#got wild animals*

[curioscurio]

I'm rewatching Steven Universe and I will never forgive Fandom for what it did to her

#also watching it at age 19-20 as it was released and experiencing the resulting clusterfuck online fandom response was a wild trip #im finally rewatching it again at 25 and really really feel lucky to have seen it at the age i did #i have completely different perspective on it now that i have 3 young nephews and a neice where before i was in college #the music is still as incredible as it was back then #and the animation #i cant beleive people got honestly and truly upset and violently aggressive about characters being off model sometimes #early stevens voice though kills me after awhile...... the yelling .... but his characters growth and development also being reflected in #his voice changing as he grows up #they also go crazy hard on some scenes #who am i kidding the show was a masterpiece and ahead of its time

[kikker-oma]

Some more Snoots and Wild sketches🥰🥰

While I work on some fanart I thought I'd draw more hehe. I didn't realize until now bit I really like drawing bears haha

#when I was in college my character design class took a trip to the zoo #and we spent hours practicing drawing animals live #and the bears were out #and I got some CUTE POSES #ill have to find them eventually #in the meantime Snoots has taken over my brain #linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu fanart #lu wild #bears for wild

[fluffyartbl0g]

The one piece reread only makes the hardest moments hit even harder,,,, even when you’re rereading it poorly in portugese

Or AKA, i found out today that HINATA SHOYO reads one piece and I haven’t recovered since

#one piece #haikyuu #hinata shoyo #roronoa zoro #(kinda) #omfg okay time for my entirely SEPERATE POST IN THE TAGS #i only got into one piece at the end of last year... but ive been in the anime and manga scene for like. my entire life #i cannot understate how WILD it is that I havent noticed how everywhere one piece is.... #like once i read it... i started finding it EVERYWHERE #my sister gifted me an issue of shonen jump ages ago cause i liked act age and kimetsu no yaiba chainsaw man promised neverland etc #and it doesnt have like a one piece chapter in it actually (to my disappointment) #but IT DOES HAVE A LIL ADVERTISING SEGMENT AT THE FRONT TALKING ABOUT OKIKU FIGURINES AND OTHER ONE PIECE CRAP #AND IDK IT LITERALLY JUST BLEW MY MIND #ONE PIECE DIDNT EXIST IN MY LIFE BUT.... IT DID???? #I HAD ONE PIECE MERCH BEFORE I EVEN BECAME OBSESSED WITH IT??? (hahah if you can consider a tiny segment mentioning okiku op merch XD) #just imagine suddenly being obsessed with a piece of media. and then you look around ur room and U SUDDENLY RECOGNISE A CHARACTER MERCH??? #ITS BEEN IN UR ROOM FOR YEARS BUT YOUVE NEVER REALLY EVEN NOTICED IT OR JUST BRUSHED IT OFF WHENEVR U SAW IT #BUT ITS THAT CHARACTER!!!! ITS THAT MEDIA THAT UR MADLY IN LOVE WITH???? #also im being 100 percent legit when i say that the sense of comeraderie i feel when someone says theyve ALSO read one piece #is insane #discovering that domics and worthiikids and all these other big youtubers that ive known for years have loved one piece like me? #it makes my heart clench and my eyes water man #ive never felt so connected to the world... one piece really is peak fiction..... #i love one piece's community sm....

[littlecrittereli]

Krattnapped

So I've kinda been exploring a plot idea I have for a WK comic/fanfiction/AU??? (Not really sure what to call it) Except all the canonical villains aren't competent enough to actually pull it off so I made a villain OC... Anyways I guess you could consider this concept art as I think about it some more :]

#wild kratts #chris kratt #martin kratt #kratt brothers #wild kratts fanart #fanart #wild kratts au #littlecrittereli #ruh roh raggy they got krattnapped #i only realized after that he resembles that mf from squid game #that's not really what i was going for I just wanted to give him a lion mask and a suit bc rich??? #except unlike squid game he's competent and doesn't sit in a lavished room while everyone else does everything IDK WHY IM DEFENDING HIM #he sucks and hurts animals we hate him #reprogrammed au #WK Reprogrammed AU

[itsmissing]

i kinda wish frieren's take on demons was used in a different story… like no offense to the show / manga but the idea of humanoid demons being products of evolution that don't understand human language at all but instead essentially ChatGPT their way thru interactions is so fucking cool and alien that i think it's downright criminal to then immediately present them as standard "muahaha we're so evil" bad guys who gloat to each other in private

