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arthistoryanimalia · 1 month

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Happy #InternationalDayOfTheSeal ! 🦭

Sea Lion Effigy Stirrup Vessel

Moche, Peru, 50-800 CE (Early Intermediate-Middle Horizon)

Earthenware (Blackware), H: 6 1/4 x W: 9 1/2 x D: 6 1/4 in. (15.9 x 24.1 x 15.9 cm)

The Walters Art Museum 48.2842 https://art.thewalters.org/detail/79387/seal-effigy-stirrup-vessel/

“This vessel shows a swimming sea lion, an animal commonly found on islands in the Pacific Ocean close to Peru. Apart from being an important source of food for Andean people, sea lions commonly swallow beach pebbles, which they later vomit up. These stones were considered to have powerful medicinal qualities, and could be ground to make herbal remedies in ancient Peru.”

🆔 South American Sea Lion (Otaria byronia)

#animals in art #animal holiday #ancient art #Moche art #Peruvian art #South American art #Indigenous art #ceramics #blackware #effigy #stirrup vessel #seal sea lion #Walters Art Museum #International Day of the Seal #species ID

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fictofaggot · 8 months

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i feel like this video is pretty popular on the internet for being creepy, but i've been looking for days, and i still can't figure out what species of siphonophore it is. does anyone on tumblr have an inkling of what kind it might be???

#deep sea creatures #siphonophore #marine biology #species id #species identification #i thought Bathyphysa conifera but i don't KNOW!!!!!!!!

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eddieintheocean · 4 months

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I got 18/23 on my species ID test!!

#yay #like 5 people got 100% and im upset i got out autisticed #eddie learns the ocean #species ID #marine invertebrates

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sun-rust · 8 months

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A couple days ago I decided to finally put my little mobile microscope to use and went hunting for some lichen and moss. I got three of what are probably the most common species in my country. The pictures are a little grainy but it was still fascinating to see them up close. Lichen & moss enthusiasts, let me know if you can identify these just from the macro shots! ☀️

#PS. stay tuned for part 2 where i looked at a brown coral mushroom #original irl #flora #funga #moss #lichen #zoom #macro #macro photography #microscope #id needed #species id #nature #bio #biology #bioblr #bioscience #botany

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charleyharperid · 9 months

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Cooper's hawk?

Northern Leopard Frog?

Snowy Egret

Assassin Snail

Green Anole

Coral ID is beyond me.

Queen Trigger Fish

Common Octopus?

Deer Mouse

Common Tern

Brittle Star (maybe O. wendtii)

Brain Coral (I guess coral ID isn't entirely beyond me)

Spotlight Parrotfish

Roseate spoonbill

Brown Pelican

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Whitetail Deer

Tropical Blue Wave

West Indian Manatee

Longsnout Seahorse

Bald Eagle

Atlantic Deep-sea Red Crab

Mangrove Cuckoo

Queen Angelfish

Great Black-backed Gull?

Everglades Rat Snake?

Magnificent Frigatebird

Green Turtle or Hawskbill Turtle

American Crocodile

Conch (maybe Queen Conch?)

#charley harper #wildlife wonders #animal id #thank you to my work colleague who grew up diving for the fish IDs #I am not good at fish #species id

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platypu · 2 years

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I don't know how to explain to people that studying zoology/ecology/marine biology is very different from learning about the name of every animal and plant you see on a hike

Like theres a massive difference from studying those fields and being able to do broad-scale species identification.

#obvsly being in those spaces will help but the most i learnt about indepth species id #was just from being addicted to inaturalist #zoology #biology #ecology #inaturalist #marine biology #species id #species identification #animals #nature #fauna

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asterwild · 1 year

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PENGUINS. all of them!

