“Finnish photographer Lassi Rautiainen documented the unusual friendship between a female grey wolf and a male brown bear, spotted every night for ten days straight, spending several hours together. they would even share food with each other.”
'No one can know exactly why or how the young wolf and bear became friends, I think that perhaps they were both alone and they were young and a bit unsure of how to survive alone. (2024)
More details/photos: https://bit.ly/3VcVroJ
These fox skulls I got from this dude on eBay are so greasy I'm convinced that he put extra grease on them. I think he Criscoed these bad boys.
1.) I KNOW how greasy animal skulls are before you clean em. He just said he was gonna degrease these, is why I'm so upset by the grease.
2.) They were shipped all together loosey goosey in a Save A Lot bag that was
3.) PACKED IN LOOSE OWEN CORNINGS FIBERGLASS INSULATION.
And when I messaged him about it, he was like, "You're insane, man, these bones aren't even that greasy at all and customers all around the world love me for my fiberglass insulation."
Not trying to start drama in the eBay packing materials fandom again, but why were THESE shipped to me in hospital scrubs???
Prescription bottle full of teeth in the mail yesterday. It never fucking ends.
Phillip's Earth Snake (Rhinophis phillipsi), family Uropeltidae, endemic to Sri Lanka
photograph by රමේෂ් කරුණානායක
Another Texas zoo is celebrating a historic milestone in the restoration of a critically endangered species. This week, the San Antonio Zoo announced the births of 47 Oklahoma Cave Crayfish (Cambarus tartarus). Born at the zoo's Center for Conservation and Research (CCR), the crayfish are the first-ever to be hatched under the care of humans.
Known as one of the rarest crayfish species in North America, the Oklahoma Cave Crayfish is no more than three inches in length, with a white or colorless appearance, according to the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. The crayfish, which have no external eyes, thin pinchers and legs, are most at risk from groundwater pollution. Direct disturbance of their caves, which are limited to a single county in northeast Oklahoma, is also a critical threat. The state has listed the species as "state endangered." However, the species is undergoing review for possible inclusion on the endangered species list by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
Read more: https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/texas-zoo-rare-crayfish-18364707.php
Seriously they release new animals every week what the hell is this
Y’all, I am SO excited about this new beetle that was just discovered!!!!
The freshly-discovered new species of longhorn beetle, Excastra albopilosa. Image credit: James Tweed
Detailed photographs of the Excastra albopilosa specimen found by James Tweed. Image credits: Lingzi Zhou, Australian National Insect Collection
by Tammy Ascher
Banded Galliwasp (Diploglossus fasciatus), juvenile, family Diploglossidae, found in western South America
photographs by Las Piedras Amazon Center - LPAC
Oleander Hawk Moth (Daphnis nerii), family Sphingidae, Taiwan
photographs by Gracy Kam
Yellow-headed Blackbirds (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus), males, family Icteridae, order Passeriformes, Wyoming, USA
photograph by K. Theule/USFWS
Araripe Manakin (Antilophia bokermanni), male, family Pipridae, order Passeriformes, endemic to Brazil
ENDANGERED.
photograph by Thiago T. Silva
me when i biting
Common spotted cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus)
Yellow Bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis), male calling and displaying, family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, India
photograph by PinakighoshPhotography
The Lundehund outcross project is going strong, and the first 2nd generation Norrbotten-outcross was born last week! A perfect litter of two males and two females, all healthy and growing.
The project is being managed by the Norwegian Lundehund club in collaboration with NKK, N.University of Life Sciences, N. Genetic Resource center, and NordGen. It started in 2013.
The stud book was officially opened to project offspring in January '23 after a membership vote. To achieve registration, project dogs must pass an evaluation by a specialist judge proving that they have all of the characteristics of a Lundehund, and no faults foreign to the breed. So far, three 3rd generation dogs have cleared the hurdle - two with Buhund ancestry (different combinations) and one with Icelandic sheepdog. Two of these dogs have already sired 5 fully registered (and by all accounts purebred) litters of between 3 and 5 puppies - in a breed where litter average is 2.75 and 25% are singletons.
More side-registry project dogs will continue to be born and more will be evaluated for full registry status, but I want to emphasize how absolutely massive it is to have 3 new genetic sources in a breed where the entire population goes back to this:
Reticulated Worm Snake (Amerotyphlops reticulatus), family Typhlopidae, Amazonian Peru
photograph by A. Giardenelli
The Book of Dogs by James Gilchrist Lawson (1934)
