#mammals
Hiya Mastodon,
Re- #Introduction time! I'm Ash, a stop motion animator of wildlife and paleontologist.
In the last year I moved from Australia to France and to Mastodon from my ex Twitter handle @aela_wild.
With the move I renamed my business to StudioWild. So far it's a better fit :)
Now that I'm set up, I post about natural history and share my mixed media art. I'm looking forward to getting to know my new landscape and all the weird wild animals and places in between.
If you're inclined, my animations live on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@studio_wild
#geology #paleontology #naturalHistory #mushrooms #moss #reptiles #mammals #echinoderms #velvetWorms #oceans #crinoids #stromatolites #earlyEarth #forage #mushroom
“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
Our garden leverets are just about fully grown now. Gedgrave, near Orford, Suffolk.
#hare #hares #BrownHare #mammals #mammal #leveret #leverets #SuffolkWildlifeTrust #swt #nature #NaturePhotography #OutdoorPhotography #orford
Rage glimps of a sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) in action in #Brunei. Photo: Joremy Tony. #Borneo #wildlife #mammals #endangeredspecies
Knight in scaly armor: Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) in #Brunei. Sunda pangolins are critically endangered due to illegal international trade. Photo: Joremy Tony. #Borneo #wildlife #mammals #endangeredspecies #wildlifephotography
Large flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus), with a wingspan of up to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) indeed one of the largest bats in the world, in the mangroves of #Brunei. P. vampyrus) are considered an endangered species due to habitat loss and bushmeat trade. Photo: Joremy Tony. #Borneo #wildlife #mammals #wildlifephotography
Comparative #analysis of #PB2 residue 627E/K/V in #H5 subtypes of avian #influenza viruses isolated from #birds and #mammals, Front Vet Sci.: https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2023.1250952 #research #virology
Jakobek BT, Berhane Y, Nadeau M-S, Embury-Hyatt C, Lung O, Xu W, et al. #Influenza A(#H5N1) virus #infections in 2 free-ranging black #Bears (Ursus americanus), #Quebec, #Canada. Emerg Infect Dis. 2023 Oct [date cited]. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2910.230548 #epizootic #panzootic #zoonoses #mammals #research #science
Jump or swim: Different ways of crossing a creek in #Brunei at night. Video: rainforestkayaker. #Borneo #wildlife #mammals #cameratrap
Rush hour: Bornean bearded pigs (Sus barbatus) passing by a camera trap in #Brunei. Video: rainforestkayaker. #Borneo #wildlife #mammals #cameratrap
“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
Things have been exciting in New Quay, Wales, recently. A huge Thresher shark jumped out of the sea, then a group of dolphins killed a harbour porpoise for sport, and now they've seen a rare Sowerby's beaked whale which typically lives 1000m deep!
#GoodNews #Wales #NewQuay #Sea #Mammals #Wildlife #Wales #Dolphins #Sharks
We've been really lucky to watch the leverets growing up in our garden this summer. Gedgrave, near Orford, Suffolk.
#hare #hares #brownhare #mammals #mammal #bbcspringwatch #SuffolkWildlifeTrust #swt #nature #NaturePhotography #OutdoorPhotography #orford
Highly pathogenic #avian #influenza A (#H5N1) in marine #mammals and #seabirds in #Peru, Nat Commun.: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41182-0 #epizootic #panzootic #EIDs #research #pandemic
Wildlife in the mangroves of Brunei: otter. Photo: Joremy Tony. #Borneo #wildlife #mammals #wildlifephotography
#Uruguay - #Influenza A #H5 {N1} viruses of high pathogenicity (Inf. with) (South-American Sea lion) (2017-) - Immediate notification, https://wahis.woah.org/#/in-review/5211 #WOAH #epizootic #panzootic #zoonoses #EIDs #pandemic #mammals
A family group of Mareeba rock wallabies, taken at Granite Gorge, Queensland, one month ago today. #wildoz #mammals #naturephotography #nature
New review: A wide-ranging and serious intellectual history, The Age of Mammals shows that you cannot understand the history of palaeontology without considering mammals.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #FossilFriday #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Mammals #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Scicomm @bookstodon @ChrisManias @finnarne @royalsociety
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
@OccasionalDucks
If you need more than occasional photographs of ducks you're welcome to use any you find at
https://rustonhouse.org.uk/index.php
Just reference where you found it. Unfortunately, the site has been rather neglected of late as our place is currently on the market.
