#Mammals
I managed to get some wonky footage of a beautiful (male?) Fox whilst I was at Brandon Marsh NR, Warwickshire yesterday.
#Fox #RedFox #BrandonMarsh #Warwickshire #Coventry #WarwickshireWildlifeTrust #mammals #wildlife #nature
Research reveals clever dosage control mechanism of #biallelic #genes.
#haploinsufficient #MSL2 #mammals
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-reveals-clever-dosage-mechanism-biallelic.html
This cute Red Fox was a regular visitor to the cottages on the French River Ontario Canada and in this image decided to rest all curled up on a wooden deck but still perked up while checking out the activity in the area.
Available here
https://debbie-oppermann.pixels.com/featured/comfy-fox-debbie-oppermann.html
#animals #wildlife #wild #nature #NatureMastodon #WildlifePhotography #mammals #GiftIdeas #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #wallart #NatureLover #fox #RedFox #WildlifeWednesday #ShopSmall #photography #PhotographersOnMastodon #MastoPhoto
Phylogeny of Marsupials
https://youtu.be/TGzsR-HwcpA
#biology #evolution #evolutionaryBiology #mammals #marsupials #phylogeny
“The little one”
The Rhino Sanctuary in Lake Nakuru National Park was the first Rhino sanctuary in Kenya and is currently home to the largest number of black rhinos in the country. The rhino sanctuary was established in 1984 when the first two rhinos were introduced to the lake Nakuru National Park…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/rhinoceros/the-little-one/
📅 27 February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + 100-400mm + 2.0×
🎛️ ISO 800, ƒ/10, 1/240 s
I'm working on a new project, expect to see quite a few posts of animal drawings over the next while.
#Beluga #belugawhale #whale #ocean #seacreatures #animals #mammals #art #artwork #illustration #drawing #artist #digitalart #digitalillustration #digitalartwork #digitaldrawing #digitalartist #RobDemersArt
Dear Friends,
#ClimateDiary #California #SantaCruzMountains
Three years after a big #WildFire that burnt 97% of Big Basin State Park, #OldGrowth #redwood trees are coming back!
Other discussion includes the fire's impacts on #mammals, #fish, #frogs, #birds as well as #MicroClimate changes from additional sunlight. Recommendations are offered.
Summary here: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/11/20/big-basin-redwoods-continue-to-recover-well-three-years-after-huge-fire-while-some-species-are-struggling/ and the SCMBC website with links to symposium videos here: https://www.scmbc.org/
#Scientists have #filmed what appear to be the first known instances of #nonPenetrative #reproductiveSex in #mammals, in #bats living in a church attic in the #Netherlands and at a #Ukrainian bat-rehabilitation centre. They wrote about their discovery this week in Current Biology1.
I am very pleased to share with the mastodon community the first part of my PhD work:
High prevalence of Prdm9-independent recombination hotspots in placental #mammals
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.17.567540v1
This work was done in collaboration with @djivanprentout Alexandre Laverré, Théo Tricou and @duret_lbbe. (1/8)
A walk in the park.
But what a walk. Being on foot amongst wildlife like this was fantastic. These two Rothschild's giraffe were sizing each other up. Wow. Just wow.
#Rothschildsgiraffe #giraffe #uganda #LakeMburo #LakeMburoNationalPark #wildlife #mammals #nature #walkinthepark #elegance
https://youtu.be/fY2zLL-ky1M
The #Uganda trip was mostly about #birds but a few mammals were encountered too.
My very first wild #Zebra. These were Burchell's Zebra - a subspecies of Plains Zebra. The young one have brown, rather than black stripes.
#Wildlife #Nature #Mammals #LakeMburoNationalPark #LakeMburo #Africa #PlainsZebra #BurchellsZebra
Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel at Hilltop Campground near Mount Charleston, #Nevada
#mammals #squirrel #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature
Plant people are my favorite people. You, too, can overcome #botanical #illiteracy & rewild yourself.
"Our planet has nearly 300,000 species of flowering #plants. Among animals, only #beetles can compete with that number. There are more species of #ferns than #birds, more mints than #mammals, and more beans than #butterflies. Measured in total mass, plants make up 82% of all life on land across the globe.
Many people think of plants more as a backdrop to life, rather than as a central part of it. Scientists & educators call this phenomenon plant awareness disparity – a widespread cognitive bias that leads people to underestimate the #diversity & importance of plants."
