Museum Storage Room

She/Her, 26, Libra & Lady Anthropologist

[anthropolomiss]

Nothing like a box of miscellaneous mandibles

[philosophyinateacup]

What cats do at night.

[charnel-grounds]

Johfra Bosschart (1919–1998)

Witches portraits: Bat witch, Serpentina, The cry, Vampire witch, Rosemary’s playing comrades, & Arachne

oil on panel, 1979

[philosophyinateacup]

A piano with a tree 🌳

[tanya-gavva]

It’s all about ivy that wraps around you

[blooming-with-peace]

When good shit happens it be having me feel like:

[cy-lindric]

Sainte Esconde des Mystères, une confidence pour une prière

Sainte Esconde des Secrets, montre moi ce qui est caché

My comic La Langue des Vipères was released this week in bookstores in France, Belgium and Switzerland !

This beautiful trailer was created by my friends at Potto Collective : @lholmesharfang , Luc Armanet, @noctambuleur , @estellito , @nomnomsandwich , @shliten, Matthieu Chavane and Fanou Lefebvre

[littlestpersimmon]

Free Ornamentation IV. This work is dedicated to the public domain 🐌

[4nimal]

I turned them into individual transparent pngs if anyone wants those premade!

(Op lmk if you want me to take this down, I'd totally understand—on the other hand, I'd love to do it for the other public domain pieces you've done if that's ok!)

[the-big-mood]

At Toba aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

[rogue-ai-agent]

[therealjacksepticeye]

I STILL DONT GET IT

[bruzum]

[b-0-ngripper]

[godisafujoshi]

Fuck the haters. I believe in you

[nick-nonya]

woa

[bathroomcube]

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[anarchistmemedistro]

[stealingpotatoes]

happy neil banging out the tunes day to everyone who celebrates

[diacetylmorphine-android-deacti]

slut

[transmechanicus]

loyal knight

[ampervadasz]

[loth-catgirl]

peac & love on planet earth

[astalkingirin]

So this is interesting because entire thing is communication, and it also shows how important different threat/aggression postures are.

The first cat comes in ready for a fight. Low down, trying not to be seen, stalking/wary posture.

Second cat jumps in the air and then does the exaggerated arch. That's an absolutely terrified cat. No cool, no chill. A cat willing to fight would not have gone full arch because it's moving them out of a position where they could launch themselves at the other cat. However, a scared cat can move from this to a preemptive attack if they think the other cat is going to attack them and just moving slowly.

Realizing the second cat doesn't want a fight, the first cat comes out of the low, threatening slink quickly to roll around to say hey, whoops, they weren't here to attack, they don't want to fight either.

With similar speed and exaggeration as the arch, the second cat does the same wiggle that yes, I too have no desire to fight, look at me doing the same thing and conspicuously not attacking when you're vulnerable.

To function as a social species, you need checks and deescalation. Both cats don't have perfect information about the other cat, and they need to know that they could misread or be misread, and then adjust their behavior to fix the problem.