#animal attack mention

[is-the-primate-vid-cute]

Let's talk about grimaces!

Grimaces and threats often get mixed up.

Macaques and chimpanzees tend to utilize similar facial expressions:

Photo source

Many people think barred teeth is an aggressive communication. Contrary to that, a grimace or barred teeth is almost always used for conflict avoidance. Notice in the above picture, the fear grimace features eyes that aren't fully focused on subject (eye contact is often used to communicate confidence/aggression), lips pulled all the way back (mouth can be open or closed), and eyebrows lifted. Versus the threat face with features direct eye contact, relaxed lips, and lowered brow.

Chimpanzee grimaces in particular get misinterpreted in this way.

Pop quiz!

Is this a submissive chimp or an aggressive chimp?

If you guessed submissive, you would be correct! ✅

This chimpanzee is approaching a higher ranker and using this fear grimace expression to communicate a desire not to fight. Notice the head down, lips fully drawn, and raised hairs.

An aggressive chimpanzee would instead be screaming, displaying, lunging, chasing or attempting to strike the intended party. Showing teeth is their way of appeasing a perceived threat. When that threat does not get the message, then the chimpanzee must choose to defend itself or to run. In alot of cases where chimpanzees attack humans, they are inappropriately kept such as pets or as tourist attractions and the ability to leave has been taken from them. Their only option then, after showing teeth to deescalate a threat, is to get physical as a measure of self-defense.

A major factor in this large-scale misunderstanding of chimpanzee expressions is due to media confusing the public with images such as greeting cards:

The above image can be found on cards, e-cards and more as a "happy" expression. This is a chimpanzee experiencing distress but many look at this image and think the chimp is smiling. If this animal were to be pushed to defend itself, those who don't understand chimpanzee body language would think the chimp attacked out of no-where.

So, What does a happy chimp look like?

Fear grimace Play face

Photo via Save the Chimps

Notice the tense eyes, wide lips, and raised hairs in the photo on the left. The play face features soft eyes, relaxed lips, jaw hanging ajar and would be paired with a breathy pant.

Both expressions feature some exposed teeth so referring to play faces as a "smile" could cause confusion and ultimately put humans or chimps in danger when there's a misunderstanding on body language.

[lifblogs]

Would y’all ever be interested in me writing an animal attack fic someday? I don’t know if I’ve done enough exposure therapy though. That’s the problem. But I’d be hella good at it since, you know, animal attack survivor over here. You ever want gory details, I might be able to provide.

[walks-the-ages]

(For the Halloween Horror prompts set, because I was half asleep at 2am when I typed out the most amazing horrifying horror story possible, only for my phone to reach 0% battery and shut down right as I was about to tap the 'post' button because in my half asleep state I forgot my phone had less than 5% battery.

Rip to that original prompt, it was positively haunting.)

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Quantum Leap Writing Prompt, Unlucky #13: 

Sam Leaps into a young girl. 

He’s Leaped into the middle of her father’s latest violent rampage, and he’s had to deal with the immediate, terrifying aftermath of it, so he knows just what horrors this girl has lived through.

Sam’s immediate instinct was to run away, to get help, but there’s a monster of a storm outside to rival the monster in the house⏤ a low level hurricane is sweeping through their isolated neck of rural nothingness, and Sam barely gets fifteen feet from the house before he’s forced to turn back as powerlines come crashing down in front of him, sparks flying, plunging everything into complete utter darkness as the house loses power, with no other living souls around for miles.

Soaking wet and chilled to the bone, Sam is forced to retreat back into the monster’s den.

When Al finally shows up hours later, Sam is grim but unsurprised at Al’s proclamation:

In 48 hours, he’s going to be murdered by the girl’s abusive father.

Sam, with an anxiety-induced headache, does his best to avoid the girl's father for the next few hours but it's impossible to avoid the man when he seeks him out constantly, always ready with an excuse to verbally and physically go on the attack. 

