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Not seagull; just gull 😜 Pointing at cool things in nature.

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Dictyophorus spumans, the koppie foam grasshopper, is a species of grasshopper in the family Pyrgomorphidae, indigenous to southern Africa.

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Our friend the Serra Do Quiriri Flea Toad lives in cloud forests in the Quiriri mountain range of southern Brazil! They are a member of a genus of tiny toads known as Saddleback Toads, referring to a bony shield that covers their vertebrae! (photo by Marcio R. Pie and Luiz F. Ribeiro)

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#Mammals

The world’s most endangered wolf species got a big boost at a Missouri wildlife reserve, 4 little puppies born this spring.

The red wolf is the only large carnivore solely native to the United States. It’s smaller than a gray wolf, but larger than a coyote.

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Dr Michelle LaRue's avatar Dr Michelle LaRue @drmichellelarue.bsky.social
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This #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is a fun one - we were flying aerial survey for emperors at Franklin Island & the pilot says, "hey there are birds up here" (at least 500m altitude). Looked out the window and... Adelie penguins?! They climbed all the way up there. WHAT ON EARTH.
🧪🌍🦑🦉

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Dr Michelle LaRue's avatar Dr Michelle LaRue @drmichellelarue.bsky.social
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Seems timely to post this one, from The Cougar Network's Puma Field Identification Guide. Trail camera photos can be incredibly misleading, especially since they are often in black and white and taken at night. It's hard to envision just how big cougars (aka mountain lions) really are! 🧪🌍🦊

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Eavesdropping on ocean giants 🐳

MBARI's Blue Whale Observatory is a network of instruments that records whale calls, krill activity, and ocean conditions in Monterey Bay. These recordings reveal more about the ecological dynamics that shape these gentle giants’ lives.
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🔥 The Pantanal in Brazil, the world’s largest wetland and one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, is on fire. Huge stretches of land resemble the aftermath of a battle, with thick green shrubbery now a carpet of white ash, and chunks of debris falling from the sky. 🌎

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The latest Forbes column from #shark researcher @melissacmarquez.bsky.social is about the roughback bristle shark (Dichichthys satoi), a newly described species found in deep water (500 to 1500 meters) around New Zealand.

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Wastewater plumes full of heavy metals are just one of numerous worrying and unknown issues about #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️.

A new study “finds elevated copper levels in a simulated waste plume, which could be toxic to mesopelagic communities🦑.”

🔗:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Seabirds are wanderers, able to travel over vast stretches of ocean. But even in these places thousands of miles from land, humans leave their mark. Trash cleanup programs like SPLASh are particularly impactful for seabirds. Meet 3 seabird species that benefit from our SPLASh program! 🐦

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It’s easy to mistake the squawking “kwok” of this week’s Bird of the Week for a Common Raven. This sound-alike call likely inspired our Bird of the Week’s scientific name, Nycticorax nycticorax, which means “night raven.” ♥️ 🐦‍⬛🪶

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Over the past decade, several Māori iwi (tribes) in New Zealand have made history and fetched international recognition by gaining “legal personhood” status for natural features. But questions remain about the extent to which such a legal instrument can enact meaningful change. Read:

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Our friend the Granular Toad is most commonly found in the Adolfo Ducke Forest Reserve near Manaus, Brazil! They are a common toad who likes to spend their days in holes in the ground and come out at night to feed on ants and termites! (photo by Thomaz de Carvalho Callado)

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🐟🐟🐟 East Africa is famed for its incredible wildlife such as mountain gorillas and savanna elephants, but for sheer diversity of species not much rivals a subgroup of more than 1000 cichlid fish species in the waters of Africa’s Great Lakes — more than 500 in Lake Victoria alone. 🌍

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This is so cool! Frog & amphibian have been dessimated by the disease chytridiomycosis, caused by a fungal pathogen. Researchers have realised that the fungi is heat intolerant so little brick saunas for frogs can help kill the fungi! Recovered frogs more resistant to further infxn 🧪

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#Starfish #urchins #kelp #trophicascade
The 2013 outbreak of Sea star wasting disease killed nearly all wild sunflower stars (Pycno), a fast moving predator that helped kelp forests by keeping urchins in check. @vox.com article about how captive breeding Pycnos for reintroduction could help kelp.

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🌊🌱🔊 Certain sounds occur more commonly in seagrass than in sandy habitats. “Fish make low-pitched grunting, burping or purring noises. Crabs make higher-pitched metallic sort of scraping sounds.” 🦑🌍

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#DYK that #seahorses are members of family Syngnathidae (sing-NATH-i-day).

