it's all about confidence baby

my name is Hannah and I'm 25~ wildlife ecologist and biologist ~ this is a safe place ~ please be kind to animals and the environment ~ ask me about my pets ~ WI

[hyah-through-hyrule]

Obsessed with this

[clawmarks]

Garden-land - illustration by Harrison Cady - 1907 - via Internet Archive

[healingvibes-collor-n-mood]

Optical Illusion Paintings by Rob Gonsalves

[serpents-fr]

people who live in areas where there are native lizards should never take that for granted. you can just go outside and see a little guy hanging out. what’s better than that?

[thecollectibles]

Art by Davood Moghaddami

[ammit420]

in order to lead a happy life im gonna have to disappoint my parents a bit

[microweave]

not to be dramatic but this post genuinely made me consider my priorities in life and the choices i need to make for my own wellbeing

[pangur-and-grim]

man, I have very little sympathy for people who’re like “I gotta let them play in traffic, my cat WAILS and acts MISERABLE unless I let them outside!” 

because like……….so does mine? at a certain point each day Grim decides she wants out, and until that happens she a) follows me about SCREAMING, and b) sits atop whatever I’m doing and bites my hands. this is not an exageration

wanna know what I do? I take her out. either supervised in my backyard or on leash in the front

she naps in the sunlight, eats copious amounts of grass, rolls in dirt, and murders butterflies. after 15-30 minutes (equivalent to the time you’d spend on a neighbourhood dog walk) I take Grim back in, and she happily sleeps/plays/cuddles indoors for the remainder of the day

it’s legitimately low-effort

[pangur-and-grim]

the UK literally had so many pet cats killed by cars and dismembered by wildlife between 2014 – 2018 that the country thought there was a cat serial killer on the loose.  

and that wasn’t the first time, either – the EXACT same situation played out in the UK in 1990 because so many pet cats were dying in “safe neighbourhoods”

you want more information on your “culture”? cats kill 55 million birds per year in the UK.

do you understand the significance of that? the average background extinction rate is 1 per million species year, and cats have caused SIXTY-THREE extinctions of small animals in the last century. we’re currently in the midst of a mass-extinction crisis occurring at a speed we haven’t seen on this planet before……like, Iove your cat, love your planet, or get the fuck off my post.

[pangur-and-grim]

bringing this back because HPAI (highly pathogenic avian influenza) is passing through North America right now, and is transmissible to cats through respiratory means or the eating of infected meats. this virus can kill cats, so please! keep them indoors!

[geopsych]

One day at the end of May sunlight burst through the mist in the little woods near my house as a thrush was singing.

[dyllpiccle]

Adult life tip.

Do not buy a cabbage unless you have one of the following:

1. A recipe that uses a whole cabbage

2. 200 recipes that use some cabbage

3. A desire to waste an entire half cabbage

[qualifiedaquarian]

[schinako]

Rabbits and umbrellas

[farmside-deactivated20251226]

watched this for the first time when i was 14 i think? it saved me

[papergardener]

Knew what this was before I clicked and had to watch the whole thing again.

If you haven’t seen it, now’s your chance!

[disteal]

shout out to everyone who participated in the january-february mass depressive episode

[falseknees]

What

[vangoghcore]

by astrailor_jp

[letsmakepoppunkgreatagain]

[wildlifepsas]

Please do not interfere with nature!

For the last few years we have received quite a few calls from people that scared a hawk or snake away from what it was eating.

These calls always go something like, “I save a ___ from a hawk that was trying to eat it”, which means these people know what they stopped. These people then want us to save what the hawk was trying to eat. We’ve gotten in anything from a turtle with three legs already removed by the hawk, to small song birds to bunnies and the outcome is almost always the same….death, though more slowly and painfully than it would have been had people not interfered.

I want to remind you all, when a hawk captures its prey, it typically crushes it at least to a point. A snake will do the same. This means that the internal injuries are typically such that nobody could possibly save the animal. The most humane thing would have been to leave hawk or snake to its meal and NOT interfere.

Also, hawks are only successful in about 1 in 10 hunts. Meaning you don’t know how long that hawk or that hawk’s babies have been without food and now will go without food even longer.

Hawks have to eat and feed their young as well. It isn’t really fair for a human to decide what a proper meal may be.

We realize this may not be the most pleasant thing for you to watch, so we suggest you turn away. Chasing them away from a meal only does two things; 1. whatever they were trying to eat will now suffer until it dies, when dying would have been much faster had it been left, and 2. it leaves the hawk without a meal, meaning it is going to now go kill something that it wouldn’t have if the person hadn’t interfered.

Please, respect nature and let her do what she is supposed to do!

~CLAWS, Inc.