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zoe bearcat@zoeology· 4d

It's time to be sent a flier for an orthopaedic CE course I'm doing through MY OWN WORKPLACE cool beans I'm excited to get to learn how to fix whatever is going on with this rabbits legs See alt text for a full breakdown, I'm gonna have a rage nap #vetsky #vetmed

A screenshot of AI generated skeletons of a bird (chicken???) and rabbit, taken from an internal promotional flier for veterinary continuing education teaching orthopaedic surgery. The rabbit has a weak, underdeveloped mandible as previously discussed, a long post-orbital portion of the skull like a dog and short rooted teeth. Its shoulders sit high up into its neck and various growth plates appear to be randomly unfused and dislocated. It has an extra joint where the proximal third of the femur is, resulting in the femurs bowing downwards. It has way too many ribs and as always, it not articulated with its spine curved properly.

The bird is made entirely of an ambiguously galliformish skull which appears to have mammalian bullae on top of a thick, undifferentiated spine. There is no body cavity, keel or pectoral girdle, but a forelimb is ostensibly located where an avian forelimb would be, but held upright as if the bird is about to do a stretching flap. There is no humerus, the bone proximal to the elbow vaguely congealing into existence, and there is a single thick bone where the radius and ulna should be. The carpus is a nightmare, with the bones that should make up the manus instead being an upsidedown, and reversed radius and ulna (the carpus is an attempt at an upsidedown elbow???) with what appears to be abother spine ventral to this with large developing flight feathers attached (the thickness and opacity of the feather shafts indicates immaturity, this is almost definitely not intentional in this hallucination)

zoe bearcat@zoeology· 9d

On today's edition of Am I Going Grey, Do I Need To Redo My Dye Or Is It Somehow Moulting Season Again

A selfie of a tired-looking bespectacled white person from a slightly elevated angle. Their hair is dark with a blue fringe which sticks up at the front and is run through with enough fine white rabbit hair that it can be seen from a distance

zoe bearcat@zoeology· 17d

Painting some budgie cards

A photo of a number of cards with yellow-green watercolour patches in the middle, reminiscent of the colour of wild-type budgies. One card is held in the foreground, showing a clearer view of a handful of black lines at the edge of the yellow paint like budgies have on the back of their heads

zoe bearcat@zoeology· 21d

I don't know that it's possible for a rabbit to be in a more boobs-and-butt pose than this

A black rabbit laying in a sunbeam. Her torso is curved around to the left and her muscly back legs are kicked out to the right, reminiscent of the meme of oversexualised comic book women who manage to stand in a way that simultaneously shows off their cleavage and butt by horribly contorting their spine

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Jul 15

An ominous child

A photo of a black rex rabbit, standing up on her hind legs and staring at the viewer on the lounge. She has a small head and a wide, tanky body, her little front feet hanging limply in front of her

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Jun 9

Happy Pride to her, the baby girl

A picture of Horse, the main character from Centaurworld. She is an excessively round grey cartoon horse with a white blaze, googly eyes and a silly little smile

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Jun 3

Like. Are you capable of being as happy as these creatures? I'm not and it's a fucking tragedy

A photo of two rabbits, taken from a distance. They are sleeping in the spare room, snuggled in face to face. The black rabbit on the left is pointing away from the viewer, her face buried in the fluffy white rabbit's chest and no light escaping from her void-like coat. The white rabbit is using her as a chinrest, his fluffy face squashing into his body like a melting marshmallow or a deep-ocean creature brought up to sea-level air pressure. His eyes are closed and his face is a picture of contentment

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Jun 3

This is what peak performance looks like

A photo of a white rabbit, taken front on from a low angle. He is a round orb of hair, his pink eyes barely visible behind the fluff of his broad snout. There is not a sharp edge to him and he has fly-away whiskers, big shapeless snowshoe feet and soft rounded ears. The focal point of the photo is his little pink mouth, slightly open as he shovels a big chunk of corn husk into his maw

A photo of a white rabbit, taken front-on from a low angle. He is a round orb of hair, his face slightly turned to his left to observe the viewer through a little pink eye. There is not a sharp edge to him and he has fly-away whiskers, big shapeless snowshoe feet and soft rounded ears. The focal point of the photo is his little pink mouth and nose, his nostrils flared and his right lip elevated as he shovels a chunk of corn husk into his maw

zoe bearcat@zoeology· May 13

It's cool to own a little guy who is made of hair

A screenshot from the paper 'Studies on the quality of Rex rabbit fur' by YR Tao. Highlighted from the abstract is the line "The hair density on the skin is 15000 to 38000 fibres/cm2".

