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What are these little creatures? They are tenrecs, which live in the forests of Madagascar. Weird and wonderful, right?
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Lesser hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi)
By: Unknown photographer
From: The Complete Encyclopedia of the Animal World
1980
#hedgehog tenrec#tenrec#afroinsectivore#afrotherian#mammal#1980#1980s#The Complete Encyclopedia of the Animal World (1980)
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Lesser known small mammals (or mammals whenever i bring up people have no idea what im talking about)
Quoll ..a carnivorous marsupial native to Australia that spends most of the day sleeping in its dens. there have been 111 recorded events of quolls eating human remains (x) (pictured here is a spotted-tail quoll)
Numbat..an insectivorous marsupial from Australia that is diurnal (or is primarily active during the day). unlike other mammals that primarily eat termites, they have a jaw with 50 very small teeth. they live in tree hollows and block the openings with the thick hide of their rump
Hyrax ..a small thickset herbivorous mammal that is more closely related to elephants and sea cows than pikas and marmots. theyre found in africa, and they have rubbery paw pads that help them climb up rocks (this is a rock hyrax)
Solenodon... a venomous, insectivorous little mammal that is easily provoked into a frenzy of squeaking and biting. it uses echolocation to compensate for its poor eyesight, and females have two teats almost located on its backside (above is a cuban solenodon)
Sengi (elephant shrews (or better known as the get a look at the snout species))...is another insectivore that is more closely related to elephants than true shrews. they live in southern Africa and have relatively large brains for their size (a respectable 11 inches) (this is a black and rufous sengi)
Tenrec..omnivorous little mammal that lives in land, sea, underground, and in trees. there are many different subspecies of tenrec that can look like hedgehogs, opossums, rats, and shrews (this is one is a lowland streaked tenrec from madagascar)
#i was going to include binturongs but compared to all the other guys its much larger#So i decided to just keep the list about small weird mammals#These of course arent all the small mammals out there.. just the ones i can remember offhand#mammalia#long post#quoll#spotted-tail quoll#marsupials#tenrec#streaked tenrec#elephant shrew#sengi#solenodon#cuban solenodon#hyrax#numbat#mammals#biology#zoology#animal facts
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i have this thing it's called-
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bunch of them 👍👍 info dump under the cut
Fir is Wolf’s dad (his name is a reference to the fact that Wolf’s name was Pine in 2018). He is a well-meaning guy but very much a product of the environment he was raised in (extremely uptight and competitive IceWing family). He raised Wolf as best he could but the toll of his wife’s death and infidelity (Wolf was born of an extramarital affair) lead to him becoming closed-off and prone to lying for convenience - a trait he accidentally taught to Wolf.
Flash is Wolf’s half-brother, (his name was Shard in 2018, a name that has since been adopted by the current IceWing king). Although they were known to fight, as kids Flash and Wolf had each other’s backs, being each other’s only sibling and confidant. They often bonded over their shared dislike of chores and conspired to prank the adults at fancy dinners. As a dragonet, Flash despised the stifling and cut-throat culture they were raised in, something Wolf was less privy to as the family’s black sheep. As adults their relationship soured a little as Flash’s intense ambition started bleeding into his relationships with his loved-ones.
Stygian is Haunted’s brother from the same clutch. He is almost her complete opposite - a powerful seer and mind-reader, but physically small and unable to fly. Stygian struggled socially for most of his youth, with peers and mentors alike finding him “confusing” and “difficult”. His one real friend was Haunted, who was the only dragon who afforded him the understanding and patience he deserved, despite being the only dragon in their community who couldn’t literally read his mind. He was abducted at the start of the story, and it’s Haunted’s sole quest to find him.
Hover (mentioned briefly in Leap of Faith) was Red Kite’s childhood best-friend/rival, and the dragon that took a chunk out of her ear. He was a deeply insecure kid and took it out on those around him; Red was the only dragon in their class that was unable to ignore his name-calling and as such they frequently got into whatever the dragon equivalent of fist-fights is. Their rivalry eventually mellowed into a (still fiercely competitive) friendship and the pair became thick as thieves throughout their later education. They lost touch as adults, Red still thinks of him from time to time.
Tenrec is a RainWing spy. They have physically altered themselves in order to blend in amongst other tribes, including removing their frill and parts of their ears. He rarely changes colour based on emotion due to being trained to maintain a “poker-face” when undercover. Current employer and deployment status is classified.
