spicymochi:

happy capybara

cardo-de-comer:

cat

thinking about opening commissions 

a-book-of-creatures:

rackiera:

headspace-hotel:

thepastisaroadmap:

bogleech:

great-and-small:

great-and-small:

Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart

“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”

This is how I learn there’s a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.

[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:

Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.

We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]

But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?

End image description]

because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing

I was so inspired by this I made it into a piece of art for a final in one of my courses for storytelling in conservation

coldwateristasty:

queensimia:

ilikelookingatnakedmen:

coelasquid:

fairy-wren:

crowned eagle

(photo)

Okay, THIS is the eagle I was thinking of, thanks everyone!

You just know these images have a brilliant future life as a reaction gif

Ask and ye shall receive.

@todaysbird

huariqueje:

Trooper on Fran’s rug -  Lucy Culliton , 2017.

Australian,b.1966  -

Oil on canvas ,  60.0 x 60.0 cm.  framed

hikarisakurariver:

noirandchocolate:

ladyoftheteaandblood:

dankxsinatra:

Elephants have learned highway robbery

@ms-cellanies

Elephants have taken it upon themselves to set up an impromptu toll booth.

They probably see it as a toll for not ramming the vehicle and causing chaos.
I can imagine the training the drivers go through: If you see an elephant standing there for goodness sake stop and just them take a snack!

lalulutres:

Hello world! I’m 17 minutes old❤️

klaascows:

Boop.

Love is the best scent #42.

drunkenhills:

bimboid:

crow singing along to flute music

When I read “crow singing”, NOTHING prepared me for the crow going “lalala”

misogynisthamlet:

:

cabybabies :)

[ID: Nine photos of baby capybaras. /End ID]