canid's animal corner

Hello, I'm Canid, and this is my animal blog! I'm autistic and mammals are my special interest, particularly wolves and such :))

[canidsanimalcorner]

Welcome in!

This blog is owned by gummiewurm, an autistic individual who has a special interest in mammals, mostly wolves. My pronouns are they/them and you can call me Cänid!

As for this blog itself, I will be posting and reblogging animal facts, and I do my utmost to make sure that they are accurate. Please please please let me know if I have posted information that has been disproven/ is inaccurate/ has been updated by scientists so I can correct it! I do my best to fact check everything I post and ensure I use the most trustworthy sources, but I am only one little creature and I am sure I will make an error at some point on this blog. So don’t be afraid to DM me about inaccuracies you may find :)

If you have facts that you want to share, definitely submit them to be shared. It’s impossible for one person to know everything about animals (even though I’ve tried since I was small lol) so I want to hear any information that you have!

Remember to be kind when you interact with this blog, and use it as an opportunity to connect with others. I recommend and highly appreciate tone indicators (/gen /j /srs, etc.) to help autistics like me and other folks who need aids for tone! I will also be adding alt-text to images I upload for those who need it.

This blog is a safe place for me, and I hope it can be the same for you. Thank you for reading this intro and please enjoy the blog :))

[grubarchived]

i'm listening to gathering moss, by robin wall kimmerer, and she is talking about a very odd job she was consigned to do, where an eccentric millionaire recuited her to consult on a "habitat restoration". when she arrives, the job they actually want her to do is to tell them how to plant mosses on the rocks in his garden. he wants it to look like a specific, beautiful wild cliff in the woods nearby, with centuries-old beds of moss growing thick and strong. she tells him it is impossible. such a thing would take decades to accomplish.

later, she is called back to look at the progress of the moss garden and is amazed by the thick, well-established mosses. how did they do it? she asks.

then they take her out to the woods and show her that they have been blasting huge chunks of rock out of the cliff, packaging them in burlap, and moving them to the owner's garden.

[kcsmall]

This quote really got me: "The owner is a man who loves mosses, and the exercise of power. I have no doubts of his sincerity in wishing to protect them from harm, once they conformed to his landscape design.  But I think you cannot own a thing and love it at the same time. Owning diminishes the sovreignty of a thing, enriching the possessor and diminishing the possessed. If he truly loved mosses more than control, he would have left them alone, and walked each day to see them."

- Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

[wolveswolves]

By Ane Holden Eliassen

[max1461]

One of my favorite realizations from biology is that like... every creature is your relative. You look at your sister or brother or your parents and you think "that's my family" and you look at uncles and second cousins and distant relations you've never met and think "well I don't know them as well, but we're all part of the same... clan, you know. They're my family too". Surely not everyone thinks this, but some people do. Well anyway, that same thing is true of your dog. The ants crawling on the ground. The birds in the sky. They are, literally, members of your extended family. Not merely as species but as individuals, the way each brother or cousin is an individual member of your family. There is no line between these things. My distant relation, this guy, this bug crawling around. I'm related to him. We're very different, we've lived different lives and are good at different things. But he's my family.

[raginrayguns]

and im more closely related to raccoons than possums. And more closely related to possums than pigeons. And more closely related to pigeons than wasps. But all of us want my sandwich

[max1461]

Classic source of family drama.

[loafed-beans-deactivated2020082]

[kamenotaku]

crab crab crab hand hand hand frighten

[birdhug]

i like them..

[canidsanimalcorner]

Animal video AND animal art in a single post??? Wonderful day! :D

[grimbuswimbus]

leave him alone he's working

[uphillfarmers]

sold some geese today and they garden eel’d on their way out

[gallusrostromegalus]

OP's tags: #they went to a local farm to fertilize their blueberries and keep the grass down!

[b1zarr3vel]

[itswrenly]

@bovineblogger

[coyotette]

[official-ornithology-posts]

Official ornithology post

[mammalianmammals]

Numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus), mother and pups, family Myrmecobiidae, order Dasyuromorphia, Western Australia

ENDANGERED.

Sometimes referred to as the "Marsupial Anteater", and like "true anteaters", they actually eat mainly termites.

Once wide spread across Australia, they are now only found in small colonies in Western Australia and NSW.

photograph by J. Kern Australian Wildlife Conservancy 

[art-and-things-of-beauty]

Bisons by Georges Frédéric RÖTIG (1873-1961)

[preserving-tiktok]

[sunderwight]

everybody in the notes like:

[made-in-manetheren]

This is the single best video of a loon I've ever seen. Do you people realize how rare it is to see them that close? How rare it is to see them in that shallow of water? Incredible catch.

[canidsanimalcorner]

Yes!!! I had the pleasure of seeing a loon this close before; it's so cool and unforgettable.

[sioltach]

Fuck you *migrates to another environment and evolves entirely new characteristics over thousands of years*

[sioltach]

Why did thjs beautiful island make me. So small

[a-book-of-creatures]

Skill issue. Now get out of my way

[creekfiend]

ship saw a big flying around our room but forgot the word bug so they exclaimed "AH! AN ANIMAL! A... CREATURE OF THE SKY"

[vintagewildlife]

American bison By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

[goth-queen]

[the-outlands]

Striped Hyena | Vipin Sharma