(Full text: https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/wrs/article/view/213)

zoe bearcat@zoeology· May 13

She looks so bad you guys

zoe bearcat@zoeology· May 13

[Fullmetal alchemist voice] rex moulting season REX MOULTING SEASON

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Apr 28

He's perfect

A photo of a fluffy white rabbit resting on a bed. He is facing the camera and his ears are relaxed and set wide, his face a 'Y' shape with his little pink mouth at the bottom. He has a small amount of pee staining on his nose and he is otherwise pretty shapeless, a melty pile of fluffy. He looks very relaxed

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Apr 3

Ah yes, those famously vampiric hystricomorph teeth #noAI #vetmed

A veterinary infographic describing guinea pig and chinchilla teeth. Below the text is a simple line drawing, definitely AI generated, of upper and lower teeth. The central teeth are long and pointed like a vampire bat and the few lateral teeth present are smaller and definitely not herbivorous

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Mar 21

I love lagomorphs your honour

The meme of Chang from Community squinting at a tiny piece of paper. The tiny piece of paper is labelled 'morohological differences in leporid skulls' and Chang is labelled 'me, excitedly showing off how varied my collection of skulls is'

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Mar 21

[cw skull] They're a bit smaller than their brown hare cousins but better suited for cold because they moult into a white winter coat and have bigger, broader feeties. The skull is a bit more robust than my brown hare and the nasal passage is a bit bigger (mountain hare on left, brown on right)

A dorsal photo of two hare skulls. The mountain hare on the left has a slightly shorter snout and neurocranium, though the orbits appear to be largely the same length. The mountain hare also has wider cheek bones, giving it a more robust appearance. The differences are very mild and not overly appreciable unless you are staring lovingly at leporid skulls a lot >>

A ventral photo of two hare craniums without their lower jaws. The snout length is more notable from this angle, with the brown hare on the right having a longer nose and overall narrower face. The palatine fissure (in lagomorphs a big boneless hole where the hard palate usually is in mammals) is wider and broader in the mountain hare. The differences are very mild and not overly appreciable unless you are staring lovingly at leporid skulls a lot >>

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Mar 21

[cw skull] Unrelated, cool new hare for me! Lepus timidus, specifically a Russian mountain hare C: These guys natively range all the way across northern Europe with unconnected populations in northern Japan, Ireland and the Alps

A lateral photo of a mountain hare skull. It is relatively short-nosed and robust, with huge eye sockets and high brow ridges. The upper jaw has two sets of incisors, with the incisors of the lower jaw resting neatly between the two uppers to sharpen the ever-growing teeth into a cutting edge. There is a large toothless area of jaw between the incisors and the cheek teeth, which begin just under the rostral edge of the orbit. Along the lateral aspect of the snout is an area of fine, latticed bone which looks like decorative filigree

A dorsal photo of a mountain hare skull. It is relatively short-nosed and robust, best appreciated from this angle which shows off its broad cheek bones and heavy, bowtie-shaped brow bones

A rostrocaudal photo of a mountain hare skull, looking right up its big nose at the fine scrollwork of nasal turbinates. Its upper incisors are lightly tannin-stained with a central ridge running longitudinally, but its lower incisors are more white in colour

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Mar 21

Creatures

A photo of two rabbits, one white and one black, resting together like loaves on a pillow bed. The one on the left is white and fluffy, with a round face, hooded red eyes and a soft pink mouth. His big fluffy front paws are poking out from under his chest fluff. His ears are set slightly back and very relaxed. The rabbit on the right is black and velvety, with an angular head which seems slightly too small for her chunky body and wide eyes. Her tiny front paws are just visible. One ear is turned towards the viewer and she is giving a side-eye which gives her the air of mild attention compared to her blank-faced squishy companion. Both seem very content