Then, out of nowhere⏤ the next time the father walks into the room where Sam is scrubbing the floor-- The monster suddenly starts acting strange.

Suddenly, he’s being nice, and it’s so incredibly disturbing, this heel-face turn.

Sam’s disturbed, wondering what kind of fucked up, sick game the father is playing at before he murders his daughter…. 

Only every single time the father says or does something ‘nice’, Ziggy flips out on the handlink, because the future is changing. 

Sam still dies in 48 hours.

Only now the father dies too, he’s found in the living room a week later, but the daughter’s body isn’t found until years later, deep in the woods, with teeth marks etched deeply into the old bones.

And the future changes again: now Sam still dies in the house, but the father stumbles into town (a full 20 miles away) the next day, soaked from the rain and bleeding from multiple bite wounds, raving about a broken stove before falling unconscious from blood loss, never regaining consciousness and succumbing to infection.

And again⏤ now both the daughter and the father die in the house, they’re found each in their own beds, and no cause of death was ever determined.

The future keeps shifting, but Sam is still dead in all of them.

Is this it?

Is this going to be Sam’s last Leap?

Sam feels dizzy, sick with fear just thinking about it.

On top of being so disturbingly friendly, there’s other strange changes in the father:

He stares into the middle distance for minutes at a time, and talks to himself under his breath a lot, (though Sam can’t make sense of the snatches of ‘conversation’ he hears, it seems to all be one-sided) and he starts changing his voice and mannerisms too, as though it’s another person speaking. 

The hours pass agonizingly slowly as Sam waits for the other shoe to drop, and finally the father tells Sam to go to bed.

Sam spends the whole night wide awake, exhausted, the headache pounding in his head, staring at the door, waiting for the monster to make his first move…

 But nothing happens that night, and the father is just as strange and kind in the morning, still playing whatever sick game he’s got going on, trying to lure Sam into a false sense of security before he murders his daughter in 24 hours…

It’s a race against the clock, but not everything is what it seems…

Can Sam survive this house of horrors?

{behind-the-scenes extra details under the cut for you angst and horror lovers]

Aka, Sam Leaps into a little girl who's going to be murdered by her abusive father.....

......And Post-Canon Sam Leaps into the abusive Father, with no hologram or supercomputer to tell him what the situation or the deadly danger they're both in.

Oblivious to each other's presence, can they discover the deadly danger that lies hidden at the center of this Leap before it's too late? 

Al's the only one not effected by the invisible killer, and it’s already started to put it’s deadly spell on both Sams…

It starts slow: headaches, then dizzy spells, nausea, then exhaustion, weakness, confusion and unconsciousness.

The Silent Killer has been lurking and gaining strength since the power went out, since the Father turned on the gas stove and never turned it off.

Carbon Monoxide is going to be the death of Sam Beckett unless Al can find a way to save his best friend.

Does future!Plural!Sam have one last chance to say goodbye to his best friend after eternity since he saw him last in Mirror Images?

Oh, and if they try to escape the house, there's packs of wild dogs free roaming the woods and will attack if either of the Sams tries to make the 20 mile hike to town for help, because people in the South down here genuinely just let their goddamn fucking vicious dogs roam the streets freely in a major city, I cannot even begin to imagine what it must be like in the countryside.

Anyways, Future Sam is from my little mental and WIP rewrite of QL starting with Heart of a Champion where Sam is actually uhhh traumatized by the electric chair thing and everything else he's been through.

Actual body swap AU no cheap cop-outs with Sam being able to see while in the body of a blind man or whatever. Sam actually deals with the Leaps in the shoes of the Leapee.

Sam is very much traumatized by all the crap he goes through including being shot in the head and then further, being killed in the electric chair.

