#mammals wanted

[hellsitegenetics]

I'm doing it. Whatever organism this comes up as, I will make a character* of that species. Even if it's a plant. Even if it's a mushroom. Even if it's microscopic. Even if it's barely studied. Even if it's a species I've made before.

(if this comes up as human I might actually cry but I'll still do it)

*probably just a character design but still

String identified: ' g t. at ga t c a, a a caact* tat c. t' a at. t' a . t' ccc. t' a t. t' a c ' a .

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Closest match: Sus scrofa family with sequence similarity 76 member B (FAM76B), transcript variant X4, misc_RNA Common name: Wild boar

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#tumblr genetics #genetics #asks #requests #sent to me #tangleslime2 #mammals #boars #wild boar #this is a baby boar btw. the adults have different fur patterns #but it was so cute i wanted to use it hehe #if you guys have never used inaturalist i highly recommend it #some people on there are fantastic nature photographers #especially this guy. you should check his inaturalist page he's got some really nice photos

[dyketubbo]

i think when you hold pepito over water pepito starts doggy paddling in the air like puppies do

#adult dogs will do this too but saying puppies is cuter #if you want an explanation of this btw its a reflex that many (but not all) dogs have its their mammalian diving reflex #as you can imagine from the title we have it too but not in the same way our mammalian diving reflex is expressed differently #anyways pepito may not be a mammal (to me) but its cute to imagine pepito doggy paddling anyways. thank you #pepito qsmp #qsmp #mask mews

[antiqueanimals]

The Spotted Hyena, or Tiger Wolf

A Natural History of British and Foreign Quadrupeds. Written by James H. Fennell. 1843.

Internet Archive

#mammals #hyenas #spotted hyenas #this depiction is insane #i want it as a WoW mount

[emry-stars-art]

You know when babies are so tired that they’re fussing too much to sleep until you put their head down on your shoulder or something and they pass out immediately

Baby shark has been swimming for a long time with no way to take a break. Hello Whalemack 🐋

(More on Whalemack here)

#whalemack was just swimming #wait what’s that floating up there #it’s coming closer falling through the water #oh there’s fins #and a body and arms and that’s a mer #so Wymack goes to check and it’s a baby shark that is MUCH too still #and he’s been around for a while he knows things #he knows baby shark mers aren’t supposed to be still #so he catches the baby in his arms and holds him so he can sleep #without waking up every minute needing to breathe #TT #and he continues taking care of Andrew whenever he finds the shark/Andrew lets him help #unrelated. realistically I know mammal mers would have short hair or their hair tied back #so it’s not IMMENSELY HEAVY #but I wanted to give Wymack gorgeous flowing locks #just once #as a treat #anyway #next post will be royal au or something else I promise #fan art #my art #aftg #all for the game #andrew minyard #david wymack #mer au #sharkdrew au #oops all mers au #sharkdrew #whalemack

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

i had some friends reach out to me on instagram after i posted about ishka's weight loss and what a battle it has been, asking for advice regarding their own cats. i prefaced with the whole "defer to your vet" bit, then gave out tips that worked for me.

almost invariably, any advice was shot down. one friend told me she can't ignore her cat's food begging because "she literally sounds like she will break down the door" and i??????? a housecat is not breaking down anything. there are adult human beings who can't break down a door. yeah, it was annoying retraining Ishka and Jadzia not to bother me in the morning after i inadvertently taught them awake human = full dish, but i still did it. and it really only took a few weeks to get them fully back to normal.

people don't want to put any effort into training their animals. they just want to reward bad behavior and complain, as if it is some great mystery that feeding your cat every time it yowls has created a yowling problem.

#idk what they want from me #if you are afraid of a 10lb domestic mammal that is on you bud #cat post

[hellenhighwater]

Hey Hell! Can you please explain how the cats that you talk about relate back to you cause at some point I was certain that you hasd at least five ?

Yeah, I forget how many of you are new here and this is probably confusing.

I have two cats. Their names are Malice and Vice; they're three years old, and they're not related. I adopted both of them when they were kittens, after the passing of the best cat I will ever own (Nimitz, the Terror of the Underbrush, in May of 2020). They are my permanent cats; I will have them until either I die or they do. Vice is a grey longhair male; Malice is a black longhair female. Both of them are mutts, but Vice looks like a Nebelung and Malice could pass for Chantilly-Tiffany, if you squint.

I occasionally post my mom's Himalayan/Ragdoll cross, Eleanor, who comes from purebred lineages. She's terribly fancy and I love her a lot. She lives with my parents, but my mom sends me pictures frequently and I often petsit.

