I just arrived at Anthro Northwest. This is my first big furcon.
They have a Remembrance Tree. I’ve never seen that at a con before. What a wonderful idea!
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I just arrived at Anthro Northwest. This is my first big furcon.
They have a Remembrance Tree. I’ve never seen that at a con before. What a wonderful idea!
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A funny thing about the Yogi Bear cartoon is how intensely accurate it was. Yogi was obsessively interested in acquiring "pikinik baskets".
Throughout most of the 20th Century (maybe even still), the US National Park Service had a problem with tourists trying to feed the bears. (They de facto encouraged it in the early days.) I found this article about the problem:
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/50-nifty-finds-46-feeding-the-habit.htm
Here are some fun images from the article.
I genuinely don't know how to process this information.
I googled "microscope". The below screengrabs are from the page Google gave me.
Is that the first thing you people thought of when you got a microscope for Christmas?
Did being asexual so far remove me from the common human experience that I'm only now finding out about this many decades later?
This also would have made a fantastic teaching moment. Did any of you have progressive parents who suggested this as a science lesson?
Great news! @kagihq now lets you swap out Doggo for a capybara!
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For those of us who fantasize what life on Earth would look like if it were populated only by a superior species, fantasize no longer. Apparently cat postcards depicting this paradise were popular in the early 20th Century.
Here are four images I swiped from the linked article, which in turn swiped the images from eBay and Pinterest.
In the first and third images, note that some cats have pet dogs!
https://cheezburger.com/3508741/adorable-vintage-cat-postcards-from-the-1900s
I shot this photo today with a toy lens, so excuse the blur.
Anyway, I came across this warning sign in a park. It says that there's a "territorial" owl in the area, and that there has been at least one "encounter".
It's this next sentence that jumps out at me:
"Owls… have been known to strike at people WHO RESEMBLE FOOD SOURCES"! [emphasis added]
Rodent fursuiters, you have been warned!
If you're going to go as a squirrel, do it right!
@norsesquirrelgod
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