8 September, 2023

Left hand journal entry #6: Today's article is about sundoooogsssss 🐕☀️🐕

Uwaw it's been awhile since I've done any left-hand writing practice. But here is today's entry: an incomplete copy of Wikipedia's article on Jammie Dodgers! 🍪🍓

A little Biski-related lore: My little character Biski loves Jammie Dodgers! She doesn't call them that though, and she makes them out of very special candy berries that grow every winter in Biski land. You can see her foraging the candy berries in this post :D

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"You can say that [orangutans] are not dependent on social support and approval, and if you admire this in them, that an orang is irredeemably his own person, 'the most poetic of the apes', researcher Lynn Miles told me once in an unguarded moments. What she had in mind was the difference between orangs and chimps in the way they carry on their discourse with the world.

Chimps are much admired for their tool use and for their problem-solving relationship with things as they find them...the orang is, let us say, not so replete with enterprise. Give an orangutan the hexagonal peg and the several shapes of hole, and then hide behind the two-way mirror and watch how he engages with the problem.

And watch and watch and watch--because he does not engage with the problem. He uses the peg to scratch his back, has a look-see at his right wrist, makes a half-hearted and soon abandoned attempt to use his fur as a macramé project, stares dreamily out the window if there is one and at nothing in particular if not, and the sun begins to set. (The sun will also set if you are observing a chimp, but the chimp is more amusing, so you are less likely to mark the moment in your notes. An orang observer has plenty of time to be a student of the vanities of sunset.)

You watch, and the orang dreams...when casually and as if thinking of something else, the orang slips the hexagonal peg into the hexagonal hole. And continues staring off dreamily."

Vicki Hearne, "The Case of the Disobedient Orangutans"

Another Pangur piece :3 @pangur-and-grim

pic i took years ago while driving home from work past the scary snail playground. i stopped in the night and pointed my headlights at it

my pet mold spore

Cutie-pie of the sea (x)

*Update: this is not a real octopus but a spy bot for research. In a BBC vid(here), the spy bot helps an octopus to protect itself from sharks.

Cat studies from last week :3

he's safe now