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Table Umbrella
Sabertooth Grill
San Diego Zoo
San Diego, San Diego County, California
camera: Olympus 35SP rangefinder
lens: G.Zuiko 42mm f/1.7
film: Fujicolor Pro 160S
filter: Hoya Skylight 1B
support: hand held
scan: NCPS
Live at the Ballard VFW in Seattle, WA on April 30th, 2023.
All photos taken by Dan Samhold (Future Breed).
these 2 drone are key components of extinction as well as Wheelie's survival (written into the biography of Extinction (Dinobots))
One serves as Wheelie's offensive hand : "Sabertooth" (tank with 2 teeth type weapons up front) and the other serves as Wheelie's defensive hand : "Mastodon" (tank with tusk like features on it's front.
Water based oil on canvas, 36" x 48"
Original tiger photograph by Tommy Simms on Flickr.com
The ancestors of modern tigers evolved of 42 million years.
www.livescience.com/17723-sabertooth-cats-powerful-arms.html
Hearing the interview with Alan Rabinowitz on Krista Tippett’s NPR show called, “Being,” touched me on many levels. As a child Rabinowitz was crippled with a stuttering problem that was so severe, they put him in the classes with the kids who had learning problems and forgot about him. He couldn’t speak to people, but he could speak to animals. And as this broken child connected with a broken, caged leopard in the zoo he made a promise. If he could ever complete a sentence, he’d be the voice for the animals. Rabinowitz went on to learn how to control his breath and now he is doing what he said he would do for the big cats. He’s doing it very well. He's got a PhD in Zoology, acts as the CEO for panthera.org, and he's really making a difference. Years later as he’s tracking a wild black panther through the jungle, the panther slips in behind him and he comes face to face with it. Now he measures his spirit to this healthy, wild animal and the story comes full circle. Rabinowitz says this about tigers:
“Spiritually I feel very strongly about the tigers. I think you can drop me off any place in the world and I can tell you if the big cats are around me or not. I have been face to face with wild lions, with wild jaguars, and there is a real energy emanating from them. I’ve been in jungle and watched as big cats move through the jungle and hear all of the animals go silent as the big predator moves through it. The energy in a jungle with big predators is a very, very different energy, and when you truly merge with it and feel it, it’s not a dangerous energy. It’s not a negative energy — completely the opposite. It’s this huge, positive, overwhelming force which humbles you, makes you realize that there are things much greater on the Earth than you.”
Peter Levine wrote one of my favorite books. It’s called, “Waking the Tiger.” Levine talks about the fight or flight response everyone has to a traumatic event. When something bad happens to you and it leaves you paralyzed with fear, the energy of the event slips inside you. It keeps hurting you. You spend all your time replaying the event over and over looking at the situation from different angles to make sure it never happens to you again. Meanwhile it saps your strength. However, if you can look at the event, re-write the story, re-focus the energy and wake the tiger, you can get the energy to move through you instead of letting is get stuck inside you. This process makes you strong. Learn how to re-create yourself. Learn how to re-create the world by waking the tiger and facing what paralyzes you.
It really works. I had a healthy case of PTSD from a car accident as a child. I connected with parrots to make myself strong. I helped write a book that rocked the avian world. When I was in a second car accident a few years ago, I knew what to do. I avoided a lot of the pitfalls I stepped directly into as a much younger person because I moved the energy differently. And now when I look at the gut wrenching incident at Zanesville, Ohio where all those animals got shot. I watch how the pain disappears from the horizon but still rolls around in our psyches and I simply must say out loud it’s not enough to witness the event. We have to do something with it.
Here's the link for Krista Tippett's show
being.publicradio.org/www_publicradio/applications/formbu...
Beth Martell - Your Voices, Your Stories | A Voice for the Animals with Alan Rabinowitz [onBeing.or
being.publicradio.org
With the extinction of the tiger so close, transforming our own hearts is paramount.
Nimravus major Lucas, 1898 - fossil false sabertooth mammal skull from the Oligocene of Nebraska, USA. (museum signage, Nebraska State Museum of Natural History, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA)
This species is also known by other nomens, including Nimravus brachyops and Pogonodon brachyops.
Museum info.:
"Innocent Assassins
A 25 million-year-old cat fight
This remarkable specimen consists of the skull of an extinct cat-like predator with its canine tooth piercing the leg bone of another cat. It inspired Nebraska-born writer and scientists Loren Eiseley to compose a poem, The Innocent Assassins, which begins:
Once in the sun-fierce badlands of the west in that strange country of volcanic ash and cones, . . .
we found a saber tooth, most ancient cat, far down in all those cellars of dead time.
Eiseley was a member of the museum field party that discovered this fossil in Black Hank Canyon in 1932.
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Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Carnivora, Nimravidae
Stratigraphy: Gering Formation, Upper Oligocene
Locality: Black Hank Canyon (Black Hank's Canyon), south of the town of Bayard & ~3 miles west of Redington Gap, Wildcat Hills, western Morrill County, western Nebraska, USA
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Taken at the Evolution Store, Science & Art in Soho, New York.
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