#european adder

[melontoyo]

🌕🌖 Hand in hand, we chant the Heaven's Song  Forever Unchanging  🌘🌑

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#artists on tumblr #cosmos #spirituality #european adder #original illustration #melontoyo's art #I never know how to tag original art lol

[michaelnordeman]

European adder/huggorm. Sätraskogen nature reserve in Stockholm, Sweden (June 21, 2013).

#european adder #european viper #huggorm #snakes

[vintagewildlife]

European adder By: Unknown photographer From: Disney’s Wonderful World of Knowledge 1971

#european adder #viper #snake #reptile #1971 #1970s #Disney’s Wonderful World of Knowledge

[amaranth-devi1]

@rottingveil

European adder (Kyy),

I met on the jogging path 28 May 2022

#rotting veil #kyy #venomous snake #european adder #european viper #finland #my photography

[machinebirdart]

My most recent drawing! I used the European adder as reference. I'm hoping to do some colour versions of this in the future, once I have a working tablet.

#my art #snake #european adder

[midomon]

Day 12 of Cringetober: Niche interest

Out of my interests, I picked my love for ancient Finnish paganism and folklore. To depict that, I drew something related to my favourite folk creature: The King of Snakes.

It was believed that snakes had a king who was huge, white as snow, and had a crown on its head. The King of Snakes would call all the snakes of the land to "käärmekäräjät" which is like a combination of an ancient forum, a gathering and a court of justice. There the snakes would discuss important things and make decisions for all snakekind. Because there were too many snakes for open discussion, the snakes would take turns to speak. To signify their turn, the snake would hold a rock called "käräjäkivi" in their mouth. Shamans found those rocks incredibly valuable, because they held so much magical energy in them.

So if you ever find a smooth rock with two tiny holes next to each other on it, you have found a snake court stone and should definitely keep it.

#cringetober #cringetober 2023 #finnish folklore #paganism #snake skull #european adder #animal skull #inkart #traditional art #skull art #snake court

[lunasilvis]

Think I'm gonna set it as an official goal for myself to move to the other side of the Atlantic within now and 5-8 years. This has been on my mind since I was a kid - but life is pulling me in the directions again in ways. Also, I feel kinda lonesome in Europe, these generally are not my people and it feels like I'm stuck in a hamlet on some days. sure, I could opt for living in a big European city: Berlin, London, Paris, Barcelona. But idk if that would make the cut. There is something about North-America that draws me in, and always had.

It all feels very idealistic still. But I'd been orientating on immigration procedures to either Canada or the US. I want to take this very slow, because I have a dog here, but also because getting an immigration visa / foreign passport in either one of those places will be a very time-consuming and troubling process. And I want to make sure it's all mapped out rationally and well.

First step is finetuning my English. I've been making progress in that lately, happily. then building a solid American network thru temporary work in either Canada or the US. I plan to do the latter in 1-3 years from now. I'm excited to see where this will bring me :)

#personal #this one is big #but well thought-through. lots of orientating and informing myself currently. also on which country has easier access to me as a foreigner #I can't stay here in dreary and narrow-minded smol Holland. it'll kill the spirit : ) I crave more space + more social life + more adventur #Alternatively I wanna live in a big european city as aforementioned - #But in that case you'll always have the european nano culture clash (language/cultural identity) sadly #*adventure #gotta find out how to turn myself into a maximum value-adder to the north-american job market lol - #but I think of embassy jobs within the communications field :)

[larkmousedesigns]

Adderfang

#adderfang #thunderclan #starclan #warriors #warrior cats #warrior cats designs #based on a european common adder

[nature-scares-me]

Vipera berus or common European viper

I would've never noticed this fella if it weren't for my arachnophobia. Whenever I walk through grass or dead leaves, I always carefully check under my feet for spiders. Vipers are the only venomous snakes we have in Ukraine. They are usually not deadly for humans, but can be dangerous for dogs. And let me tell you, these silly doofuses aren't scared of its hissing at all. They just want to sniff its butt... wherever it may be. So I usually have to dance around the snake, waving my hands threateningly, trying to chase the dogs away from the snake if they notice it. Good times.

#vipera berus #viper #common European adder #snake #fauna #nature #photography

[mimicteruyo]

Saw a snek yesterday.

