R0t is back again!

Hey everyone! Here you'll find skulls, bones, wet specimens. Everything that is tagged #r0t and #hobby is stuff that belongs to my collection.

[quotefeeling]

“Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it’s right where you started.”

— Rachel Gibson, True Confessions

[jenny-jinya]

TW: animal death Who still sees them everywhere? :c

[jasonincalifornia]

Rainy Yosemite Roads 

Prints////Instagram

[sabertoothwalrus]

sometimes I think about how red is the first color in the visible light spectrum to be absorbed in ocean water

and how many deep-sea creatures evolved to be red as a stealth adaptation, making them near invisible when there’s little to no light present

and it makes me think. If there’s never any visible light present in these animals’ lifetimes, if no ROV shines a little flashlight in depths that would otherwise not have light, would these animals ever get the opportunity to actually be red? that might be a stupid question.

imagine being a little deep sea creature and having no idea you’re red until something comes along and shines a light on you except you still wouldn’t be able to tell because you’re probably colorblind. anyway. I don’t know where I was going with this post

[sabertoothwalrus]

Is color relative? Or inherent? Or both???

Like is color physiological and determined by the shape of whatever pigment cells that will always absorb certain wavelengths and reflect others?

or is color meaningless if there’s no light to absorb and reflect?

Is it completely relative because the way we percieve color is subjective, how even within our own species there are so many different kinds of ways people can observe color?

makes you think

[bogleech]

Red light doesn’t make it to the deep ocean from the sun, but that doesn’t mean red light doesn’t exist at that depth!

The stomiidae, which include the viperfish, dragonfish, and loosejaws, are one example of a deep sea animal that evolved to perceive and produce red light because it isn’t naturally present in their environment and most other organisms never hit on that adaptation. In most of this group, tiny red lights can be switched on and off throughout their skin to communicate with their own kind in secret. More threateningly, some of them have high-powered “floodlights” of pure red just beneath their eyes; almost no other deep sea fish emit actual BEAMS of light to illuminate what they’re looking at because that’d make them a shining beacon to every larger predator in the area, but since it’s red, the only risk ends up coming from their fellow red-light hunters and those remain just uncommon enough to be worth the chance. In many members of this group, most of all the loosejaws (hence the name), almost the entire skull can naturally detach from the rest of the body on specialized stalks at lightning speed so that their long, hooked jaws can grab prey in an instant, almost the same exact motion as the arm of a preying mantis:

If you were a little fish in this scenario you would see absolutely nothing but darkness around you and possibly feel pretty safe, because maybe you’ve evolved to blend in perfectly with the surrounding void and you can’t see any blue or yellow or green lights coming to get you. You have no idea that there’s been a spotlight right on you all along until its owner’s face flies off to impale you and shove you whole into its giant throat all in less than half of a second :)

[creepypillar]

 A Tale of Two Foxes

“From a distance, Don could see that the red fox was chasing something across the snow. As he got closer, he realised the prey, now dead, was an Arctic fox. For three hours in temperatures of -30 degrees Centigrade Don stayed at the scene, until the red fox, finally sated, picked up the eviscerated carcass and dragged it away to store for later. In the Canadian tundra, global warming is extending the range of red foxes northwards, where they increasingly cross paths with their smaller relatives, the Arctic fox. For Arctic foxes, red foxes now represent not just their main competitor – both hunt small animals such as lemmings – but also their main predator. Few actual kills by red foxes have been witnessed so far, but it is likely that conflicts between the two mammals will become more common.”

Don Gutoski Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015 

[jenny-jinya]

TW: animal death

This topic was requested soooo many times, but this one broke me. As a dog owner, this was terrible to draw (and took me way too long) .__.

[r0ts-skulls]

A friend of mine brought me this beauty a few days ago. He found her laying on the side of a road when he drove home from work. I put her in the woods near my house so I can collect her bones in a few weeks. . . . #vultureculture #bonecollecting #bonecollection #collector #realbones #animalskulls #skullcollector #skullcleaning #skullart #skullcollecting #taxidermy #bonecollector #taxidermycollector https://www.instagram.com/p/B1ere2zokPV/?igshid=n7sgyjwrtjw9

[hackedhearts-deactivated2024111]

Bro, it's like 4PM in São Paulo right now and all the smoke made it look like it's already night...city of ashes indeed.

[hackedhearts-deactivated2024111]

That's POLLUTION for you guys. It's what you get when people burn the Amazon rainforest to make farms.

[hackedhearts-deactivated2024111]

Ok so, the cloud of smoke over the city is from the burning of Amazon rainforest in Rondonia. Sao Paulo is 3300km (2052 miles) distant from Porto Velho. Athens is closer to London than Sao Paulo is to Porto Velho. Just to give you an idea of the damage they are doing to the forest right now, with the permission from the human trash president. Just so you guys from other countries have an idea of what's happening here in Brazil.

If you can reblog this to make people aware of the situation, I'll be really glad.

[hackedhearts-deactivated2024111]

Look they've been burning the forest it's been 15 days now and people have died already in the fires. So the least I hope that the media will actually pay attention to Rondônia and the forest now that's affect São Paulo. The media here in Brazil is trying to take the attention away from the fires saying that what covered SP today as fog because of a cold wave, but many people already said: it's not fog, it's smoke. And if you're shocked about São Paulo sky, this is Rondônia where they are burning the forest:

So yeah, they are destroying the biggest ecosystem that is the Amazon right now. And the world must know.

Because if we depend on the media, the death of the Amazon won't be televised.

[kitterpow]

PLEASE REBLOG FOR AWARENESS!!!!!

[r0ts-skulls]

Some of my favorite pieces that are currently in my personal collection.

[r0ts-skulls]

Found this little cutie at a flea market today. . . . #vultureculture #bonecollecting #bonecollection #collector #realbones #animalskulls #skullcollector #skullcleaning #skullart #skullcollecting #skullcollecting #taxidermy #taxidermyfox #foxcub #vintagetaxidermy #taxidermyart #taxidermycollector https://www.instagram.com/p/B0_DiULH4yc/?igshid=1vrzgtuucl26r

[r0ts-skulls]

Hey everyone!

Call me r0t!

This is my new #vultureculture blog since Tumblr deleted my last one a few months ago.

Here you'll find mostly pics of my personal collection and stuff I worked on for clients.

I don't kill animals for their skulls and bones.

I get most of the animals I work with from hunters or flea markets.

You can find me on instagram @skull.art.austria