You'll find all kind of wildlife recorded.
#wildlife #birds #mammals #insects #amphibians #reptiles #fish #invertebrates
Right, *cracks knuckles*, book read, some reference material at hand – let's get started @ChrisManias @finnarne
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Mammals #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Scicomm
‘Only AI Made It Possible’ - Scientists Hail Breakthrough In Tracking British Wildlife [spatial analysis]
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/13/only-ai-made-it-possible-scientists-hail-breakthrough-in-tracking-british-wildlife <-- shared media article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #wildlife #cameratraps #audio #UK #England #Britain #bats #birds #mammals #railines #AI #artificialintelligence #cameras #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #monitoring #biodiversity #identification #analytic #ZSL #scale #rail #railindustry #transportation #infrastructure #tracking #animalbehavior #microphones #recording
#ZoologicalSocietyofLondon
#Argentina - #Influenza A #H5 viruses of high pathogenicity (Inf. with) (South-American #Sealion) (2017-) - Immediate notification, https://wahis.woah.org/#/in-review/5189 #zoonoses #epizootic #panzootic #mammals #alert
#Russia - #Influenza A #H5N1 viruses of high pathogenicity (Inf. with) (a Northern Fur #Seal) (2017-) - Immediate notification, #WOAH https://wahis.woah.org/#/in-review/5191 #epizootic #panzootic #zoonoses #mammals #spillover #alert
Wired: Welcome to the Republic of Cows https://www.wired.com/story/welcome-to-the-republic-of-cows/ #Tech #wired #TechNews #IT #Technology via @morganeogerbc #Science/Environment #conservation #Biodiversity #ClimateDesk #environment #Moo-Topia #wildlife #Science #animals #mammals #Ecology
#AquaMaps
Standardized distribution #maps for over 33,500 species of #fishes, #marine #mammals and #invertebrates
AquaMaps is a joint project of #FishBase and #SealifeBase"
https://aquamaps.org/?fbclid=IwAR2IKINES4XklUSRcSzmKDkiFP1kXrop4OwykU4Tt_zGeG-F0B3_n3BlLPg
Hundreds of animals are endangered by #palmoil in #Africa. Find out more about these #mammals #birds #reptiles in #Uganda #Kenya #Congo #Liberia and more #Boycott4Wildlife #palmoil certification makes no difference to #deforestation https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/18/africa/ via
@palmoildetectives
Caribou (Rangifer tarandus)
#Caribou #Reindeer #Mammal #Mammals #Animal #Animals #PortAuChoix #Newfoundland #Canada #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photography
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caribou_(Rangifer_tarandus)_-_Port_au_Choix,_Newfoundland_2019-08-19_(11).jpg
Caribou (Rangifer tarandus)
#Caribou #Reindeer #Mammal #Mammals #Animal #Animals #PortAuChoix #Newfoundland #Canada #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photography
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caribou_(Rangifer_tarandus)_-_Port_au_Choix,_Newfoundland_2019-08-19_(03).jpg
Caribou (Rangifer tarandus)
#Caribou #Reindeer #Mammal #Mammals #Animal #Animals #PortAuChoix #Newfoundland #Canada #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photography
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caribou_(Rangifer_tarandus)_-_Port_au_Choix,_Newfoundland_2019-08-19_(01).jpg
“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
Happy #InternationalWolfDay everyone!
What's your favorite wolf species?
Bonus points if you add a photo!
“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
Slow loris in #Brunei. Photo: Joremy Tony. #Borneo #wildlife #mammals #primates. #wildlifephotography #naturephotography
@faerye @nemo "What actually is a reptile, Dad?" 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.
