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Pencil Pavlova
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Pav // any pronouns // 26 // pigeon parent
Environmental tech ⛏️
'Straya 🦘
Sometimes I do art ✏️
Kindred of the Mammoth- Clangen 🦣
https://pencilpavlova.carrd.co/
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Pencil Pavlova @pencilpavlova.bsky.social · Apr 29
Kindred update! With a bonus style change

Read on:
Comicfury
mammoth-clangen.thecomicseries.com/comics/

Tumblr
www.tumblr.com/mammoth-clan...

deviantArt
www.deviantart.com/pencilpavlov...

(Bc I should probably try post on Bsky too ig c': )
A digital painting with an overlaid rocky texture of two Sabertooth cubs in the enterance of a cave. Behind them are blue mountains and a sky with a few clouds. Bat is black with paler stripes, fluffy ear tufts and scruffy fur. Dart is shorter and rounder with a pale brown coat and spots, she has a curly coat and tiny, round ears. Dart looks concerned as she stares offscreen, and Bat is looking at Dart. A digital painting drawn in a style intended to resemble Cave Art. The cubs and onlookers to Fade's story, from left to right. Quiver and Pine, looking up at Fade with wide eyes and pricked ears. Pounce sitting slightly away from the others, leaning on his hip where he was grooming. Quiver is a black and white curly-coated cub with yellow eyes. Pine is smaller with spikey orange fur and green eyes. Pounce is solid white with dark eyebrows and squarish shaped flared fur. His eyes are copper coloured.
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joannakobierska.bsky.social
Steppe lion enjoys the last days of summer.
But mornings are getting colder, winter is coming.
November 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
pencilpavlova.bsky.social
Everyone check out this microorganism 🦠💜

She was a stowaway in the back of a truck and ended up at the mine where I work ⛏️
I took her home because she's only ~4weeks old and not even weaned! Her name is Ludovica Crumb uvu
A tiny black and white kitten sleeping in a cat cubby with pet-pen fencing behind her. she is curled up in a tiny ball and sleeping with her chin on one white paw a slightly closer photo of the previous description, she is very sleepy and looks very soft and round
October 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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poodlewool.bsky.social
Pigeons, apricots, and thyme!
Because it's always thyme for pigeons! :) A repeating pattern of peaceful floating pigeons interspersed with clusters of apricots, small white flowers, and sprigs of thyme. It's primarily a dusty teal color.
July 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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lazer-t.bsky.social
Still renders (blue)

#blender3D #pigeonsky #birds
July 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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avianbiology.bsky.social
NEW PAPER: Same-sex partnerships in birds: a review of the current literature and a call for more data.

➡️ vist.ly/3n99bk6

#ornithology #birds #same-sexbehaviour #review #partnershipshref="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hegstn3ytohj2itc65ujj63a" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">ips <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hegstn3ytohj2itc65ujj63a" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@tashgillies.bsky.soc<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mrn7apalemi74zfpvwak6lrw" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">ial <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mrn7apalemi74zfpvwak6lrw" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social

Illustration: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ukgm5wuiaqf7guxw555p5fuq" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@bertillemohring.bsky.social
Fig. 1 from the article. Overview of the selective and non-selective forces influencing the expression of same-sex partnerships in birds, adapted from the framework for understanding same-sex sexual behaviour in Clive et al. (2020). Illustration: Bertille Mohring
July 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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melodyschreiber.com
This is really cool! A rabies vaccine, applied as a gel to fur, spreads quickly among bats as they lick and groom each other. That prevents rabies outbreaks in other animals. www.science.org/content/arti...
Vampire bats' mutual grooming helps spread innovative rabies vaccine
A gel that bats lick off one another’s fur could help prevent rabies outbreaks in cattle, a growing problem in Latin America
www.science.org
July 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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parallaxabn.bsky.social
you dont under stand [grabbing you by the collar and lifting you] YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH I LOVE PIGEONS AND DOVES [SLAM] THEIR SWEET LITTLE FACES
June 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
pencilpavlova.bsky.social
I was trying to get this pageset done before the end of June but then realised even if I did, I want a buffer before I can post it so... here's the most important panel!

Background colour scheme is not subtle but shh, I like it uvu

Happy Pride 🌈
a scene of Pounce, and Quiver approaching Burnet. Pounce looks nervous and Quiver is stepping out from behind him grinning maniacally. Burnet is smiling, though with a Burnet-typical worried angle to her brows. The background behind them is coloured using the trans flag, with a blue and pink morning sky, fading to white behind pink tinted mountains, and blue pines below them. Dialogue Pounce: I want to tell you I'm Found, and... want to be referred to as 'he' and a tom. Quiver: And *I* want to beat up anyone who's not gonna be cool! Burnet: O-oh! Thank you for telling me. And I don't think you'll need to do that, Quiver. Burnet, in smaller text: Has... Lilac ever told you about Thicketberry? He was our old leader, and he was-
June 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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arinaca.bsky.social
✨Live size Thylacine✨

Here's the full preview! This guy is just over 100cm, has super soft fur so he's super cuddly, detailed pawpads and a side zipper for easy stuffing or unstuffing.

