Creature

The creature is in the margins...

[nortedwayfinder]

Happy birthday @cyborgpoptart 🎉🎉

Another year, another skit. Love ya buddy 🤸🤸🤸

Please take my peace offering and get off my porch.

Rigs, as always, by @/Schollidazed.

[creaturecaper]

TELL ME UR TOP 5 THINGS U LIKE ABOUT QIFREY

1) He's like the most comforting mentor in the world. He's so soft spoken and kind and gentle and caring to his apprentices. He's like if you mixed up Miss Honey and Mary Poppins and Maria Rainer and made them into a lovely dessert.

2) He's secretly deeply sad and melodramatic and even though he's always taking care of others it makes me want to take care of him.

3) He's weird! He's so weird! He's always holding his hands like he doesn't know what else to do with them, he had to be taught how to smile, he has a perfectionist obsession with cooking, he’s visually comparable to an owl creature. But it's so charming.

4) He's very well written. From his personality, to his story, to his disabilities.

5) He thinks he's in a shakespearian tragedy so everytime he's on panel he has to pose for it or splay out on the floor like a disney princess.

[ashoss]

dianaaaa

[ashoss]

one more 🙂‍↕️

[creaturecaper]

You know how avid book readers are "bookworms"? Well I think it would be really neat if comic readers could be called "gutterbugs" because of how those blank spaces in between panels are called the gutters.

That's just what I'll call comic readers from now on actually.

[simplytheanthropic]

My all time favorite animal. The red-bearded vulture.

The bearded vulture, or lammergeier, lives on a steady diet of bones (more specifically the marrow) and dyes its own feathers blood red.

Bearded vultures come in various shades, from pure white to orange-red. Soils stained with iron oxide give the birds their fiery appearance. Lammergeiers apply the dirt with their claws and then preen for about an hour to ensure a bright orange/red glow. They are also attracted to other red things, like leaves and red wood. Captive birds also partake in this behavior, which suggests the activity is instinctual, not learned.

The soil doesn’t have any practical purposes; it certainly doesn’t make for good camouflage (though the birds have no natural predators anyway). Scientists have noticed that the birds’ age and size are directly correlated to the intensity of color. It is theorized that the hue is a status symbol. More soiled feathers indicates that the lammergeier had the time and resources to find an adequate place to bathe; the brightest-colored vultures should have the most territory and knowledge of their surroundings. Interestingly, these baths are done in secret, so most of the information gathered has been through spying on captive birds.

Bearded Vultures are most commonly monogamous, and breed once a year. Sometimes, especially in certain areas of Spain and France, bachelor lammergeiers will join a pre-existing couple to create a polyandrous trio. Females accept secondary mates because it increases the chances of producing offspring and doubles her protection. The birds usually don’t lay more than three eggs, so they can use all the help they can get.

These giant birds can grow up to 4 feet tall. They have a wingspan between 7 and 9 feet and usually weigh around 10 to 15 pounds.

In other words, this bird is awesome and I love it forever.

[thegreatukauka]

Bearded Vultures (Korkeasaari zoo)

[pleistocene-pride]

The narrownose chimaera (Harriotta raleighana) also know as the ghost shark or the spook fish is a longnose chimaera of the family Rhinochimaeridae which is native throughout temperate oceans worldwide and is typically found at depths of between 650ft (200m) and 10,200 (3,100m). Longnose chimaeras are members of the class Chondrichthyes, diverging from their closest relatives (sharks, rays, and skates) during the devonian period approximately 400 million years ago. Not much is known about there deep sea life style but they appear to feed upon crustaceans, worms, small fish, mollusks, and enchinoderms. They are themselves preyed upon by large sharks, boney fish, and large predatory squids & octopus.  Female narrownose chimera are typically larger reaching around 4.9ft (1.5m) compared to males which reach around 3.3 (1m) in length. Both sexes sport elongate rostra, slender filamentous tails, large pectoral and pelvic fins, big eyes, and two dorsal fins, the first being preceded by a mildly poisonous spine. They can range in color from pale marbeled brown to dusty grey to ghostly white or a mixture of those colors. Like many other Chondrichthyes, longnose chimaeras reproduce by laying eggs. Egg cases consist of a central chamber surrounded by a web-like structure. Female longnose chimaeras lay a pair of eggs several times per year.