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Feb 25

New wallet painting adventures c':

A grey suede wallet with a stylised rabbit painted on it with bronze paint

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Feb 17

A coda, here is a skull I have which shows dental elongation (red arrows) and abscess changes (blue arrows). Obviously there's a need for simplified diagrams in teaching, but if the cost of making it look clean is it being incomprehensible slop maybe we just just crappily freehand it

A photo of a rabbit skull in lateral view, showing some epic dental disease. Red arrows point to the apices of elongated upper cheek teeth, which erupt into the eye socket, nose and cheekbone. Blue arrows point to erroded bubbles in the mandible, with gnarled and irregular teeth doing their best at growing a wearing surface. The cheek teeth meet in an irregular zigzag and one incisor corkscrews dramatically out of the mouth

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Feb 17

Producing 'diagrams' like this ruins our credibility to others in our industry, which we need to not be doing, because these patients need us to help provide tools and education that will improve their care #VetMed #rabbit

A photo of two rabbits, lounging against one another. The one on the left is black, a largely shapeless lump with a tiny head and wide eyes. The one on the right is a white fluffy cartoon of a rabbit with big fluffy feet extended out behind him and a broad pink nose

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Feb 17

Students, new grads and established vets (GP and exotics trained) deserve to have resources to expand our knowledge on looking after these creatures. AI 'diagrams' make it harder to learn these concepts by giving us incorrect ways to visualise disease #VetMed #rabbit

A photo of a black rabbit, twisted around to groom the top of her tail. Her two feet point towards the viewer, one front leg is extended all the way back to push her torso around, and the other front leg delicately points towards her butt. She has never before been so orbular

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Feb 17

So why do I care? Well, you see, I am so very fucking autistic. But also we are such a niche part of the industry, and educational accessibility is so so important in an area of #VetMed which is under-taught at uni

A photo of a white rabbit sleeping under a chewed up green chair. Only his head is visible and he appears to be melting into the carpet, eyes fully closed, ears resting comfortably along his back, lips fully mooshed into the floor

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Feb 17

It's hallucinating weird rodenty infraorbital foramen along the snout and hooked mandibular ramen with high, deer-like coronoid processes. Flat heads with large, robust paracondylar processes for neck muscles to attach to. And just so many fucked up teeth #VetMed #rabbit

A diagram of an alleged rabbit skull, obviously generated by AI. The skull is in a slightly oblique lateral view to show the far side dental arcades. The skull itself is an absolute anatomical mess in a way that completely undermines the authority and knowledge of the lecturer. Most egregiously it has human molars. The lecture is about dental disease in rabbits

A different diagram of an alleged rabbit skull from the same lecture, obviously generated by AI. The skull is in a slightly oblique lateral view to show the far side dental arcades. The molars in this diagram are even more human, with the upper ones being tricuspid. The snout is shorter and the mandible has a pronounced swooping process rostral to the jaw joint, more typical in large herbivores such as deer and horses

A different diagram of an alleged rabbit skull from a different lecture and a different veterinary organisation, obviously generated by AI. This diagram is more laterally aligned and the roots of the teeth are not depicted, but there are arrows pointing towards the occlusal surfaces of the cheek teeth in an illegible swoopy way. The eyes are particularly tiny and the maxillary process in front of the jaw joint extra high. The articular surface for the neck to attach is much too caudally located, meaning that this animal would hold its neck much more horizontally than a rabbit does

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Feb 17

So there aren't enough teeth and the teeth that are there are wrong, what else is wrong with this 'diagram'? Well, it's not a rabbit. The orbit is too small, the jaw is too weak. It's missing the lacrimal bone (red arrow) and the supraorbital process #VetMed #rabbit