#mimic pics #me to my friend: 'haha you know we could see a snake around here' #(despite having seen exactly one snake in the area ever) #my friend five minutes later: 'well there it is' #(it's a common european adder) #(after a while it smelled us and slunk away)

[quirk-nova]

Hexius

A low-key and passionless common European adder who represents Serpens. Hexius is a snake sorcerer from Reptilia and is known for creating dangerous magic herbs for unsuspecting people to use. Other than that, he is still a respected wizard in his community.

Headcanon Voice: Christopher Ayres

Frieza Voice - Dragon Ball Kai (TV Show) - Behind The Voice Actors

#the astronomical chronicles au #moodboard #aesthetic board #anthro oc #common european adder #constellations #serpens constellation

[vintagewildlife]

European adder with her young. Adders are viviparous - they birth live young - hence the common name "viper" By: Unknown photographer From: Encyclopedia of the Animal World 1972

#european adder #snake #reptile #1972 #1970s #Encyclopedia of the Animal World (1972)

[firelord-frowny]

<3 <3 obviously one of the highlights of my visit to the national aquarium the other day was the reptiles <3 <3 specifically the snakes, SPECIFICALLY the death adder omgggg.

there is something so??????????? magical???????????? about being able to put your face just inches away from something that, if it were to bite you, would definitely kill you.

like, to have a thin lil pane of glass be all that keeps a small but very deadly beast from being able to end my life????????????

amazing.

#obligatory Fun Facts about death adders that nobody asked for lmao #“adder” is a term most accurately describing vipers belonging to the genus “bitis” #puff adders like gaboon vipers or european common adders #but death adders aren't true adders! because they're not vipers! they're elapids! #and they're remarkable among elapids for having a VERY different body shape! #elapids include cobras and mambas and coral snakes #and have morphology that is very similar to most colubrids #which include king snakes and rat snakes and garter snakes #they tend to be very slender relative to their length #with heads that are roughly the same size as their necks #but death adders are shaped pretty much exactly like a bona fide viper #with a stout and heavy body #a narrow neck #and a bigass triangular head! #somebody who didn't know they were looking at a death adder would have no reason to assume it wasnt a viper #and idk its just so rad to me that Science People can figure out when things aren't as they seem! #like omg how hard did they have to look at it to figure out it wasn't a viper???? #i woulda just taken one look at that thing and said 'yep thats a viper' and called it a day #fuck i look like getting close enough to a Very Deadly Snake to determine that its not what it looks like????? #i swear if it was up to me there would be like no science being done on dangerous animals lmaoooo #i love them but dear god put that thing back where it came from or so help me

[canisalbus]

Hiya! I have a very important question, mayhaps THE most important question on this planet!

What's your favorite animal? I guess that it might be a canid of some kind but I could be wrong.

(You don't have to answer if you don't want to, I'm just curious)

As you already surmised, I like canids a lot! Dogs are wonderful in general but I can't seem to get enough of sighthounds in particular, they're just really elegant and sculptural (makes them very fun to draw) and are so full of character (as a quiet and introverted but mostly friendly creature I find them very relatable).

I also love deer! Reindeer (or caribou, same species) are particularly close to my heart.

And goats, especially those leggy and mostly hornless but very colorful breeds from South Asia.

Cats. All sorts of cats, they're great.

Just so this wouldn't be all mammals, my favorite birds are arctic loon and peacock.

My favorite fish is the coelacanth.

My favorite reptiles are European adder and lace monitor.

When it comes to amphibians, glass frogs are very neat.

There's so too many invertebrates to choose from but I've always liked various mantises and hermit crabs.

#answered #iregretallofmylifedecisions #needlessly long and image heavy post but since you asked #and I like making you look at pictures of cool animals #long post

[a-book-of-creatures]

Gustave Moreau’s 1876 atmospheric painting Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra shows the hero starkly against a backdrop of desolation and dead bodies, while the hydra emerges ominously, blood dripping from its multiple jaws, to face him.

Let’s take a closer look at that hydra!

Each head looks different! In fact, Moreau studied snake anatomy at the Paris Natural History Museum for this work, and based each head on a different species. According to his preliminary sketch…

… we can deduce that the heads are, clockwise from bottom left, a Neotropical rattlesnake, a puff adder, a European adder, an Egyptian cobra, a boomslang, a horned viper, and a Mexican anaconda.

And another study for the puff adder!