Having a panic attack in the opening of Heart of a Champion leads to a concussion leads to a whole split in the timeline where Sam actually gets to react to the trauma of One Last Dance Before An Execution or whatever it was called and then he gets shoved right back into the horror with Shock Theater two Leaps later with much different consequences.

[thoughtsonhurtandcomfort]

Shae + 🍂??

from falling muses prompts

🍂fall out of a tree

Content Warnings: tiny whump, faerie whump, cold weather, environmental whump, falling, cuts/scratches, mild injury, brief mention of an animal attack

(thank you!)

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At the time, climbing this high seemed like a good idea. Running for his life from a hungry lynx, Shae had spotted a thick evergreen among the barren trees and scrambled up it. Up and up and up until the needles were too thick for the cat to follow and the pine masked his scent.

Shae only stops when he is too spent to go on. Straddling a thin branch, he flops back against the trunk and lets his burning limbs dangle. It takes him several minutes to catch his breath.

He has no intention of coming down that night. Not when gleaming eyes, sharp teeth and claws like daggers might be waiting. The adrenaline of the chase starts to fade and Shae quickly dozes off.

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Morning brings strong winds whistling through the forest. The sky is gray and the air carries the sharp chill of winter.

The little faerie wakes shivering. He wraps his arms tight around himself but it's no substitute for the jacket he shed the day before, trying to throw the lynx off his scent. His shoes are long gone and his clothes are threadbare, the same tunic and pants he's been wearing since getting lost weeks ago. They do little to stave off the cold.

He has to get down...get somewhere warmer, maybe some bushes or, if he's lucky, an abandoned burrow -

A sudden gust slams into the tree so suddenly that Shae, numb and groggy, doesn't even have a chance to hold on. The branches rattle and Shae loses his balance and topples from his perch.

The tightly packed branches at the top slow his fall while the needles scratch his skin and catch on his clothes. Shae scrambles for something to hold onto. He manages to grab a twig, one barely strong enough to hold him. It sags from his weight and Shae slides down to the end, tearing up the skin of his palm. He nearly lets go and only at the last moment brings his other hand up to cling to the twig.

Shae sways there for several moments, catching his breath. As his racing heart calms the sharp sting of his scratches and cuts and bleeding hand catch up with him. He whimpers and looks down; the ground looks so far away, and he doesn’t know if he has the strength to make the climb...

He never gets to find out.

Another strong wind plucks the faerie from the twig and sends him flying to the next tree over where he smacks into the trunk. This tree is barren; there is nowhere for him to go but down.

Shae drops like a stone until he hits the first branch. It’s almost thick enough to hold him, but not quite. He falls again and again, his limp body bouncing from one branch to another, while he is helpless to do anything but let out little oofs and ows.

He lands heavily in a patch of dry leaves. With wobbling arms he tries to prop himself up, but when he puts pressure on his stinging hand it’s more than he can bear, and he collapses.

It’s far from safe but a gnarled root shields him from the wind and the leaves are softer than the ground. Shae is so weak, so battered; his clothes are in shreds, useless against the winter air. The stings of cold and of cuts become indistinguishable from one another.

When a breeze carries more leaves to pile on top of him, it’s almost comforting. As they build it becomes like a blanket. Not quite warm, but safe, shielding him from predators and blocking out the bright gray sky as Shae blinks slowly, blearily, and gives in to sleep.

[dragonbleps]

I saw a repost of a news video (from last week, in the US) on youtube about a girl and her mother being attacked by a rabid raccoon, and like 98% of the thousands of comments were all either 1) Angry at how the mom treated the raccoon, 2) Feeling sowwy for the raccoon (but omitting the now traumatized 5-year-old from their Thoughts and Prayers), or 3) Joking at how funnee the raccoon was, how silly, how it "just wanted a hug", how confusedly cutely it waddled away and being glad it was ok

Are people just not taught about rabies anymore?? because they seemed genuine in their concern for the raccoon and the only excuse I can think of is ignorance.

