Ranger Rick's Nature Magazine; August 1979 edition. Illustration by Tony Chen.
The hog badger (Arctonyx collaris), also known as greater hog badger, is a terrestrial mustelid native to Central and Southeast Asia.
Its appearance generally resembles the European badger, but it is generally smaller, with larger claws on the front feet. Its tail has long white hairs, and its front feet have white claws.
It has medium-length brown hair, stocky body, white throat, two black stripes on an elongated white face and a pink, pig-like snout. The head-and-body length is 22–28 inches, the tail measures 4.7–6.7 inches and the body weight is 15–31 lbs. With weights regularly reported from 19 to 26 lbs it is one of the world’s largest terrestrial extant mustelids going on average body mass.
Been sorting through my thousands of old photographs, I took this in 2013 and that would’ve been the last time I shared it on tumblr. It’s the footprints of a mouse on a slime mold in Bel Air, Maryland :)
quilt by Chinami Terai
the forest dweller has discovered another glade misted with dew
Links to my free sewing patterns!
- big manta ray
- smaller manta ray
- monster friend (those monsters with horns I’ve been making lately, but without horns)
- pie slice
- Fred, the Fish of Minimal Effort
- tiny cat (aka Jiji)
- mini mothman
- whale shark/donut whale shark
- juggling frog/toad (aka my smallest, simplest frog pattern of the three I’ve made)
- large frog
- tiny hedgehog
- minecraft bee
Periodic reminder of the free sewing patterns I’ve shared so far! I’m hoping to get another free one shared soon, I just need to figure out which one. Maybe the mini-mushroom creatures?
best thing ive ever been commissioned for in my life, shadow wizard money gang fight stick art. the rings are set up so that buttons are like gems
Good news everyone! its been turned into the real thing, i hope my client tears it up at locals