day one-hundred-and-fifty-eight - rosy-faced lovebird

awww

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i think they look that cute to counteract how shocking their scientific name is - agapornis roseicollis. gasp! pornis!

mine looks a lot more 80s than the actual thing. and personally, i prefer masked lovebirds. both in bird form and in matryoshka form. i especially like the way they gang up on albinos.

definitely.

xj

day one-hundred-and-thirty-four - musk lorikeet

a timeline of my relationship with musk lorikeets:

four-and-a-bit months ago: i find out what a musk lorikeet is
four months ago: i paint this guy
one-and-a-half weeks ago: i realise they live in south australia!
four days ago: i stop and watch them on my walk home
today: they weren't in their home-tree, so i made my own: (uh oh, colon within a colon)

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hee hee hee, so cute! i like watching rosellas and rainbow lorikeets too (you can never be unhappy looking at a parrot), and even had a galah eating the soursobs in my front yard the other day, but musk lorikeets are a bit fatter and more squat than all of the above.

and... oh

it seems i have drawn a 'little lorikeet' by accident. FINE! timeline of the little lorikeet:

today: i learn what a little lorikeet is when i accidentally draw it thinking it is a musk lorikeet

no biggie - in fact i may like little lorikeets more. thanks happy accident! but for your information here is the real deal...

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seems i know nothing about animals. what i do know is that musk lorikeets are bandito birds, while little lorikeets look like they've been face-punched by red paint.

xj

day seventy-one - golden snub-nosed monkey

today's animal is a combination of the subject of my favourite ever animal photo and the subject of my favourite ever peter gabriel song (nicely smushed together so as to snub-ify the nose):

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this guy is even the subject of my favourite ever (and first [and only]) sale under the moniker the mantis and the sparrow. so he's pretty special.

the grown ones look magical and evil and like they might be reincarnated gods or anime spirits. but don't try to appeal to them for help because they gots some scary mouth action going on. there's even a sneezy subspecies. for real.

in fact snub-noses come in many styles and faces (all hilarious). please enjoy them at your leisure...
xj