Hi everyone! I recorded this sound in a video, and I’m trying to figure out which animal it belongs to. Does anyone recognize it?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I for one wouldn’t find the idea that a 200 ton whale could possible survive on exclusively on krill. I would dismiss the idea that there couldn’t be enough krill available for them to eat.

Now idk if this is allowed here, i asked a similar question in a photography subreddit about wildlife photography. But regardless, im a zoology student, going to be doing my dissertation research volunteering in India next summer and I think i might need to upgrade my camera for more work focus instead of recreation

What sort of things do you guys with careers in the field look for in a camera? I was looking for fast auto focus and being able to connect to devices for gps tracking and image transfer.

Thanks!

i love space and animals, i started a degree in computer engineering automation and ai, but i wonder if the job possibilities in, example, animal research or conservation, are there, as i also would love to know more info about animals. thx

I know gorillas primarily inhabit the forests of Central Africa, but I’ve been curious about whether entire troops have ever ventured into open savanna habitats.

I’m particularly interested in whether gorillas have been documented traveling through grasslands outside their usual forest environments, rather than simply entering grassy forest clearings.

Have researchers ever observed this behavior? If so, how far into the savanna have gorillas traveled, and what might motivate them to leave the relative safety of the forest?

I’d be interested in any documented observations or scientific studies on the subject.

I won't share the video for obvious reasons but if anyone has seen it and knows about tiger behaviour, what was its mood like / was it trying to kill him, playing playfully, playing before a kill etc? And are tigers and other big cats just overgrown tabbies or are there any major differences in behaviour?

I'm writing sci-fi and one of the alien species has this eye structure, I'd like to know how well it would see

Moths and light bulbs: nature’s greatest love story? Not quite. 💔💡
Turns out, for moths lamp is not life and artificial light is quite disruptive to their routine.

Hey!

I recently came across the fact that spotted hyenas have really difficult births because of their anatomy, and now I'm curious to learn more about it.

Does anyone know any good resources on this, or would anyone who's familiar with the topic be up for discussing it? I'm also curious if there are other wild animals that have similarly difficult births.

Thanks!

The first time in my life I've ever seen one! 🤯 I'm pretty sure it's an American mink. Apparently, they're rarely seen animals, as they're very agile and elusive.

I was lucky enough to see it up close, swimming, running, jumping, hunting.

I think it's a beautiful sign of the purity and cleanliness of the city/province's rivers.

What a treat to be able to enjoy this wildlife right in the city!

Have you ever seen one? 🦦

GF is struggling with homework, she didn't get the greatest picture but we can't seem to find a single picture online that looks similar. She has to draw and label it, where would the food and water grooves be? Are we being stupid or is this picture just that terrible?

DNA regions separated by millions of genetic letters can become neighbors when a chromosome folds. In octopus, squid and cuttlefish, those contacts offer clues to how ancient genome reshuffling may have altered gene regulation.

A University of Vienna-led study in Nature Communications compared this 3D architecture across three cephalopod species. First author Thea Rogers and colleagues combined contact maps with gene activity and evolutionary comparisons, then tested one candidate regulatory region in squid embryos.

The findings suggest that genome organization can preserve essential connections while allowing others to change. They also point to a possible contribution to cephalopods' elaborate nervous systems. The work does not demonstrate that DNA folding alone produced problem-solving abilities or rapid camouflage.

It was pretty large btw

I’ve been reading more and more about sloths lately, and the more I learn, the more surprising they get. The thing that stuck with me most is that the two living groups, three-toed (Bradypus) and two-toed (Choloepus), diverged roughly 30 million years ago. Two-toed sloths seem to be more closely related to some extinct ground sloths than to three-toed sloths, which suggests tree-dwelling evolved at least twice from ground-dwelling ancestors.

I’d love to hear from anyone who knows more:

• Is that the current consensus, or is it still debated?
• What are the best recent papers or books on sloth evolution?
• Is there anything else about sloths that surprised you when you first read about it?

Thanks in advance. I’m still learning, so corrections are welcome.

A small snake preserved in Brazilian sandstone carried a skull unusually well suited to life underground. Its dense, overlapping bones and distinctive internal anatomy suggest that burrowing snakes were already specialized during the age of dinosaurs.

Named Tametara mirim, the animal lived approximately 85 million to 75 million years ago. An international team led by Annie Hsiou at the University of São Paulo, Tiago Simões at Princeton University, and Nicolas Di-Poï at the University of Helsinki described it in Nature.

The fossil provides evidence of early snake ecological diversity, rather than settling their origin. Its anatomy differs sharply from that of another ancient snake, Dinilysia patagonica. Together, they show why one fossil species cannot stand in for the ancestral lifestyle of all snakes.

The research received support from FAPESP, São Paulo’s research funding agency.

A dinosaur weighing more than half a metric ton appears to have become a meal for a much smaller carnivore. Scratches on its jaw point toward a raptor feeding on the remains of an Albertosaurus, a relative of Tyrannosaurus rex.

The fossil analysis, published in the Journal of Paleontology, was led by University of Alberta researcher Joshua Doyon. Coauthors include university paleontologist Philip Currie and Royal Tyrrell Museum researchers Caleb Brown and François Therrien.

The team favors a small dromaeosaurid, the dinosaur group commonly called raptors, as the animal responsible. If that interpretation is correct, the specimen provides the first reported evidence of one feeding on a tyrannosaur. Scavenging is considered more likely than an attack on the living animal.

The Seal Rehabilitation and Research Centre at the WEC in the Netherlands does amazing work saving, rehabilitating, and releasing ill and injured seals from the Wadden Sea. They do amazing work teaching about the importance of the Wadden Sea ecosystem and treat around 200 seals a year.

They are at financial risk, and currently have around 40 seals in their care, including orphaned pups, who need treatment and rehabilitation or to grow before they can be released.

If you are able to help even in a small way, please do. If not, please share this information. This organization is an amazing resource for a unique ecosystem and losing them would be a tragedy.