He kept it!
#Birds #Mammals #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #Evolution
Tiny 'ice mouse' survived #Arctic cold in the age of #dinosaurs https://phys.org/news/2023-08-tiny-ice-mouse-survived-arctic.html
A new tiny #eutherian from the Late #Cretaceous of #Alaska: Jaelyn Eberle et al. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14772019.2023.2232359
"While the little ice #mouse wasn't actually a mouse, instead belonging to a now-#extinct family of #mammals called #Gypsonictopidae, it was certainly tiny. The #furry critter may have looked a bit like a modern-day #shrew and weighed an estimated 11 grams, or less than an empty aluminum soda can."
Another Singapore Independence Day sighting: a Sunda Colugo (Galeopterus variegatus) spotted at MacRitchie Reservoir Park on 9 August 2023. If you look closely at the second image, you'll see it being bothered by numerous mosquitoes.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/177476173 ]
#iNaturalist #Nature #Singapore #Photography #Mammals #Mammalia
Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) in #Brunei. Photo: Joremy Tony. #Borneo #wildlife #mammals #cats #wildlifephotography #naturephotography
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
Highly recommended book of the day is The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Steve Brusatte. Companion to the Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs.
#books #book #bookstoot #bookstodon #BookOfTheDay #mammals #paleontology #dinosaurs #stevebrusatte #science #mammoths #mastodon #sabretooth #megafauna #continentaldrift #Paleoclimates #theriseandreignofthemammals #theriseandfallofthedinosaurs
Binturong or bearcat (Arctictis binturong) foraging on a variegated fig (Ficus variegata) in Ulu Temburong National Park, #Brunei. Photo: Joremy Tony. #Borneo #wildlife #mammals #vulnerablespecies #carnivores #wildlifephotography
#naturephotography
“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
A Lowland Slender Squirrel (Sundasciurus tenuis) spotted eating at MacRitchie Reservoir, Singapore, on 18 April 2023. A forest dweller, it is smaller, with a less bushy tail, and lacks the belly stripes of the common Plantain Squirrel.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/155450419 ]
#iNaturalist #Nature #Singapore #Photography #Mammals #Mammalia
a few weeks ago, JK Revell posted a nice overview of Mephitidae, the skunk family:
https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-stinky-family-skunks.html
It looks like the start of another series. Revell does great series on the natural history of mammals, including fossil mammals . If you've never read this blog before, you should give it a try.
Baby Muskrat at the salad bar
#nature #naturephotography #naturecommunity #biodiversity #wildlife #wildlifephotography #mammals #muskrat
From 18 Jul: Caught in the act: Mammal found with teeth sunk in a much larger dinosaur - Enlarge / The two skeletons are completely intertwined.Gang Han A new fossil de... https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/caught-in-the-act-mammal-found-with-teeth-sunk-in-a-much-larger-dinosaur/ #biology #dinosaurs #evolution #fossils #mammals #paleontology #science
Crab-eating raccoon or common raccoon? Video was recorded in Central America. #generalist #raccoon #mammals #wildlife #neotropics #pasopacifico #zoology
A cool interaction: a fossil of a smaller mammal with its teeth in a larger dinosaur.
"A new fossil described this week captures two intertwined animals caught in a life-or-death struggle right before both were entombed in a volcanic event."
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
Now that the crops have been harvested, the hares are once again much more visible.
#photography #photo #nature #naturephotography #mft #microfourthirds #darktable #macrophotography #macro #nature #naturephotography #animals #wildlife #mammals #hare #Lepus #LepusEuropaeus #Feldhase #Hase
What made these prehistoric brontotheres so big? https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/what-made-these-prehistoric-thunder-beasts-so-big by Riley Black
A macroevolutionary pathway to megaherbivory https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade1833
"#ThunderBeasts were among the first #mammals to truly live large. The biggest of these rhino-like creatures, called #brontotheres by experts, stood taller than eight feet at the shoulder and weighed more than three tons. The secret to their impressive size partly stems from competition at the #prehistoric salad bar."
