#zoology — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/ie/681036/ Adaptive zones of feliforms and evolutionary regimes within terrestrial mammalian carnivores #BiologicalAndPhysicalAnthropology #Ecology #Éire #EvolutionaryBiology #EvolutionaryEcology #general #IE #Ireland #LifeSciences #Palaeoecology #palaeontology #paleontology #Science #Zoology

🦜 NEW: Behavioral biologist Jorg Massen gave 17 Galah #Cockatoos a daily choice to fly free.

The #birds almost always flew, then foraged and raised their crests more. They also showed greater #optimism about finding #walnuts after #flying. Massen sees #flight as an ethological need, tying the #research to #animal welfare that enables their natural behaviors.

👉 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-birds-enjoy-flying-scientists-asked-cockatoos/

#parrots #animals #behavior #animalwelfare #ornithology #nature #science #emotions #biodiversity #zoology #biology #galah

gliding/flying snakes ... new fear unlocked.

For more #snake facts in honor of the #constellation Serpens, check out this week's podcast: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/asterism-snakes-creature-corner/

And for the brave who fear no flying snake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPGNbb5Y2a0

#zoology #biology #snakes #Serpens #FunFacts #Nature #NatureIsLit #video #NatGeo #podcast

#TIL that hitchhiker fishes exist AND that at least one species of them sometimes [and this will be #TMI for some of you] ride INSIDE the kloaka of manta rays!!1

yes, that's the toot. please find the link to the article in question in my next toot.

#mantaRay #zoology #parasitism #fauna #hitchhiker

Medusae of the World: Plate 12, Volume 1 (1910) by A. G. Mayer, from Medusae of the World.

Source: MBLWHOI Library / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b2af53fc-5e63-4a30-b6ed-e595434ef37d

#anatomy #zoology #jellyfish #marine #medusae #bookillustration #lithography #art #publicdomain

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐛🌊 Scientists have long wondered why no #insects live in the #ocean, often blaming #water pressure.

A new #study found that #larvae of the lake fly Chaoborus edulis dive nearly 260 m in #LakeMalawi using stretchy air sacs powered by the #protein #resilin. This pressure-resisting ability rules out pressure as the barrier, leaving the #mystery unsolved.

👉 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-dont-insects-live-in-the-ocean-scientists-just-ruled-out-one-possible-explanation-thanks-to-deep-diving-fly-larvae-180989348/

#science #lake #biology #zoology #deepsea #nature #animals #bugs #adaptation #biomechanics #research #africa

Evolutionary genome topology is a new comparative framework that projects the structural evolution of animal chromosomes onto a single map. It reveals that animal genomes do not change at random, but rather evolve along distinct, irreversible pathways over millions of years.
#EvolutionaryBiology #Genomics #MolecularGenetics #Zoology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/ebio08202601.html

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦅🐟 #Wildlife photographer Mark Smith captured #slowmotion #video of an osprey battling a thrashing #ladyfish.

To overcome the slippery #slime thrown by the #fish, the bird uses microscopic foot scales called spicules and flexible rotating #talons to maintain a secure four-clawed grip.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/an-osprey-battles-a-huge-ladyfish

#photography #florida #raptors #predators #zoology #biology #animals #birds #flying #foodchain #hunting #nature #ocean #ospreys #water #tksst

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦅🐟 #Wildlife photographer Mark Smith captured #slowmotion #video of an osprey battling a thrashing #ladyfish.

To overcome the slippery #slime thrown by the #fish, the bird uses microscopic foot scales called spicules and flexible rotating #talons to maintain a secure four-clawed grip.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/an-osprey-battles-a-huge-ladyfish

#photography #florida #raptors #predators #zoology #biology #animals #birds #flying #foodchain #hunting #nature #ocean #ospreys #water #tksst

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦅🐟 #Wildlife photographer Mark Smith captured #slowmotion #video of an osprey battling a thrashing #ladyfish.

To overcome the slippery #slime thrown by the #fish, the bird uses microscopic foot scales called spicules and flexible rotating #talons to maintain a secure four-clawed grip.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/an-osprey-battles-a-huge-ladyfish

#photography #florida #raptors #predators #zoology #biology #animals #birds #flying #foodchain #hunting #nature #ocean #ospreys #water #tksst

💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: 🦅🐟 #Wildlife photographer Mark Smith captured #slowmotion #video of an osprey battling a thrashing #ladyfish.

To overcome the slippery #slime thrown by the #fish, the bird uses microscopic foot scales called spicules and flexible rotating #talons to maintain a secure four-clawed grip.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/an-osprey-battles-a-huge-ladyfish

#photography #florida #raptors #predators #zoology #biology #animals #birds #flying #foodchain #hunting #nature #ocean #ospreys #water #tksst

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐕🌊 Bush #dogs are rare wild #canids of Central and #SouthAmerica with webbed #feet for swimming and short #legs adapted for the #forest floor.

Highly social, these elusive pack hunters live in family groups of up to twelve #animals and hunt together to catch #prey.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/what-is-a-bush-dog-video

#adaptation #biology #bushdogs #centralamerica #hunting #predators #rainforest #science #wetlands #canines #zoology #mammals #wildlife #nature #panama #habitats #tksst #video

#Birdsong and #WhaleSong show patterns similar to #HumanLanguage

by University of Edinburgh

edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan

"An international team of researchers has uncovered a previously undetected structure in the birdsong of #BengaleseFinches that has the same statistical patterns found in human languages.

"The songbirds—famous for their complex, learned songs—organize their songs using the same mathematical formula found in human speech, a trait that has developed over time and makes complex communication easier to learn and pass from one generation to the next.

"The findings, published in the journal Science Advances, build on the team's previous discovery that #HumpbackWhales also rely on a similar systematic structure.

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it as distinct from the communication of all other species.

The findings suggest that some of language's most fundamental building blocks may not be uniquely human after all, but rather a universal feature of learned communication, the researchers say."

Read more:
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-birdsong-whale-song-patterns-similar.html

#Nature #Communication #BirdLanguage #WhaleLanguage #LanguagePatterns #Linguistics #Zoology

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐕🌊 Bush #dogs are rare wild #canids of Central and #SouthAmerica with webbed #feet for swimming and short #legs adapted for the #forest floor.

Highly social, these elusive pack hunters live in family groups of up to twelve #animals and hunt together to catch #prey.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/what-is-a-bush-dog-video

#adaptation #biology #bushdogs #centralamerica #hunting #predators #rainforest #science #wetlands #canines #zoology #mammals #wildlife #nature #panama #habitats #tksst #video

Tips from Mitchell’s Nursery: How to bring hummingbirds to your garden | Opinion https://www.allforgardening.com/1904511/tips-from-mitchells-nursery-how-to-bring-hummingbirds-to-your-garden-opinion/ #animals #anise #archaeplastida #AucubaJaponica #BirdBath #birds #botany #edgeworthia #evergreen #flower #fruit #garden #gardening #horticulture #hummingbird #hydrangea #HydrangeaMacrophylla #HydrangeaQuercifolia #illicium #IlliciumFloridanum #Kingdoms(biology) #leaf #nectar #Ornithology #ornithurae #plant #plants #SarcococcaConfusa #shrub #speed #Zoology

Wolves, Dragons and Devil Whales: The Strange Animal World of  England 

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/07/04/wolves-dragons-and-devil-whales-the-strange-animal-world-of-england/

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐈🔄 For over a century, the “falling cat problem” had physicists building equations to explain how #cats land on their feet without violating the laws of motion.

A new #study out of #Japan took a different approach: looking at the cat’s spine itself. They found that the upper back twists freely while the lower back stays stiff, letting a cat rotate its front half into position and swing the rear into alignment mid-fall.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/scientists-finally-figure-out-why-cats-are-so-good-at-landing-on-their-feet/

#physics #biology #anatomy #research #biomechanics #animals #zoology #veterinary #robotics

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐈🔄 For over a century, the “falling cat problem” had physicists building equations to explain how #cats land on their feet without violating the laws of motion.

A new #study out of #Japan took a different approach: looking at the cat’s spine itself. They found that the upper back twists freely while the lower back stays stiff, letting a cat rotate its front half into position and swing the rear into alignment mid-fall.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/scientists-finally-figure-out-why-cats-are-so-good-at-landing-on-their-feet/

#physics #biology #anatomy #research #biomechanics #animals #zoology #veterinary #robotics

Skeleton of the world’s rarest marine mammal preserved by digital imaging https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/20/vaquita-porpoise-worlds-rarest-skeleton-preserved-digital-imaging-aoe #Porpoises #EndangeredSpecies #Conservation #Cetaceans #3d #Technology #MarineLife #Environment #Wildlife #Zoology #Science

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦐🦘 Roly polies are terrestrial #crustaceans that evolved from marine-dwelling ancestors.

They share a specific trait with #kangaroos because both carry their young in a brood pouch. Female pill bugs carry their #eggs and newly-hatched young in a special pouch called a marsupium.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/roly-poly-pillbug-marsupium-video

#animals #babies #birth #bugs #detritivores #mating #nature #parenting #insects #marsupials #isopods #evolution #science #wildlife #entomology #zoology #ecosystem #tksst #video

🦐🦘 Roly polies are terrestrial #crustaceans that evolved from marine-dwelling ancestors.

They share a specific trait with #kangaroos because both carry their young in a brood pouch. Female pill bugs carry their #eggs and newly-hatched young in a special pouch called a marsupium.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/roly-poly-pillbug-marsupium-video

#animals #babies #birth #bugs #detritivores #mating #nature #parenting #insects #marsupials #isopods #evolution #science #wildlife #entomology #zoology #ecosystem #tksst #video

Biological invasions inflict significant, measurable suffering—including injury, stress, and behavioral disruption—on individual native and introduced animals globally.
#InvasionBiology #Conservation #Zoology #Veterinary #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/bio05052601.html

🌊 Late #Pleistocene pelagic #gastropods of southern #taiwan paleobiodiversity, first #fossil records, and regional affinity: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.21046
@PeerJ
#Biodiversity #Biogeography #Paleontology #Taxonomy, #Zoology

Iguanas Drop From Florida's Trees as Record Cold Blasts Southern US. Via @sciencealert #Conservation #WildLife #Zoology #Nature #Florida #meteorology ☁️ #Snowmageddon #SnowStorm #BombCyclone ☃️

Iguanas Drop From Florida's Tr...

Diaphonization (Zoology 🦥)

Diaphonization, also known as clearing and staining, is a staining technique used on animal specimens that first renders the body of the animal transparent by bathing it in trypsin, and then stains the bones and cartilage with various dyes, usually alizarin red and alcian blue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaphonization

#Diaphonization #Zoology #Staining #StainingDyes #SkeletalSystem #LaboratoryTechniques

Can we please have more of such #ecology #zoology project videos? 😉

Here they are combining #research on #arthropods in mountain areas, #ElevationalGradients, and #DNAsequencing to assess the #SoilFauna in 🇿🇦, old and new one.

📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9hvpXWi-kQ

#SoilBiodiversity

Endoskeleton (Zoology 🦥)

An endoskeleton is an internal structural frame of an animal, usually composed of mineralized tissue and overlaid by soft tissues. Endoskeletons serve as structural support against gravity and mechanical loads, and provide anchoring attachment sites for skeletal muscles to transmit force and allow movements and locomotion. Vertebrates are the predominant a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endoskeleton

#Endoskeleton #Zoology #Biomechanics #AnimalAnatomy #SkeletalSystem