Made of dirt and fed by stars

Kuláu ✦ Agender ✦ Indigenous ✦ Adult

[noporovi]

. • ☆ . ° .• °:. *₊ ° . ☆ .　 . • ☆ . ° .• °:. *₊ ° . ☆ .　 . • ☆ . ° .• °:. *₊ ° . ☆

reblog & personal account! 18+ only please! occasional nsfw is tagged

furries / animals / pokémon / xenoblade / nintendo / guild wars 2 / final fantasy

profile pic by xmaveria!

. • ☆ . ° .• °:. *₊ ° . ☆ .　 . • ☆ . ° .• °:. *₊ ° . ☆ .　 . • ☆ . ° .• °:. *₊ ° . ☆

» art blog  » pokémon blog   » about   » furaffinity   » neocities

[furattic]

Art by seikei2015

[vgwater]

Sonic Adventure 2 (2001) / Garden Pond

[checkyourasianbias]

[checkyourasianbias]

the entire line is "White Parents Self-Segregating Neighborhoods and Schools" which is in fact white supremacist no nuance

[herpsandbirds]

I’ve been getting into vultures big time. Truly under appreciated birds. May I please request some of your faves?

OH YES... Hold on I got what you need...

Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus), family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, found in parts of Northern and Western Africa, southern Europe and western Asia

ENDANGERED.

Top image - fixin to smash a egg...

photographs by Frank Cornelissen & San Diego Zoo

Eurasian Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus), family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, Spain

photograph by Yechiel Lamesh

Himalayan Griffon Vulture (Gyps himalayensis), family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, India

photograph by Husein Latif Photography

Lammergeier aka Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, found in mountainous areas of Africa, Europe, and Asia

photographs by Eduard Villar Lleonart & Swagata Ghosh

King Vulture (Sarcoramphus papa), family Cathartidae, order Cathartiformes, found in Central and South America

photographs by Steve Sánchez Calle & Supreet Sahoo

Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture (Cathartes burrovianus), spotty distribution in Mexico, Central America, and South America

photograph by Sylvain Uriot

[wiiarevenom]

「artist」 7th art forge 「characters」 rocket raccoon 「from」 marvel

[tigerleopardlion]

Tiger | Paws and Pixels [Chester Zoo]

[tothechaos]

the thing they dont tell you about learning to "trust the process" is that you forget and relearn it every single time you make a new piece of art. unfortunately there is no cure either

[zangerdanger]

EMBERS 🔥 for @/crimcyan.bsky.social

[wolfhidewinter]

THE HOWLING HOWFF FT. LOBINEZ Werewolf clothing from The Howling Howff is here! Tear off your skin and run free with sustainably printed 100% organic cotton t-shirts! 🐺 https://thehowlinghowff.co.uk/ 🐺 Werewolf model: Youtube: ‪@Lobinez‬ Bluesky: Lobinez Music: "Feral Angel Waltz" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

[anthro-catalogue]

by MAL lock

[tigerleopardlion]

Southern Lion | Catherine Merlin

[smsomah]

Cree; Saskatchewan, Canada, around 1930. Paul Coze

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

The Buff-Tip Moth: this moth's unique resting position all0ws it to mimic a broken birch twig, and the buff-colored patches on its head and forewings even resemble freshly-snapped wood

Phalera bucephala, otherwise known as the buff-tip moth, is a remarkable mimic that can easily disguise itself as a twig. This moth has a unique resting position that makes its body seem narrower and more cylindrical, and its wings are covered in silver patterns that resemble tree bark, while the buff-colored patches on its head and forewings mimic the appearance of freshly-snapped wood.

Above: three actual twigs and one buff-tip moth

This type of camouflage is also known as a "protective resemblance" -- a form of mimesis in which an animal can avoid being preyed upon by mimicking an unremarkable or inedible aspect of its environment. Many other moths are able to disguise themselves in similar ways, often mimicking dead leaves, twigs, moss, and/or tree bark.

Above: more photos of Phalera bucephala

The buff-tip moth is particularly adept at disguising itself, however, and the fact that it so strongly resembles such a specific object (not just a dead leaf or a piece of foliage, but a broken twig from a silver birch tree, in particular) makes this disguise seem even more impressive and unique.

Above: the photo at the top shows a buff-tip moth in its resting position, while the photo at the bottom shows the same species with its wings unfurled

It also tends to look like there's a weird little smiley face in the setae surrounding the moth's head, which is arguably even more striking, but for some reason none of my sources seem to mention that weirdness.

