained or snowed on. Cats who live outdoors don’t live as long as indoors-only cats, so keeping your cat inside is much safer than letting him roam.

text: pets.thenest.com

Probably the creepiest and coolest caterpillar you will ever see.

It’s called Phyllodes Imperialis and is nicknamed the Halloween caterpillar.

The last picture is what it looks like as a moth. 

When other creatures bother it, it draws itself up and stretches its skin until it looks like a large animal with two blue-black eyes and several rows of teeth between them (1st picture)

Source 

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“Oh, these holes? A tiger did that.“  LOL.

I would buy the hell out of these.

The only pre-ripped jeans I would ever buy.

MUCH BETTER THAN THE FUR TRADE.

FULLY SUPPORT THIS.

Normally I think pre-distressed jeans are ridiculous, but holy crap. Cool idea that produces genuinely interesting holes and tears in the jeans. 

XD

remember when you were a kid and your parents objected loudly to the idea of buying pre-ripped jeans and demanded to know why you wanted to own garments that looked like a wolverine had shredded them

buy these, go home for thanksgiving, and wait for the comment

and then just smile broadly and say “it wasn’t a wolverine, mom. it was a tiger.”

That gazebo is so fucked

Are you sure gazebo is the correct word?

Are

you 

sure?

idk why you’re confused, that poor gazebo needs help

This has hit my dash three times… that final reblog made it worthy.

Adorable Handmade Animal Pottery by Marta Turowska

Polish artist Marta Turowska creates handmade animal pottery on her boutique Clay Opera, which features a range of adorable hand painted ceramic bowls and plates in the shape of animals like cats, wolves, hedgehogs, foxes, rabbits and mythical creatures. You can find more cute designs over on her Etsy shop.

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         bornean tree frog.                                                                  photo by petr  bambousek.

Enchanted by Markus Varesvuo

It’s been a while since we checked in on how the Renaissance is doing with its ocean mysteries, so here is a marine biology update circa 1550.

Seals come in two forms:

Buff

& Triangular

Walruses are horrifying

But whales are worse

Fish can have human faces

but not always where you’d expect

As for the rest

… it’s probably better left alone.

[All images except chest face fish from Historiae animalium liber IV : De piscium & aquatilium animantium natura. Chest face fish from The noble lyfe & natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles & fisshes yt be moste knowen]

Difficult Wet Folding Technique Allows This Vietnamese Artist To Create Curved Origami

His name is Hoàng Tiến Quyết and his Flickr is here.

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The Radioactive Man Who Returned To Fukushima To Feed The Animals That Everyone Else Left Behind

Naoto Matsumura is the only human brave enough to live in Fukushima’s 12.5-mile exclusion zone

He fled at first but returned to take care of the animals that were left behind

He returned for his own animals at first, but realized that so many more needed his help, too

Matsumura, who is 55 years old, knows that the radiation is harmful, but he “refuses to worry about it”

“They also told me that I wouldn’t get sick for 30 or 40 years. I’ll most likely be dead by then anyway, so I couldn’t care less”

Matsumura discovered that thousands of cows had died locked in barns

He also freed many animals that had been left chained up by their owners

Many of them now rely on him for food

The government has forbidden him from staying, but that doesn’t stop him either

He started in 2011 and is still going strong 4 years later

He relies solely on donations from supporters to work with and feed the animals

His supporters are calling him the ‘guardian of Fukushima’s animals’

The man clearly has a sense of humor as well

source

This hero deserves way more notes.

when kai fagerström happened upon an old cottage in rural suomusjärvi, finland, abandoned decades ago, he began to document its new residents.

there were badger cubs born under the floorboards, who now used the fireplace as an entrance. there was a raccoon dog pup who would drop in every night at the same time. there was a pygmy owl who would try to catch the home’s voles. there were red squirrels who had built their dreys inside the house. and there was a fox pup that had taken up in the dilapidated shed.

“there’s consolation in the idea that nature is reclaiming the places it has lent to people,” he says, adding that when he enters the house “it’s like stepping back in time. the past lingers in the corners.” it’s not just the animals that interest him, but the people no longer there. 

Collective names for some animals

dumbfounded a murder of crows isn’t on here.

my english told me that a group of unicorns is called a blessing and thats the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard

A GROUP OF PORCUPINES IS CALLED A PRICKLE AND IF YOU DON’T THINK THAT’S THE MOST ADORABLE SHIT THAN GET OUT OF MY FUCKING FACE

what’s troubling about a buncha goldfish

squad

How to properly pet animals by Adam Ellis

Accidentally hurting someone vs. accidentally hurting an animal