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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 13h

Please share a weird animal fact. Or a lesser-known animal fact.

FACT: Coyotes climb trees. (Coyote Ethos: “Never tell me the odds.”)

Your turn!

Coyote in an evergreen tree. Full story here, including more photos: https://goeddelphotography.com/blog/coyote-climbs-tree-and-steals-bobcats-duck/

Coyote in a fruit tree. 📸: Janet Kessler of coyoteyipps.com—arguably, the most fun and informative website in existence.

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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 13h

Please share a weird animal fact. Or a lesser-known animal fact.

FACT: Coyotes climb trees. (Coyote Ethos: “Never tell me the odds.”)

Your turn!

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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 13h

Weeping Sequoia?

“Dr. Seuss-ass looking trees” made me burst out laughing. 😂🤣

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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 1d

What are you guys doing for Halloween? 🎃

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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 19h

Those biodomes are incredible and they need to exist in the real world.

🎨Artsy Marxist🎨 (commissions closed) @artsymarxist.com · 4d

Hi yall 💚 I’ve got several original oil/acrylic paintings and prints available on my new website solinga.art 🖼️🖌️🎨 You can purchase there or via bluesky dms! Details about each available painting below🧵👇

futuristic solarpunk city with turquoise river running through it

waterfall in Laos with sunlight shining through the trees

biodomes illuminated by the glow of a gas giant in the sky

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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 19h

Those biodomes are incredible and they need to exist in the real world.

🎨Artsy Marxist🎨 (commissions closed) @artsymarxist.com · 4d

Hi yall 💚 I’ve got several original oil/acrylic paintings and prints available on my new website solinga.art 🖼️🖌️🎨 You can purchase there or via bluesky dms! Details about each available painting below🧵👇

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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 20h

My “Nature and Wildlife Art” feed is almost ready for subscribers—both artists and art fans. Stay tuned! 🌿

Maddy Bellwoar @maddybellwoar.com · 22d

Another mushroom studies page in gouache 🌿🍄✨

Photo shows a sketchbook sitting open on a wooden desk, surrounded by painting supplies such as paint tubes, brushes, and a palette. The page displays 5 gouache painting studies of different types of mushrooms growing locally in the Netherlands.

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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 19h

Your studio is a living dream! I’m overwhelmed by the colour, the vibrancy, and the sheer joy emanating from this photo. Just wow. 💚

J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 20h

My “Nature and Wildlife Art” feed is almost ready for subscribers—both artists and art fans. Stay tuned! 🌿

Maddy Bellwoar @maddybellwoar.com · 22d

Another mushroom studies page in gouache 🌿🍄✨

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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 20h

While we’re on the subject, I highly recommend subscribing to the #FungiFriends feed. 🍄

lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 2d

Here is a nice a mushroom

A vase shaped golden chanterelle grows from the mossy forest soil like an ocean wave breaking against a rock. Rain wet ferns grow all around under the green forest background. All photos by me

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Michelle F Mitchell | Sword Fern Studios @swordfernstudios.bsky.social · 7d

If you love PNW wildlife, this pal should be on your radar.

The Pacific marten. They’re adorable, curious, carnivorous forest critters. But rarely seen.

They were considered virtually extinct for 50 years! Loss of habitat & human actions are the suspected cause.

#art #conservationart #oldgrowth

Close-up of a watercolor painting of a pine marten, its fur depicted in shades of reddish-brown and light brown. The artwork is displayed on a square piece of white paper, surrounded by natural elements such as pine cones, dried orange slices, and green plants. The overall aesthetic is autumnal and nature-inspired.

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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 23h

In second grade, a small area outside of my school was thick with clover. Four leaf clovers were EVERYWHERE.

Re: squirrels, here’s what Google’s “AI Overview” says:

“Certain areas, known as ‘colonies,’ have higher populations due to genetic factors or human intervention.”

J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 23h

Leucistic squirrel!

This squirrel has dark eyes, so it’s not albino. If you’ve ever had a rabbit or a pet rodent, you knew that already.

Only 1 in 10,000 squirrels are leucistic. @sharonahill.bsky.social is incredibly lucky.

Sharon of the Strange Times @sharonahill.bsky.social · 1d

Frosty, the white squirrel, visits my water dish almost every day. #animals #wildlife

White squirrel with light gray tail and dark eyes drinks from a clear bowl of water with pebbles on a stone patio. She keeps her back feet in the greenery. Blue sky.

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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 1d

What are you guys doing for Halloween? 🎃

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Rebecca Wang Art @rebeccawangart.bsky.social · 1d

#BlueSkyArtShow The theme is #Glow. This raven is holding a glowing star as it is placing it in the night sky.

#art #painting #raven #birds

A flying raven in the starry night sky holding a glowing orb in his beak.

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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Scientists have found wild #wolfdogs roaming the mountains of Greece.

In nature, wolves and dogs rarely interbreed. This is fascinating.

"An Incredible Wolf-Dog Hybrid Has Emerged from the Mountains of Greece" www.popularmechanics.com/science/a689... #wolf #wolves #canislupus

An Incredible Wolf-Dog Hybrid Has Emerged from the Mountains of Greece

Wolves and dogs don’t normally breed in the wild, largely because wolves are so territorial. But an exception has been found.

www.popularmechanics.com

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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Scientists have found wild #wolfdogs roaming the mountains of Greece.

In nature, wolves and dogs rarely interbreed. This is fascinating.

"An Incredible Wolf-Dog Hybrid Has Emerged from the Mountains of Greece" www.popularmechanics.com/science/a689... #wolf #wolves #canislupus

An Incredible Wolf-Dog Hybrid Has Emerged from the Mountains of Greece

Wolves and dogs don’t normally breed in the wild, largely because wolves are so territorial. But an exception has been found.

www.popularmechanics.com

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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 4d

I get you. Money is a helluva drug.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12d

generally, raccoons prefer not to eat trash and are not that interested in breaking the law so much as living their lives and having fun

Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 12d

Daily bunny no.3094 has been caught red-handed

A bunny helps two raccoons drag a trashbag away. The bunny has a black mask, like an old-timey burglar in a film. It is the dead of night on a grimy city street. A light shines on the three of them, from a flashlight or spotlight, surprising them all. The bunny and raccoon put their hands up: They've been caught!

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J. Stryker | Memento Mori ☠️ @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 4d

I am absolutely serious: it’s horrifically unfair to compare billionaires (evil) with impoverished people (not evil).

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 22d

Don't give up on your dreams.
If you wish to chase curious townsfolk away from the ragged edge of the forest with the dark grandeur of your shambling form, I know you can do it.
I believe in you.