This guy is the work in progress sample and I'm getting a few little things tweaked before the final is released.
Thylacine plush on a log Thylacine plush laying on a log with one foot hanging down. Thylacine plush facing the opposite direction on a log. Thylacine plush with its head on its paws looking cute.
June 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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villesinkkonen.bsky.social
Amphimachairodus snarly snarl
December 5, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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villesinkkonen.bsky.social
Studies of the elephants for which we actually know what the size and morphology of external ear looks like. From left to right woolly mammoth, asian elephant, savannah elephant, forest elephant. Scaled to around same head size
December 22, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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hannahbluish.bsky.social
I am and always will be a…
Pigeon person
June 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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markwitton.bsky.social
New #paleoart posted to #Patreon for #FossilFriday: #sauropod Atlasaurus walks through glowing phytoplankton on a pleasant Jurassic evening. The hi-res painting, WIPs and scientific rationale for the scene can be found here: www.patreon.com/posts/129695... #sciart
A long-necked dinosaur, silhouetted against a night sky bisected by the delicate misty swirls of the Milky Way, walks through a sea of glowing blue dinoflagellates. A crescent moon occurs just above her tail. She wonders why no one else wanted to come on this memorable night walk, and then remembers that she is a reconstruction by an artist living over one hundred million years in the future, and that she exists only as pixels on screens. She has no permanence, no physicality. But, in being composed mainly of light, she feels a oneness with the glowing organisms at her feet, and the twinkling stars above. "Are we not all transient, temporary expressions of physics?", she thinks. "And for what I lack in body, I exist here, in this setting, in this moment, forever surrounded by two of nature's grandest spectacles." She walks on, her lighter-coloured scales catching the glow of the stars and waves. "Things could be worse", she thinks, smiling at how deeply philosophical her small sauropod brain has turned out to be.
May 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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thdenwheja.bsky.social
Behold! My most complex animated project to date! I learned a lot about Deinonychus and NPR rendering through this, and I'm really happy with how it turned out. What else can we do with this style? Stay tuned!
#animation #sciart #Blender3D #Paleoart
May 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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gn4rpz-the-c4t.bsky.social
If you have 30 minutes to spare, this video is extremely comprehensive and should show you what ones are lightfast and what ones arent. It's also seriously entertaining and a great watch

youtu.be/AAN7o0vQjUc?...
Pencil Brands Are Lying to You About Being Lightfast
YouTube video by Sarah Renae Clark
youtu.be
May 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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akreon.bsky.social
May I offer you some lions in these trying times?
April 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
pencilpavlova.bsky.social
Kindred update! With a bonus style change

Read on:
Comicfury
mammoth-clangen.thecomicseries.com/comics/

Tumblr
www.tumblr.com/mammoth-clan...

deviantArt
www.deviantart.com/pencilpavlov...

(Bc I should probably try post on Bsky too ig c': )
A digital painting with an overlaid rocky texture of two Sabertooth cubs in the enterance of a cave. Behind them are blue mountains and a sky with a few clouds. Bat is black with paler stripes, fluffy ear tufts and scruffy fur. Dart is shorter and rounder with a pale brown coat and spots, she has a curly coat and tiny, round ears. Dart looks concerned as she stares offscreen, and Bat is looking at Dart. A digital painting drawn in a style intended to resemble Cave Art. The cubs and onlookers to Fade's story, from left to right. Quiver and Pine, looking up at Fade with wide eyes and pricked ears. Pounce sitting slightly away from the others, leaning on his hip where he was grooming. Quiver is a black and white curly-coated cub with yellow eyes. Pine is smaller with spikey orange fur and green eyes. Pounce is solid white with dark eyebrows and squarish shaped flared fur. His eyes are copper coloured.
April 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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harkthorn.bsky.social
"Hootie comes with vet records, DNA test, clear fecal results, 4 pigeon pants, and his beloved blowfish plush" 😭

#pigeonSky 🪶
mieuu.bsky.social mieu @mieuu.bsky.social · Apr 19
Hootie is a feisty, frosty-colored blue bar feral available for adoption anywhere within a 2 hour radius of Westchester County NY. He was rescued from a New Jersey highway median after being stunned by a passing car in 2020. 🧵⬇️

#pigeonsky 🪶
April 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
pencilpavlova.bsky.social
"Oh my god Aenocyon, you can't just ask someone why they're white!"

