May I offer you regular moon bears & one golden moon bear though?
hm. I’ll allow it.
So happy to see a clear pic of a golden moon bear. They used to just be a rumor.
He’s just a regular mom bear with a negative color filter.
I know you’re being silly, but let me be serious for a moment.
So, a lot of the species in certain parts of Asia aren’t particularly well-documented in the ways we’re accustomed to in the “Western world”. Which gets into a lot of ambiguity. There had been rumors of “golden bears” for a long time.
And to those who know about bears, this is incredibly exciting! The problem is, the people who would mention “golden bears” didn’t distinguish them clearly.
Understand, there’s sorta three tiers:
Species – distinct, separate species. This used to be treated as meaning “cannot interbreed and produce fertile offspring” but that has proven a little fuzzier than we used to think.
Subspecies – can interbreed, but generally doesn’t.
Morph – distinct set of features which show up within a population but do not constitute a separate population.
(If you’re the nitpicky kind of person, you will please note how i said “sorta” before you do your “Well actually” bullshit. The last couple of decades have wrecked our approach to taxonomy.)
Anyway, so there had been rumors of golden moon bears, but no proof. The most optimistic but least likely option was that these would prove to be an entire new species of bear. Which is, remarkably, plausible for the regions in question where our knowledge of species populations is vague enough that there could be a whole other large carnivore out there. And finding a ninth species of bear would be a hell of a thing. But that’s not likely.
Finding a subspecies would be pretty damned cool, and explain why they’re only rumor most of the time.
But the most likely option was color morph. Just like some people are blondes or readheads, sometimes moon bears are golden.
It wasn’t until the 90s that someone actually mounted a trip to various parts of Asia, following rumors of golden moon bears – which was challenging as these rumors often originated with illegal hunting – until they managed to find a number of actual golden moon bears, and gather enough DNA samples to determine where they fit taxonomically. Disappointingly, it turns out they’re just a color morph – but now we know.
Onion Games is a small independent studio composed of three ex-Lovedelic team members: Yoshiro Kimura, Kazuyaki Kurashima and Hirofumi Taniguchi. Today’s announcement of Stray Children displays an open desire of the ensemble to evoke and celebrate the original Lovedelic masterpiece. The choice of musical theme could hardly have provided a better hint – it’s, of course, Debussy’s ‘Rêverie’.
Unequivocally, Stray Children will make its way to the west, as has been the tradition for all OG games to date.
“Coming from the four corners of the country, a pack of overheated cannons surrounded the besieged city and shelled it without pause. When night came, the most powerful of them, two formidable guns named “the Devil” and “the Devil’s Mother”, spewed long jets of incandescent slime into the darkness, accompanied by an obscene roar that made moan the inhabitants holed up in their beds, because each new discharge, each new impact announced that soon resistance would give way under the onslaught of these insatiable monsters and that the innocent city would be brutally taken and delivered body and soul to the ravages of the episcopal thugs.”
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Inspired by true events from the early Renaissance, Project M is a graphic story in the making that exposes how a society’s prejudices and anxieties can, under extraordinary stresses and circumstances, breed true monsters.
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Apollonia Saintclair 1132 – 20230913 Le Diable et la Mère du Diable (The big guns) | Preliminary drawing | Book release in 2024
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More drawings by Apollonia Saintclair in INK IS MY BLOOD – COLLECTION
Ars longa, vita brevis is a Latin translation of an aphorism coming originally from Greek. The Latin quote is often rendered in English as Art is long, life is short.
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