#permaculture #botany #rewilding
https://www.rewildingmag.com/why-botanizing-can-make-our-lives-better/
Where will #InvasiveSpecies go next? Henry Häkkinen @DaveHodgson00 & @ReganEarly provide the first global assessment of regions to which a selection of 833 naturalized #plants, #birds & #mammals could spread (using climate matching, etc) #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3QGUmlG
Cruz CD, Icochea ME, Espejo V, Troncos G, Castro-Sanguinetti GR, Schilling MA, et al. Highly pathogenic avian #influenza A(#H5N1) from wild #birds, #poultry, and #mammals, #Peru. Emerg Infect Dis. 2023 Dec [date cited]. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2912.230505 URL: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29/12/23-0505_article
Curious coyote in Point Reyes National Seashore #mammals #wildlifephotography
Critically endangered species: Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) in #Brunei. Photo: rainforestkayaker. #Borneo #wildlife #mammals #endangeredspecies #wildlifephotography
“On the move…”
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/elephants/on-the-move/
📅 1 March 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + 27mm
🎛️ ISO 200, ƒ/10, 1/220 s
Ancient #Whales Were the Biggest and Smallest of Their Kind to Ever Roam the Oceans https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-first-whales-to-rule-the-seas-were-giganticand-tiny-180983202/ by Riley Black
"New discoveries show how #whale diversity exploded after the #dinosaurs disappeared"
#fossil #fossils #paleontology #mammals #extinct #evolution #extinction #MarineMammals
#Attenborough’s Long-Beaked #Echidna Rediscovered After 60 Year-Absence to Science
https://www.sci.news/biology/attenboroughs-long-beaked-echidna-12439.html
"First described from a single damaged specimen in the 1960s, the #AttenboroughsLongBeakedEchidna is a #monotreme, a distinct group of egg-laying #mammals that includes the #platypus... The #animal is so special because it is one of only five remaining species of #monotremes, the sole guardians of this remarkable branch of the tree of life."
#EnergyTransition: How bubble curtains protect #porpoises from wind farm noise https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231106-the-big-bubble-curtains-protecting-porpoises-from-wind-farm-noise
"As huge offshore #WindFarms spread across Europe's seas, efforts grow to buffer the impact on #wildlife... The #BubbleCurtain was designed around the #porpoise's specific needs and traits, lowering #WindFarm construction noise to a threshold deemed safe for the species, based on scientific research. Its proven muffling effect may also benefit other marine #mammals such as #seals"
Messing around with ways to depict #mammals
#Invasivespecies top killer list as biologists honour #Australian wonders lost to modern #extinction the 23 #native #animals lost since the 1960s.
Australia is missing more #mammals than any other continent, but the list goes on, including #frogs, #lizards, #fish, #insects and #plants.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-11-08/native-species-lost-to-modern-extinction/103055638
Pantodonts were the first group of mammals to evolve a large body size following the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago. Which display do you prefer, the creatively mounted specimen or the diorama?
@RoyalTyrrell
Marine Magic Capturing the Beauty of Mammals in Diverse Grasslands
See More Seeds: https://aidyslexic.raupulus.dev/collections/show/520
#StableDiffusion #ai #ArtificialIntelligence #professional-photography #diverse-grasslands #capturing #mammals #wild #natural-state #marine-magic #majestic #beauty #western-plains
Interesting article -
The Scottish wildcat has been wiped out by breeding with domestic cats
https://www.science.org/content/article/scottish-wildcat-has-been-wiped-out-breeding-domestic-cats
Our captive wildcats have around 17% domestic cat DNA. Would we be better off importing pure wildcats from Europe for reintroductions?
