This week’s episode of PBS Eons talks about one of my favorite animal groups, the hyenas! Here are the three beasts I made for the occasion: Protictitherium,ChasmaporthetesandPachycrocuta.
my inbox and twitter both informed me that not only does International Hyena Day exist, but that it’s today! I couldn’t let this important occasion go by without drawing something, and I finished this just in time with only an hour to spare. Happy special day to these four special creatures.
(from left to right: brown hyena, striped hyena, spotted hyena, aardwolf)
(it’s also apparently World Tapir Day! Another special animal. But I ran out of drawin’ juice and out of time. I’m so sorry, tapirs. I still love you, I promise)
we have:
Some quiet little fluffies that sneak around at night eating dead things.
Apex predator. Eats live buffalo. Chases lions up trees.
a… thing. eats nothing but termites. Great mohawk!
@homingpidgeon@zouroula2 @dabblingindissent (woops fsr I can’t tag you) thank you for alerting me to this important day! Five minutes left to post this in EST and have it still be Hyena Day aaa
my inbox and twitter both informed me that not only does International Hyena Day exist, but that it’s today! I couldn’t let this important occasion go by without drawing something, and I finished this just in time with only an hour to spare. Happy special day to these four special creatures.
(from left to right: brown hyena, striped hyena, spotted hyena, aardwolf)
(it’s also apparently World Tapir Day! Another special animal. But I ran out of drawin’ juice and out of time. I’m so sorry, tapirs. I still love you, I promise)
My favorite part about 1931 Dracula is that there are armadillos running around Dracula’s castle.
Look at this it’s like they couldn’t find any rats so they just were like “eh close enough no one will notice”. But I noticed. I noticed.
“WE NAILED IT BOYS”
Apparently in the 20s and 30s, armadillos weren’t very commonly known, so moviemakers would use them wherever they needed some creepy, ‘demonic’ animal running around. So there were a lot of armadillos in early filmmaking, and it was often people’s only source of reference for armadillos.
Fast forward twenty years to when the father of the biology professor who told me this is driving out from the east coast to see his son in California. Crossing the southwest at night.
An armadillo runs across the road.
He comes to a screeching halt and the Thing Of Evil, which he never knew was actually a real animal, trots the rest of the way across the road and vanishes into the desert.
We had the distinct pleasure of having Jon Cozart join us to watch one of the biggest Disney movies of all time, The Lion King. And the episode lives up to both the movie and the guest. Enjoy watching one of our funniest episodes yet!
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