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why-animals-do-the-thing · 11 days

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People never seem to want to hang out at animal habitats. If they can’t see something immediately, they just leave. If you’re patient enough to stay, sometimes incredibly magical experiences happen. Like this one.

Those are California condors. Biggest wingspan in North America, incredibly endangered, and the only species with approval from USDA for emergency use of the poultry avian flu vaccine.

Towards the end of the day, once things got quiet, I sat down near where one was foraging and just hung out. Then… they noticed me.

I can only upload one video so I’m going with the one where I was showing them my glasses, since they kept trying to peck at my shoelaces and fingers and I wondered what else they'd be interested in.

They stayed there with me for at least five minutes, given the duration of video I took. Just chilling, watching me, interacting a little. It was just us - nobody else approached. Until eventually they chose to go do their own thing, and I sat there in awe for a while.

It’s worth it to wait, when you can.

#california condors #cool experiences #zoo animals #I tried to upload this from the zoo yesterday on mobile and it got flagged mature content ofc #I have face?#mask rep

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chloesimaginationthings · 2 months

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Do you guys fuck with the FNAF books?…

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herd-reject-arts · 1 year

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So I'm leaving work and something darts in front of me, maybe 10ft away, too fast for me to see what it is. Peek around the tree blocking my path and I see this

Just like... a whole ass hawk. Dude's gotta be about 1.5ft tall. Massive fucking bird. And it's just staring me straight in my soul like this, even as I try to move ahead. It didn't budge. And there's only this path back to my car unless I want to walk on a busy highway. So I have the option of Death By Raptor or Death By Truck.

So I walk in the poison ivy filled patch off the sidewalk. Guy still isn't moving. Still staring me directly in the eyes. And I do this thing when animals are behaving strangely where I'll talk to them, so I'm just like, "Hey, man. I don't know you. You don't know me. This feels really threatening. I'm just trying to get to my car, dude. Can I get some space please? You're a big fucking bird. I see those claws. You could kill me right now, but I'd appreciate if you didn't, ok?"

It didn't move until I was about 2ft away. Again: I'm as far from it as I can be without walking into the street. It clearly wasn't going to budge. I walk past, thing flies up (silent, btw. Scary) and lands on a brick wall a little further ahead

Anyway. Weird guy. Nearly shit my pants when I noticed a bird big enough to carry off a fully grown cat was just... there, staring me in the face, unwilling to move away from me, a human, something it should see as a threat. I watched behind me the whole rest of the way to my car, just in case this bird decided to help me shed this mortal coil. 10/10 experience. Super cool guy.

#not vc sorry #bird #birds #aves #raptor #hawk #red shouldered hawk #i think. might be wrong on that id #accipitriformes #birds of prey #honestly a really cool guy so close up #I'm happy i wasn't attacked. i would not want to fight a guy that big.#talons on this bird were huge. big scary.#I've never heard of large predatory birds just landing in front of people like that so i don't know what gives #it didn't catch any food or anything. just landed near me then stared me down.#I don't know a lot about bird behavior so i tried to not look back at it but still.#it also didn't look injured. seemed like a healthy bird #if anyone has any idea why this thing would act the way it did I'd love to know

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saradiation · 5 months

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Hey it's that time of the year again :D

HAPPY 413! 🎂

#my time zone is a little early haha BUT HAPPY 413 EVERYONE <3 #this is kind of a redraw of last year's 413 illustration and I'm so glad I could see some progress :)#I tried to make them look their age + keep their personalities and also give them cool GT outfits instead of the pjs ones I often draw #idk how much of that you can see though 🫣#ANYWAY I had so much fun drawing them all together again!#homestuck #homestuck fanart #homestuck art #beta kids #413 #happy 413 #john egbert #rose lalonde #jade harley #dave strider #my art

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crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington · 3 months

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"You and me, Ethan. Together we go save Rose, and then we can grind Miranda into paste!"

#ethan winters #karl heisenberg #wintersberg #resident evil #resident evil fanart #rebhfun #resident evil village #resident evil 8 #re8 #re8 if karl didnt fumble so hard he literally died #anytime i draw wintersberg know that it is under the assumption that karl did not propose to use rosemary as a weapon #it would be incredibly ooc for ethan to agree to something like that and also increidbly immoral 😭#anyone who blames ethan is nuts #why should it have been on ethan to negotiate with the dude who has done nothing to prove himself as trustworthy #karl literally tries to SCARE ethan into taking his deal #thats like a huge sign that its gonna be a horrible partnership #i love karl #hes a great character #but him thinking that ethan would ever accept his deal was just delusional #anyways #ethan was not stupid or wrong for not taking karls deal #anyone who geniunly believes ethan was a idiot for not taking the deal is forgetting that he is in fact his own character #and would rightfully not want to use his baby under a vague deal that doesnt even elaborate on details #a karl and ethan teamup WOULD be cool #but with the deal karl proposed #it was doomed from the start #*rants about why karl and ethan should never teamed up *#*draws wintersberg*#ok rant over whatever

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liimonadas · 4 months

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a part of me goes out to all the monsterfuckers who are surely missing the old design. a bigger part of me is gay

#“where have you been lem” i've been playing hades 2 #they dropped the early access a few days before my exam session concluded its like a gift for me specifically #ermmm anyways chaos design got me feeling things sorry #i tried to make them look as cool and regal as they do in the game i hope i did them justice #hades game #hades 2 #chaos #hades 2 spoilers #fanart #art

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tawnysoup · 26 days

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the fritter (frin critter)