Greek word “syn” = together or fused, Greek word “gnathus” = jaws

Geeky #FridayFacts 😜

📸Hippocampus angustus by DawnMullins / Guylian Seahorse of the World

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The grey-crowned babbler (Pomatostomus temporalis) is a species of bird in the family Pomatostomidae, the Australo-Papuan babblers. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.

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💥🐜 Amid the lowland rainforests of Southeast Asia and India there’s a group of ants with a particularly gutsy defensive technique: They explode, showering their enemies with killer goop and sacrificing their own lives in the process.
🌏 #invertebrates

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Why does biodiversity matter? 🤔🌏🧪
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‌Anne Larigauderie, @ipbes.bsky.social Exec. Sec. interviewed by Business Insider Japan on the importance of our work after the announcement that IPBES will receive the 2024 Blue Planet Prize.
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‌Read: www.af-info.or.jp/en/af_magazi...

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Cirsium palustre, the marsh thistle, is a herbaceous biennial (or often perennial) flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Europe, where it is particularly common on damp ground such as marshes, wet fields, moorland and beside streams.

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Our friend Melanophryniscus biancae is a redbelly toad from Brazil who is named after the Brazilian biologist Bianca Luiza Reinert! Like many redbelly toads, they like to lay their eggs in the water filled cavities of bromeliad plants! (photo by H. Garcia)

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"Seeing this baby bobbing up and down in the dark water, paddling for its life, I felt sobered by its odds of survival: only about one in 1,000 sea turtles reaches maturity."

Image by Grant Thomas.

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🌱 Fairy lanterns are a type of mysterious, parasitic herb that look like something from another planet.

Their pint-size flowers can have psychedelic shapes and bright colors, and they have evolved to lure in fungus gnats and other insects as pollinators.
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🔗: @sciencenews.bsky.social

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Our friend the American Toad is a very common and adaptable toad and has three different recognized subspecies! They are believed to have migrated to the United States and Canada from South American prior to the formation of the Isthmus of Panama land bridge! (photo by Chase G. Mayers)

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Celebrating independence is important, but we should also honor the INTERdependence of all living things! 🐟🐦🐻‍❄️
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The delicate balance of species ensures healthy ecosystems, which is why #biodiversity is vitally important - for people and nature. 🌏🧪
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#IndependenceDay

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Happy 4th of July! In the wise words of Ben Franklin: The Bald Eagle is a Bird of bad moral Character. Too lazy to fish for himself. The Turkey is a more respectable Bird, though vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would attack a Brit who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.

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The haunting howls of wolves fell mostly silent across America's West by the 1930s.

Their loss to the region has been largely overlooked by humans, even in our scientific research, a new review finds, but the impact of their absence is written loudly in missing trees... #AmWriting #wildlife 🧪🌎

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Sea cucumbers – overharvested for years as a delicacy in Asia – could play an important role in protecting corals if repopulated 🦑

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EUROPEAN ROBIN: a precious feather baby, a ruddy sky dumpling, a good friend, will help you find your keys, full of ice cream AMERICAN ROBIN: big, often wet, surly, has your wallet, killed a rat underneath the bird feeder to make an example to the other animals

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It's World Seabird Day! So it's a good time for a reminder that it's just "gull." 😜 🪶

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Ectophasia crassipennis is a species of flies in the family Tachinidae and the subfamily Phasiinae. It is present in southern Europe and warmer parts of central Europe. Adults can reach a length of about 5 to 9 millimetres (0.20 to 0.35 inches).

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Our friend the Red-spotted Toad lives in southern Chile and Argentina! In Spanish they are also known as the Sapo de Bosque or "Forest Toad", which seems less descriptive since they are covered in red spots! (photo by Daniel Stange)

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Pelagic cormorants are slightly under-appreciated #seabirds on Middleton Island, Alaska. They are extra poopy and parasite-laden (the not-actually-joking joke is that when they regurgitate, the puke gets up and crawls away) but are also mesmerizing dinosaurs with stunning blue eyes.

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This #SeabirdShowOff we have Mairi Grant 🤩

Mairi is a professional, award winning, published photographer based in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. After getting her first camera at the age of 11, Mairi has been hooked with photography ever since, particularly wildlife & #seabirds! 📸🐦

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🐸 In a Vancouver Island lake, western toad tadpoles migrate each day en masse from the deepest parts to the sunlit shallows to feed on algae.

With strength in numbers, they swarm past attacks from water bugs and leeches to continue nibbling on food.
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www.bigpicturecompetition.org/2024-winners

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