#WildCat #Mammals
Elsmo EJ, Wünschmann A, Beckmen KB, Broughton-Neiswanger LE, Buckles EL, Ellis J, et al. Highly pathogenic avian #influenza A(#H5N1) virus clade 2.3.4.4b #infections in wild terrestrial #mammals, #USA, 2022. Emerg Infect Dis. 2023 Dec [date cited]. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2912.230464 URL: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29/12/23-0464_article #epizootic #panzootic #zoonoses #veterinary
What is #cooperative #breeding in #mammals and #birds? Removing definitional barriers for comparative #research
"Operational definition: #CooperativeBreeding is a reproductive system where >5% of broods/litters in at least one population receive species-typical parental care and conspecifics provide proactive alloparental care that fulfils >5% of at least one type of the offspring's needs"
Short-tailed mongoose (Urva brachyurus) rummaging for food in #Brunei. Video: rainforestkayaker/UBD FOS/IBER. #Borneo #wildlife #mammals #cameratrap
Hearing from our #Cretaceous ancestors: a remarkable #fossil discovery in #JeholBiota https://ecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/hearing-from-our-cretaceous-ancestors-a-remarkable-fossil-discovery-in-jehol-biota
Middle ear innovation in Early Cretaceous eutherian #mammals https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42606-7
"#Microtherulum probably developed an enhanced capacity for high-frequency hearing."
A Sunda Colugo (Galeopterus variegatus) spotted next to the walking path at Rifle Range Nature Park, Singapore, on 29 Oct 2023. One passing family was delighted, as their daughter wanted to see one, and now they have. 🙂
Sometimes known as a Flying Lemur, the Colugo is not a lemur, and glides from tree to tree using its huge flaps of skin.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189333893 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Singapore #Photography #Mammals #Mammalia
Romantic stroll in the woods: Male yellow muntjac (Muntiacus atherodes) following a female and caught by a cameratrap in #Brunei. Photo: rainforestkayaker/UBD FOS/IBER. #Borneo #wildlife #mammals #cameratraps
“Resting red deer in Espace Rambouillet”
The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species. Although at one time red deer were rare in parts of Europe, they were never close to extinction. Reintroduction and conservation efforts have resulted in an…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/deers/resting-red-deer-in-espace-rambouillet/
📅 24 October 2021
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + Fujinon XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR + Fujinon XF 1.4× TC WR
🎞️ ISO 1600, ƒ/8, 1/55s
As the #climate changes, #plants must shift their ranges. But can they? https://knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2023/as-climate-changes-plants-must-shift-their-ranges
"Lots of them depend on fruit-eating #birds and #mammals to spread their #seeds. But it’s debatable whether the animals — many in trouble themselves — can disperse seeds far and fast enough to keep pace with a #warming world."
“Staying close”
Lake Nakuru National Park lies deep in the Great Rift Valley. The park is a rhino sanctuary (both black and white) and a bird watchers’ paradise.
In Kenya, the black rhinoceros population has fallen from 18,000-20,000 in 1970 to 511 in 1987, a…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/rhinoceros/staying-close/
📅 27 February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + Fujinon XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR + Fujinon XF 2.0× TC WR
🎞️ ISO 800, ƒ/9, 1/240s
basically, with rats being famous neophobes, how effective would something like the Small Mammal Camera Trap Tunnel be to monitor them?
https://www.mammal.org.uk/2021/01/camera-trapping-for-small-mammals/
#Rats #Mammals #Islands #Biosecurity
If, like me, you missed the book launch of The Age of Mammals in London last month, here's a second chance! Online book launch tomorrow evening, details at https://forms.office.com/e/DQmM2XHgrY
What is this wonderful book about? Read my review here https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2023/09/01/book-review-the-age-of-mammals-nature-development-paleontology-in-the-long-nineteenth-century/
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Mammals #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Scicomm @bookstodon @ChrisManias@sauropods.wi
Happy Bat Week everyone!! Bats are the largest group of mammals in the world, with over 1,400 species. They're essential to our ecosystems:
- Bats devour insects: Insect-eating bats support crops globally and help farmers minimize the use of pesticides.
- Some bats, on average, can eat up to half their body weight in insects nightly. Pregnant and nursing mothers can consume the equivalent of their body weight each night.
- Bats pollinate: Nectar-slurping bats are vital to healthy ecosystems and are essential for maintaining food
supplies around the world. Bats pollinate the food we eat like dates, durians, pitaya, and other crops. They also pollinate agaves, wild bananas, balsa trees, cacti, and many other plants.
- Bats disperse seeds: Bats are superstars of seed dispersal. Bats drop seeds that facilitate plant growth and regenerate
forests, deserts, and other habitats crucial to supporting a variety of wildlife.
