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Imagine Person A has a crush on Person B, but Person B doesnât know and has a crush on someone else. Person B vents their frustrations about their unrequited crush to Person A all the time. After a particularly long rant, Person B goes âYou just donât know how bad it hurts to like someone so much and for them to have no idea how you feelâ. Person A looks at them with a sad smile and says âNo, I guess I donât.â
can someone please be proud of me like fuck Iâm trying
10 of the Hardest Moments Ambiverts Have In Their Lives
If youâre an ambivert, an individual who possess qualities of both introverts and extroverts, try to see if these points relate.
When you go out you wish you were home, and when you stay home you wish you went out. When you are home alone, you get a bad case of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). Conversely, when you are out you feel that you could be getting much more done (whatever that means) when you are home.
You can never get everything done. You want to meet new people, go to new places and experience new things all while your inner introvert plans a full day of self-education and reflection. Unfortunately there arenât 48 hours in a day so you tend to be anxious!
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Thereâs a continuous sunset traveling the world. I like to think thereâs an unbroken wave of people admiring it.
Glamour~
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This Is Halloween - The Citizens of Halloween Town
People often say to me: âYou draw like some kind of inhuman machine. If I eat your brain, will I gain your power?â The answer is yes, but there is another way. The key to precise drawing is building up muscle memory so that your arm/hand/fingers do the things you want them to do when you want them to do them. Teaching yourself to draw a straight line or to make sweet curves is just a matter of practice and there are some exercises you can do to help improve. If youâre going to be doodling in class or during meetings anyway, why not put that time to good use?
This is so important to mention to all artists. The reason PRACTISE improves drawing ability over time is it increases the literal, technical movement in your hands and arms through /muscle memory/.
THIS IS VERY GOOD, to all the people that like my lines. I do similar but less constructed doodles like these in my sketchbook all the time, it basically just teaches your hand how to move
I have decided that I will reblog this every time it comes across my dash because it makes me laugh until I think Iâm going to puke.
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OMG HAVE YOU SEEN THE TRAILER FOR THE NEW KAGEROU PROJECT ANIME!?
NO I HAVENT WHAT IS THIS ARE THEY MAKING A NEW ONE OR SOMETHING?? I MUST KNOW I SHALL CHECK IT OUT
What are you in terms of animology and myer briggs? By extension, are there any quizzes you particularly recommend? (p.s, you seem really awesome and I like seeing you appear on my dash, anonymous user out =v=7)
i just took the animology test~ thanks for the question~ (idk how long ago this was im so sorry :âD)
my result for the animology test was: Silver and Red Wolf (in conflict with Maroon Panda)
pls tell me that was the right test LOL. as for myer briggs, last time i took it last year, i got ISFP (and INFP on some occasions) but ive changed quite a bit since then so i wouldnt know how accurate this still is lmao. if anything probably just potentially extroverted rather than introverted nowadays.
as for quizzes id recommend... uhhh one i love second or first to myers brigg would be the enneagram personality test~ if i recall correctly, i was type 2 - the helper
again thanks for the question~ been a while since i answered a proper one haha thank you so much for the compliment omg youre a blessing anon /)w(\ im really not all that amazing, just a bit under uwu/ im pretty chill and ive been the anon before so if you ever wanna talk outside of it im totally cool with that too :P (im just an casual net dweeb) other than that hope you have a rad day anon~
Personality; not just for humans
We usually see âelephantsââor âwolvesâ or âkiller whalesâ or âchimpsâ or âravensâ and so onâas interchangeable representatives of their kind. But the instant we focus on individuals, we see an elephant named Echo with exceptional leadership qualities; we see wolf 755 struggling to survive the death of his mate and exile from his family; we see a lost and lonely killer whale named Luna who is humorous and stunningly gentle. We see individuality. Itâs a fact of life. And it runs deep. Very deep.
Individuality is the frontier of understanding non-human animals. But for decades, the idea was forbidden territory. Scientists who stepped out of bounds faced withering scorn from colleagues. Jane Goodall experienced just that. After her first studies of chimpanzees, she enrolled as a doctoral student at Cambridge. There, as she later recalled in National Geographic, âIt was a bit shocking to be told Iâd done everything wrong. Everything. I shouldnât have given them names. I couldnât talk about their personalities, their minds or their feelings.â The orthodoxy was: those qualities are unique to humans.
But these decades later we are realizing that Goodall was right; humans are not unique in having personalities, minds and feelings. And if sheâd given the chimpanzees numbers instead of names?âtheir individual personalities would still have shined.
