Artiodactyla - Tumblr Posts
"Folklore"
2020
Narwhal (Monodon monoceros)
"The Rut"
2018
Red Deer (Cervus elaphus)
"Type D Orca"
2020
Orca (Orcinus orca)
"Overgrown"
2019
Gaur (Bos gaurus)
"Chillin"
2021
Wild Water Buffalo (Bubalus arnee)
"Collide"
2021
African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer)
"Wild Yak"
2022
Wild Yak (Bos mutus)
Really underrated bovids. They are really huge, bigger even than African buffaloes, a fact I was reminded of when I saw a video circulating of a wild yak mingling with a herd of domesticated ones, and it towered over them.
"Massive"
2023
Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
Fun-loving Humpback whale. I had the great privilege and joy of seeing these animals in the wild almost a year ago, though unfortunately there was no jumping.
"Vanishing Homeland"
2024
Palestine Mountain Gazelle (Gazella gazella)
A Palestine Mountain Gazelle surveys the ravages of colonialism on its habitat.
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The myth that Israeli settlers are indigenous to the land of Palestine is absurd on many fronts, among them being their mistreatment of that same land they claim to belong to. For starters, the state of Israel is highly dependant on and contributing to the military industrial complex, one of the most oppressive and polluting entities on the planet. They're also famous (or rather, infamous) for uprooting and destroying native crops and trees and replacing them with invasive plants that not only require more water to tend, but that are also more susceptible to fires. In attempts to greenwash their occupation, they raze Palestinian villages and neighborhoods and build natural parks and reserves on top of them, thus continuing on with a centuries-old colonial practice that has been put to use on stolen lands everywhere. And just like the US-Mexico border wall on my side of the world, the equally racist Apartheid Wall on the West Bank divides up the landscape and severely impedes the free movement of both people and wildlife. The list goes on.
I guess the ecological impact of the current genocidal aggression on Gaza will not be fully apparent until the smoke clears. But already we do know that the first months of the bombing released more emissions than 20 climate vulnerable nations do in a year...so there's that.
All this to say that for people that are so zealous of their supposed "rights" to the land, Israeli Zionists really do seem to go out of their way to hurt it...to carve it up...to destroy it. And that's what colonizers, anytime, everywhere, do.