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Pronghorn Antilocapra americana
Observed by lilstugan, CC BY-NC
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A pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) in Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada, USA
by Northern Desert Photography
#pronghorn#american antelope#prairie antelope#antilocapra americana#antilocapra#antilocapridae#artiodactyla#mammalia#chordata#wildlife: nevada#wildlife: usa
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I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this before but I kind of feel like Pronghorns are a giant hoax like I know people who have seen them IRL and I know they’re Real but also they look like a Dr. Seuss Animal and my brain rejects them so immediately
Once upon a time I was at work tracking kit fox dens with my coworker. It was a foggy spring morning, the kind where the hills are covered in green damp grass and the visibility is like 30 feet so everything else is gray.
We were walking down one gentle hill approaching another hill we had to climb and cross over to get to where we were going, when we saw It.
It was standing on the hillside across from us, partially obscured in the mist. It was standing completely still, looking directly at us, and we stopped in our tracks as soon as we saw It.
What was It?? What was that thing standing there with it's two spindly legs and It's big round belly and stupid long neck? It was about human size and It didn't make any sense!!
I have people report to me sightings of various unlikely animals and say so firmly "I know what I saw!!" And I can tell you in that moment I did not know what I saw! I had no freaking idea what I was looking at!!
I turned to my coworker. She was just as baffled as me! Two biologists out here in a familiar field area, and we're starting to consider the possibility of space aliens!
And then It turned Its head and the image resolved:
Just a pronghorn standing perfectly butt-on, so the front legs and back legs were in line with each other, and with its head swiveled around 180 to look behind at us as we emerged from the mist.
We burst out with relieved laughter, which was more than enough for the pronghorn and it ran away.
Anyway, the moral of this story is pronghorn look fake even to professional wildlife biologists.
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Antilocapra americana, Sept 2023, ink & fountain pen.
I've been thinking about the pronghorn's place in the ecosystem, surrounded by plants that evolved long before its ancestors and having outlived its ancient predators...
Wildflowers shown approximately from left to right: perfumeballs (Gaillardia suavis), dwarf four-nerve daisy (Tetraneuris linearifolia), sundrops (Calylophus berlandieri), woodsorrel (Oxalis sp.), prairie pansy (Viola bicolor), and firewheels (Gaillardia pulchella).
#artists on tumblr#my art#ink#pronghorn antelope#Antilocapra americana#wildlife illustration#wildflowers#really satisfying to be at a point where I can draw some plants from memory with plausible accuracy#these are plants that grow together in parts of the south-central semi arid prairie in both open grassland and wooded edges
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Pronghorn by Coyoty
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Antilocapra americana. At the Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport, CT.
#Beardsley Zoo#Bridgeport#Connecticut#CT#zoo#nature#animal#fauna#antelope#pronghorn#Antilocapra americana#wild#life#wildlife#biodiversity#mammal#Animal Planet#New England#hooved#logs#flickr
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Plate LXXIX of Lives of Game Animals by Ernest Thompson Seton in the coyote chapter of Volume 1 part 2
The Relay Chase. To illustrate the Coyote's manner of combining drive and ambush with relay chasing, without which they could not capture the swifter [Pronghorn] Antelope
Two coyotes crouch hidden by shrubs in the foreground while two coyotes chase a pronghorn towards them.
#art#inspo#coyote#canis latrans#pronghorn#antilocapra americana#ernest thompson seton#lives of game animals
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Pronghorn doodle
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Pronghorn mother being kept busy in Yellowstone's Lamar Valley.
#Yellowstone#yellowstone national park#pronghorn#lamar valley#springtime in yellowstone#antilocapra americana#wildlife photography#nature photography#long ago in a distant land because i don't want to look it up
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Pronghorn in the moonlight done with May 2022's artsnacks materials, plus a white-out pen for fun. This is the first time in about a year that I've actually had time to use my artsnacks box during the actual month I received it, lol. I'm really in love with the viviva watercolors, they're incredibly vivid and beautiful, and the lightweight booklet thing is such a clever idea.
#artsnackschallenge#traditional illustration#pronghorn antelope#watercolors#antilocapra americana#its a no thoughts inspiration empty kinda day over here#but actually it was fun to just draw a cool little creature without needing to try and make a ~real illustration~ out of it#i just think theyre neat! funky little antelope lookalikes that arent closely related to antelopes at all!!#second fastest land mammal on the planet!!#tag rant
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Some males transfer from the bachelor herds to territorial status, thereby participating in a sequential bisexuality over the course of their lives.
