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All Yesterdays: The Shrike Raptorby *Eurwentala

Traditional Art / Mixed Media / Animals & Plants

Yes, I do participate in the All Yesterdays movement. I'm just slow.

I also submitted entries for the Irregular Books contest, though I couldn't find the time to invest in them as much as I would have wanted.

This one depicts a small dromaeosaur that impales his prey on plant thorns. Unlike the food caches of modern shrikes, though, these collections of dead animals are used as a courtship display. Somewhat like modern bowerbirds, these dinosaurs decorate their branch territory with a collection of carcasses of different animals and stick around to show their collection to passing females. It is a honest signal of hunting skills, as the less successful males have to eat their own displays.

This young male has been fortunate enough to find a good, open display branch and been able to defend it from other males. He's not a particularly good hunter, however, and is unlikely to impress a female with such a pitiful collection. He's rather scrawny himself, too, which doesn't help.

*MoonyMina Mar 16, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

it's adorable

~Kazuma27 Mar 14, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Hope you'll find a mate, buddy!

~Ashere Mar 14, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

He looks so forlorn. This is really quite good.

~ForgottenDemigod Mar 14, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Aww

*AngelRaptor Mar 13, 2013

Epic!

~Pyroraptor42 Mar 13, 2013

nice!

~Cetaceaphile Mar 13, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Tiny dinosaur u3u

~Hyrotrioskjan Mar 13, 2013 Professional General Artist

Yeah! Another shrike archosaur

I like your depiction of it

*Eurwentala Mar 13, 2013

Thanks.

I only saw yours when I was halfway through this and was slightly disappointed I wasn't the first to think of this. Oh well, at least it's a different animal. And yours is very nice.

~Hyrotrioskjan Mar 13, 2013 Professional General Artist

Thanks, there is also a Rahonavis of ~Ashere [link] with an similar depiction.

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