#words words words #i remember being SO excited when frieren reacted as if the demons were wild animals being let into a house #and then i was immediately disappointed about everything that came after #i haven't even been engaging with that show recently i just kinda thought about it again and got mad

[zkyeline]

Never learned to raise my hand, was too busy raising hell

#wendell and wild #kat elliot #raul cocolotl #bearz-a-bub #is there too :) #fan art #art #the movis is so so good aghhhh watched it on halloween and man #the stop motion animation makes me so happy and I got teary eyed like three times #watch it please

[itmightrain]

The killing gas in Burrow's End reminded me so much of a 1993 movie called Once Upon a Forest where a truck containing hazardous chemicals crashes near a forest and the fumes make the baby animal characters who live there sick and they have to go on a quest to find a cure. The scenes where you watch the slow, inexorable movement of the poisonous air into the forest towards the animal characters who didn't and couldn't understand what was happening was so so horrifying to me as a child

#burrows end #dimension 20 #burrow's end #also there was a screen where one character got caught in a human trap #and he usually wore glasses and a shirt but he'd somehow lost them when getting into the trap #and then a human in a haz mat suit lifted up the trap and looked at him #and suddenly he was an animal #you know what i mean? he was a little person the whole movie talking and wearing clothes and suddenly thrust into this human context he was #an animal #it was such a wild perception change and so well done #burrows end spoilers

[acetier]

The fate of Hyrule rests with you.

#tloz #the legend of zelda #botw #breath of the wild #princess zelda #calamity ganon #ace draws #something abt this line got to me ok #someone give her a hug #gif #but it's p subtle #may get back into more detailed animation someday #but this is all my brain would let me do lmao #whew look at that koala-tea #oh btw i read all the nice tags on my posts and i appreciate u all c':

[zeravmeta]

i think in chaldea most servants would generally get along well with castoria whenever they are not put off by How Fucking Weird She Is Actually but specifically I think that koyanskaya would have the absolute pettiest beefs with her like an equal but opposite amount of the clashing animosity she has with limbo but unlike limbo anyone looking in from the outside would just immediately side with castoria because what the hell koyan thats our friend castoria so shes reduced to making callout posts on her websites blogging function talking about how this damn fairy has absolutely no class and she sucks and SHES WEIRD and castoria who has never used a phone is blisfully unaware of how much koyan seethes at her mere presence because how dare this incarnated spirit born from the land not utterly loathe humanity they are equally born from nature literal incarnations of the land that are fundamentally incompatible with humans but also thats all secondary the REAL thing that would set her off is that she hears castoria call guda her pet and presents a collar and koyan does a full facefault into a nearby pillar because goddamn it SHE wanted to turn the master of chaldea into her debt ridden pet how dare she do this

#what if there was a bunny who got into a fight with a sword #wild animal getting into petty squabbles with a different sort of wild animal #fgo #fate grand order #zerav meme #koyanskaya #castoria #danny!

[critter-catcher]

Let's talk about gay penguins for the next day of pride month!

I think most people know at this point that penguins are known to be gay, and even lesbian! But what most people don't know is that they've been seen to engage in homosexual behavior since at least as early as 1911!

See a scientist, George Murray Levick, documented the behaviour in Adélie penguins at Cape Adare, but described it as "depraved". He decided it was too shocking for public release so he hid it. The only copies that were made available privately to researchers had the English text partly written in Greek letters, to prevent this knowledge becoming more widely known. The report was unearthed a century later, in June 2012 and was finally published.

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Unfortunately that's not the last time gay penguins would cause an uproar.

There have been a lot of homosexual behavior seen in penguins in captivity, including Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins in New York City's Central Park Zoo. They were noted by staff at the zoo in 1998 to be performing mating rituals, and one of them in 1999 attempted to hatch a rock as if it were an egg. Zoo keepers decided to give them an egg from a pair of penguins, which could not hatch it. Roy and Silo spent two and a half months raising the healthy young chick, a female named Tango. When she reached breeding age, Tango paired with another female penguin named Tanuzi!

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Now for the "controversy".

And Tango Makes Three is a children's book published in 2005, telling the story of Roy and Silo. There was a lot of support, but there was even more backlash. Despite having ten awards and two nominations, it appeared on the American Library Association’s top ten banned books, banned in 2023, 2020, 2017, 2014, 2012, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, and firstly in 2006, just a year after it was published.

(X)

Alright, enough sad stuff, lets talk happy.