I am also currently fostering! Right now I'm down to my final three foster babies (Blouse/Queen Skrungle, Maladict, and Jade) but I've actually had more-or-less three batches of fosters since I started in May. I may have a couple more foster kittens this year, but I'm likely to pause on fostering when the winter holidays make it too complicated for me to be able to provide reliable care. With the foster kittens, I keep them until they get big enough to be spayed or neutered, with is generally at the 3 lb mark. The current babies are ready for that, and I'm having a hard time letting them go! I really want these three to find good homes, they're such fantastic cats. If you're in MI, hit me up!

Honorable mention goes to my pet doves, Arson and Larceny. I don't post as much of them because 1. they live outside when the weather is nice, and will only be back in my house after first frost, when the outdoor aviary is no longer an option and 2. I really just let them do their own thing. They're a mated pair and they don't want anything from me aside from basic needs.

#having doves that are mated are is kind of like having fish #except that if I did want more social interaction from them that could be developed? #they're just fine on their own and i'm busy enough with the mammals #anyways I have had these three fosters too long and now they have Personalities that isn't just Baby! #and oh no i love them

[saritawolff]

My first big project for my new Instagram account: SaritaZoo

#it took over a month cause of all the dang spots #and to think I wanted to add extinct families too #my art #SaritaZoo #Feliformia #Feliforms #Felids #Cats #Linsangs #Viverrids #African Palm Civet #euplerids #mongooses #hyenas #mammals

[critter-catcher]

A very happy wet beast Wednesday to everyone

#i want to get one of those larger type pool things #like the ones people use for koi #i think itd be so fun #animals #trail cam #nature #critters #mammals #wild life #wildlife #raccoon #raccoons #wet beast wednesday

[puppyeared]

fuck it. plaguesona

#i thought of this a couple weeks ago on the bus a couple seats away from someone loudly coughing into the open air #i think something snapped and i decided to make a fuckin. medieval ass plague sona. horseman of pestilence fursona #this is also why i was asking abt animals with medical symbolism.. originally i wanted a two headed snake like the staff of caduceus #but it turns out thats actually hermes symbol. the real symbol for medicine is the rod of asclepius which looks pretty similar #the difference is that theres only one snake and its twined around a stick. ironically mercy from overwatch's weapons are named after #the caduceus despite the misconception LMAOOO #snakes were the most consistent medicine related animal i could find even across multiple cultures so it couldve really worked #if i could actually draw scalies.. one of my earliest sketches had a cobra with a syringe at the end of its tail like a rattlesnake #and it had markings similar to the syringe tube but i didnt have much else going on so i scrapped it #i was also recommended animals with less obvious ties to medicine like jellyfish and horseshoe crabs and learned something new ^_^ #im not confident i could pull off a non-mammal furry but they were really good ideas i might put into smth else.. i also thought of #axolotls bc of their regenerative thing and growing back limbs but i think that would suit smth like a surgeon or amputation... #possums and bats were also an option bc theyre actually really resistant to most diseases like rabies but i feel like ppl wouldnt know that #if they saw it so it looks a little ironic at a glance. rabbits rats and mice were my second option bc of animal testing and lab rats #less obvious reference but the moon rabbit in chinese mythology is loosely connected to medicine bc it makes the elixir of life #otherwise lab mice in a pharmacy / modern medicine setting seemed fitting and jerboa tails remind me of cotton buds #and. ironically. jerboas are more closely related to elephants than rats and mice. can you believe it #my art #myart #my oc #sona #plaguesona #cottonbud #fur #furry art #character design #ref sheet #oc ref sheet

[phantsy]

the greatest form of life in the observable universe is going to raze your stupid civilisation to the ground

#spore 2008 #spore #grox #im not 100% on this design for them i think i want to adjust the face and head a little theyre too earth-mammal + friendly looking #the body is pretty much exactly what i was going for though i like the idea of them having a thick fleshy husk of sorts on only their torso #less like a crustacean more like a hairless hedgehog or a seal. no hard shell but a very very thick layer of dense fat and thick skin #no long silky fur also their hair has about as much density and cover as a pachyderm. very fine. all that colour is just pigmented skin #my art #also i like the idea of them being comparatively tiny and not particularly hardy compared to the relative size of most sophonts

[orcinus-veterinarius]

This month, Gulfarium Marine Adventure Park in Fort Walton Beach, Florida debuted its brand new, $30 million dolphin complex, Dolphin Oasis. The 2.2 acre, 1-million gallon habitat replaced the park’s existing dolphin enclosure, which was constructed in the 1950s. I can’t tell you how wonderful it is to see facilities like Gulfarium and the Brookfield Zoo investing time and money into improving the lives of their cetaceans instead of shuffling them out.