âIf ever there was a perfect wolf,â says Yellowstone biologist Rick McIntyre, âIt was Twenty-one. He was like a fictional character. But real.â McIntyre has watched free-living wolves for more hours than anyone, ever.
Even from a distance Twenty-oneâs big-shouldered profile was recognizable. Utterly fearless in defense of his family, Twenty-one had the size, strength, and agility to win against overwhelming odds. âOn two occasions, I saw Twenty-one take on six attacking wolvesâand rout them all,â Rick says. âWatching him felt like seeing something that looked supernatural. Like watching a Bruce Lee movie. Iâd be thinking, âA wolf canât do what I am watching this wolf do.ââ Watching Twenty-one, Rick elaborates, âwas like watching Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordanâa one-of-a-kind talent outside of ânormal.ââ
Twenty-one was a superwolf. Uniquely, he never lost a fight and he never killed any defeated opponent. And yet Twenty-one was âremarkably gentleâ with the members of his pack. Immediately after making a kill he would often walk away and nap, allowing family members whoâd had nothing to do with the hunt eat their fill.
One of Twenty-oneâs favorite things was to wrestle little pups. âAnd what he really loved to do,â Rick adds, âwas pretend to lose. He just got a huge kick out of it.â Here was this great big male wolf. And heâd let some little wolf jump on him and bite his fur. âHeâd just fall on his back with his paws in the air,â Rick half-mimes. âAnd the triumphant-looking little one would be standing over him with his tail wagging.
âThe ability to pretend,â Rick adds, âshows that you understand how your actions are perceived by others. Iâm sure the pups knew what was going on, but it was a way for them to learn how it feels to conquer something much bigger than you. And that kind of confidence is what wolves need every day of their hunting lives.â
In Twenty-oneâs life, there was a particular male, a sort of roving Casanova, a continual annoyance. He was strikingly good-looking, had a big personality, and was always doing something interesting. âThe best single word is âcharisma,ââ says Rick. âFemale wolves were happy to mate with him. People absolutely loved him. Women would take one look at himâthey didnât want you to say anything bad about him. His irresponsibility and infidelity; it didnât matter.â
One day, Twenty-one discovered this Casanova among his daughters. Twenty-one ran in, caught him, biting and pinning him to the ground. Other pack members piled in, beating Casanova up. âCasanova was also big,â Rick says, âbut he was a bad fighter.â Now he was totally overwhelmed; the pack was finally killing him.
âSuddenly Twenty-one steps back. Everything stops. The pack members are looking at Twenty-one as if saying, âWhy has Dad stopped?ââ The Casanova wolf jumped up andâas alwaysâran away.
After Twenty-oneâs death, Casanova briefly became the Druid packâs alpha male. But, Rick recalled: âHe doesnât know what to do, just not a leader personality.â And although itâs very rare, his year-younger brother deposed him. âHis brother had a much more natural alpha personality.â Casanova didnât mind; it meant he was free to wander and meet other females. Eventually Casanova and several young Druid males met some females and they all formed the Blacktail pack. âWith them,â Rick remembers, âhe finally became the model of a responsible alpha male and a great father.â
The personality of a wolf âmatriarchâ also helps shape the whole pack. Wolf Seven was the dominant female in her pack. But you could watch Seven for days and say, âI think sheâs in charge,â because she led subtly, by example. Wolf Forty, totally different; she led with an iron fist. Exceptionally aggressive, Forty had done something unheard of: actually deposed her own mother.
For three years, Forty ruled the Druid pack tyrannically. A pack member who stared a moment too long would find herself slammed to the ground, Fortyâs bared canines poised above her neck. Yellowstone research director Doug Smith recalls, âThroughout her life she was fiercely committed to always having the upper hand, far more so than any other wolf weâve observed.â Forty heaped her worst abuse on her same-age sister. Because this sister lived under Fortyâs brutal oppression, she earned the name Cinderella.
One year Cinderella split from the main pack and dug a den to give birth. Shortly after she finished the den, her sister arrived and delivered one of her infamous beatings. Cinderella just took it, as always. No one ever saw any pups at that den.
The next year, Cinderella, Forty, and a low-ranking sister all gave birth in dens dug several miles apart. New wolf mothers nurse and guard constantly; they rely on pack members for food. That year, few pack members visited the bad-tempered alpha. Cinderella, though, found herself well assisted at her den by several sisters.