(not precisely to scale, but close)

#most species have a range of several inches and i was just eyeballin it #re: little vs fairy #wikipedia has them divided into two species (aus vs nz i think)#if this hadn't been so hastily put together i wouldnt have based it solely on wikipedia #and probably would've actually gone with the global penguin society who lists them as one #i'm no expert and have no idea what sort of taxonomical debates are going on & whether this is a hotly contested issue #but i did switch to just one when i updated this for prints and such #penguins #animals #animal art #birds #id in alt #all the things

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puppyeared · 5 months

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wanna see a magic trick? 🪄🎩

#YEAYYYY i like drawing this guy #now that i think abt it i cant remember the last time i saw a furry with tattoos.... ive decided not to think too hard about how it would #work but i think i like the idea of him getting playing card tats on his ears would be cool ^_^#apparently anthro species on furth include birds and mammals and i think fish amphibians and reptiles are non anthro #so instead of whipping out doves he would make white butterflies appear out of his hat :o)#its sort of meant to tie in with the ruffles on his shirt resembling a butterfly!!! i thought id make it close to a swallowtail so #that way its easy to see at a glance. i think that would look really cool irl #he looks a lot like joker p5 now that i look at it... it wasnt intentional but the red eyes and black messy hair is obvious huh #oh but the way his hair curls in the front isnt strictly in one direction just so that its easy to draw lol. its meant to curl around his #hat brim a little bc i thought it would look cool #my art #myart #my oc #oc #sleight #laika's comet #laika's comet oc #fan character #furry #furry art #fur

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somethingcorenotsure · 2 years

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I think it's so adorable that early humans took wild gourds - a tiny fruit that hollows out as it dries, making it float - and decided to make something out of it

they thought the tiny fruit was so good that they bred it for thousands of years, making it larger to form into bowls and cups, and different shapes to become bottles and spoons

and musical instruments

And then, people took the hollow gourds they farmed, and they turned them into houses for birds. We adapted them into the perfect houses for birds, and now there are specific breeds of birdhouse gourd just for making into birdhouses

And humans dedicated gardening space and time and thousands of years of breeding to make the gourds so absolutely perfect for birds, that there is a species of bird that lives almost exclusively in them

#yes I KNOW i posted about this the other day but *crying* i just love plant domestication and the history of agriculture #and humanity's positive affect on the ecosystems we live in #mine #image IDs in alt text #hmm. I'm gonna tag this #permaculture #just to pspsps @ that community to look at how cool gourds are please everyone grow birdhouse gourds and give cavity nesters places to live #i don't think mine will become fully ripe before i get my first frost :( next year i need to start gourds indoors #i didn't want to grow them before because i didn't have much garden space but now i do and i need to grow all of them #i might be. a little obsessed with gourds. but also i saw a pair of purple martins flying by the road last year #and i had never seen one before then! and i need to see more of them #i have a few hundred barn swallows but i need more birds flying around my house. more!!#and also i have a ton of invasive cavity nesting species around here. house sparrows and starlings.#gotta make up for those things competing with native birds for nest dites #*sites #the invasive birds very often win :/#that's why they're invasive #i really do need to start trapping them....

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acorviart · 7 months

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admit one to the avian show

(it's gold foil washi tape!)

shop opens Oct 7, 2PM CST

#store promo #washi tape #stationery #birds #shout out if you can ID the two less obvious bird species on these

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arthistoryanimalia · 9 months

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Another Spondylus shell ornament, Culture Jama-Coaque, Ecuadorian North Coast 500 BCE - 1530 CE, w3.4 x h6.9 cm. Museo Casa del Alabado / INPC. Listed as a "zoomorphic ornament," but the first thing it made me think of was a male Magnificent Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens), a native species…

#Jama-Coaque art #Ecuadorian art #South American art #Indigenous art #pre conquest art #ornament #shell #Spondylus #bird #birds in art #frigatebird #Magnificent Frigatebird #Museo Casa del Alabado #species ID

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ansleof · 8 months

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Someone needs to stop me from making so many animal AUs LMAO

Anyways here's the life gang as deer because!!! deer are cool!!! I'm pretty proud of the species choices if I do say so myself :]

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eddieintheocean · 5 months

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I have a species ID quiz on Wednesday, and I think it says good things that there was an anemone (Metridium senile) that I recognised at the aquarium on Saturday so if I don't get 100% on this I've failed as a fish

#eddie learns the ocean #marine biology #sea anemone #species ID

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sun-rust · 10 months

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