In other fantastic news, the park announced that the original 300,000 gallon habitat will be renovated and converted to a manatee rehabilitation center, addressing a critical need for the iconic Florida species. The park plans to begin receiving manatees this fall.

#I really want to visit this little park #if they can put millions into their animals then so can the much bigger places #*stares intensely* #dolphins #cetaceans #marine mammals #gulfarium marine adventure park #aquariums #animal welfare

[tanadrin]

If you think there are at least some non-animal organisms, like archaea or fungi or all opisthokonts plants, that meet the stated criteria, select the first option ("Animals or other.") We're discussing terrestrial, biological life only, though, so extraterrestrial life, supernatural beings, or machine intelligences do not figure in to this scheme (but feel free to discuss them in the notes).

Eumetazoa is, AFAICT, the largest group of animals that includes all animals with at least some nervous tissue--so not sea sponges. But it does include a few clades without nervous systems, like the Placozoa.

Chordates are all animals containing a dorsal nerve cord specifically: chordates do not include, e.g., insects, molluscs (including octopuses and squid), and starfish. Chordates do include all fish.

Tetrapods include all animals with four limbs and distinct digits; this excludes most, but not all fish, and includes reptiles, mammals, dinosaurs (including birds), and amphibians.

Mammals includes all animals that nurse their young, have fur, have a neocortex, and have three middle ear bones. This group includes monotremes like the platypus, as well as more familiar animals like dogs, cats, cows, horses, mooses, and more(ses).

Primates includes monkeys, lemurs, apes, tarsiers, lorises and, of course, humans (though all of these clades include humans).

Hominids include gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees, and humans ("apes").

Hominins includes just humans and chimpanzees (including bonobos). (I think; the taxonomic nomenclature distinguishes between Hominidae, Hominini, Homininae, Hominina, and Hominoidae, so I might have mixed some of these up. Blame the ICZN or whoever is responsible for this mess.)

Australopithecines (equivalent to "Hominina," I think, but don't quote me on that) includes all extinct hominins more closely related to humans than to any other extant species, like Australopithecus africanus, Paranthropus robustus, and of course later species like Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.

Homo is the genus that includes the whole human family in the broad sense: modern humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans, Homo erectus, and Homo habilis.

Homo sapiens includes only anatomically modern humans, as we emerged around 300,000 years ago in Africa.

#i really wanted like four or five more options #to make this poll with sufficient granularity #oh well #pretend eukaryotes bilateria vertebrates and placental mammals are also on the list #and possibly synapsids and the eukaryotes+archaea group just for fun

[adhd-merlin]

Colin Morgan Thirst Poll

S5 Merlin

S1 Humans

S3 Humans

The Living and the Dead

The Fall

We Hunt Together

Benjamin

Belfast

Mammals

Testament of Youth

The Tempest

#yes i'm okay!! just answer the question #there's no wrong answer but jsyk I think it should be mammals. benjamin also allowed. #if you haven't seen the fall i want to point out they made him wear eyeliner in some scenes #for absolutely no reason at all. he played a cop. #but they went like... we need him to look se*xy. let's put some makeup on him. something subtle. #like they really thought people wouldn't notice #i just find it funny sorry #anyway. pls answer this. #colin morgan #polls #merlin #(yes leo elster is in here twice. is that a problem.)

[critter-creature-or-beast]

#muffin the bunny #lionhead #domestic rabbit #rabbit #bunny #lagomorph #mammal #it's easter! look at my bun #muffin doesn't get posted often because she passed away almost a year ago #and looking at photos of her is still very painful #but i loved her and want to share her still even if she's no longer here #probable critter #my critters

[despazito]

Listen I'm a bit of a hater and I do have some reservations with the concept surrounding conformation and animal fancy as an institution but horses are one of the LAST animals you can really criticize for their conformation standards and just calling it eugenics. Unlike most dog breed standards, horse conformation is more predicated on their ability to function and perform work, or to carry a wholeass person on their backs so it's really important they got good structure!!! Sure there's halter horses bred purely for show and that's where you start getting the wonky dish faced Arabians and BBL quarter horses but unlike pugs the vast majority of horse breed standards do in fact keep the horse's best interests in mind.

#again my gripe is when conformation is valued ABOVE health and that isn't the case for horses #and utility livestock standards are like the opposite of dog fancy #they want hardy animals that stay healthy until slaughter and are very stringent about inbreeding numbers #well livestock mammals that is we dont talk about poultry #all my homies hate commercial poultry breeding

[sporesgalaxy]

me if i was some sort of super lgbtq animal in an rpg

#fursona #spacecreate #'hmmm beastfolk seem to be mammals but i still want to be a fake dog. dogcat it is' #putting off my emails again. for a bit. ok