Threat of H5N1 Avian Flu increases. 26 different mammal species have now been sickened. Over 80 countries have now had outbreaks since the pandemic began in 2020.
*>52 million dead birds, in the U.S., alone, just in 2022
*11 humans have been infected since 2021 (all from direct contact with infected birds)
#pandemic #influenza #flu #H5N1 #birds #mammals #PublicHealth
“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
In conversation with an only mildly annoying, seemingly authentic anti-#shipper on #Twitter, the anti-shipper continued to focus, despite every attempt I made to make them see reason, on the individual parts of #erotic #furry #art.
Specifically, they thought it was weird for erotic furry #artists to draw #knots (commonly understood as an #erectile tissue structure on the penis of #canid #mammals, although weirdly, it's also present in some #plant #species), and obviously, if an #artist draws a #knot, they must be attracted to #canines, from which the knot is imagined to have derived.
This is a weird reach, and I'm about to explain why.
Erotic furry art is, at its core, less concerned with parts as it is with behaviors. That is to say, the parts are considered simply to exist upon the #fursona of the individual that carries it upon their #penis in lieu of a human #glans. The intent of the artist is generally to draw their fursona (or a given #anthropomorphic non-#human #animal character) engaging in an #action. If the action takes place with a second (or more) character(s), then all of these characters will likely share some characteristics with the animals from which the inspiration for the character derived.
Yet these characters are often depicted behaving in remarkably human ways, even as they use their very animal parts on one another. As most of us are aware, very few animals (aside from some primates and their relatives) engage in foreplay and kink, yet these are behaviors often seen in erotic furry art.
Still, anti-shippers will focus entirely on the presence of a knot at the exclusion of everything else. In this way, their criticisms are very much like the #conservative r#eactionary's criticism of #Michelangelo's David, a #statue created with the purpose of depicting the #beauty of #man, and less with the intent of showcasing a neo-classical #dick. #David is #nude, yes, because the beauty of man would be hidden by clothes, obviously. But any reasonable person sees that statue and recognizes it as a work of art, not encouragement to go find dick of one's own to enjoy.
Only the conservative #reactionaries focus on the singular part of David's flaccid dick and see #obscenity, and I propose that this is because they are themselves driven to see that obscenity by their own #biases and repressed #desires. In effect, the fact that they #fetishize the penis is precisely why they can't see anything BUT the penis when looking at the statue of David (or any other piece of art that includes a penis for any reason).
I see the same kind of behavior motivating the criticism of #zoophilia levied against erotic furry artists by the anti-shipper community. When the knot is not prominently displayed, the intent is often simply to draw #love-making between two or more individuals seeking only pleasure among themselves. When the knot IS prominent, it serves as a metaphor for #domination, wherein the #bottom is bonded or otherwise held in place, at the mercy of the #top, in a position of #submission to the latter.
But when the anti-shipper views this form of artwork and only sees the desire to #rape living non-human animals, could it be that they're seeing some hidden meaning within the work? Could it be that Michelangelo wanted us all to seek and bounce upon dick, flaccid or not? #Illustration and other forms of #visual art are inimitably #subjective and their #interpretations are greatly informed by the viewer's #subconscious #mind.
So when an anti-shipper sees a knot and thinks, "this is about wanting to have #sex with #dogs," I find myself wondering if this is a desire that the anti-shipper is #repressing and #projecting onto an artist that does not share that interest at all. Normal people don't see erotic furry art and think "the artist wants me to go rape an animal." And I think that's telling.
“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
“Lioness in Maasai Mara”
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-in-maasai-mara/
📅 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/11, 1/340s
#Animals #Mammals #Lions #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #MastoArt
“Ladies”
Female lions are the pride's primary hunters and leaders. They often work together to prey upon antelopes, zebras, wildebeest, and other large animals of the open grasslands. Many of these animals are faster than lions, so…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/lions/ladies/
📅 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, 1/90s
#Animals #Mammals #Lions #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #MastoArt
Experts warn bird flu virus changing rapidly in largest ever outbreak
Since first emerging in 1996, the #H5N1 #avian #influenza #virus had previously been confined to mostly seasonal outbreaks.
