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Curious

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

A family of wild Pallas's cats living in the grasslands of Qinghai Province, China. 🤗

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is the best thing you'll read today

Known as the “Hermitage cats,” these felines have roamed the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg for centuries, tasked with guarding the priceless artworks from rodents.

The tradition began in the 18th century, when cats were brought to the Winter Palace to protect the walls and paintings from rats and mice.

Today, the cats remain an essential presence at the museum. Once free to roam the galleries, they now make their home in the basement, emerging in the summer to lounge on the embankment and wander through the square.

They have a press secretary, three dedicated caretakers, and a head of the “cat department,” Irina Popovets, who famously declared that the cats are “as well-known as our collections.”

[Kitty Cat Empire @KittyCatEmpire]

kitty’s been at the donuts 🍩

[oleg ignashkin @ignashkinjazz]

Astrud Gilberto performs "Girl from Ipanema" Jazz Festival Newport in Paris 1968.

[🌴 Vagrant 🌴 @VagrantTravels]

Pallas cat - Eastern Himalayas

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Did you guys know we’re going to the moon in a few months? Like Artemis II is actually happening, not some theoretical plan with hardware that still needs to be developed. The rocket is built and waiting to take the crew to the moon.

First time since 1972. This is a big deal!

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Here's the full photo briefly featured in my recent video post showing @BlackGryph0n against the full solar chromosphere after his jump. Crazy how small he looks despite being nearly 50,000,000x closer!

This ended up being my most popular print (vs the closeup) linked in my bio.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Immense planning and technical precision was required for this absolutely preposterous (but real) view: I captured my friend @BlackGryph0n transiting the sun during a skydive.

This might be the first photo of it's kind in existence. See a video of this moment in the reply 👇

[Voyageurs Wolf Project @VoyaWolfProject]

A few neat moments captured on trail cameras this past summer…lots more to come in the coming months. We just started the long process of wading through the seemingly endless hours of trail camera footage our 350+ cameras collected this summer (April to early November).

We likely captured somewhere around 8-9 continuous days of footage during this period so takes a while to download and watch all the footage…and even longer to go through and extract the biological data we want out of the footage (i.e., what animals were observed, what were they doing, etc.).

But obviously, with so many “eyes” in the woods, we inevitably capture lots of cool happenings on camera…like the footage in this video.

All this to say, there is a lot more where this came from and we are looking forward to sharing over the coming months.

[Ramblings @ramblingsloa]

Don't wait for miracles.
Your whole life is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

[Kitty Cat Empire @KittyCatEmpire]

running home from the fish market with the catch of the day!

[Love Music @khnh80044]

Do you like this song?🤔🤔
A timeless classic! The music of that era is so nostalgic~
💥Petula Clark - Downtown💖

[Big Serge @witte_sergei]

Would you ascend the mountain to seek his wise council?

[Voyageurs Wolf Project @VoyaWolfProject]

The Mithrandir Pack captured on camera 21 hours ago at 10 a.m. yesterday morning. We visited the camera and swapped the SD card just a few hours later...only a few hours behind the pack!

Mithrandir, as you can see in this video, is comprised of the breeding male and female, and their 3 living pups. The Mithrandir Pack had 5 pups this spring (we tagged all 5 pups), meaning they have had a pretty high pup survival rate thus far. For perspective, the typical pack in our area raises ~1.3-1.4 pups to adulthood on average.

One interesting thing to notice is the difference in body size of the pups. Specifically, one pup is much smaller than the others. We suspect this is because that pup is a female and the others are males (females are generally a fair bit smaller than males in our area).

Either way, pretty neat to think we were only a few hours behind the pack.