Man, I really dislike how sites like this suck for longform writing. I'm not concise about anything ever :'D

(See links in thread below if you wanna read my very long reply to a tumblr ask about the GMO wolves)
An illustration of two canids on a steppe/grassland. The left canine is Aenocyon dirus, a dire wolf aka Masked Wolf in Kindred. It is russet brown with a dark face rimmed in paler brown. The throat is also dark and it has a saddle on the shoulders like modern wolves. The right is a pure white wolf with blue eyes and an awkward, overshot jaw. Aenocyon says, "So, if you're a Dire wolf, why are you white?" To which Romulus/Remus (doesn't matter which) replies "idk *what* I am..."
April 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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franzanth.bsky.social
bringing back some #InvertebrateShitposting from the archives
an image in 4 quadrants, each one containing a literal image of the animal and text top left: goose barnacle - not a goose - a barnacle top right: barnacle barnacle - a barnacle - a barnacle bottom left: goose goose - a goose - a goose bottom right: barnacle goose - not a barnacle - a goose but also a barnacle if you ask a 12th-18th century english and so it also counts as a fish
February 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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animalphotorefs.bsky.social
Part five: the girls need some love, too.

These and all photos on the repository are free-to-use for artists creating derivative/transformative works (sans AI).
Two tawny female lions lie on a rock in a wooded area. They're both watching something intensely and the one on the right is crouching slightly, poised to pounce. A muscled female lion plays with a toy. Her butt is in the air and her chest is close to the ground, forelegs extended. A tawny female lion is resting her head on a ledge, looking into the camera. Her ears indicate she is listening to something behind her. A female lion is looking directly into the camera while standing up against the glass of an enclosed habitat. Her nose is crinkled in a way that gives her a funny expression.
March 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
pencilpavlova.bsky.social
Oh hai!! Sorry basically all my examples are Kindred but that's all I draw atm c':

I tag @anonspice.bsky.social, @vuelode-irbis.bsky.social, @martyrrd.bsky.social and @kurai0okami.bsky.social (no pressure tho!)
A digital painting of gold steppe in the background and 3 Homotherium serum in the foreground. The sky is blue with a few fluffy white clouds. The grass is golden and the Steppe backs onto blue mountains. A herd of bootherium (an extinct, leggier relative of the muskox) are grazing. One is looking towards the sabercats in the foreground but doesn't seem concerned yet. Poppy, Quiver and Pounce are viewed from behind, though Pounce is looking off into the distance away from the herd that has the other two molly's attention. A digital drawing, the last panel of Moon 10 part 1 of Kindred of the mammoth. It features Pounce and Poppy, Homotherium serum aka Fleet Fangs. There is also a Smildon fatalis aka Ice Fang. In the foreground, laying down by the cliffs edge on orange/yellow grass, is Pounce and a young Ice Fang (which can be told by the tiny sabers). The ice fang is pressing his nose into the side of Pounce's muzzle and Pounce is shown without visible sclera for the first time since Moon 4. Poppy peering over a rock in the background pulling a o^o face A digital art piece from the start of Moon 10 part 1. It features the whole Kindred except Pounce. They are Homotherium serum aka Fleet Fangs. It is sunrise with a slight orange glow cast over the distant mountains and autumn leaves. The whole kindred on a patch of grass and boulders besides the herb cave seen in Moon 8. Dart is fixated on a beetle and Bat is next to her, but he is looking up at Burnet, who is slinking past the boulders looking at Lilac with pinned ears. Lilac is facing away but his ears are also angled towards her. He is wearing the snare again, now with herbs tucked between the rope. Pine is rearing onto his back legs while fighting with Quiver. She seems to be beating him as he is unbalanced and about to fall. The back of Poppy's ears are visible as she watches. A digital drawing of two cats holding each other while the smaller, a grey and white tom, cries into the larger brown tom's fur. They are characters from Loudclan clangen on Tumblr. The background is foggy pine forests, and where they are sitting is grassy with small, white flowers. The scene is framed by pine branches.
March 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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prairiegh0st.bsky.social
smilodon fatalis x teratornis merriami
the pleistocene gryphon
ref sheet depicting a gryphon that is a smilodon fatalis x teratornis merriami. Side view, detailed wing views and an illustration
March 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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coelasquid.bsky.social
Oh my god I’m so sick of the “we bred nest building instinct out of pigeons and that’s why they make such sad nests” thing that one viral video spread everywhere, it’s not fucking true, pigeons just make shitty nests because in the wild they nest in rocky crevices
A wild rock dove nesting in a hole in a rock A rock dove nesting in a hole in a tree A rock dove sitting on a rocky cliff face, full of little holes that it won’t need to build a nest in because they’ll hold eggs perfectly fine Severl pigeons standing on a rocky cliff face full of primo egg-holding divots
March 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM