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The Zu is one of the many bird-like creatures in the final fantasy universe. In most depictions it is a darkly colored, aggressive bird with prominent teeth. Here. shining a spotlight on the Zu to talk about its similarity to several real-world species, both past and present.
Part 1: Specificity
To start off, lets look at the bird’s real-world counterparts. The Zu’s overall body plan is undeniably vulturine, with its heavy barrel shaped body and long (mostly) naked neck. But its specific classification managed to surprise me.
On a cursory view, I has believed that the Zu took sole inspiration from Andean Condors, due to their similar color scheme and vulturine appearance. But on closer inspection, the Zu actually bears a far greater physical resemblance to Old World Vultures.
That iconic white ruff around the Zu’s neck was the first feature that drew my eye. It has a remarkable similarity to the Andean Condor’s white ruff. Especially when paired with the black covert feathers, but that is where the similarities end. The Zu has major features that point me into another direction, the Feet and the Pants.
The Zu’s feet are undeniably Acciptridae, a clade which includes Eagles, Hawks and old world Vultures. The toes are thick, and the talons curve sharply upwards before coming down to a deadly point.
New world vultures(Cathartidae), on the other hand, have what is affectionately refereed to as chicken feet, with relatively smaller and weaker toes and talons. These birds have a far weaker grip strength and are less likely to attack with their feet(this is personal experience lmao). In the FFXV, one of the Zu’s main attacks is stomping.
The next feature, just above those big ol’ stompy feet is the Pants. The Zu’s bright, showy and stylish outfit choice is another feature missing from the new world vultures group. And when we look over to the old world vultures, this type of downy leg coverings are found only in the subfamily Aegypiinae, such as the Lappet-faced Vulture(Torgos tracheliotos).
Assuming that the Zu's design comes from a specific clade(aka an Andean Condor's ruff wasn't pasted onto an an old world vulture) we could narrow the classification down further. The Zu’s white ruff then indicates that the Zu likely belongs to genus Gyps, with its real world cousins including species such as the Eurasian Griffin Vulture(Gyps fulvus).
So yeah, African Vulture Supremacy(I still love condors I promise)
Part 2: Fantasticality
Moving on from the real, I would also like to point out several parts of the Zu’s design that, while completely fictitious, are still pretty damn cool.
For one, the body proportions. One of the things common bird-like monster design(that hurts my poor birdbrain) is the sheer impracticality of wingspan. The FFXV Zu? is Gorgeous. The wingspan is absolutely massive, around 4x its basic body length, which matches perfectly to the wingspan of its real world counterparts.
Speaking of that second set of wings, they may have an important function. The Zu’s teeth also bear a striking resemblance to extinct Pelagornis a genus of prehistoric pseudo-toothed birds. The reason that birds initially lost their teeth, despite their use for holding on to slippery prey, is because teeth are heavy. So, if the Zu had some vital function that prevented it from loosing its teeth a second set of wings to help hold up that burden while in flight could be a necessary trade off.
The final trait I would like to mention in this spotlight is wing shape, because the Zu actually has two distinctive wing shapes on its two sets of wings. The upper set are a basic long-distance soaring shape common to vultures, but the second set appear to be a mix between the shapes for soaring such as the Ruppell's Vulture(Gyps rueppelli)and the high-speed sustained flight shape common for migratory sea-birds, such as the Magnificent Frigatebird(Fregata magnificens).
I was not able to track down a species with wings quite like them, but I would love input from if anyone has a guess.
That about wraps up this spotlight, it ended up waay longer than i intended :p.
I plan to do several more spotlights for various fictional birds from all sorts of media, so come and follow if you would like to see them. I will be tagging this series #spotlights as well #bfw(my general works tag).
If anyone has any good medias for me to look at birds in, send me an ask! I would love to hear about them!
Photo Credits in order
Andean Condor: Mason Maron - Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (ML421687901)
Bald Eagle: Ian Davies - Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (ML31692591)
Black Vulture: Enrique Mejía - Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (ML617197078 )
Lappet-faced Vulture: Roland Bischoff - Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (ML204748881)
Eurasian Griffon Vulture: Richard Bartz - Wikimedia Commons (File:Gyps_fulvus_Richard_Bartz.jpg)
Ruppell's Griffon Vulture: José A Cortés Guerrero - Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (ML618960228)
Pelgaornis sp.: Peter Trusler - National Geographic (truth-of-the-pelagornis-pseudotooth)
Magnificent Frigatebird: Connor Cochrane - Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (ML436416971)
To find most of these photos at the source you can go to
macaulaylibrary.org/asset/[insert ML# here]
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though our night is over, you shall always remain.
my belated contribution to nyx week day 5, with the prompt price. i was heavily inspired by the song “My Star” writing this, so please give it a listen before/after/whilst reading if you had the chance for a more immersive experience!
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My contribution for @calling4glaives' Nyx Week 2025! I'm a little late on the Day 1 prompt but better late than never! 🥰
I love a little bit of animal shifter lore, so writing this was very fun and I'm so happy for anyone who pays it a little visit and reads! 💛 I plan on continuing it later-- I have lots of ideas...
I totally did not leave my works last minute and didn't manage to finish writing the piece for day 1 prompts in time (but it will come — better late than never!)
As an apology, please have this lovely fan-art instead. I'm so excited to see all the content this week!