"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl
#book quote#biological exuberance#bruce bagemihl#pronghorn#antilocapra americana#transfer#territorial#bisexual
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Pronghorn Antilocapra americana
Observed by patrickfeller, CC BY-NC
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Male Pronghorns court and mount each other in their bachelor herds from April to October, using many of the same behavior patterns found in heterosexual courtship and mating.
"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl
#book quotes#biological exuberance#bruce bagemihl#nonfiction#pronghorn#antilocapra americana#mounting#bachelor#animal behavior#heterosexual#courtship#mating
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Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), Las Cienegas National Conservation Area, Arizona.
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Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana)
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Animal of the Day!
Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana)
(Photo from NPS)
Conservation Status- Least Concern
Habitat- Western and Central United States
Size (Weight/Length)- 63 kg; 149 cm
Diet- Grasses; Shrubs
Cool Facts- Living in a world without trees, it pays to be fast. The pronghorn is the second fastest land animal, capable of hitting speeds up to 90 kilometers per hour over short distances and 50 kilometers per hour for up to 30 kilometers. However, they rarely reach top speed outside of winter when the dirt is packed hard enough from the cold. Females live in small groups while solitary males create mass territories. The females that visit male territories are often looking for love, giving birth to one or two fawns once a year. The mothers give birth in a synchronized wave of babies, resulting in fawns creating nursery groups in the herd.
Rating- 12/10 (Icon of the American west.)
#Animal of the day#Animals#Mammals#Antelope#Saturday#December 3#Pronghorn#biology#science#conservation#the more you know
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Vrolik Antilo Character Shits
OKAY NOBODY ASKED BUT I'M DROPPING THIS
Under a readmore because it got really fuckin long! Talk about disabilities and such under da cut
Vrolik was originally going to be a more general representation of myself, but slowly overtime, they came to symbolize one specific part of my identity that I thought would be interesting to explore in an environment like Alternia: my disability. I have Brittle Bone Disease (aka Osteogenesis Imperfecta), and I used Vrolik partly as a way to analyze how it’s impacted me as a person and how that might’ve been exaggerated on a different planet. Vrolik represents the struggles I had in relation to my disability, especially when I was around 13 like the Homestuck kids were.
Their name comes from Vrolik Syndrome, another name for BBD. Their last name, Antilo, comes from Antilocapra Americana, AKA the pronghorn like Vrolik’s lusus and horns are based on. Their name also contains the word “anti,” which I think is really funny considering their tendency to get in petty internet fights that mean absolutely nothing.
Their Trolltag (fragilitasOdium) comes from Fragilitas Ossium (again, BBD) and Odium: general/widespread hatred or disgust directed toward someone as a result of their actions. Foreshadowing.
Vrolik’s land is the Land of Ash and Vitriol, a desolate wasteland so uninhabitable they doubt there’s any other form of life left here at all. In every direction, all they can see is the smoky, dark sky, the ashy ground, the harsh sun burning through the clouds and smoke wherever it can. The only evidence of any life at all Vrolik can find are their remains. Gigantic skeletons protrude from the ground, huge rib cages and skulls acting as the only cover from the blistering heat.
Vrolik is an Heir of Rage, and there’s a lot of symbolism and shit there. I’m not super great with classpect analysis, so I’ve referenced a bunch of stuff from @dahniwitchoflight, @sylph-of-hope-analysis, and @classpector.
Rage as an aspect represents… Well, rage, but also fear, defiance, doubt, despair, and limited choice. Rage players are stubborn and rarely see any other path than the one they’re set on, but oftentimes other paths are simply unavailable to Rage players, something that might frustrate other players who can’t see how little choice the Rage-bound truly have. (almost like having an invisible disability. Some actions simply aren’t available to you, but since others can’t see it, they assume it isn’t there.)
Based on what I’ve seen, there’s a lot more speculation about what the Heir class represents than other classes, and I think they’re all relevant and important to Vrolik’s characterization. From the Homestuck wiki:
It is speculated that heirs are ones who invite change through [aspect]; they are apparently drawn to their aspect, subconsciously seeking it out. They may also be defined as one who is consumed by [aspect], one who becomes [aspect], or one who is surrounded by [aspect].
If inheritance is thought in terms of programming (which is a commonly visited subject in Homestuck), it can be speculated that heirs are those whose behavior and existence is controlled by and expected to represent [aspect], sometimes, independently of their own will.
The title "Heir" could also have the more literal meaning one who inherits/receives [aspect].
Heirs are also passive rather than active, something that would greatly anger Vrolik. They desperately try to do things on their own and make changes happen and feel important to something, but they will never be the main character. Their “destiny” doesn’t include them being independent, but even if it means tearing the fabric game apart themself, even if it means destroying everything in the process, they refuse to sit back and feel useless again. Big Monika DDLC syndrome.