#my art#oc art#wof art#horst#oc stuff#wings of fire#dragon art#fir#flash#tenrec#stygian#hover#please forgive my ramble lol#I don’t often feel like getting chatty about my ocs I feel
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Kofimission for angievaldezart ☕ I'm very fine with an imposter interpretation of Amy~
Social media + Commissions + PAPERCUT
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#artists on tumblr#Others' OCs#OC#furry#animal#anthropomorphic#anthro#commission#commissioned work#ko-fi#kofimission#art commission#colored#color#unrendered#art#thistle the tenrec#tenrec
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Spectember/Spectober 2023 #09: Things With Wings
(Apologies for the abrupt absence – I'm okay, just having everything break down at once. This is fine.)
So— back to the speculative evolution request list!
@thebigdeepcheatsy requested a "cactus-dwelling/germinating evolution of introduced rosy-faced lovebirds":
While Agapornis cheatsyi is still quite physically similar to its introduced ancestors, this lovebird has developed a close symbiotic relationship with the cactus Carnegiea ornipolis, a descendant of the modern saguaro.
Naturally fasciated, this cactus grows a splaying fan-like crown which the lovebirds excavate their shallow nest burrows into. Feeding on the cactus' fruit in early summer, the lovebirds then disperse the seeds via their droppings – a process that significantly improves propagation chances, both due to the birds commonly foraging and defecating around suitable nurse plants and the passage through their gut speeding up germination.
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Someone calling themself "LB" asked for some "flying afrotherians":
Elbeitandraka venenifer is a descendant of tree-climbing Malagasy tenrecs that developed gliding membranes – and its lineage is now just about achieving true powered flight.
About 25cm long (~10"), its proportionally short broad wings require it to fly very fast to generate enough lift for its weight. It mostly only actively flies when traveling between roosts and feeding sites (or when escaping from threats), alternating between gliding to save energy and flapping to recover altitude.
It's an opportunistic omnivore, crawling around in the tree canopy foraging for vegetation, fruits, fungi, invertebrates, and the occasional smaller vertebrate, using its flexible sengi-like nose to probe around in crevices.
Much like modern common tenrecs it's capable of hibernating for months at a time through periods of scarce food availability. It also accumulates alkaloid toxins in its body from its arthropod prey, advertising its unpalatability to predators with bold contrasting warning coloration on its wing membranes.
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And here's a combination of a couple of anonymous requests for both "flying heterodontosaurs" and "dragons with hind leg wings, a la sharovipteryx":
Inversodraco rapax is a highly specialized Jurassic descendant of heterodontosaurids that took to climbing and gliding, developing delta-wing-like membranes on their hindlimbs convergently similar to those of the earlier sharovipterygids.
Around 75cm long (~2'6"), it has unusually flexible hip joints for a dinosaur, able to splay its legs out to the sides to deploy wings supported by an elongated outer toe on each foot. Its arms form small forewings for stability, and its long tail ends in a vane of stiffened feathers that aid in steering.
Unlike its herbivorous-to-omnivorous ancestors it's primarily a carnivore, swooping down onto small prey and grabbing it with its talon-like forelimbs.
#spectember#spectober#spectember 2023#speculative evolution#lovebird#parrot#bird#saguaro#cactus#plant#tenrec#afrotheria#mammal#heterodontosaurid#ornithischia#dinosaur#art#science illustration#look if any mammal is going to copy bats' homework it's going to be tenrecs
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tenrec wizard
#bflyart#tenrec#wizard#tbh i kiiiinda like the shitty sketch version i posted earlier more#or at least aspects of it
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Stanley got an upgrade today, he inherited Vidalia's old critter nation so he's got more space to roam and climb. He's a very lazy animal though so who knows how much use he'll get from it, but now he's got the option.
#tenrec#tenrecs are better pets than hedgehogs imo but you really need to get one handled as a baby#but Stanley is nicer than literally every hedgehog Ive ever met
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#075 - Brushrew
#076 - Pokipine
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Mole-like Rice Tenrec (Oryzorictes hova)
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Greater hedgehog tenrec
By: Edwin Gould
From: The Fascinating Secrets of Oceans & Islands
1972
#hedgehog tenrec#tenrec#afroinsectivore#afrotherian#mammal#1972#1970s#Edwin Gould#The Fascinating Secrets of Oceans & Islands
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- Surge The Tenrec - Another Poster
I DID ANOTHER POSTER WOOO
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#SurgerTheTenrec #SonicTheHedeghog #sonicfanart #IDWsonic
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mental illinois
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Here have a dumb joke about Afrotheria because I can’t get the convergent evolution of tenrecs and hedgehogs out of my head
#I know this is nonsense but so is taxonomy#esoteric biology jokes#phylogeny#afrotheria#biology#animals#tenrec#hedgehog#memes#photoshop#morphology#taxonomy
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