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Joan Turmelle

@killdeercheer.bsky.social

(she/her) Of 'Joan's Journal' & 'Through Time and Clades'. Anthropology Undergrad Alumna. Mermaid at Heart. Natural History, Animation, Pinups. Art by Ilari Pätilä.

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Joan Turmelle @killdeercheer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

"What did YOU collect as an animal-loving child?" Image selection includes Zoobooks, Wildlife Explorer, Weird n Wild Creatures, Panini Wildlife Sticker Albums, Ranger Rick Magazine, Wildlife Factfile, Wildlife Treasury, EnchantedLearning.com Coloring Pages, Eyewitness Books, Rourke Dinosaur Library, Illustrated Animal Library, and National Geographic Magazine

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Joan Turmelle @killdeercheer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Oops 🤣✨️

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Joan Turmelle @killdeercheer.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Curious paragraph from Robin Allen's "Walt Disney & Europe" on the role of the scientific consultants for the 'Rite of Spring' sequence in "Fantasia". 🦖 An interview with Dick Huemer (co-story director) seems to directly confirm the role of Charles Knight in the visualization of the animals.

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Joan Turmelle @killdeercheer.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Curious about how the dingo got to Australia, and who was its ancestor? You can read all about it in the latest Joan's Journal! 💖 www.tumblr.com/joanjournal/...

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Joan Turmelle @killdeercheer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

😯 Richard Moody's book 'Prehistoric World' from about the same time shows a similar scene with animals labeled Velociraptor. I believe this was before any connection was made with Deinonychus: Velociraptor would've been a "generic theropod"

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Joan Turmelle @killdeercheer.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

'Lady and the Tramp' is, arguably, the closest a Disney animated film comes to feeling like a Studio Ghibli movie.

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Joan Turmelle @killdeercheer.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

The quest for a behavioural human nature, to compare with that of non-human primates, would lead us to characterize the human species as follows (from Jonathan Marks, 'The Nature of Humanness' in "The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology"):

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Joan Turmelle @killdeercheer.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

Absolute queens 💅✨

Queen Grimhilde from 'Snow White' (1937)

The Snow Queen from the 1957 Soviet film

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Joan Turmelle @killdeercheer.bsky.social · 08/08/2023

Well, here I am! Thanks to the kindness of a friend, I made an account. Here's hoping I can turn this into something fun and better to share my wider interests. If you like anthropology and the wider natural world, or if you want to see me gush about niche interests, come along!

Me at Disney's Animal Kingdom with a fashionable Corythosaurus.

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