Here's the thing, penguins often lay more than one egg, though usually only one chick will survive. In captivity same sex penguins will adopt (or steal) extra eggs to incubate and raise the chicks! It's likely this happens in the wild, though it’s harder to say. Visibly, male and female penguins tend to only differ in size, and not by much. On top of that, they act very similar, particularly in terms of reproduction. Both males and females invest pretty equally in raising their chicks. That means it’s difficult to tell male and female penguins apart and even more difficult to identify any wild mating pairs as homosexual.

There have been many records of captive same sex penguins, and, there's even what could be considered a non-binary, or genderless, penguin.

In 2019, mothers Rocky and Marama hatched a chick together at sea Life Aquarium in London. This chick caused further controversy after the aquarium announced that it would not be assigning the chick a gender. The chick is identified with a gender-neutral purple tag rather than the usual gendered name and color coded tag. Beyond that, the penguin’s life will be the same as any other penguin at the Aquarium. They say that Gender means nothing to penguins, so why have we continuously assigned it to them? The General Manager of the aquarium comments that the decision to raise a genderless penguin is following an increase in conversations around human gender neutrality.

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#this one got long sorry yall😅 #found out a lot more than id already known #animals #nature #critters #wild life #wildlife #animal facts #facts #birds #penguins #gay #homosexual #pride #pride month #lesbian #non-binary #lgbt

[jammboe]

Mipha being a rebellious gremlin 😈

Had a ton of fun animating this, might do midna or hilda next 😌

#Certified hater of lonlon #Im jk she doesn't hate them just felt like testing how high she can jump #Or maybe she's taking out her frustration after she got put on top of a fridge #Either way it was fun #Zelda au #artists on tumblr #my art #digital art #illustration #2d animation #2d animator #zelda breath of the wild #Tloz #Botw #human mipha

[mayomkun]

In the Sandman, since Dream 'came into existence once lifeforms capable of dreaming appeared in the universe', I wonder what that lifeform is and what did it dream of. Like what is the first dream in the universe about.

#idk of the comics have anything about that though. I'm only on book 4 #some post on twitter about how octopuses (which is like super different from human in evolution) can dream got me thinking #about dreams in animal and generally other lifeforms #from what we know there are few studies on dreams in animals #we can only study their behavior while they sleep or compare brain waves with human REM sleep or something of a sort #we don't exactly know if animals can dream the way we dream #dreams in animals are interesting to me because #it makes me wonder what these bizarre visual and auditory hallucinations the brain cooks up each night are and what are they for #we can only theorize that it organizes the brain and help with memory and learning and simulating events etc. #if many animals dream despite having very different ancestors then it's definitely something useful #I don't know how to explain but it's simply wild to think about. I don't know how it doesn't blow my stupid little brain #studying dream in animals might give us more insight to dreams in human I think #delete later

[ducktracy]

compilation of my villagers bullying me. this will be a growing collection. these are all from today alone.

#‘but Eliza didn’t you start a new Wild World town on an emulator’ Yes #i’ve had this town for 4 years which is the best i’ve ever done LOL but my cartridge is showing its age and freezing and i don’t #feel like getting yelled at Resetti. but i dislike the controls for the ROM especially since my keyboard is weird #so we’ll make do. somehow #Purrl in my GC town was dumb like Purrl in my WW town i’m pretty sure i did a reset trick and cheated her in LOL #DUMB LUCK #which is what i’m vowing to stop doing by starting all these towns #‘don’t cheat or constantly delete your town to get good villagers’ is like the most basic thing you can do but my AC #perfectionism and neuroticism runs very deeply #when i was a kid if i got a villager i hated i would delete the town without question and would refuse to look at the screen. i hated Cesar #and Boone for this reason and them moving into my town is the worst thing that ever could have happened to me and it happened many times #because i was a RESETTING FOOL!!! #i love you deeply Animal Crossing but you have made me foster some incredibly odd neuroses #ac

[etchif]

It's obviously annoying when people act like animals dying in any given context is immoral and bad but something I also find very annoying is when people treat animals dying in nature as a 'necessary evil'. 'Animals die in nature it's cruel and sad but that's just how it has to be :(' actually I don't think it's sad at all. A buzzard killing and mauling a rabbit is not evil it's good and great I like that it happens and it makes me happy that it happens. Shut up

#this is not about that time your pet bunny got killed by a hawk or whatever its obviously normal and understandable to be sad about that #im talking about nature. like wild animals

[blogforfauna]

Canis lupus

Grey wolves are the largest canine species, usually weighing between 75 and 125 pounds (34 and 56.7 kg). The largest wolf ever recorded weighed 175 pounds (79 kg). This was a Mackenzie Valley wolf, and they are generally a lot larger than other grey wolf subspecies.

