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nemfrog · 1 year
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Sleeping hedgehog. British land mammals and their habits. 1911.
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diabloku · 2 months
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Lucifer: *enters the hotel*
Alastor: I cast vicious mockery 😈
An animation my sis and I made for fun
Music is Perception Check by Tom Cardy.
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wasyago · 1 month
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quiet hours
closeups under the cut :]
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i really like these
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The Bronx Zoo has just released Flaco's necropsy results.
He was not thriving, as the people championing the ideal of "freedom" claimed.
He was poisoned.
He was sick.
He was suffering.
"Freedom" would have eventually killed him. A building just happened to do it first.
"Postmortem testing has been completed for Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl that was found down in the courtyard of a Manhattan building a little over a year after his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo was vandalized on February 2, 2023. Onlookers reported that Flaco had flown into a building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on February 23, 2024, and acute trauma was found at necropsy. Bronx Zoo veterinary pathologists determined that in addition to the traumatic injuries, Flaco had two significant underlying conditions. He had a severe pigeon herpesvirus from eating feral pigeons that had become part of his diet, and exposure to four different anticoagulant rodenticides that are commonly used for rat control in New York City. These factors would have been debilitating and ultimately fatal, even without a traumatic injury, and may have predisposed him to flying into or falling from the building. The identified herpesvirus can be carried by healthy pigeons but may cause fatal disease in birds of prey including owls infected by eating pigeons. This virus has been previously found in New York City pigeons and owls. In Flaco’s case, the viral infection caused severe tissue damage and inflammation in many organs, including the spleen, liver, gastrointestinal tract, bone marrow, and brain.   No other contributing factors were identified through the extensive testing that was performed. Flaco’s severe illness and death are ultimately attributed to a combination of factors—infectious disease, toxin exposures, and traumatic injuries—that underscore the hazards faced by wild birds, especially in an urban setting."
The naturalistic fallacy kills animals in horrible ways. The romanticism of what humans want to think of as a "free, wild, pure life" cannot be allowed supplant the reality of injury, sickness, and death. Releasing captive animals (or keeping them from being recaptured) because it's "better" for them to suffer untethered than live a healthy, safe, captive life is inhumane and horrific.
Flaco's life didn't have to end in pain, sickness, and suffering.
Flaco's death didn't have to be tragic.
But once the idea of "freedom" entered the chat, Flaco's fate was unavoidable.
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gowhilewedance · 4 months
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"Well perhaps you could tell me...while we dance."
701 frames, 542 artists, 3 months, all collaborating on 1 animation. Here is the result.
@neil-gaiman @goodomensonprime
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owlyjules · 1 year
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Grass Unicorn! 
It was a good little practice painting after so long! 
Couldn't decide if I wanted a border of not, so here we go! I really like how it came out!!:D
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meguskus · 1 year
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Used some ancient colored pencils to draw this chonky neighbourhood kitty. Every time I go to the supermarket I see him sunbathing.
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wombrion · 3 months
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silly
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rassebers · 1 year
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Get shigeo'd idiot
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aterfish · 3 months
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Good thing it was a short spin
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rebeccawangart · 17 days
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Junior (2024)
A colorful pet portrait of a brown and white tabby shorthair cat named Junior in bright psychedelic rainbow colors. Acrylics on 12" x 16" canvas.
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satuwn · 2 months
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hello, is anyone there? 🔔 ☎️ 🎶
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susanyung · 4 months
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Dungeon Meshi!
A friend introduced me to the manga earlier last year and I couldn't put it down! Now that the anime adaptation is out I wanted to do a cute little tribute to this eccentric crew of adventurers!
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fostersffff · 2 months
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Dragon Ball Ending, "Romantikku Ageru yo" by Ushio Hashimoto
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astrolavas · 2 months
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have. this
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soranker · 4 months
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touched up and colored some old dunmeshi doodles from earlier in the year ^_^
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