#inspo struck right after posting the last two. some kind of a hermit crab. a snail #they think they look all cool and mysterious under their safety shelter but if u remove it they're a disastrous puffball of uncombed fur #the hat is not accurate to an adult human btw. i tried to put them in a full size hat and they were lost forever. this is a child sized hat #they need to swap out for bigger hats as they grow #MY FRIENDS WROTE AND DREW SO MUCH FOR THE FRITTER I HOPE THEY CAN REBLOG AND ADD BC THEYRE SO GOOD <3 #we started making a whole au about critter species in the wild and how they interact and survive. very fascinating.#i need to collect all the worldbuilding into one place eventually. rn all i'll say is.. overworked odile petsmart employee (tealgoat's idea #isat #in stars and time #isat siffrin #my art #a6se/twohats (this tag only) implication then is that loop is bald i guess aksdks. loop = wild shorthair. fritter = domestic longhair.

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hyenaa-euphoria · 8 months

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hope 1/???

more angst!! i am actually building an au around this comic but I’ve never done aus before so like this is new to me!!!

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cracklewink · 7 months

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Part 4/5 of my MLP Infection AU!!

This was the part I was most excited for, I literally drew this whole thing just to explain my fan pony species lol

#mlp #mlp infection au #my little pony #mlp horror #mlp fim #sunset shimmer #zecora #This whole time I was like I have to get through this. to draw MONSTER PONIES #Sleigh ponies can have anywhere from 4-8 legs #Also can have doubled ears and double or even triple tails #They also have the split pupils and a rainbow hair streak #Unicorns can get split horns and pegasi (or alicorns) can get multiple wings #be rough if you end up with an uneven number. LOL #No rougher than eating meat for the rest of your life when you were previously a grass-eating horse though #I tried coming up w cool name for the vaccine so its HPE as in “Hope”

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lilybug-02 · 2 months

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Plan has been thwarted.

Bug Fact: Researchers have observed REM-like behavior in Jumping spiders. Suggesting that spiders may experience dream-like sleep.

First || Prev // Next

Masterpost

#Mato and Sly having the most awkward meeting while things happen in the foreground #Dewi mostly really just wanted to go to a cool bug dream world #Jiji has so little lore guys. I basically just made her lines up. but i tried to be as close to cannon as possible #art #my art #Hollow knight #Hollow knight au #hollow knight hornet #dewi's adventures in Hollow knight

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morganbritton132 · 9 months

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Eddie posts a Tiktok like, “If you are interest in someone, do not tell my husband. Steve is the worst person to tell. All he does is judge you and then criticize them.

Steve, off camera: That’s not true.

Eddie: It is true! Grant just - Grant, can I tell people this? …Cool - Grant just told us that him and his ex-wife have been talking about getting back together. And that’s great! A normal person would say ‘that’s great, man.’

Eddie: Not Steve. Steve’s response was ‘the ex that can’t cook for shit or the one with the big tits?’

Steve: It’s a valid question!

Eddie: Stevie, baby. When Robin told you she was a lesbian, the first thing you did was criticize the girl she had a crush on

Steve: Yeah, because she was a dud

Eddie: And when I told I loved for the first time, you winced at me like I was making a bad decision. You asked ‘why?’

Eddie: And i didn’t even say it first! You already said it a week before!!

Steve: I just think that you should have standards

Eddie: I do!

#Steve said I love you first and early and Eddie tried to play it cool like ‘I know’#except Steve didn’t get the reference and it took a while for Eddie to realize that and then he also had D&D #so it took a week for him to properly say it back #but by then Steve already decided that he was unlovable and was just lucky Eddie still wanted to kiss him after he embarrassed himself #Eddie had a lot of making up to do and Robin made sure he did #eddie munson tiktok saga #steve harrington #eddie munson

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lazylittledragon · 2 months

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i'm in one of those phases where i really wish i believed in manifesting and spellcasting and things like that bc you know when you want something so bad you're literally praying for the universe to let it happen

#ramble #this is not me judging by the way i think it's cool as fuck i just don't do it personally #context: a lot of my 'dream jobs' are now just 'ways to make money that i might not absolutely hate'#but i have one (1) legit dream job and it's literally FINGERTIPS away from me right now #i feel like most people who know me can guess what it is and know how badly i want it #i'm not even letting myself daydream about it or talk about it too much because i'm so afraid of not getting it and being disappointed #and also i don't want to like. jinx it #i've tried so many times before but this is the closest i've ever been and i feel SICK i want to bite something

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krysmcscience · 5 months

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Look, Aym, I know you wanna annoy your big bro sometimes, but y'all really gotta stop putting the death god into silly mode. He is Very Dangerous, you see. ŎuŎ;

this idea wouldn't go away until i drew it so here it is lmfao

#fanart #cult of the lamb #cotl #cotl narinder #cotl aym #cotl baal #comics #the lamb tries to engage narinder's silly mode One (1) Time #they regret it the instant his giant paw comes bearing down on them like fukken kitty armageddon #get martyr'd idiot #anyway my buddy told me the dialogue could come across as flirty somehow??? which my aroace ass doesn't get At All #but just in case i wanna say right here and now:#if you tag this as shipping between aym and baal you are getting a block from me So Fast #ship what you want - i am totes cool with that - but keep it away from my art k thnx :)#aside from bishop orphans it's basically gonna be all narilamb from this point on #i just had to get the rest of this stuff outta my system first XD

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chloesimaginationthings · 6 months

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Your Cassidy design gives me life, exactly how I envisioned her.