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HEY so the FFXV book club exchange fics went live over the weekend and I’m here to say get over there and read the fic @canisargentum wrote for me! It has a wee froggy Cor Leonis and a protective Prompto and it is absolutely delightful and deserves love! World of Ruin shenanigans!
frog around & find out
AND ALSO I wrote one where Ignis gets sick and does stupid things because he just doesn’t know how or when to rest! I will neither confirm nor deny that this fic is based on real events in my own life. Sick fic! Brotherhood era! Noctis turns the tables! Gladio will never let Ignis live it down; you just know it!
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the commodification of friendship is the most annoying thing to come out of the internet in ages. like actually i love to break this to you but you're supposed to help your friends move even if it's hard work. or stay up with them when they're sad even if you're gonna lose sleep. you're supposed to listen to their fears and sorrows even if it means your own mind takes on a little bit of that weight. that's how you know that you care. they will drive you to the airport and then you will make them soup when they're sick. you're supposed to make small sacrifices for them and they are supposed to do that for you. and there's actually gonna be rough patches for both of you where the balance will be uneven and you will still be friends and it will not be unhealthy and they will not be abusive. life is not meant to be an endless prioritization of our own comfort if it was we would literally never get anywhere ever. jesus.
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If you yourself are not a transmasc person, maybe take a moment to reflect on why the characters you headcanon as transmasc also tend to be the bottom in your ships
Okay, this is super preliminary, but since we've been talking about zoo accessibility I wanted to launch a project I've been planning for a couple months.
One of the hardest things about visiting zoological facilities when disabled is the lack of knowledge ahead of time, right? Often the information on the zoo's website about accessibility doesn't contain everything folk need to know to plan a visit. I think we can probably help fix that, even if it's with just crowd-sourced knowledge!
This is a google spreadsheet for recording accessibility information for various zoos. It is super unfinished right now, FYI. That's partially because I need to fill in more of it from my own experiences, and partially because there are things I didn't note or experience - which I'd love for y'all to chime in about.
Categories for the spreadsheet so far include rentable assistance options, service dog information, accessible bathroom locations, mobility, vision, auditory and sensory issues (or accommodations), food allergy options, and general notes. I'm also including the information each zoo website provides, and guest assistance phone numbers, so all the information is in one place.
To add to this crowd-sourced zoo accessibility resource:
Send an ask to the blog, or comment on the appropriate cel on the spreadsheet (if the facility you want to comment on is already listed).
Provide the name of the zoo/aquarium/sanctuary and the approximate date you visited.
Tell me your experiences / information, and what categories they belong in.
Feel free to submit photos, if that's useful info! I'm going to see if I can find a way to host them and link in the spreadsheet.
I'll take information as it's submitted and integrate it into the sheet. If the zoo you've visited isn't on the list yet, I still want to add it! This resource is going to stay US-based, however. (I just don't have the capacity to manage an international one).
Obviously, I can't personally verify everything people submit, so this is very much a resource and not a definitive guide. Date stamps are crucial important for keeping track of what's recent and what might have been updated since someone visited.
Let's make zoo, aquarium, and sanctuary visits more accessible for everyone!
Okay! I think I've got almost everything that was added (via ask, reblog, or spreadsheet comment) integrated! Had to take a bit of time off for health reasons, but happy I can come back to it again.
I've added a bunch more categories based on your suggestions and contributions, including: parking, multi-lingual support, ride/show/transit accessibility, sun exposure, food & water, low/no cost entrance, support staff policies, options for SDs (bathroom spots, etc), behind-the-scenes accessibility, elevator locations, bench frequency/locations... it's getting huge but I think it's super important information.
I've done a bit of formatting to try to make the spreadsheet less visually overwhelming. Topics aren't in any particular order, although I tried to group related concepts together. Grey columns are for information copied from the facility website, and white comments are for the most important part of the spreadsheet: your comments and feedback! That way what's shared officially can be differentiated visually from what people have contributed.
Please feel free to send me more information and I'll update it as I have time.
Comments and feedback from personal experience are the most useful contributions. I'm going through as I have time and populating the information from the zoo's website, so while I super appreciate it when you send me that, you don't need to duplicate that work. What I want to know is what I can't find online!
How long are the hills? How's the path conditions? How did you feel like the staff reacted to your SD? Is the signage at wheel-chair level appropriate for adults, or just kids? That sort of thing is the meat of this project.
Boosting this again! I always want to hear from people about their accessibility experiences at zoos in the US.
The way this spreadsheet works is that your comments are actively invited for any white column, all of which are labeled as "[topic] notes". The gray columns contain information provided directly by a facility. You can comment on the google sheet itself, reply to this thread, or send an ask or a message to WADTT.
Please tell me explicitly if you don't want your comments added to the spreadsheet as a direct (but anonymous) quotes. One goal is for this project is that zoos will be able to read direct feedback from their guests and learn from it, so I try to include as much direct feedback as possible, in your own words.
The types of comments that are the most useful are things a potential visitor can't learn online. Where do you get stuck in a wheelchair and can't turn around? Do the rides make loud noises? Where do you go to ask for help if you need it? If an example helps, here's the notes I just wrote up on my accessibility experiences visiting multiple zoos in California.
Also, you don't have to give me specific dates for your zoo visits. I asked for that to try to keep information current - just let me know if it was more than a year ago.
There's a lot of zoos listed that don't have their gray columns filled in yet - you're still welcome to add comments to those ones! Take the time to populate this spreadsheet takes a lot of time/computer stamina, so those will get filled out as soon as I have a chance. The feedback from people who have been is welcome whenever! And helps motivate me to flesh out those zoos, heh.
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