#dwarf squirrel

[thoughtlessarse]

Researchers in the Alto Mayo region of north-west Peru have discovered 27 species that are new to science, including a rare amphibious mouse, a tree-climbing salamander and an unusual “blob-headed fish”. The 38-day survey recorded more than 2,000 species of wildlife and plants. The findings are particularly surprising given the region’s high human population density, with significant pressures including deforestation and agriculture. The expedition was “thrilling to be part of”, said Dr Trond Larsen, senior director of biodiversity and ecosystem science at Conservation International’s Moore Centre for Science, who led the survey. “The Alto Mayo landscape supports 280,000 people in cities, towns and communities. With a long history of land-use change and environmental degradation, I was very surprised to find such high overall species richness, including so many new, rare and threatened species, many of which may be found nowhere else.” The “new” species include four mammals: a spiny mouse, a short-tailed fruit bat, a dwarf squirrel and the semi-aquatic mouse. Discovering a new species of amphibious mouse was “shocking and exciting”, Larsen said. “It belongs to a group of carnivorous, semi-aquatic rodents, for which the majority of species are exceedingly rare and difficult to collect, giving them an almost mythical status among mammal experts … We only found this amphibious mouse in a single unique patch of swamp forest that’s threatened by encroaching agriculture, and it may not live anywhere else.”

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[vandaliatraveler]

Nature and human history are deeply intertwined on the Mon River Trail. It's impossible to walk a mile on the trail without confronting the crumbling remains of its industrial past, half-buried artifacts that speak silently to a tumultuous and ultimately dehumanizing tale of exploitation and neglect. Abandoned quarries and millstones, broken beehive coke ovens, and sinking homesteads hint at the vast mineral wealth extracted from these hills with little regard for the well-being of the workers who made eye-watering fortunes for ambitious industrialists in far-away cities. A century and a half after King Coal fell from grace and abandoned his kingdom, an Ancient Steward has returned to take back what is rightfully her own. She has planted a crown of blue cohosh and moss on broken stone and breathed life back into the land.

[nightmarereverie]

Japanese dwarf flying squirrel (Pteromys momonga)

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[alducloy]

deja vu

[invinciblerodent]

From now on, I'm just going to assume that anyone who calls Gale any variation of "pompous", "arrogant", "annoying", "a jerk", or anything to that effect, and talks at length about how they hate him and/or have killed him, is just bellyaching and being a baby over them not understanding his speech. That's right, at this point I'm ascribing a literal skill issue to being wrong about a fictional character.

Aww, poor baby, did the Mean Wizard hurt your tiny, smooth widdle brain by saying "adroit"? Did his correct use of "foeti", the latinate plural of "foetus", frighten you? Aww, I'm so sowwy. That must be so tough for you, being so scared of fun words and the general concept of whimsy. I can't hear you over myself tongue-kissing the pretty man with the calf-eyes and the slutty waist.

[marysmirages]

Magic forest (A gift for my friend) 2024

Hello again, my dear Tumblr-friends! I haven't been here for a long time and I miss you very much. Unfortunately, I rarely visit social networks lately... there are too many things in real life that require attention and do not leave time and energy for creativity and social activity in internet. Thank you kindly for your great support! I wish you all the best and will post three works... Yes, yes, since March only three works... I appreciate you very much and always grateful to you! You are the BEST!

[artofgerald]

Native Svandanese races. Dwarf - "wise"

Sgarruff - "scarlet-fur"

Lymutair - "assassins of the groves"

Bogseiner - "swamp singers"

Bruingash - the meaning was lost with time, but it's generally assumed it just means "bear folk"

Taurmor - "hooved man"

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #580

Dwarf squirrelfish!

It is among the smallest squirrelfishes, reaching a maximum length of 7.7 cm (3 inches). It’s a shy, reserved fish, always hiding during the day and at night remaining close to the safety of the steep outer reefs they inhabit.

[ponyartistbrainiac]

A little sneak peak to my next painting to celebrate nightmare night

I hope you all love it

[dacasvil02]

Some doodles + dialogues of my ocs :v

Sutton: Why everybody always call me ''flying squirrel'' D:?!?! Ashley: you're okay-

Ashley: W-why is everybody... looking at me with a... creepy look?!?! (Yeah, Ashley is really a Japanese Dwarf Flying Squirrel, that's why i made her height as 1'0'' *bro, that has nothing to do with-*)

[morningbyrd]

fuck you [sonics your kabuto]

[pearl-kite]

Want to see some neat things about how irises grow?

Remember when I dug up and divided ALL of my irises at my parents' place a few years back? And how I ended up with 50 rhizomes, and I had bought 9 more just a bit before that?

Well, my mom wants to try to amend the soil because it's not great. Most of the irises have just been surviving, but not well enough to bloom, and everything else planted in the area struggles similarly. In order to amend the soil, though, I needed to dig them all up.

Again.

I dug up 44 rhizomes this time, which is honestly a bit better than I expected. I knew that not all of the ones I put in were going to survive, but I was still surprised by how many I just dug up today.

Anyway, the learning bit!

So irises aren't bulbs, they're rhizomes. Each year they put up leaves at one end, and over time they kind of end up migrating in that direction. If they do really well at gathering and storing energy, instead of just continuing forward, they'll fork, putting up leaves on two sides and a stalk with blooms in the center. The following year, the pattern continues, going forward from each side of that fork. If a rhizome does REALLY well, you'll end up with a bunch of forks spreading out.