Vegetarian: Silvery lutung (Trachypithecus cristatus) feeding in #Brunei. Photo: Husini Bakar. #wildlife #mammals #primates #wildlifephotography
“Black Rhinoceros in Lake Nakuru National Park”
Lake Nakuru is well known in Kenya for its rhino population, and it has one hundred white and fifty black rhinos to be seen.
Black and white rhinos naming has created confusion because both species of rhino are in…
📅 27 February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + Fujinon XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR + Fujinon XF 2.0× TC WR
🎞️ ISO 800, ƒ/9, 1/140s
Ocelote albino encontrado en la zona rural de Amalfi, Antioquía. Como lo encontraron siendo pequeño y pesando tan solo 440 gramos, primero pensaron que era un yaguarundí, pero en análisis genético realizado en el Parque de la Conservación de Medellín, Colombia , desveló que era un ocelote (Leopardus pardalis). #colombia #albino #mammals #mamiferos
Genomic stability: A double-edged sword for sharks https://phys.org/news/2023-10-genomic-stability-double-edged-sword-sharks.html
Low mutation rate in #EpauletteSharks is consistent with a slow rate of #evolution in #sharks: Ashley Sendell-Price et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42238-x
"With an estimated #MutationRate of 7×10-10 per base pair per generation, they have the lowest mutation rate yet recorded in #vertebrates. It is ten to twenty times lower than in #mammals."
#Mouse #Mummies Show Life Persists in #Mars-like Environment https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mouse-mummies-show-life-persists-in-mars-like-environment1/
#Genomic insights into the mystery of #MouseMummies on the summits of #Atacama #volcanoes https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)01161-2
"#Scientists had expected life at the summits to be limited to #microbes... Instead a new analysis suggests that #mice found living on the peaks aren’t outliers but representatives of a fairly persistent population."
#genomics #extremophiles #mammals #animals #astrobiology #AtacamaDesert
Mother Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) and her baby caught on a camera trap in #Brunei. Photo: rainforestkayaker. #Borneo #wildlife #mammals #endangeredspecies
Rare find: Following a Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica), a critically endangered species, as it rummages for food in #Brunei. Video: rainforestkayaker. #Borneo #wildlife #mammals #endangeredspecies
“Newborn African buffalo”
Newborn calves remain hidden in vegetation for the first few weeks while being nursed occasionally by the mother before joining the main herd. Older calves are held in the centre of the herd for safety.
The maternal bond between mother…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/buffalos/newborn-african-buffalo/
📅 27 February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + Fujinon XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR + Fujinon XF 2.0× TC WR
🎞️ ISO 800, ƒ/10, 1/400s
“A nap in the shade”
Some people say lions sleep 22 out of every 24 hours. It's true we often see them lying in the grass, sometimes yawning. But it doesn't mean they sleep when we're not there. “Lions lying sleeping in the shade on a hot day are […] conserving…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/lions/a-nap-in-the-shade/
📅 26 February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + Fujinon XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR + Fujinon XF 2.0× TC WR
🎞️ ISO 800, ƒ/13, 1/105s
“Peaceful cohabitation”
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/rhinoceros/peaceful-cohabitation/
📅 27 February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + Fujinon XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR + Fujinon XF 2.0× TC WR
🎞️ ISO 800, ƒ/10, 1/250s
Rescued Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) in #Brunei. Sunda pangolins are critically endangered since they are among the most heavily poached animal species in the world. Photos: Joremy Tony. #Borneo #wildlife #mammals #endangeredspecies
Popular Science.
4 reasons dinosaurs never really ruled the Earth
The 'terrible lizards' can reign supreme in the movies, but there's something seriously wrong about the way we've hyped up their history.
We all know the line: For more than 150 million years, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. We imagine bloodthirsty tyrannosaurs ripping into screaming duckbills, gigantic sauropods shaking the ground with their thunderous footfalls
https://www.popsci.com/science/age-of-the-dinosaurs-facts/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-gb
#Otters
#Mammals
#NaturePhotography
#OxleyNatureCenter
Took an early walk at Oxley before starting my Tuesday #volunteer workday on the odd chance of seeing some migrating birds or the Great Blue Heron that has taken up residence in the creek. As a wonderful surprise, I had the chance to work with a family of Otters that was hunting along the banks of the creek for fish. They caught over 20 fish while I was watching. Otters are present in the area, but a rare find. I see them perhaps twice a year. This was a female that had two cubs. She is over three feet long from nose to tip of tail, and will bark at hikers. The cubs came up close to chirp(?) as I was standing on the footbridge. A real thrill before the work started.
