#animal senses

[acti-veg]

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

#dolphins #whales #animal senses #animal intelligence #excerpts #quotes #biology

[blacklodgemusictx]

So Long at the Fair

Smudged the house

Today feels haunted, she tells me

My puppy started out of a dead sleep

Two mournful howls

Come to think of it, my cat did the same

Last night

While the wind blew in

The last of the sweltering weather blew out

It's the boy, I tell her

The one killed at the fair

We called for a blood sacrifice

The silent acknowledgement that

A life could lay

Trampled in the dirt

And we, the bedraggled townsfolk,

Would allow it

For a breath of cooled air

Sweaty tendrils of hair lifted

For a moment

From burnt necks

We got what we wanted

But today feels haunted:

He misses his body...

#poetry #prose #texas #blood sacrifice #haunted #smudged #mournful #howl #animal senses #six sense #art #poet #west texas #death #rodeo #fair

[ruporas]

don’t worry about me. goodbye, big brother

#dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #laios touden #falin touden #blood tw #ruporas art #the anime adaption of this scene was kinda crazy i wont lie… the development and build towards #this reveal was likee woahhh Damnnnn…. even with all the knowledge of the rest of the manga #it gave me a diff sense of horror to laios’ loss

[kelddaa]

I was plagued by a vision

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #laios touden #laios #wondered what laios would look like in a crop top #don't ask me why #“someone should do something about this" #remembers I’m an artist #blacks out #this appeared #dunmeshi #shit post art #redraw #kelds art #kelddaa #anime-onlys I promise this will make more sense later

[atompowers]

“The majesty of nature is not restricted to canyons and mountains. It can be found in the wilds of perception--the sensory spaces that lie outside our Umwelt and within those of other animals. To perceive the world through other senses is to find splendor in familiarity and the sacred in the mundane. Wonders exist in a backyard garden, where bees take the measure of a flower’s electric fields, leafhoppers send vibrational melodies through the stems of plants, and birds behold the hidden palates of rurples and grurples…Wilderness is not distant. We are continually immersed in it. It is there for us to imagine, to savor and to protect.” ― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

#Ed Yong #An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us #quote #favorite #quotes #book quotes #animals #environment #umwelt #senses #animal senses #favorite quotes

[puppyeared]

learned something about myself lately

#i dont think its even the fact almost all my characters are somewhat beasts in one way or another. i just #really like tails and wish i had one myself #and then my oc designs are a little tame theyre mostly human shaped with animal features. but they always have tails #my eyes have recently been opened to the appeal of long whiplike unicorn tails.. so flowy and curly #something about the tuft at the end being long and swirly just does something for me.. #maybe it would make sense to change auggies tail shape so it looks like a meteor. her design is mainly pink with hot pink accent #so it would be cool to use that and orange to make it look like a fire meteor.. maybe itll help complement the blue/green in her design #head full of ocs today so expect a ramble later #if i had a tail i think it would be long with a kink. so it kind of folds over once but not in a curl #when it wags its kind of a swaying motion. i have thought about this a normal amount #yapping

[sabh0]

Meursault SKK doodles dump bc yeah (a rolling surprise under the cut!!)

had to make it

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd chuuya #chuuya nakahara #bsd dazai #dazai osamu #skk #soukoku #sab posting #im so tired of this arc #nothing's been making sense since the last episode of the anime dropped #ehh at least the stinkers r alive and well

[hollow-head]

stop asking where Marcille went. she was doing magic research.

prior post

#dungeon meshi #the adventure zone #unintelligible nonsense #I dont know how far along the anime is or if this makes sense since I've only read the manga #Free Market Necronomics is a good pun

[thatmightyheart]

recently watched this fresh hot new anime called fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood for the first time and i absolutely loved it! also these two made me deeply unwell (positive)

#fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fmab #riza hawkeye #roy mustang #royai #fullmetal alchemist #fma #i already knew i would like roy. like come on. my black-haired anime man senses were alight #but riza............. WOW #riza: [screaming crying ripping her heart out over the colonel] #riza: [tokyo drifting with her hair down+glasses disguise] #riza: [whole ''when we're alone the colonel calls me riza'' stunt] #me: [twirling my hair giggling] WOW... wow.. wowoo😍 hi... 😍 #i've started the manga and it's already even more of a riot. the bonus pages take me out LOL

[keferon]

Pow you messed with the Wreckers. Or something haha

Listen I don’t have a type. BUT SOMEHOW every time I find and add a character to my favorites, he turns out to be a wrecker. My best theory - I have a built-in wrecker radar~

#like #seriously #oh this anime samurai is funny and cool #i wonder what is his backstor….ah #he was a Wrecker cool #hmm blue sassy speedster celebrity? #Wait…why is he playing Go with anime samurai?? are they suddenly roommates or…ah he is also Wrecker wow #didn’t expect that #well at least they are both really fast agile and stuff #makes sense #okay let’s see #ooh funny autistic scientist microscope #I wonder what was he doing before mtmte. He must be…. a h #u n d e r s t o o d #ahahahahha #transformers #maccadam #mtmte #blurr #perceptor #drift #funny story. Drift Blurr and Perceptor…like…didn’t interact with each other during mtmte…..at all. #so when I went reading about wreckers after reading mtmte #it was really big surprise aahahahah #Drift and Blurr playing Go while Percy chilling in a giant fucking jar in a next room #me: what kind of crossover is this??? #also #I love mtmte with all my heart but oh my god it didn’t show me Drift-Percy duo at all #they had such an epic friendship #tapa if you are reading this - it’s happening in All Hail Megatron hehe

