Unironically love when people send me these kinds of videos or photos of fish and ask me what species there are. People really think too highly of me.
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Unironically love when people send me these kinds of videos or photos of fish and ask me what species there are. People really think too highly of me.
I know I tried to keep this marine related, and this is freshwater, but it is weird enough to be worth mentioning. #Indonesian crayfish that are common in the pet trade are being described as a new species
phys.org/news/2025-01...
Image of a lace bug, Family Tingidae. It's a weirdly spiky bug with wings that look like lace
Bright and colorful insect drawing, with a katydid, butterflies, and a caterpillar.
Oooh, just discovered Smithsonian Open Access -- unrestricted CC images that are clearly labeled by Family, genus & species! Also cute art www.si.edu/openaccess
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Aprovechando que está arrancando bien esto, les presento el mejor video de divulgación que he hecho
Cover of the new "global status of sharks, rays, and chimaeras" report
BREAKING: The IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group has released a new report on the global conservation status of sharks and their relatives.
portals.iucn.org/library/node...
🔥 New Publication! We systematically reviewed articles reporting hybrids involving keystone aquatic and semi-aquatic megafauna (aquatic mammals, reptiles and elasmobranchs). The results showed an increase in reports in recent years.
Read the paper here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Today I saw another cibertroca, which means there are at least two (2) cybertrucks in Cancun, which is two (2) cybertrucks too much.
Enjoy some Bluesky positive vibes (sound on👍) from these juvenile Lake Sturgeon @garlab.bsky.social!
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Here's a juvenile whale shark--just a 17-foot-long baby--shaking off some pesky fishies.
#MarineLife
So I'm gonna celebrate Christmas with my gf today and I'm giving her the gift I bought her that I have since November and have planned since September and you know what she did yesterday? She went ahead and ordered the exact thing I bought her :(
My girlfriend told me I dress like Adam Sandler and my confidence has never been so low... especially because it's true
Image of a person with a jacket on top of an apparently warm hoodie in an office bathroom
The fact that I moved to the Caribbean because I hate the cold, we have an apparent temperature outside of 33° C (91° F) and I have to dress LIKE THIS in my office because the AC is so cold, is, frankly, homophobic.
The number of times that Atlantic hurricanes intensify from a Category 1 storm (or weaker) into a major hurricane (Category 3 or greater) within 36 hours has more than doubled in the modern era (2001-2020) relative to the historical era (1971-1990).
New study in Nature Scientific Reports
Speaking of marine mammals in zoos and aquariums, they seem to be thriving (in the good ones). New paper dropped yesterday 🐋🦑🧪
phys.org/news/2023-10...
Now that my rant is over,does anybody know if there is a feed for marine mammalogy?
I'm sure that there's people supporting this initiative that really want to do good for the animals, but if they are not willing to listen to the experts they'll end up with a catastrophe like the one when animals in circus where prohibited and more than 80% of them ended up dead after suffering.
The way it is written now, marine mammal parks could continue to work without reproduction, which, don't get me wrong, would be really bad for the animals, but at least they could still feed them. But if they change it to stop revenue then these animals would be doomed to suffer and die.
The worst part is that they are trying to pass another law that would prevent marine mammal exhibition, which would leave marine mammal parks without money to feed the animals, pay the animal care specialist and veterinary staff, and rescue and rehabilitate stranded marine mammals.
There's no way for us to send marine mammals to other countries like what France is doing, where they could give them good care because mexican law does not allow for export of marine mammals.
(2) Total separation of females and males, marine mammals are extremely social, specially dolphins which are the majority of marine mammals in captivity in Mexico, this would destabilize social groups and that would result in unnecessary stress for these very sexual animals.
(1) Permanent use of hormonal treatments (contraceptives) for females for the rest of their lives, the prolonged use of hormonal treatments would greatly impact the health of the animals and speaking with my vet friends they would not do it, they would either have to quit or face legal consequences
Marine mammals are voluntary breathers, which means we cannot use general anesthesia on them without a breathing mechanism that has a very low survival rate, so sterilization is not viable to prevent reproduction, that leaves us with two other methods that would be terrible for marine mammals:
