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Tori. 25 plus a few years tbh I pretend to be artistic and crafty. I reblog things in batches. Not a spam liker; just weird.

[morgadams]

My reading companion 💕✨

[optimisticsposts]

[skoomabong]

[pangur-and-grim]

Pangur has a hard time opening her eyes in direct sunlight, but she still has fun on the catio!

[straycatj]

Not only in direct sunlight but under sunlight I have hard time opening my eyes...

[william-snekspeare]

While I was kayaking a while back I saw a snake swimming across the river with a fishie he’d caught.

I wasn’t able to get a picture of it at the time so I tried to paint it from memory !

[arcticarthropod]

He's so happy!!

[happyheidi]

Black Bengal cats exist im crying! x

[andmaybegayer]

hold kitten gentle like submachine gun

[titkoks]

[theriu]

YOU SURE ARE KILLING THAT SNAKE RODNEY, GOOD JOB

[sonicsuns]

What the heck kind of bird is that?? (Also I hate that I had to stop for a second to ponder if the whole thing might be an AI fake somehow. The future is gonna be weird, man.)

[anaxaver]

Its a secretary bird! they are super rad and do look like some kind of dinosaur or elaborate puppet creation.

[pangur-and-grim]

is grim just the token normal cat of the house

the funny thing is, her mother was a rosetted snow bengal! this ought to make her the weirdest cat in the house, seeing as she's an Asian Leopard Cat hybrid (even if a veeeery diluted one) but Pangur and Belphie are strange enough that she just looks like a Generic Brown Tabby in comparison

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned about Tim Wong who successfully and singlehandedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In the past few years, he’s cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (their only food source) and gives thousands of caterpillars to his local Botanical Garden (x)

[spitegoblin]

Sometimes, people are really great.

[pathsofpassion]

This is also an example of picking One Thing and putting most of your Better The World efforts there. We have so many different important issues to care about and act toward, and it’s tempting to try and do a Little for Many Things - and I’m not saying that little bits of effort don’t add up! They do. But often you’ll make a bigger impact (and possibly have less compassion/activist fatigue) if you direct the majority of your efforts toward one or two things.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

An Anatolian pars, a leopard subspecies, is seen by a camera trap set up in Turkey. It was thought that the endangered animal was extinct for years until 2013 when two of them were spotted

Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

[felinefractious]

[Image Source: Messybeast]

A New Finnish Flavor of Feline Coat Coloration, “Salmiak,” is Associated With a 95-kb Deletion Downstream of the KIT Gene

Cats with a distinctive white hair pattern of unknown molecular cause have been discovered in the Finnish domestic cat population. Based on the unique appearance of these cats, we have named this phenotype salmiak (“salty licorice”). The use of a commercially available panel test to genotype four salmiak-colored cats revealed the absence of all known variants associated with white-haired phenotypic loci: full White (W), Spotting (Ws) and the Birman white Gloves associated (wg) allele of the KIT proto-oncogene (KIT) gene. Whole-genome sequencing on two salmiak-colored cats was conducted to search for candidate causal variants in the KIT gene. Despite a lack of coding variants, visual inspection of the short read alignments revealed a large ~95 kb deletion located ~65 kb downstream of the KIT gene in the salmiak cats. Additional PCR genotyping of 180 domestic cats and three salmiak-colored cats confirmed the homozygous derived variant genotype fully concordant with the salmiak phenotype. We suggest the newly identified variant be designated as wsal for “w salmiak”.

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[hellobendykitty]

@pangur-and-grim

[frostplays]

CHAT THEY DISCOVERED A NEW COAT TYPE IN CATS

IT'S CALLED "SALMIAK" OR "SALTY LICORICE" AND IT LOOKS LIKE THIS

[fwizard]

oh... cookies AND cream...

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

I think we're too harsh on medieval painters because this is legitimately what some poodle mixes look like

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

like. these breeds didn't even EXIST yet back then. those painters were PROPHETS.

[beardless-bearded-vulture]

Super cool gravity defying mount I saw online of a peregrine falcon with a partridge (x)

[touteytout]

fanart of this wrinkly little beast that i have been seeing on my dash................ (@pangur-and-grim ’s belphegor)

[gorjee-art]

a raven father (i call him "pants") I've been feeding sometimes likes to sit outside my window and either wait for more food or just listen to the stuff I'm watching while I draw. Today's a colder day so he likes to fluff up a bit, and I kid you not :

this is an accurate representation of my view

[gorjee-art]

Pants sure is pantsing today