But "something happened" in mid-2021 that made the group of viruses much more infectious, according to Richard Webby, the head of a World Health Organization collaborating centre studying influenza in animals.
Since then, outbreaks have lasted all year round, spreading to new areas and leading to mass deaths among wild birds and tens of millions of poultry being culled.
Webby, who is a researcher at St Jude Children's Research Hospital in the US city of Memphis, told AFP it was "absolutely" the largest outbreak of avian influenza the world had seen.
He led research, published this week in the journal Nature Communications, showing how the virus rapidly evolved as it spread from Europe into North America.
The study said the virus increased in virulence, which means it causes more dangerous disease, when in arrived in North America.
The researchers also infected a ferret with one of the new strains of bird flu.
The found an unexpectedly "huge" amount of the virus in its brain, Webby said, indicating it had caused more serious disease than previous strains.
Emphasising that the risk in humans was still low, he said that "this virus is not being static, it's changing".
"That does increase the potential that even just by chance" the virus could "pick up genetic traits that allow it to be more of a human virus," he said.
In rare cases, humans have contracted the sometimes deadly virus, usually after coming in close contact with infected birds.
The virus has also been detected in a soaring number of #mammals, which Webby described as a "really, really troubling sign".
Last week Chile said that nearly 9,000 sea lions, penguins, otters, porpoises and dolphins have died from bird flu along its north coast since the start of the year.
Most mammals are believed to have contracted the virus by eating an infected bird.
But Webby said that what "scares us the most" are indications from a Spanish mink farm, or among sea lions off South America, that the virus could be transmitting #between mammals
New review: Exploring in all earnestness the question of how dogs would fare in a world without humans, A Dog's World is an intriguing thought experiment that draws valuable ethical lessons for dog owners.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Dogs #Mammals #Evolution #DogsOfMastodon princetonupress@mastodon.social @princetonnature @bookstodon
What would happen to dogs if humans disappeared?
Review of this intriguing thought experiment coming up next!
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Dogs #Mammals #Evolution princetonupress@mastodon.social @princetonnature @bookstodon
“At the school of life”
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/zebras/at-the-school-of-life/
📅 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 160, ƒ/9, 1/340s
#Animals #Mammals #Zebras #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #MastoArt
If you're in the UK, The Rise and Reign of the Mammals has just been published in paperback!
Epic in scope and majestic in execution, it thoroughly convinces that the evolutionary history of mammals is just as fascinating as that of the dinosaurs.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Mammals #Evolution #Scicomm @bookstodon
“Elephants at sunrise in front of Kilimanjaro”
Amboseli National Park is a national park in Kenya that spreads across the Kenya-Tanzania border. It is one of the best place in the world to get close to free-ranging elephants.
The park also has views of Mount Kilimanjaro,…
📅 1st March 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + Fujinon XF 27mm f/2.8
🎞️ ISO 250, ƒ/3.2, 1/500s
#Animals #Mammals #Elephants #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #MastoArt
“Alone”
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/elephants/alone/
📅 28th 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 320, ƒ/9, 1/300s
#Animals #Mammals #Elephants #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #MastoArt
From bad to worse: How avian flu must change to trigger a human pandemic
The #avian #influenza #virus that has been decimating #birds across the world has also sickened and killed a menagerie of #mammals, raising fears it might evolve to spread more efficiently between these animals, and ultimately between people.
For that nightmare to unfold, however, the virus, a subtype known as #H5N1, would have to undergo a major transformation, changing from a pathogen efficient at infecting cells in the guts of birds and spreading through feces-contaminated water into one adept at infecting human lung tissue and spreading through the air.
So far, that has not happened. None of the few people who have caught the virus currently wiping out birds, called "clade 2.3.4.4b", seems to have passed it on to other people.
“This clade … is most of all and more than all previous clades an avian virus,” says virologist Martin Beer of the Friedrich Loeffler Institute.