#dragons #snakes #gustave moreau #art #going the extra mile #now THIS is how you do hercules and the hydra

[aestheticaxolotl]

Wings of Fire Drug Headcanons

Dragon drugs are wild Seawings- Jellyfish, Sea Urchin, Little Spinefish, Psychedelic Frogfish, Synchiropus Spendidus, and Pufferfish are the most popular forms of drugs in the seawing kingdom. Most law enforcement will arrest dragons with the position of these fish and the average term in prison for these drugs is 4-6 months. Medics and other forms of doctoral care are allowed to host and keep these drugs for pain reduction uses but must have a license and a clean record, along with permission from the queen to hold. Seawing drugs are the second most powerful drugs in the kingdoms and are sold on a black market to the other kingdoms alongside the Rainwings. Most seawings have a higher tolerance to these drugs than other tribes, so when a dragon from a different tribe takes too much of these drugs, they often wind up overdosing and dying if not reached quick enough. Skywings- Hooded pitohui, European Quail, and Little Shrike-thrush are the choice drugs in the Skywing kingdoms. These birds are highly toxic to dragons outside of the sky kingdom, even hybrids struggle to cope with these drugs. Most sky dragons avoid using these forms of drugs, except outside of medical use on other tribes, because if taken too often or in high dosage they can lead to death. The use of these drugs is not outlawed in the Kingdom of the Sky since not many dragons take these drugs. Rainwings- Rainwings have two categories of drugs, Amphibia and Floral. Golden Poison Dart Frog, Blue Poison Dart Frog, Strawberry Poison Dart Frog, and Pickerel Frog are the most commonly found drugs in the rainwing kingdoms. These frogs are often not limited since they do no harm to the rainwings taking them. However, they are highly toxic to dragons outside of the rainwing kingdom and not sold on the black market to the tribes. These frogs are not monitored in the rain kingdom and there are no regulations on drug use, that is why the overdose rate in the rainwing tribe is so high. Salcia Divinorum, Peyote, Opium Poppies, Cannabis Sativa, Nicotiana Tabacum, Dura Stramonium, Psilocybin Mushrooms, and Myristica Fragrant are the flora drugs in the rainwing kingdom and can be sold on the black market to the other tribes. These plants can be used in many forms that do not require eating such as inhalation, injection, and consumption. Just like the amphibian drugs, these are not regulated or monitored in the rainwing kingdom. The rainforest is the drug capital of the dragon kingdoms and the center of the black market, the queens do not shut this down due to the mass increase of income to all the kingdoms. Icewings- Icewings are HARD on the NO DRUG RULES. The only animal in the ice kingdom that anyone can think of is Orcas. Orca whales are hard to hunt in the ice kingdom and only Icewings can take this form of drug, however, it is outlawed in the ice kingdom to take these drugs. Icewings frown heavily on the use of drugs and it is a criminal offense to use with punishment ranging between 6 and 14 months in prison with probation after release.

Sandwings- Africanized Bee, Coral Snake, Gila Monster, and Hyenas are the choice drugs of the Sandwings with a bit of a mixed reaction towards the collective whole of the kingdom. Some dragons want a ban on drug use excluding medical use while others do not see it as a major problem. Sandwings tend to get most of their drugs from the black market and trade their own drugs since it is not as toxic as most other drugs from other kingdoms.

Mudwings- Mambas, Puffer Adders, Carpet Vipers, and Platypus are the drugs of the mud kingdom and are often monitored heavily by law enforcement. The mudwings have a strict medical use policy stating that, outside of medical use, drug use is frowned upon and highly punishable with a 3-6 month prison sentence if abused. Mudwings tend to produce as many of these drugs as they can seeing as they're not as harsh on the other tribes, these drugs are the most common on the market.

Nightwings- Vampire Bats, Hedgehogs, Solenodon, Shrew, and Slow Loris are the nightwing drugs of choice. All are Mammalia that frequent the kingdom and are sold on the black market, similar to the mudwings. The nightwings have similar medical uses as the mudwings but tend to be a little looser with their free-use laws, stating that nightwings should stay home so as to not disrupt the flow of the kingdom. The nightwings also tend to buy and sell drugs at higher prices than originally bought to broaden income.

#wings of fire #wof headcanon #wings of fire headcanons #I've never really seen any wings of fire drugs talked about #So I thought I'd talk about it #I've thought way too much about dragon drugs #i never thought it would happen to me #but here we are #Orcas are toxic #that's wild