Above: the weird little smiley face on the back of the moth's head

This species is distributed throughout the British Isles, mainland Europe, and parts of Asia, with its range extending into Eastern Siberia.

Sources & More Info:

Wildlife Insights: Buff-Tip Moth Identification Guide

Butterfly Conservation: Buff-Tip

Wildlife Insights: Phalera bucephala

The Wildlife Trusts: The Buff-Tip Moth

Moth Identification: Phalera busephala

Encyclopedia of Life: Global Map of Known Occurrences for Phalera busephala

Insecta: Phalera bucephala

Lepidoptera and their Ecology: Phalera busephaloides and Phalera busephala

Journal of Ecology and Evolution: Strong Foraging Preferences for Ribes alpinum in the Polyphagous Caterpillars of the Buff-Tip Moth

Dickinson County Conservation Board: Protective Resemblance and Other Forms of Mimesis and Mimicry

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

friend of mine recommended a video essay that's like 5 hours long about why it's currently a whole Thing for fascists to claim they only eat meat and demonize vegetables etc etc, and it's genuinely quite well researched in many places and contains some fascinating history and has made me feel very weird about my status as an adult who enjoys drinking milk. but I've not finished it and I genuinely don't know if I will because at one point the ol' "you can't say you care about animals and also eat animals" chestnut got dropped by the white vegan essayist and it put such a bad taste in my mouth that I had to leave instantly

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

like idk man it just feels genuinely parodic to dedicate hours to analyzing how foodways have frequently been used as white supremacist propaganda and then casually toss out an argument that pretty invariably demonizes indigenous hunting practices with 0 regard for traditional knowledge and land stewardship guiding those practices

[deramin2]

Every time I hear a white vegan say that I want to throw the rubble of the Klamath Dams at them.

The largest dam removal in U.S. history. So successful that the salmon that haven’t run freely in the river for literally over a century came back the next year. Not steady progress over a decade as expected, the very next salmon run they came home. No one alive saw salmon in that river outside the hatcheries kept by native’s tribes and the Department of Fish And Wildlife scientists desperately trying to save them. One of the activists who helped bring the suit spoke of their dying grandmother making them promise to bring the fish home, and they didn’t know how that was possible, but they spent decades doing it.

The legal basis for successfully suing the power company who owned the dams was Indigenous treaty rights to eat the fish. Eating the fish was the one thing in a century that succeeded in being a clear and legally binding right that superseded the desires of white capital and industry. I have been going to the public interest environmental law conference off and on for 20 years where a lot of organizing for Undam The Klamath happened. I’ve heard updates about every legal tact they tried as they happened, and they tried everything.

There are healthy, thriving salmon, trout, and lamprey in a rewilding and recovering Klamath River right now as a direct result of Indigenous people eating them. Of their legally binding right to eat them. They sure as fuck care more about those fish than any white vegan ever could. They are salmon people that the Creator sent Salmon to feed, while charging the People with protecting and stewarding them. It’s not possible to learn about salmon and trout in the Pacific Northwest without learning this, and it’s unambiguously racist to dismiss this symbiotic relationship.

The white vegans are trying to get all hunting and fishing banned in Oregon, and that’s quite possibly the single most catastrophic thing that could be done to the animals here because we killed off all the major predators of creatures like deer and without anything hunting them their numbers will explode, eat all the vegetation, destroy the ecosystem, and then die along with everything else in that failing ecosystem. Controlled hunting of deer is vitally necessary for the deer to survive. This is something Native people know, but patronizing racist savior-complex white people refuse to listen to.

I have a whole collection of Oregon’s Public Broadcasting’s documentaries about Klamath River or the larger story of fish and people in the region. If you watch nothing else, watch Klamath Dams Are Coming Out, First Salmon Ceremony, After The Dams, and First Decent (Native made). It could not be clearer that the salmon are being protected and nourished by the people who eat them, and that stewardship is a massive part of their creation myths. But it contradicts political vegan dogma so they don’t listen.

The Klamath River Runs Free

The Klamath River Runs Free

[supreme-leader-stoat]

#also do you have any idea how much conservation is funded by people who want to eat those animals#at least in the us anytime someone buys ammo or hunting equipment or hunting licenses that money goes directly to state wildlife agencies

[birdonahotdog]

contrary to social media developers’ beliefs i have literally never once wanted to see posts in anything other than chronological order

[higgsfigs]

Shiny liger✨