That is why it has spread so far and wide in birds, he says, and why it is so poor at infecting people. Beer and his colleagues in Berlin and Münster, Germany, have been using lung tissue taken from cancer patients undergoing surgeries, for instance, to see whether the virus can efficiently infect the human cells. -- So far, it cannot.
https://www.science.org/content/article/bad-worse-avian-flu-must-change-trigger-human-pandemic
“Mantled guereza”
The mantled guereza (Colobus guereza), also known simply as the guereza, the eastern black-and-white colobus, or the Abyssinian black-and-white colobus, is a black-and-white colobus, a type of Old World monkey.…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/monkeys/mantled-guereza/
📅 27th 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/9.4, 1/13s
#Animals #Mammals #Monkeys #Photo #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto
“Who is the observer?”
The Masai giraffe is the largest subspecies of giraffe, making it the tallest land animal on earth.
It is native to East Africa. The Masai giraffe can be found in central and southern Kenya and in Tanzania.
It has distinctive, irregular, jagged,…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/giraffes/who-is-the-observer/
📅 26th February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + Fujinon XF 27mm f/2.8
🎞️ ISO 200, ƒ/2.8, 1/6000s
#Animals #Mammals #Giraffes #Photo #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto
“At the school of life”
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/zebras/at-the-school-of-life/
📅 26th 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 160, ƒ/9, 1/340s
#Animals #Mammals #Zebras #Photo #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto
Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus)
Finally I got a good look at one of the many muskrats here. The light on this overcast day wasn't ideal, but it turned out quite well.
#photography #photo #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #animals #mammals #rodents #ondatra #ondatrazibeticus #nagetiere #bisam #bisamratte #mft #microfourthirds #darktable
A group of #zebras is called a dazzle.
A dazzle of zebras.
#TermsOfVenery #AnimalGroupNames #animals #wildlife #nature #english #AnimalGroupingNouns #trivia #fun #words #mammals #zebra
Just dropping this here: "The total weight of Earth’s wild land mammals – from elephants to bisons and from deer to tigers – is now less than 10% of the combined tonnage of men, women and children living on the planet." #conservation #biodiversity #mammals
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/18/a-wake-up-call-total-weight-of-wild-mammals-less-than-10-of-humanitys
A group of #puppies is called a piddle.
A piddle of puppies.
#TermsOfVenery #AnimalGroupNames #animals #wildlife #nature #english #AnimalGroupingNouns #trivia #fun #words #mammals #puppy #DogsOfMastodon
Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) has motivated a lot of research on mammalian mating strategies and sexual selection. We estimated statistically-determined rates of SSD in mammals, sampling taxa by their species richness at the family level. Our analyses of >400 species indicate that although m's tend to be larger than f's when dimorphism occurs, m's are not larger in most mammals suggesting need to revisit assumptions of sexual selection research.
#sexdimorphism #mammals
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.23.529628v1
“Close to me”
Elephant mothers carry their babies for nearly two years before giving birth. Then they ensure their babies get the best food, teach their children the most useful skills and show their children how to lead the herd during hard times.
Elephants…
📅 26th February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + Fujinon XF 27mm f/2.8
🎞️ ISO 200, ƒ/2.8, 1/2200s
#Animals #Mammals #Elephants #Photo #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/animals/mammals/elephants/close-to-me/
A group of #jaguars can be called a prowl.
A prowl of jaguars.
#TermsOfVenery #AnimalGroupNames #animals #wildlife #nature #english #AnimalGroupingNouns #trivia #fun #words #mammals #cats #jaguar #Caturday
A group of #capybaras is just called a herd.
A herd of capybaras.
#TermsOfVenery #AnimalGroupNames #animals #wildlife #nature #english #AnimalGroupingNouns #trivia #fun #words #mammals #capybara
A group of #otters is called a romp.
A romp of otters.
#TermsOfVenery #AnimalGroupNames #animals #wildlife #nature #english #AnimalGroupingNouns #trivia #fun #words #mammals #otter #sealife