[fairymint]

🔎 - Their last 3 search terms

discord down zigzagoon attacks daughter amd adrenaline settings risk of rain 2

[keepyourpantsongohan]

Entertaining Highlights from Naruto Retsuden:

Kakashi being compared to both a mountain goat and a sloth in the span of a single page!!

For some reason, in a world of near entirely names of Japanese (or very rarely, English) origin, there's a blind astronomer named Jean-Marc Tatar, seemingly the only French man in the history in the Naruto universe, who is also friends with Ninja God.

This exchange between Sakura and Naruto: “Same old idiot as always.” “Me? Sasuke?” “Both of you, obviously.”

The reveal that there's a nap room next to the Hokage's office!

The insane reveal that Orochimaru has developed a pair of goggles that look exactly like Obito's from when he was kid but give you the power to use the Byakugan?!

Naruto perfectly landing motorcycle jump over a cat with zero practice while being shot at by laser beam drones??

Naruto's little antisocial scientist friend repeatedly saying how much she doesn't need friends and Naruto going, “I’m not gonna force you to connect with people or whatever, you know,” like that hasn't been how he's resolved every conflict he's ever had.

The incredibly specific take from Yamato that by himself he can raise a mokuton pillar 310,000 feet into the air to support the weight of a motorcycle. Babygirl. Why do you know this!!

Sakura, Sasuke and Naruto having this impressive little adventure in the clouds before it immediately cuts to Sai also thousands of feet in the air slowly suffocating of altitude sickness, who unlike them doesn't have an oxygen tank, because Shikamaru is not a medic but also maybe an idiot.

Sakura realizing that Sasuke is about to do something incredibly dangerous so they share a little kiss above Naruto's head (on a motorcycle, 660,000 feet vertically in the air).

[traumasurvivors]

While it doesn’t really bother me, and I just delete the messages, I want to bring attention to this because not everyone is okay with having trauma details dumped into their inbox.

It feels like a common theme on the internet nowadays honestly. And I’m mostly making this post to ask people to be mindful. There are still real people behind these screens. And dumping such details to someone without their consent can be triggering for them, exhausting or any number of things.

Being lonely sucks. Feeling alone is awful. And I’m sorry for that. But please don’t assume that internet strangers are okay with you sending them messages or comments about some trauma details.

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion.

The mod hasn't seen this but wants to based on the premise alone (it's also set on Guy Fawkes' Night which is great).

[oifaaa]

As someone who is very passionate about translation and about to start an MA in Japanese translation this fall:

THANK YOU.

The subs vs dubs argument annoys the hell out of me. You’re completely right and you should say it

(Also, I love your art)

People seem to forget that dubbed animes aren't the same as they were 20/30 years ago when the people making them were less likely to have ever watched an anime before and just tried to treat it like any other western cartoon - the people making dubbed anime today are fans of anime, they're treating it more professionally as it's being taken more seriously they don't deserve to have their work dismissed just bc the people dubbing pokemon had to call a rice ball a donut back in the early 00s so they wouldn't confused the poor little white children who had never seen rice before

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

Did you see the part where Meg was annoyed that only dogs can be qualified to be service medical dogs? lol guess she's mad a bird can't be a service cardic arrest animal. Once again pulled up the "people think only DOGS can be trained to do this!!! How dare they!!!" *grumbling about mammalian bias* argument. I'm sorry Meg but your fucking bird or a rabbit cannot be a service animal for the blind or anything that dogs have be bred to do

me when they won’t let my service crocodile into Walmart:

[is-the-primate-vid-cute]

i love orangutans. a chimpanzee would kill you if you look at it wrong but orangutans just seem peaceful. like they'll mess you up but at long as you dont hurt them they seem pretty nice

You're right- you would be hard pressed to find evidence of an orangutan attack.

While this is only a side-note in your ask, I want to address the statement "a chimpanzee would kill you if you look at it wrong". We love orangutans, but we also love chimps and won't take chimp slander!