More mammals can glow in the dark than previously thought.
Smithsonian Magazine reports: "A new study found that 125 different mammal species are fluorescent under ultraviolet light, suggesting the property is widespread."
Nice.
"SINGAPORE – The rare Raffles’ banded langur is slowly bouncing back from the brink of extinction and its numbers are likely to double from 75 to more than 150 in the next 15 years, said experts."
Study at [ (PDF) https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/RBZ-2023-0041.pdf ]
A group of Smooth-coated Otters (Lutrogale perspicillata) spotted in the canal at Pasir Ris Park, Singapore, on 14 May 2023. They got up and moved further up the canal while I was observing them.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/161561093 ]
#iNaturalist #Nature #Singapore #Photography #Mammals #Mammalia #Otters #Lutrinae
“Red deer in Espace Rambouillet”
The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species. Although at one time red deer were rare in parts of Europe, they were never close to extinction. Reintroduction and conservation…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/deers/red-deer-in-espace-rambouillet/
📅 24 October 2021
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + Fujinon XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR + Fujinon XF 1.4× TC WR
🎞️ ISO 800, ƒ/7.1, 1/220s
#Animals #Mammals #Deers #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #MastoArt
We are destroying #Pandora...
All-a-glow: #spectral characteristics confirm widespread #fluorescence for mammals
"We found that #fluorescence is widespread in mammalian taxa; we identified examples of the phenomena among 125 species representing all 27 living mammalian orders and 79 families"
#Conservation #EnvironmentalEthics #Ecology #Sustainability #Ecoethics #Threatenedspecies #speciesism #Biology #mammals #Extinction
A Lesser Short-nosed Fruit Bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) spotted at the Sungei Buloh Wetland Centre, Singapore, on 1 Oct 2023. This one was more active, and I managed to get shots of it as it stretched its wings.
These are common bats and a colony has been roosting at the centre for many years.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/185732033 ]
#iNaturalist #Nature #Singapore #Photography #Mammals #Mammalia #Bats #Chiroptera
“Lioness on the lookout”
Maasai Mara is home of the largest population of African big cats, not only in Kenya but in Africa.
Females do most of the hunting, helped by males in taking down large animals.
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/lions/lioness-on-the-lookout/
📅 26 February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + Fujinon XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR + Fujinon XF 2.0× TC WR
🎞️ ISO 640, ƒ/10, 1/500s
#Animals #Mammals #Lions #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #MastoArt
Around 10,000 #birds #mammals #reptiles are endangered by #soy #palmoil #meat #timber for food agriculture! Help them each time you boycott greedy global brands. #Boycottpalmoil go #vegan and #Boycott4Wildlife in the supermarket https://palmoildetectives.com/global-species-threatened-by-deforestation/ via @palmoildetectives
Rage glimps of a sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) in action in #Brunei. Photo: Joremy Tony. #Borneo #wildlife #mammals #endangeredspecies
“Grant's zebras”
More Grant’s zebras are in the wild than any other species or subspecies of zebras. Unlike Grevy and mountain zebras, they are not endangered.
Grant’s zebras eat the coarse grasses that grow on the African plains, and they are resistant to diseases that…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/zebras/grant-s-zebras/
📅 28 February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + Fujinon XF 56mm f/1.2 R
🎞️ ISO 200, ƒ/2, 1/9000s
#Animals #Mammals #Zebras #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #MastoArt
Red Squirrel spotted on Percy Street in Central Newcastle
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-city-centre-red-squirrel-27620081
#BritishMammals #Squirrels #Mammals
“Elephants family in Maasai Mara”
Elephants are highly sociable and have similar life cycles to humans. The maternity herd is very protective of young, but males are ejected at 12-15 years old, after which they become nomadic males, often associating with other…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/elephants/elephants-family-in-maasai-mara/
📅 25 February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + Fujinon XF 27mm f/2.8
🎞️ ISO 200, ƒ/2.8, 1/680s
#Animals #Mammals #Elephants #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #MastoArt
“Waiting for dusk”
In the last two decades alone, the African lion population is estimated to have decreased by over 40% and now occupies approximately 17% of its historical range.
