Mama #raccoon had just convinced her baby to climb down from a tree. She was crossing the street to retrieve her other two babies who were acting like they couldn't be seen hiding behind a small bush. I gave the photo a watercolor effect to soften it.
#WildHorseWednesday! 'Stallion school' on the north Onaqui range. The young grullo, Cooper, is getting a lesson from band stallion, Clorox. Sparring keeps the skills sharp for the older stallion and teaches the younger one skills he will need to win and keep his own band one day.
Please help me find more content for my feed. It's currently too depressing, and full of #abpoli and #uspolitics and global disaster doom and gloom. I like local content, and #bikes, #urbanism (less so the doom and gloom stuff), #travel, #families, #animals & #nature, and fun random stuff. Most of the podcasts etc that I followed on bird site haven't migrated. 😢
Hello mastodon!
I'm a German biologist, currently doing a #PhD in Functional Morphology at the University of Antwerp. I study the biomechanics of beak movement in songbirds. 🐦
I'm here to connect with other scientists, share some bits and pieces about my research, and hopefully meet some nice people that are also interested in #animals, #birds, #evolution, #biomechanics, and #opensource software.
"The researchers noted the local extinctions of severely affected species, meaning their populations had completely disappeared from specific sites such as certain creeks.
“It doesn’t mean that those frogs won’t ever be there, again, at some of those sites, because you can get what’s called re-colonisation,” Beranek said. “For that to occur, you need connectivity in the landscape,” which can be disrupted by human activities such as through logging or urban development.
Snowshoe hare were introduced to the island sometime between 1860 and 1880, and now you can find them everywhere. This is the first time I've seen one grazing. Typically you see them bolting across a highway.
days 39-40 of my #100DaysChallenge of drawing animals. I continued working on some watercolors and more intentionally to be finished stuff - with the result that except for the elephants that were actually finished at this point, the rest is still languishing in my room in the same state like, 2 weeks or so later. Gah. I hope I'll have the energy to actually finish them this week!
For #Mermay my original plan was to do a study of a marine animal every day, and then turn that animal into a humanoid somehow. Alas, that turned out to be much trickier and my energy esp. much lower than expected, so my mermaids are only a bunch of very scraggly ballpoint sketches so far. But the marina animal studies actually did happen, so are some hermit #crabs. Simultaneously day 85 of #drawing#animals.