A lot of people, including those who follow this blog, are prone to villainizing chimpanzees for their aggression and social structures.

Yes, chimpanzees are incredibly powerful animals who have a reputation for war and physical violence. Being fearful of them and their seemingly trigger-happy aggression is understandable given the media content and the many chimpanzees who has famously attacked in the past; but they are also so much more!

Chimpanzees are capable of empathy. They adopt orphaned youngsters, even males will adopt a baby in need (Sniff, documented by Jane Goodall). They play. They have a rich vocal repertoire, one that allows them to communicate different predator threats. They can communicate fear, excitement, and They LAUGH! They need reassurance from one another- reaching out to their mothers for support or embracing one another after a tiff. They kiss their young. They teach each other how to utilize and make tools. They routinely show capacity for commitment, trust, altruism, and caring,

And they suffer.

Chimpanzees all over the world live isolated in labs, human homes, or inadequate facilities away from proper social groups, care or quality of life. These living situations do not allow the chimpanzees their natural behaviors, or their natural comforts, leaving them overly-stressed and reactive. Their natural habitat is shrinking- with each group being forced to overlap territories; this causes conflict. The blood-thirsty reputation chimpanzees have gained is due, in full, to humans.

Who are we to pass judgement on how wild animals react to fear or pain? How can we say, "oh they should be more like bonobos and solve their conflicts sexually" Ask them to change the natural course of their lives to better suit our morals? Are we so much better at resolving conflict, as a species? Do we villainize them as a way to deflect our own violent tendencies? 

To love chimpanzees is to love them the way they are. They are exactly how they need to be! Their unfortunate violent reputation is not something we want to encourage. When we speak about the deadly force chimpanzees are capable of, we must acknowledge our own role in their lives and give the animals respect as beautiful, complex animals deserving of a healthy dose of fear and wonder.

Not only that, but remember that aggression is not species exclusive! Even the "peaceful" apes can act in ways we might not expect. Aggression can sometimes be a positive sign of rehabilitation! Orangutan jungle school graduates that have moved to free roam in forests can behave anywhere from apathetic to aggressive towards the people helping them, which is a positive sign for their survival.

This is a video I love, this newly released male orangutan is not afraid to fight for his independence! Theres another video of an adult male orangutan fending off humans here, the people have his best interests in mind but not knowing their intentions, he makes a formidible adversary.

It's easy to typecast a whole species, and we add that aggression can happen in any species not to scold but to encourage loving primates in their entirety- warts and all 🦧❤️

[lifblogs]

I am actually still incredibly pissed about the idea that certain injuries are self-inflicted/aavoidable when it comes to animals.

No, please just stop. Don’t even say that. Why blame someone who’s already suffering?

And I’m going to go into some detail about a personal story involving an animal attack under the cut.

I was 15. I was taking out the trash. The neighbor’s Siberian Husky, who knew me fairly well, got out of his enclosure as he sometimes did. He came over to me for pets, and I was petting him and having a good time, and he was having a good time because he was leaning against me, and he was clearly calm.

I knew the neighbor was having a hard time getting him back within the confines of the fence, so I, knowing that I had a good repetoire with this dog, decided to help out.

I reached for his collar, and he attacked me.

I suffered so much from the attack, and I have PTSD, and scarring and some impairments TO THIS DAY.

Was this my fault? Was this avoidable? Who the fuck knows or cares?

I used the information I had to make a judgement.

Being near an animal always poses some kind of statistical risk. Does that make the harm our faults? Does that mean we shouldn’t spend any time with animals at all to make the situation “avoidable”?

No, that’s such a victim blaming, bs take. The attack was not my fault. All the suffering was not my fault.

So stop fucking blaming people for things that happened to them that were out of their control! We can’t predict the future, only live in the moment! Blaming people for their suffering is ableist and beyond hurtful!