A photo of a rabbit skull, trying to hold it at a comparable angle to the AI 'diagram'. It has a much more robust lower jaw, a huge eye socket and a cheekbone which sweeps low over the upper teeth and far back along the upper jaw. A red arrow points to a small bony bump extending from the front of the eye socket, and a blue arrow points to a brow ridge extending from the top of the socket

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Feb 17

[cw skull, bones] Peg teeth make lagomorphs extra impressive shearing machines, bracing the lower incisors for more efficient slicing against the upper primary ones and helping maintain that cutting edge which allows pet rabbits to eat power cords with effortless proficiency #VetMed #rabbit

A lateral (side) photo of the incisor setup of a rabbit. The lower incisors rest between the primary upper incisors and the smaller peg teeth behind

A lateral (side) photo of the incisor setup of a pika, a smaller cousin of rabbits and hares who nevertheless has the same distinctive incisor arrangement. The lower incisors rest between the primary upper incisors and the smaller peg teeth behind

A lateral (side) photo of the incisor setup of a 35 million year old paleolagus fossil. An ancestor of both leporids (rabbits and hares) and pikas, it already has classic peg teeth, one just visible exactly where you would expect it to be, behind the primary incisor (partially broken off in this fossil)

A lateral (side) photo of the incisor setup of a guinea pig, showing only one set of upper and one set of lower incisors. The upper incisors have a small groove worn in them, this is an artifact in this specimen rather than a normal wear pattern

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Feb 17

Rabbits don't have multirooted teeth. Their tooth roots* are long, open, and constantly growing. They look like this #VetMed #rabbit

A photo of a diagram of a rabbit skull from a lateral view. The incisors are coloured purple, premolars blue and molars green. The length of the roots can be seen extending under the surface of the bone. All of the roots are single, they extend further into the jaw than in the AI 'diagram', and the part of the teeth erupting into the mouth are relatively small, simple and uniform. None have obvious cusps like the ones in the AI 'diagram'

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Feb 17

[cw skull, bones] Cool cool stuff! Red arrows pointing at the thickened condylar process of the mandible, blue arrow pointing to the flattened last molars due to changes to chewing pattern! I need to pick all my skulls up and stare at them some more #VetMed #rabbit

A rostocaudal (front to back) photo of a rabbit mandible. A red arrow points to the condylar process of one side of the mandible, the highest point of the jaw joint. It is visibly thickened compared to the other side

A photo of a lateral (side) view of two rabbits mandibles, the upper one for reference and the lower one the pathological one. A red arrow points to the thickened condylar process of the lower skull, which hooks forwards and appears to bulge slightly on the lateral surface. A blue arrow points to the last two and a half teeth of the pathological skull, which are worn slightly shorter than the teeth rostral to it (the arcade of the upper skull are largely even in height)

A dorsoventral (top) photo of the whole rabbit skull, a red arrow pointing to the thickened mandibular condyle. Mild thickening can also be seen on the maxillary aspect of the jaw joint

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Feb 16

I'll admit it's not the most normal skull I have because it's my little art piece on the anxiety of time, but still. More accurate than AI

A photo of the stained hare skull in a lateral view. The bone of the skull is a deep brown while the teeth remain bright white. Its mouth is open wider than is possible for a lagomorph and nestled in its diastema is a mechanical watch movement. It has the correct number and shape of cheek teeth, and the peg teeth behind the upper primary incisors are clearly visible, the orbit is huge with a high zygomatic process to the frontal bone and the caudal part of the skull extends much more ventrally

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Feb 16

Fortunately in my house you are never more than three metres from a lagomorph skull, for teaching purposes and because I am a freak

A photo of the ceiling above a bed, showing a wall with some hexagonal shelves. No skull can be seen from this view but it is there

A face on photo of the same wall with hexagonal shelves, holding some indoor plants, books, a ceramic rabbit candle shade, and on top of the hexagon on the right, a walnut-stained hare skull holding a mechanical watch movement in its mouth

zoe bearcat@zoeology· Feb 6

Mine don't need it, but we periodically have rabbits with incisor malocclusion for maintenance trims at work and I have a habit of picking them up and putting them in my pockets because they're satisfying to play with. For example this is from the butt pocket of the pants I'm currently wearing >>