#neat animals

[missingrache]

Hey tumblr does anyone want to play Identify! That! Animal! With me? Someone in my mom’s DC-adjacent neighborhood got a picture of this dude in their back yard. My guess is some kind of mustelid? maybe a marten? Except I did not know/think they lived around there and am not sure the markings match? Who is this friend????

[pokeprism]

What’s a real life animal that you like to draw?

I technically have three, and there's a ranking!

My answers might surprise you!

In third place, nudibranchs.....

In second, sea angels...

And in first place, sea bunnies!

[cattletyrants]

Illustration from Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890—1907)

[cattletyrants]

Go to 0:54 for a good video of a canyon wren singing (video by Frank Ritcey).

Sibley describes its call as twi twi twi towi towi towi toowi toowi jeev jeev but I think we can all agree that a better description is "Sweet descending scale of 'twis' shortly followed by two notes of deranged satanic hissing".

[cattletyrants]

EVEN MORE PHALAROPES! (source)

[cattletyrants]

100% normal phalarope feeding behavior (source)

[cattletyrants]

i just realized that i’d be so much better at kink talk if instead of people kinks we talked about nifty animal mating systems. let’s talk about leks. let’s talk about parthenogenetic lizards. lets talk about hyenas. there are so many more.

it’s tmi except that there is no such thing as “too much information" about critters

[cattletyrants]

jackrabbit doodle for allen's twitter prompt