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[pshaw_raven]

The story behind this image is an Osprey scientist who decides to start studying fish in a local lake that have mutated and become inedible. She flew out to pick up a sample and is heading back to the lab against a stormy sky. It was inspired by a news story about how plastics and other man-made chemicals in the water are acting as mutagenics in fish. I know that most mutations aren't like in the movies and the offspring simply die, but the image felt like something that needed to be drawn.

I also wondered how she's holding the jar without use of her claws, and I decided the gloves are rubber, so they have added grip.

Did you know that sometimes an Osprey can have their claws so deeply embedded in a fish that, when the fish dives deeper under the water to try to escape, they drag the Osprey with them and the bird drowns?

Comments

[draculard]

I love it!! And that fun fact at the end, holy shit <.< evolution just handing us authors our symbolism on a silver plate

[pshaw_raven]

It's only a fun fact if you're not the Osprey :D

Thanks!

[8hyenas]

I like her.

[pshaw_raven]

Thank you :)

[expandranon]

This is brilliant and I love it!

[pshaw_raven]

Thanks :D