However, in the Amboseli-Tsavo ecosystem in Kenya,…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/lions/waiting-for-dusk/
📅 1 March 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + Fujinon XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR + Fujinon XF 1.4× TC WR
🎞️ ISO 320, ƒ/9, 1/500s
#Animals #Mammals #Lions #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #MastoArt
@faerye @nemo My son asked me to explain this to him a couple of years ago - could not really explain very well while driving (though I tried) so I drew a picture later.
#Birds #Mammals #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #Evolution
New paper shows that #soil is likely home to 59% of #life including everything from #microbes to #mammals, making it the singular most #biodiverse #habitat on #Earth
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2304663120
“What are you staring at?”
The African buffalo is not an ancestor of domestic cattle and is only distantly related to other larger bovines. Its unpredictable temperament means that the African buffalo has never been…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/buffalos/what-are-you-staring-at/
📅 27 February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + Fujinon XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR + Fujinon XF 2.0× TC WR
🎞️ ISO 800, ƒ/9, 1/125s
#Animals #Mammals #Buffalos #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #MastoArt
Baby Muskrat at the salad bar
#nature #naturephotography #naturecommunity #biodiversity #wildlife #wildlifephotography #mammals #muskrat
Future of the human climate niche
and
Quantifying the human cost of global warming
Future of the human climate niche
"All species have an environmental niche, and despite technological advances, humans are unlikely to be an exception. Here, we demonstrate that for millennia, human populations have resided in the same narrow part of the climatic envelope available on the globe, characterized by a major mode around ∼11 °C to 15 °C mean annual temperature (MAT). "
"We show that in a business-as-usual climate change scenario, the geographical position of this temperature niche is projected to shift more over the coming 50 y than it has moved since 6000 BP."
"Global warming will affect ecosystems as well as human health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, and economic growth in many ways."
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1910114117
Quantifying the human cost of global warming
"The costs of climate change are often estimated in monetary terms, but this raises ethical issues. Here we express them in terms of numbers of people left outside the ‘human climate niche’—defined as the historically highly conserved distribution of relative human population density with respect to mean annual temperature. We show that climate change has already put ~9% of people (>600 million) outside this niche."
"The worst-case scenarios of ~3.6 °C or even ~4.4 °C global warming could put half of the world population outside the historical climate niche, posing an existential risk"
"The ~2.7 °C global warming expected under current policies puts around a third of the world population outside the niche."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01132-6
#AdaptationInSitu #climate #mitigation #ClimateJustice #Injustices #ethics #food #crops #livestock #mammals #pests #pathogens #disease #mortality #HighTemperatures #hotspots #exposure #FossilFuels #harm #ParisAgreement #HumanClimateNiche #niche #home #ClimateAction
“What are you waiting for?”
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/hippopotamus/what-are-you-waiting-for/
📅 28 February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + Fujinon XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR + Fujinon XF 2.0× TC WR
🎞️ ISO 640, ƒ/11, 1/500s
#Animals #Mammals #Hippopotamus #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #MastoArt
“So, you're still ok for this?”
While many might assume that the birds are a constant annoyance to the majestic buffalo who carry them across the plains of Kenya, they would only be half right.
A classic alliance in the animal…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/buffalos/so-you-re-still-ok-for-this/
📅 27 February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + Fujinon XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR + Fujinon XF 2.0× TC WR
🎞️ ISO 800, ƒ/11, 1/120s
#Animals #Mammals #Buffalos #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #MastoArt
“Elephant in Maasai Mara”
Elephants have to eat 5% of their body weight every day and so sleep for only 4-5 hours a day. They can drink up to 200 litres in one drinking session!
The Mara elephants have unfortunately been under…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/elephants/elephant-in-maasai-mara/
📅 25 February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + Fujinon XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR + Fujinon XF 1.4× TC WR
🎞️ ISO 800, ƒ/8, 1/220s
#Animals #Mammals #Elephants #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #MastoArt
“Curious red deer in Espace Rambouillet”
The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species. Although at one time red deer were rare in parts of Europe, they were never close to extinction. Reintroduction and…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/deers/curious-red-deer-in-espace-rambouillet/
📅 24 October 2021
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + Fujinon XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR + Fujinon XF 1.4× TC WR
🎞️ ISO 1600, ƒ/7.1, 1/280s
#Animals #Mammals #Deers #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #MastoArt