[psikonauti]

Armando Veve (American, b. 1989)

#upl #va #art #drawing #Armando Veve #animals in art #this isn't a cyanotype #the artist says : #The process was a bit layered for this one. In short I created graphite negatives of each insect and used the black and white data to #digitally expose a cyan-painted surface. I was trying to mimic the cyanotype process while also maintaining the texture in my other drawn wo #In a sense the work exists between drawing and photo. #---his comment about the work

[ekko-idk]

Laios: people are hard to understand... There's way too many social rules to follow, popular conversation topics, eye contact, etc. They also rarely say what they mean and often they say the opposite, so much so that misunderstandings happen regularly.. Monsters are predictable animals with a set of rules and precautions you can follow to either tame or defeat them. if you know what to do, they're very easy to deal with!

Kabru: monsters are wild creatures with jerky unpredictable movements.. Their attitude can change in a second and if you don't have an insane amount of knowledge about them they can be, and often are, very dangerous. Human cultures often have strict and easy to follow rules that depend on certain communication strategies that are somewhat agreed upon universally. People no matter of background also react the same to many things (smiling, frowning, pupil dilation, etc.). if you know what to do, they're very easy to deal with!

#I've been thinking about how they're kind of two sides of the same coins #And their fixations are in perfect contrast #I hope I worded everything in a way that makes sense #Rambling #Dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #kabru dungeon meshi #dunmeshi laios #I'm only watching the anime rn btw so sorry if it's inaccurate

[kuro-ayameart]

New Haikaveh/Kavetham comic finished ! 

(Read left to right)

#kaveh #alhaitham #genshin impact #haikaveh #kavetham #genshin kaveh #genshin alhaitham #manga #anime #comic #my art #sd art #art #drawing #artists on tumblr #genshin impact fanart #idk if this makes any sense lmao #but i wanted to draw them your honor

[sixteenseveredhands]

The Camouflaged Looper: these caterpillars fashion their own camouflage by collecting flower petals/vegetation and using silk to "glue" the pieces onto their bodies

Often referred to as "camouflaged loopers," the caterpillars are the larvae of the wavy-lined emerald moth (Synchlora aerata).

Camouflaged loopers deploy a unique form of self-defense -- they snip off tiny pieces of the flowers upon which they feed, then use bits of silk to attach the vegetation to their backs. This provides them with a kind of camouflage, enabling them to blend in with the plants that they eat.

Some of them create little tufts that run along their backs, while others fashion a thicker camouflage that covers their backs completely. In some cases, the camouflaged loopers will even build much larger bundles that surround their entire bodies.

Their range includes most of North America (from southern Canada down through Texas) and they can feed upon an enormous variety of plants, so the disguises that these caterpillars build can come in countless colors, shapes, and sizes, incorporating many different flowers and other plants.

And this is what the fully-developed moth looks like:

Sources & More Info:

Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy: Wavy-Lined Emerald, Master of Disguise

Maryland Biodiversity Project: Wavy-Lined Emerald Moth (Synchlora aerata)

The Caterpillar Lab: Camouflaged Looper

University of Alberta Museums: Synchlora aerata

Missouri Department of Conservation: Wavy-Lined Emerald

Nebraskaland Magazine: The Amazing Camouflaged Looper

Lake County Forest Preserves: Camouflage Revealed

#lepidoptera #moths #insects #caterpillar #camouflaged looper #animal camouflage #cute bugs #tw bugs #fashion #nature is weird #animal facts #these literal larvae have better fashion sense than I do

[rassebers]

Yeah yeaaah yeah yeah

#mp100 #my rart #mob psycho 100 #SOMETHING must've been in the water when I made this because what the fuck #still amazed it ever got done #loved putting details into this animation and doing shit that only makes sense when it's explicitly explained #and I love mob psycho idk if you can tell #if I regret anything abt this it would be animating at 9fps #don't do that it's so fucking difficult. do at least 12 please #reigen arataka #shigeo kageyama #teruki hanazawa #tsubomi takane #serizawa katsuya #tome kurata #animation #mp100 dimple #ritsu kageyama #suzuki shou

[valkaryah]

To be completely honest I still prefer the original manga Farcille reunion over the anime scene. I think Trigger did a good job adapting this page, but no one draws Marcille bawling her eyes out as well as Ryoko Kui, it just gets to me. Just look at her face... She missed Falin so much! She almost looks like a child crying..

#hope this makes sense its very late here so my english might be muddled rn but my point is manga crybaby marcille > anime crybaby marcille #i cant stop thinking about them and its 4am!!!! farcille brainworms is a disease #dungeon meshi #farcille #marcille #falin #valkaryah talks