🌟🐾 Check out my cutest #Animal of the Year contender! 🐾🌟

Can anyone help me with its name?
My best guess is... #EWOK! 😂

🖼️ 1: Ewok living its best life, blending in perfectly with Imperial life 🕵️
🖼️ 2: At night, taking out its Ewok attire, ready to join the fight against the empire! ⚔️

What do you think? 💬

Images CC0: madeindex.org

#Starwars #wildlife #Humor #animals #wildlifephotography #fanart #collage #illustration #imperialwalker #cc0 #photography #funny #cute #art #image #photo

#FotoVorschlag 'Die kleinen Dinge'

Kleines Hasennäschen ganz groß...

@FotoVorschlag@photog.social
@fotovorschlag@a.gup.pe

#photo #photography #foto #animals #cute #bunny

Fliegende Rabenvögel / Flying crows

am Westrich in Rumeln-Kaldenhausen, November 2018

Rabenvögel

#Vögel #Tiere #Rabenvögel #Niederrhein #RumelnKaldenhausen #Duisburg #foto #photo #fotografie #photography #animals #birds #songbirds #corvids

Hello ^__^ This week it was time for my children's book „Ara & the Fox of Friendship“ to move from my Kofi to my own webshop:

shop.jfml.eu/product/ara-der-f…

#JfmlArt #art #illustration #creative #DigitalArt #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon #BuyIntoArt #GiftIdeas #ShopLocal #ArtForSale
#ChildrensBooks #Kofi #buch #kinderbuch #reading #lesen #shop #FediGiftShop #fantasy #fox #fuchs #animals #children #SelfPublishing

Have you ever wondered why wet dogs shake so much? Science has an answer. 🐕

From @PopularScience: "Lab mice experiments reveal the nerves that trigger this behavior in hairy mammals."

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#Dogs #Animals #Science #Pets

Why wet dogs shake so much | Popular Science

^{Laura Baisas (Popular Science)}

In the last 125 years, bobcats have recovered significantly from extremely low numbers, with several million individuals found throughout North America today.

Bobcats help reduce the spread of diseases from animals to humans partly because they and other large mammals are poor disease vectors. Bobcats also prey on the small rodents that easily transmit pathogens.

By Christine Woodside
news.mongabay.com/2024/11/bobc…

#News #Conservation #Environment #Wildlife #smallcats #Animals

Bobcats are back, and they’re helping protect people from zoonotic disease

A bobcat, with its characteristic reddish fur and black markings, trots across a snow-covered field in central Oregon, in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, hunting birds at the Warm Springs National Fish Hatchery.

^{Glenn Scherer (Conservation news)}

I’m a neuroscientist who taught rats to drive − their joy suggests how anticipating fun can enrich human life #science #neuroscience #animals
- Kelly Lambert Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Richmond

theconversation.com/im-a-neuro…

I’m a neuroscientist who taught rats to drive − their joy suggests how anticipating fun can enrich human life

Equipped with a rodent version of a Cybertruck, these driving rats reveal that positive experiences may sculpt the brain just as powerfully as stressful ones

^{The Conversation}

Last week, we had a story about scientists who put bats on a treadmill. This week, a neuroscientist teaches rats to drive. And they love it!

From @ConversationUS: "We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted like a gas pedal."

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And here's the treadmill bats story ICYMI: sciencenews.org/article/vampir…

#Animals #Rats #Bats #Science #Psychology

Putting vampire bats on treadmills reveals an unusual metabolism

A bat gym shows that vampires are more like some insects, burning amino acids from blood proteins rather than the carbs or fats other mammals rely on.

^{Susan Milius (Science News)}

astronaut

#MastoArt #FediArt #PixelArt #Art #Cats #Animals

When a wild orangutan in Sumatra suffered a facial wound, he did something that caught the attention of scientists: the animal chewed the leaves of a liana vine – a plant not normally eaten by apes – to heal the wound.

A remarkable body of accounts from ancient to medieval times describes self-medication by many different animals. The animals used plants to treat illness, repel parasites, neutralize poisons and heal wounds. #animals
theconversation.com/animals-se…

Animals self-medicate with plants − behavior people have observed and emulated for millennia

Humans have watched and learned from animals who treat their ills with bioactive plants. This animal wisdom has a scientific name: zoopharmacognosy.

^{The Conversation}

📷 Penny's new in the household. An almost-certain foster fail, this one is. ❤️

#FediversalPictures #Animals

📷 New Post From Cliff's Pixelfed 📷

Always make sure you have all of your ducks in row!

#Ducks #Animals #SanAntonio #RiverWalk #Photography #PixelPhotography #Vacation #PAXSouth #PAX

View on Pixelfed: pixelfed.social/p/CliffWade/75…

A hedgehog is seen at the 'Les P'tits Kipik' Hedgehog care center in Orsay, near Paris, France. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier

@photography
#animals
#hedgehog

Working in what she calls “household surrealism,” Helga Stentzel styles cheeky clothesline illusions.

thisiscolossal.com/2024/10/hel…

#photography #humor #animals #clothing

¡Hola! | Hi!

Tomada a finales de octubre de 2018 en Roses (Girona).

#seagull #beach #beachscene #beachscape #sunset #autumnsunset #sea #animal #animals #photooftheday #picoftheday #photography #photographer #photo #photographylovers #nature #naturephotography #naturephoto #sunsetsky #sunsetskies #mastodonphotography #mastodonphotoclub #photographyonmastodon #fediphotography #fediphoto #seaandsand #autumnvibes #seascape #cloudy @photography

An endangered lemur has been born at Cotswold Wildlife Park, Burford, UK. Births of the greater bamboo lemur in captivity are extremely rare, and the park is the only zoological collection in the UK and one of two worldwide to have bred the species this year

Photograph: Cotswold Wildlife Park/PA

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#animals
#endangered
#lemur