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For #WorldTapirDay:

Plumbate vessel "depicting a shaman or priest wearing an enormous tapir head headdress, his face peeking out from inside of the creature's mouth." Maya / Toltec, c. 900 - 1200CE, 8.8 x 6.4cm.

Eduard Seler illustrated a similar tapir piece in 1904 ("Antiquities of Guatemala," Fig. 23d, p. 106) with a full body and wearing a shell necklace. Has anyone seen the original or any others like it? Plumbate vessels were usually manufactured in multiples so there should be others...?

PS: Baird's Tapir (Tapirus bairdii) is the largest terrestrial mammal native to Maya territory.

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Results from the Flocking #paleostream

Balaur, Varanus priscus, Styracosaurus and Euparkeria.

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Unmute !

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Always sad to see a wild animal's historic range vs current. Especially how much of the decline also correlates with colonization esp with African and American wildlife.

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His Undulations

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Cotylorynchus lookin ass

Western or Great Plains Narrowmouth Frog (Gastrophryne olivacea), female, family Microhylidae, West TX, USA

photograph by Roadtripmonster

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Gaur Bos gaurus

Observed by rrash, CC BY-NC

#he looks so offended

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It would be real fucked up if anteaters and aardvarks and armadillos and pangolins were all like herons. Instead of like themselves the trundlers

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Cotton Pygmy Goose (Nettapus coromandelianus), family Anatidae, order Anseriformes, India

photograph by PinakighoshPhotography

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thinking about her

#rails are something else

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Siberian yellow-throated marten (Martes flavigula aterrima)

📸 Joel Sartore / Photo Ark

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Great Curassow (Crax rubra), T - female and B - male, family Cracidae, order Galliformes, Costa Rica

photographs by Naun Amable and Michael Cooper

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Peacocks are hilarious, really. They really are just like

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sign brendan saw last night

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Dinocephalosaurus, a strange, viviparous reptile from the Triassic, gives live birth in the shallows.

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thinking about creatures.

#their necks unerve me

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