#big animals

[babyanimalgifs]

Sneezing appears to bring up complex emotions for lions.. 

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[paddysnuffles]

People reacting to my blog post on animal sizes: Moose aren't that big! That's just a perspective illusion!

Me, a rural Canadian: Wanna bet?

Moose be like:

^ This is a young one! Photo from Kings County Museum Archives.

^ Some dude called Albert Vaillancourt would travel around challenging people to race his moose with their horse teams. Photo from Kings County Museum Archives.

However big you think moose are, they're probably bigger.

[nemesisvortex]

you know what REALLY tickles my fancy?

Big animals

like- REALLY big animals

I learn about the Titanoboa, or Elasmotherium and just go FERAL

their modern counterparts aren't even things I particularly like, I just see big, I just see cute and I want one

50 foot long snake that comes up to my waist in height? ohohoho inject it('s venom) right into my veins

Siberian Unicorn that is twice my height, hohoho! that's a cuddle buddy right there!

I see a Tyrannosaurus Rex that is twice its regular size and go mwamwamwa give me a kissy cutie-pie

[autistic-eight]

Reblog if you are autistic and you love megafauna, maybe even add your favourite huge animal in the comments! I'm trying to see a thing.

[zeekizeii]

So like good to know if someone wanted to make a His Dark Materials MHA AU, the pieces are already there.

[factober]

हाथियों की सूंड के बारे में 10 हैरान करने वाले #तथ्य (#Interestingfacts)

हाथियों की सूंड के बारे में 10 हैरान करने वाले #तथ्य (#Interestingfacts #elephants #animals #animalkingdom) #fascinating #fact #facts #wildlife #trunks #wildlifephotography https://youtu.be/8ACVR4a8GVs via @YouTube

[subbalakshmisastry]

Family Of Nilghai / Blue Bull @ Bannerghatta National Park Bengaluru, Ba...

[delphinidin4]

[pinocthepiccolo]

I now realise that between Draft Horses and Wandering Albatrosses, I may have a slight affinity for large animals.

[thedisablednaturalist]

Im fucking sobbing looking at the new black footed cat at Utah's Hogle zoo

Shes just a fucking baby

Baby with a 60% successful kill rate

[spr0utsies]

[canisalbus]

✦ Bread ✦

[juiche]

a moment of peace before the whole world shatters 😇

[reasonsforhope]

"In one of Africa’s last great wildernesses, a remarkable thing has happened—the scimitar-horned oryx, once declared extinct in the wild, is now classified only as endangered.

It’s the first time the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world’s largest conservation organization, has ever moved a species on its Red List from ‘Extinct in the Wild’ to ‘Endangered.’

The recovery was down to the conservation work of zoos around the world, but also from game breeders in the Texas hill country, who kept the oryx alive while the governments of Abu Dhabi and Chad worked together on a reintroduction program.

Chad... ranks second-lowest on the UN Development Index. Nevertheless, it is within this North African country that can be found the Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Faunal Reserve, a piece of protected desert and savannah the size of Scotland—around 30,000 square miles, or 10 times the size of Yellowstone.

At a workshop in Chad’s capital of N’Djamena, in 2012, Environment Abu Dhabi, the government of Chad, the Sahara Conservation Fund, and the Zoological Society of London, all secured the support of local landowners and nomadic herders for the reintroduction of the scimitar-horned oryx to the reserve.

Environment Abu Dhabi started the project, assembling captive animals from zoos and private collections the world over to ensure genetic diversity. In March 2016, the first 21 animals from this “world herd” were released over time into a fenced-off part of the reserve where they could acclimatize. Ranging over 30 miles, one female gave birth—the first oryx born into its once-native habitat in over three decades.

In late January 2017, 14 more animals were flown to the reserve in Chad from Abu Dhabi.

In 2022, the rewilded species was officially assessed by the IUCN’s Red List, and determined them to be just ‘Endangered,’ and not ‘Critically Endangered,’ with a population of between 140 and 160 individuals that was increasing, not decreasing.

It’s a tremendous achievement of international scientific and governmental collaboration and a sign that zoological efforts to breed endangered and even extinct animals in captivity can truly work if suitable habitat remains for them to return to."

-via Good News Network, December 13, 2023