☆ Astrapionté ☆

Finally done moving, now the art can continue. For today’s warmup, a funky, giant chicken dance…?

I guess. Sylviornis courtship dance. Get that special someone in ur life a love rock TODAY!
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#paleoart #sketch #ink #holocene #birds

Finally done moving, now the art can continue. For today’s warmup, a funky, giant chicken dance…?

I guess. Sylviornis courtship dance. Get that special someone in ur life a love rock TODAY!
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#paleoart #sketch #ink #holocene #birds

Thank you all for the amazing support over here. You guys have to be some of my favorite supporters! 💛

Accept this random Plotopterid as a thank you!

#paleoart

Thank you all for the amazing support over here. You guys have to be some of my favorite supporters! 💛

Accept this random Plotopterid as a thank you!

#paleoart

Awww thanks for sharing my art!

Birdtober day 2 - Sparrow: Cape Sparrow (Passer melanurus). Straight from the mothaland!
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#art #birds

Birdtober day 1 - Favorite bird:

Mine is the Splendid ASTRAIAAA! (Astrapia splendidissima).

Also, it’s my internet namesake.
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#art #birds #birdofparadise

Birdtober day 2 - Sparrow: Cape Sparrow (Passer melanurus). Straight from the mothaland!
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#art #birds

Birdtober day 1 - Favorite bird:

Mine is the Splendid ASTRAIAAA! (Astrapia splendidissima).

Also, it’s my internet namesake.
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#art #birds #birdofparadise

I’m so glad you see the vision! Most of pieces go for that camera or trail cam-type vibe and I’m glad I’m getting that across.

Additional Madagascar arts!

Malagasy Crowned Eagle hunting a Pachylemur, Mullerornis, Giant Aye-Aye and Bertha’s Coua!
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#paleoart #malagasy #wildlifeart #procreate #lemur #birds

Additional Madagascar arts!

Malagasy Crowned Eagle hunting a Pachylemur, Mullerornis, Giant Aye-Aye and Bertha’s Coua!
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#paleoart #malagasy #wildlifeart #procreate #lemur #birds

Meet Fanantenanirainy (or Fano for short), a male Archaeoindris residing at the Fort Worth Zoo.

learn more about him below!
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#paleoart #lemur #megafauna

He is also protective over his blue enrichment ball and his stress reliever potato! Unfortunately, our guy suffers mild tuberculosis, but he is regularly checked and given his antibiotics!

At 13 years old, Fanantenanirainy is the only male at the zoo and tends to seek solitude often. He loves carrots, lacinto kale, apple slices and juicy mangos. The keepers noted that he also likes to smell and lick cilantro, so they often supply the exhibit with the herb.

He was born in a lemur reserve in Madagascar, then sent to the zoo when he was 3 in hopes that he would breed. His name is Malagasy for “hope of his father”, and he was named so as his father was killed weeks before his birth, causing security concerns within the reserve.

In this timeline Archaeoindris is critically endangered/possibly extinct in the wild due to intense habitat loss. With less than 60 lemurs in captivity across the world, the FW Zoo is one of the only ones in the west to have breeding success in past years and one of 3 in the USA to house the giants.

Meet Fanantenanirainy (or Fano for short), a male Archaeoindris residing at the Fort Worth Zoo.

learn more about him below!
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#paleoart #lemur #megafauna

Some do, and some have shorter nails. I based this guy’s off of the ring-tailed lemur (bottom right foot) and a sifaka (bottom left hand).

A sketchy sketch of Archaeoindris fontoynontii, the 300+ lb lemur of Central Madagascar 🇲🇬!
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#paleoart #primate #extinct #animals

A sketchy sketch of Archaeoindris fontoynontii, the 300+ lb lemur of Central Madagascar 🇲🇬!
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#paleoart #primate #extinct #animals

Arsinotherium zitteliiiiiiii!!!
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#paleoart #extinct #animals #megafauana #eocene

Thanks! I was studying up on it, and I was like “Huh. Barely any YouTube vids, not much recent art and no mentions of it!” Then I picked up the pen haha!

Arsinotherium zitteliiiiiiii!!!
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#paleoart #extinct #animals #megafauana #eocene

Thanks for resharing!!

Oooo.

Probably similar. It and the Northern and Southern Bottlenose Whales of the genus Hyperoodon have very pronounced melons. They use them to produce echolocating clicks, so Indopacetus probably uses its melon in a similar way.

A quick warmup for today: Tropical Bottlenose Whale (Indopacetus pacificus)!
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#art #whale #cetacean #beakedwhale

Malagasy Paleofauna - Pleisto-Holocene Edition ⭑
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#paleoart #animals #extinct #megafauna

A quick warmup for today: Tropical Bottlenose Whale (Indopacetus pacificus)!
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#art #whale #cetacean #beakedwhale