The one on the left has survived, but not gone very far, and the white at the end shows that I accidentally broke some of the old rhizome off when I was digging it back up. It also happens to be a dwarf variety, so the rhizome is smaller to begin with; all my other photos are of intermediate and tall bearded irises with much larger rhizomes.

The one on the right has done well enough to grow forward for a few years, with the oldest of the rhizome at the bottom (still healthy and full of stored energy!) and the newest year's growth at the top. Looking at the rhizome itself, I'd guess that one is about 4 years (which makes sense, 'cause I think I did the splitting back in 2020).

The one on the left bloomed this year; you can see the flower stalk dried out in the center, and the new fork in the rhizome to the sides. Next year, they'll continue in those two directions, and it won't go forward from the stalk any longer.

The one on the right bloomed a few years back, and though it kept growing forward from there, it hasn't bloomed since. The other side of the fork also died off, and it's now only growing in one direction again.

Last but most certainly not least we have THIS beast. This one has bloomed the last two or three years in a row. I honestly can't tell if the guy at the bottom right is part of the same rhizome or another one I planted too close that got subsumed by this monster, because it took ten minutes to get most of the clay off and there was still more. I'll need to actually rinse it off with the hose to really see if it's all one plant or two.

But I'm 95% sure that this guy is going to bloom again next year because of those nubs down along the bottom. They were below the soil, and they're too thick to be new roots, so I'm guessing that's what future growth looks like. Honestly, this guy should probably be divided, but I also don't want to ruin the chance of it blooming next year, so I'm going to put him back in the dirt as is and maybe divide next year after blooming season.

Anyway, irises are my favorite, and I think it's intriguing how they work. I'm hoping that we can get the soil a bit more balanced and that they'll do better after replanting them, because even though I just dug up 44, we only had 4 or 5 bloom this year. They aren't thriving in the soil as-is, because for as long as they've been established we should have had more blooming than that. It was still the best year since dividing them, though.

I've brought a bunch of them over to my apartment and I'm going to try them out in containers, mostly the dwarf varieties I had. ONE of the dwarfs bloomed this year and it was gorgeous, but I'm hoping the rest will do better in new soil with some extra attention.

[m00nb04rd5]

Can I have a moodboard for Hunter Huntsman from Ever After High?

Hunter Huntsman (Ever After High)

[lesser-sage-of-stars]

In the Early Spring of 180, Nelara was struck down by the zombie mountain titan Apesbeans the Glacial Jungle of Walls

Nelara Thelegica Yame (Nelara Mountaincanyon the Yellow) was Black Fiend Demon. A towering scaly bull twisted into humanoid form. Its black scales are small and overlapping. Beware its poisonous vapors!

Izegnangês Usiregath Adil (Apesbeans the Glacial Jungle of Walls) was Yawo Fograins the Amethyst Avalanche's Corpse, Animated by Unknown forces. A huge scaly squirrel. It has two long, hanging tails and it has an austere look about it. Beware its fire!

[invinciblerodent]

That "least favorite companion" post I referenced earlier today keeps haunting me.

Because... well, it was obvious that many would say Oghren. I expected many to have said Oghren.

But it still makes me a little bit sad just how much of Oghren's depth and potential was lost by him being written as a "comic relief" character that both fell flat, and aged poorly.

I remember, the first time I played Origins when I was like 17-18, I was a bit put off by him immediately: he reminded me of people I knew in real life, and were not people I liked, or was proud to know. I was a little disappointed that I'd have to have him in my party for the last part of "Paragon of Her Kind". But that short little scene, where he first steps out under the open sky...

That scene, I still think about regularly.

The moment he casts off his caste, the last thing he still genuinely had. When he first looks up at the sky, and realizes just how vast and open it is. When he takes that step he knows would mean that he can never go back.

That tiny little scene, less than a minute long, made not just him, but my own Aeducan click for me immediately.

Because Oghren is a clear failure of the caste system. Or better said, a failure of dwarven society, really.

He's a castoff, a reject, a lost cause: a once respected warrior, a famed dwarven berserker and husband to a Paragon, who fell through the cracks because he fell out of his house's favor.

Because he got hit hard by his wife and his whole family leaving him behind. Because he got too hard to deal with, too embarrassing.

So under the carpet he went, in both his own mind and everyone else's.

Oghren's, is... an ordinary tragedy. A story of an everyday struggle for men like him (lonely, middle aged, depressed), with feelings that are quietly shoved to the side, joked about, tamped down by both him, and the people around him- and him not being “likeable”, well... isn't that just the way it usually is? People who are suffering are sometimes genuinely not good people.

And despite his best efforts, I can't bring myself to dislike him. I don't like having him in my party because I don't find him funny like he was clearly intended to be, and a lot of his dialogue, I find deeply frustrating and off-putting (in Origins and Awakening alike), but... I can't bring myself to dislike him.

I just... feel sad for him, more than anything else. Because in a few rare moments, there is loyalty. There's honor. Care. Sadness. Even humor when it's allowed to be there, beneath the very 2009 "sexual harassment is totally funny you guys".

There is a lot to talk about regarding Oghren, starting with mental health, and ending with the typical dwarven mentality being to cut ties with what they perceive to be lost causes (which also goes for Kal-Sharok, really), but... I can't shake this feeling that had he been written a few years later, with a touch slightly more careful than the ones with which he was originally handled, he could have been so much more.

..... Though I suppose there's some poetic irony in how the character who was let down by his people would also be one that was let down by his time.