Six weeks after giving birth, Cinderella and several attending pack members headed out, away from her denâand stumbled into the queen herself. Forty immediately attacked Cinderella with was, even for her, exceptional ferocity. She then turned her fury onto another of her sisters whoâd been accompanying Cinderella, giving her a beating too. Then as dusk settled in, Forty headed toward Cinderellaâs den. Only the wolves saw what happened next, but Doug Smith and Rick McIntyre pieced together what went down.
Unlike the previous year, this time Cinderella wasnât about to remain passive or let her sister reach her den and her six-week-old pups. Near the den a fight erupted. There were at least four wolves, and Forty had earned no allies among them.
At dawn, Forty was down by the road covered in blood, and her wounds included a neck bite so bad that her spine was visible. Her long-suffering sisters had, in effect, cut her throat. She died. It was the only time researchers have ever known a pack to kill its own alpha. Forty was an extraordinarily abusive individual. The sistersâ decision, outside the box of wolf norms, was: mutiny. Remarkable.
But Cinderella was just getting started. She adopted her dead sisterâs entire brood. And she also welcomed her low-ranking sister and her pups. And so that was the summer that the Druid Peak pack raised an unheard-of twenty-one wolf pups together in a single den.
Out from under Fortyâs brutal reign, Cinderella developed into the packâs finest hunter. She later went on to become the benevolent matriarch of the Geode Creek pack. Goes to show: a wolf, as many a human, may have talents and abilities that wither or flower depending on which way their luck breaks.
âCinderella was the finest kind of alpha female,â Rick McIntyre says. âCooperative, returning favors by sharing with the other adult females, inviting her sister to bring her pups together with her own while also raising her vanquished sisterâs pupsâ. She set a policy of acceptance and cohesion.â She was, Rick says, âperfect for helping everyone get along really well.â
(This piece is adapted from Carl Safinaâs most recent book, Beyond Words; What Animals Think and Feel, which will is newly out in paperback)
holy shit, this is fascinating
@infinitesimalqueer Wolf pack dynamics!!!
Anyone who doesnât believe animals have personalities has either never had anything but the most superficial of animal interactions, or is willfully oblivious.
And the more time you spend observing them, the more you appreciate them.
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@why-animals-do-the-thing i donât doubt that animals have personalities to some extent, because of course they do, but i was under the impression that the whole âalphaâ wolf thing was a myth, can you offer any insight on this?
@torakoneko yes, ranking terms such as âalphaâ and âomegaâ are not used anymore in the way that we used to. Thereâs been a lot of misconception on these ranking terms. Shortly said, the view of a typical, natural wolf pack being an aggressive assortment of wolves competing with each other to take over the pack (in which these ranking terms do appy) is outmoded. Only in artificially composed packs, or large packs that often exist out of more than just the breeding pair and their offspring, these terms still apply, because in those cases there is no natural pack composition. (Artificially composed packs for example are packs in zoos where unrelated wolves are put together in an enclosure = no natural pack composition. And in large packs, other unrelated wolves, or unrelated wolf families, or uncles, aunts, etc. joined the pack = no natural pack composition. This merging is done for different reasons such as killing efficiency or rich prey base.)
What I mean by ânatural pack compositionâ is the most basic pack structure, and the kind encountered most frequently: a breeding pair and their offspring. The breeding pair automatically becomes the âleadingâ pair - comparable to human families.Â
The Druid pack is a perfect example of a very large wolf pack that consists out of more than just a breeding pair and their offspring. At its peak in 2001, the Druid pack counted 37 members, becoming  one of the largest wolf pack ever recorded. The reason the use of the ranking terms is in place when talking about the Druid pack is this: the Druid pack originally consisted out of five individuals who were released together during the second year of re-introduction efforts in Yellowstone National Park in 1996, then in 1997 a wolf from the Rose Creek pack (21M) replaced the original alpha male after he was illegally shot outside the par, etc. So since the beginning, the Druid pack didnât have a ânaturalâ pack composition as I described above. Hereâs more information about the history of the Druid pack.
Here are some good sources on the topic:
Alpha Status, Dominance, and Division of Labor in Wolf Packs by David Mech
Leadership in Wolf, Canis lupus, Packs by David Mech
Whatever Happened to the Term Alpha Wolf? by David Mech in the winter issue 2008 of International Wolf Magazine
The book âWolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservationâ, 2003, edited by Luigi Boitani and David Mech, written by 23 authors (make sure to get the updated version)
Why everything you know about wolf packs is wrong by Lauren Davis (a good article that explains the whole misconception on the term âalphaâ in a more easy accessible, less scientific way, but with all proper sources etc.)
Social Dominance Is Not a Myth: Wolves, Dogs and Other Animals by Mark Bekoff (another easy to read but proper article)
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