[walks-the-ages]

Literally mind-blowing that people think Nope 2022 is ableist for having a character (Mary Jo Elliott) portray the fictional counterpart to the real life Charla Nash, because they thought her inclusion in the movie as a disfigured woman was for the "shock value" of her face, and that the audience is supposed to find her appearance scary.

Like. Literally how do you miss the point that much?

The horror is not that she is disfigured.

You're not supposed to find her scary.

You're not supposed to be horrified at her appearance.

You're supposed to be horrified that she was victimized by a system that neither cared for the safety of her and her costars as human beings, or about the animals they were working with.

an abusive system that chose to put people and wild animals in close contact and stressful situations for entertainment and profit,

that as one of only two survivors of the attack, Mary Jo is once again a victim of the same system that is attempting to exploit wild animals for the sake of spectacle, but instead of tv producers, it's her fellow survivor continuing to perpetrate the cycle,

the one person who should have been able to understand the danger, the one person who should have realized just how badly this could go wrong, and instead he's embracing the danger, thinking he's special, that he's lucky, that he was "chosen" because he escaped the Gordy's Home attack physically unscathed where the others were ripped apart and died.

We are not meant to find Mary Jo Elliot / Charla Nash scary or horrifying because of their injuries.

We are supposed to be horrified at what she was put through for the sake of entertainment,

the pain and trauma she was put through because other people thought themselves capable of controlling a wild animal,

And the fact that here she is, once again, being subjected to the same horror, only this time it's at the hand of a friend who should have known better, having lived through the same attack.

We, the audience, The Viewers if you will, are not supposed to find Mary Jo Elliot / Charla Nash horrifying for her scars-- we are meant to be horrifed in how she gained those scars.

The entire premise of Nope is a commentary on the exploitation of animals and people for entertainment and the inherent danger therein, and inviting the audience into researching the real history Charla Nash's attack by Travis the Chimp is literally just a way to show this is not just a horror movie, these things happen in real life and we need to stop this from happening again

Like. This movie is as against the exotic pet trade as you can possibly get, especially because this is still very much a problem today, chimpanzees and other primates are still legal to own in almost half of the United States,

the 2011 Zanesville "Zoo Escape" is right there,

And oh look! A quick Google search pulls of an NBC video from June 23rd, 2021 , of someone who owned a Chimpanzee for 17 years having her 50 year old daughter viciously attacked and having to lock herself and her bleeding daughter in the basement so she could call 911 and direct police to do a headshot on the chimpanzee so they could get medical attention.

Like.

This is not a cheap "haha, disfigured people are scary villains and we're showing her for the shock value"

this is literally a horror story about what this woman lived through and is being put through again by someone she should have been able to trust,

and a lesson that things need to change, because this is not just a single incident that happened decades in the past, this is happening right now, and it's going to keep happening until we enact real change to protect people and animals from suffering.

[objectum-culture-is]

Objectum/Plushum culture is feeling gross/like a zoophile for having a crush on a dog stuffed animal, even though you know it's okay and your attraction to her isn't because she's a dog.

-🐌

(sorry if this is tmi/vent-ish -∆-)

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[ayyy-imma-ninja]

What triggers Sunny? Wanna make sure to keep all his triggers away from him too

He hates rats.

And by extension, rodents in general.

Despises them.

Loathes them.

If he hears anything that resembles the squeak or skittering of a mouse or rat, he goes completely rigid, like he's either about to pounce or jump to the ceiling. If he thinks it's there, he will turn the place upside down to find it and kill it.

If his anxiety worsens, he will start to hear and feel phantom rats crawling all over him. Even inside. He's ripped a few articles of clothing to "make them go away".

A child once found a mouse in the library and showed it to Sun. He nearly smacked the animal from the kid's hand but managed to refrain and told them to free it outside.

Another thing- he can't watch any films or TV that graphicly depict dead/dying children. Brings up horrible memories.