(I’m realizing they kinda ghost destructive classes/aspects like Princes or Doomplayers.)
So with all this, Vrolik is someone who is subconsciously drawn to/seeks out their own rage and negative emotions, often feeling surrounded by them or trapped within them with no way out. They feel trapped and helpless in many aspects of their life, and it enrages them. Hell, they feel trapped within their own anger sometimes, often being controlled by their negative emotions more than they can control them. They feel completely powerless in their disability, so they overcompensate in other areas where they do have control. They’re deeply stubborn, digging their heels in the ground and refusing to give in, even on silly and inconsequential conflicts simply because it’s the only way they know to retain any power over themself. They refuse help even when they might really need it, preferring to fail at their goals through their own means than succeed while depending on someone else again. Having help means they couldn’t do it alone, and when they already can’t do so much, they desperately want to prove to both themself and the people around them that they’re capable.
Vrolik also harbors a lot of anger and frustration toward this. They’re angry that they’re so angry all the time, and that they have so little agency, and that they’ve been put on this path without any input from them. By nature, Vrolik is consumed by Rage because of Rage. Their life is controlled by and completely represents Rage, and in a way, they’ve literally inherited it as well. Vrolik’s frustration and anger toward the world ties directly to their disability. When Vrolik inherited their disease, they inherited the anger with it. You could almost say it’s in their bones.
They also sometimes intentionally seek out content or people they know will upset/trigger them. The people in their life have been trying to put a stop to it, but telling Vrolik not to do something kind of only spurs them on even more in a “you can’t tell me what to do” kind of way. Vrolik is the type to get in heated arguments in someone’s Twitter replies because they don’t know when to just stop typing. They’re easily manipulatable in this way and internet trolls can very easily take advantage of that. In terms of seeking out people they know might anger them, I imagine this also makes them very susceptible to emotional self-harm and abusive relationships. Not because they think they deserve to hurt, but because they’re naturally drawn toward anger and fear. They can’t just stop when they’re upset and they don’t know how to walk away.
Getting into the content of Vrolik’s hypothetical session and some more of that symbolism shit:
Vrolik wasn’t really intended to survive their entire game. When they entered into the Land of Ash and Vitriol, a barren, unforgiving wasteland, they weren’t fated to make it. This environment wasn’t made to accommodate them, nothing ever really has been. Maybe they were meant to die a long time ago or maybe they were meant to die here, but Vrolik knows they were meant to die.
So they do. They die as they lived: consumed by their own anger, running off alone, doing some stupid shit from their rage. They die angry for the life they’ve been robbed of, terrified of what comes after, and deeply jealous of their teammates, wanting to scream but being unable to. They’re inconsolable, and yet they’re grateful nobody else is there. Even while they slowly bleed out underneath the smoky, gray sky, the idea of someone else seeing them in their greatest moment of weakness and pain terrifies them more than death does.
However. Someone else in their session is right behind them. Their body is found very shortly after, and their teammate refuses to just let them die now. They drag their body to their quest bed, forcing them to be revived via godtiering. Again, lack of choice, things being decided for them, etc.
There’s a reason I called Vrolik’s land the “Land of Ash and Vitriol,” even though it doesn’t relate to their whole BBD shtick. Godtiering gives them a lot of new power and control they’ve never had before, and considering their insecurity about feeling helpless, that can become incredibly dangerous if they aren’t careful. For their entire life, Vrolik has been like bottled fire, raging on the inside but contained by their own circumstances outside their own control. But now that the bottle’s shattered, they need to learn to control their fire alone. Vrolik is like a phoenix, completely consumed by and now representing the fire inside them. They literally rise up from the ashes, given new life and blazing.
In modern terms, vitriol refers to “abusive or venomous language used to express blame, censure or bitter, deep-seated ill will.” However, vitriol was originally an alchemical term for sulfuric acid. Vitriol was one of the main ingredients needed to create a philosopher’s stone, used to give eternal life (almost like godtiering might).
Additionally, vitriol was a Latin acronym for alchemists. “Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem” roughly translates as, “by visiting the center of the earth and by purifying yourself, you will find the hidden stone.” In order to create the philosopher’s stone (and to cleanse one’s own soul), it takes a lot of work, and failure to do so correctly will cause the acid to corrode everything (or cause your faults to consume you). If the work was easy, everyone would do it. Vrolik might’ve already godtiered, but this is just the beginning of their uphill battle. They’ve just gotten the vitriol, they’ve only just gotten that important and dangerous part. Now they’ve gotta treat it with care and put in the work to keep it from dissolving them from the inside out.
IN CONCLUSION. I’m crazy <3
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