Painting I Did Based On This Poem :)

draw every day - week nineteen some cartoon networks

Thank you all for your feedback on the last poll! I did not expect so many people to vote for Hunsrück!

Now I can narrow down what posters could be good to include in a run like this. But there is still stuff to decide. While I could just post these naked I would prefer to give some context and information on the formation and animals depicted. So here a´few options I worked on.

Btw. if this goes well it might eventually end up as a book or I would at least try to turn it into one.

So uh... Birds-of-Paradise glow

ScienceAlert

Most Birds-of-Paradise Are Secretly Biofluorescent, Study Finds

Birds-of-paradise have some of the most famous mating displays in the world, but there's more to their colorful rhythmic gymnastics than ini

From the article:

Birds-of-paradise have some of the most famous mating displays in the world, but there's more to their colorful rhythmic gymnastics than initially meets the human eye. For the first time, scientists have discovered these spectacular avians absolutely glowing with gorgeousness in a dark room. Researchers at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) combed through the available archives and found that all 37 core bird-of-paradise species in Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia are biofluorescent. Only a few fringe family members fail to glow under ambient UV or blue light.

Most male birds tested possess brightly fluorescent heads, napes, bills, and plumes that glimmer with green or greenish-yellow hues. Some even have fluorescent legs, feet, tails, and rings around their eyes. Many of these mysteriously colorful patches are starkly bordered by dark feathers with no fluorescence, and these parts of the body are often used in mating displays, when males flap, flutter, sway, bop, hang, and pose in an elaborate, attention-seeking dance that varies from species to species.

Note that this is different than bioluminescence. This is like those glow-in-the-dark stickers. They mention puffin beaks glowing under UV light.

Smithsonian Magazine

Puffin Beaks Are Fluorescent, and They’re Not the Only Ones

Scorpions, stick insects and caterpillars are among the many critters that glow under UV light

CBC

Puffin beaks are fluorescent and we had no idea | CBC News

Ornithologist Jamie Dunning had the idea to shine a UV light on a puffin in January. The results were spectacular.

(Check out the glasses they gave them in the second article!)

@todaysbird @alithographica

(Completely shameless advert notice: In my fics when I talk about Rito having UV markings on their beaks, this is pretty much what I"m talking about.)

150 meter aluminum sea serpent skeleton sculpture in Nantes, France. Artist Huang Yong Ping

Happy International Women’s Day to this twitter account and only this twitter account

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

Josie and the Pussycats in “Musical Evolution” x

Coolest promo ever created

A rubberhose cartoon in a dapper costume who dances and cause problems for humans after being brought to life?

Oh, this episode was made for me!

I absolutely love Mr Ring-a-Ding, and I just had to draw Bendy based on some screenshots I took from some gif sets and such!

bilateral gyandromorphs are so fucking cool 4 no reason. intersex bugs ily <33 ur so pretty ily <3333