when i was ~9, i spent several days in a biometric frenzy, taping together pieces of paper and drawing out the dimensions of mice, badgers, red squirrels, etc, to scale to try and see how any infrastructure in Redwall could possibly be designed. I also failed at this
This project broke down because no one could decide if they were human-sized mice living in a human-sized abbey, mice-sized mice living an human-sized abbey, or mice-sized mice living in a mice-sized abbey
A paper in Scientific Reports presents detailed observations of a wild sperm whale birth off the coast of Dominica in July 2023. The findings represent the most in-depth published observations of a wild cetacean birth to date, according to the authors. https://t.co/8UZa6b20QX
Thinking about how she said the salt is supposed to prevent sticking but it doesn’t always work that way… it’s kind of wonderful how we can relate that to how life works
📖 New article!
🧬 Foraging offsets declining fitness: Evidence of behavioural compensation for reproductive senescence
🔎 Find out more:https://t.co/mjnZ9K8uaP
On March 20, 2026, I decided to take back control of my life by deleting the U2 album ‘Songs of Innocence’ from my Apple Music library, over 11 years after it appeared there without my consent
Thrilled to share our new paper on collective route memories in homing pigeons, in @SciReports!
Have a read: https://t.co/TzoRk1YTWR
We found flocks remembered old routes better than pigeons flying alone, likely because different birds remembered different parts of the route!
New findings challenge the long-held idea that scavengers seeking food routinely follow predators to find it.
Studying common ravens, gray wolves, and cougars in Yellowstone National Park, researchers in Science found that ravens rarely trail predators over long distances; instead, they rely on spatial memory to return to places where kills have occurred before.
Learn more: https://t.co/02LbpRLMXh