#neonate

[craftingcreatures]

Attended a rattlesnake conference yesterday and one of the presenters was talking about public attitudes towards snakes, specifically how showing them in a non-aggressive context helps to create more positive attitudes, and. Y'all. I NEED to show you the image he used as an example

Look at him. Look at this smiley newborn sidewinder sitting in a bottle cap. He is so small and so happy he is EXACTLY the right size to sit comfortably in a bottle cap

[amberkendslacy]

Tremere hand out these cunty lil coloured sunglasses when they embrace new childer.

It's part of why they're so selective. They have to order more of them, and the shipping takes a while.

[panoramaofhell]

my bottle babies are doing extremely well as you all can see, Pikmin is finally catching up to Oatchi :3

[hcnnibal]

i had a dream abt seeing the angels in public but they BOTH had a2's bald head

bald1/bald2

[namu-the-orca]

Everybody stop what you're doing and look at the little BABY i'm working on

This is going to be a real neonate illustration, also for SECAC (the Canary Islands research group), but they wanted it in in highest detail so its TAKIN A WHILE

[waylyngdraws]

artfight roundup pt.4

@basiliskbagel 's Gangrel oc Blake 🫶

[tomysinrock]

When I was a kid I spent hours and hours drawing paper dolls and their little paper garments. And you know what? It’s still fun :) Meet Oli, my Toreador neonite from Camarilla who cares too much. Sadly we ended this chronicle preemptively (due to variety of reasons), but I still like the concept to the point of planning to permanently dye my hair red :Ъ

[omg-snakes]

A neonate box, ready to welcome an entire clutch of itty bitty spaghetti friends while they learn the basics of how to snake. They get a sphagnum moss humid hide (plastic gelato container with a hole drilled in the lid), a bit of rough grapewood to help with their first shed, a smooshed toilet roll (smooshing makes more of a hidey spot, less of a gaping cavern), and a water dish.

Once they've shed their neonate skins and started eating, I will add substrate beyond paper towel and gradually split them into smaller and smaller groups over a few months. Gradual dispersal seems to result in calmer, more human-socialized, better adjusted babies than instantaneous separation from hatching. It's fun to watch their social hierarchy develop and see how they dance to greet each other after being temporarily separated. It's potentially harmful to anthropomorphize reptiles, but they really do seem to learn from each other?

My pet hypothesis is that they're faster to trust humans when they see me handling their siblings and not eating anybody.