Although wolves in captivity have been observed with rigid roles in their packs like alpha, beta, “mid-rank”, and omega, this is not how it works in wild wolf packs. There are vague positions wolves have in a pack, but these are exaggerated in captivity when wolves are kept in close proximity to each other. Dispersal wolves, which are wolves who have left the pack they were born in, do sometimes join the packs of unrelated wolves, but wolf packs are usually just families. And in a family, of course the parents are going to be the most dominant. They are the “alpha” wolves. What people consider to be beta wolves would generally be older siblings- obviously less dominant than their parents but more dominant than siblings from newer litters. “Omega” wolves are believed to be extremely submissive, rejected, outcast wolves. It might appear to be like this in some cases, especially in captivity, but this role along with alpha and beta are clichés and rarely influence wild packs.

There is probably only one “true” wolf species in the world, and that’s the grey wolf. Many people believe that the Arctic wolf, timber wolf, or Eastern (Algonquin) wolf are different species, but they´re all subspecies of the grey wolf. Critically endangered red wolves are currently considered to be their own species, Canis rufus, but recent studies show that these wolves are likely the result of interbreeding between grey wolves and coyotes.

Domestic dogs are wolves too. They are considered to be a subspecies of the grey wolf just like Arctic and Eastern wolves are.

Just like red foxes aren't always red, grey wolves aren’t always grey. While the most common coat is agouti, which is a banded fur pattern consisting of grey, tan, black, and white, their coats can also have distinctive patterns or be solid colors. Wolves with mostly black fur are considered melanistic, which is sort of the opposite of albinism. They got this trait from domestic dogs that interbred with them centuries ago. Grey wolves very rarely come even close to being solid white, with the Arctic subspecies as an exception. Except for when they are young, since all wolves are born with brown fur, these Arctic wolves are almost always a solid white or cream color.

Found throughout much of North America, Europe, and Asia, grey wolves are second only to the red fox when it comes to distribution size among canines. In North America they generally hunt large prey like elk, moose, bison, and musk ox. In Europe and Asia they target musk deer, roe deer, and wild boar. Wolves in different regions or even individual packs specialize in hunting different prey. All wolves tend to hunt in a similar manner, running prey down using incredible stamina and sometimes chasing prey 30-40 miles (48.3-64.4 km) in a single day.

Many people believe that wolves howl at the moon. This is a cool idea, but it's a myth. Wolves do tend to howl with their faces pointed up towards the sky, but they only do that to help the sound carry farther. This way their howls can be heard up to 10 miles away. These howls are used to communicate with other wolves, sometimes to find members of their pack and other times to scare strange wolves away.

SUPER LONG POST OOPS

I rate the grey wolf 20/10. This is the animal ever

Photo credits:

(1) livingwithwolves.org (2) William Ervin (3) Jim Brandenburg (4) William Ervin (5) Michigan Technological University (6) Ross Forsyth (7) National Geographic

#super long post sorry I got really carried away #grey wolf #wolf #wolves #Canis lupus #my longest-standing hyperfixation #animals #biology #nature #science #wildlife #zoology #animal #dog #dogs #wild #timber wolf #arctic wolf #Algonquin wolf #canine #canines #wild dog

[bottombaron]

ima be real, if this is trolling, getting us all worked up and depressed ... the absolute funniest thing wwdits can do then is have Nandor and Guillermo fuck nasty in the season 6 premiere

#wwdits #what we do in the shadows #nandermo #that's his boss #i can actually see it tho #Nandor and Guillermo act thru the episode like normal and nothings changed - the s1/2 dynamics #and like 5 minutes before the episode ends #they come arcross each other in the hallway or something - perfectly natural like #theres absolutely no signs - no preamble - there's absolutely no evidence anything is going to happen #but suddenly the whole energy changes and they stare at each other for a beat #and then they're at each other like wild animals #furniture goes flying #a wall breaks at some point #and they haven't even got their clothes off yet #while they struggle to get undressed they notice the crew and Nandor growls #shoves them away so hard the camera breaks and the screen goes black #the next scene Nandor and Guillermo are sitting on the couch doing a face to face with the camera #and they are both absolutely wrecked with the most shell shocked faces #like a devastating storm hit them and they both don't know how to react #the moment seeps with awkwardness and silence #something falls of the damaged wall in the background #cut to credits #and that's episode 1 of season 6 #you're welcome paul simms you can have this for free