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Your daily dose of fluffy animal content ♡

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i filmed the spirit of the forest behind my house

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I filmed a fox right at the back of our house!

It's not the most exciting thing, but its nice to know there are wild animals nearby as well.

An extra note on foxes in Bulgaria, they aren't as commonly seen in urban areas (though my area can be seen as not particularly urban) because we still have a lot of stray dogs which compete with them for the tasty human trash we have lying around.

NB the date is wrong because whoopsie, this is from about a week ago.

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blep

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Grey heron (Ardea cinerea) found passed away

Thracian Valley, Bulgaria

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Deinotherium thraceiensis (Kovachev, 1964), Miocene, Ezerovo, Plovdiv District - The Entrance hall of the Sofia University Museum of Paleontology and Historical Geology!

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some prehistoric animal models from the kinda hidden Paleontology and Historical Geology Museum of Sofia University!

sad to see they're kinda busted :(

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Myocastor coypus (Molina, 1782)

Mammalia, Rodentia

♀ juv. or subad.

Locality: Sofia Zoo (captive)

Perished from piercing wound during

interspecies conflict on 29.10.2023

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Gifted by a friend who works at the zoo after he saw a talk I did on beavers! tysm Andy! He have it to me mostly clean, but I finished the last bits off (took like a month and a half too hah) v happy with how it turned out!

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wild boar (Sus scrofa L.) skulls

University of Forestry, Sofia, Bulgaria

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crappy taxidermy at the Universe of Forestry in Sofia, Bulgaria

lynx, European wildcat (x2) and wolf

where are the eyelids?

shrink wrap galore

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Fallow deer (Dama dama L.) antler growth

University of Forestry, Sofia, Bulgaria

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i found a gopro for dirt cheap at a flea market, my partner fixed it up and guess what it's used for now 🤠

Balkan crested newt (Triturus ivanbureschi)

Bistritsa, Bulgaria

you can see him swim so well!!!

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big madame froggerina

i forgot the species

Bistritsa, Bulgaria

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Alpine newt (Ichthyosaura alpestris)

Vitosha Mountain, Bulgaria

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Alpine newt (Ichthyosaura alpestris)

Vitosha Mountain, Bulgaria

edit: she's a lady

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largest collection of otter shit pics you will ever encounter

and i have more

They eat mostly fish and crustaceans sometimes small mammals (one of the shits has a pair of water vole incisors in there) which is why there are loads kf bones and scales and stuff visible. Their intestines have extra secretions to protect them from being torn up by the hard stuff in their diet.

Taken during a field survey on otter presence in rivers in the Thracian Valley, Bulgaria