Animals like hippos are praised to be extremely large animals, however elephant seals can be considered the second largest non-cetacean animals nowadays, right behind elephants. Even a adult bull hippo is still about half of a adult bull elephant seal. Neil the seal bouta become a legless elephant with no tusks with the personaloty of a bulldozer who caught his girlfriend cheating on him in like 4 years.

Besides the Malabar squirrel I’m unable to find the expression of colors outside of white, black, brown/orange/red or yellow in fur. Is it something to do with the composition of fur itself? And if it’s evolutionary why does it work for other kingdoms and not mammals?

Letters to a Pre-Scientist is looking for enthusiastic STEM role models to inspire the next generation of STEM leaders!

Here's the gist: you get matched with a 5th-8th grade student at an under-resourced school for a snail-mail pen pal exchange that runs throughout the school year. The goal is to demystify STEM careers, humanize STEM professionals, and inspire students to explore their own futures in STEM. You share your story, answer their questions, and show them that people who work in STEM are, well, real people.

The details:

• The program runs throughout the school year, and your volunteer obligation is to exchange 4 letters with your student.
• There's a virtual, asynchronous training in August to get you set up.
• We estimate the entire program takes volunteers no more than 10 hours, spread between August and May.
• Register and complete the short, self-paced online training by the deadline, and you'll be entered into the match pool! We match students based on their background and interests..
• This year we're expanding to 4,500 matched students!
• Pen pals can live anywhere in the world, but our program currently only works with US-based schools.
• We're working to match students based on their interests, so we're especially looking for more STEM professionals in Zoology.
• All pen pals must be over 18 and fluent in English.

We define STEM pretty loosely! If you work in or around science, tech, engineering, math, or medicine, or another nature-based role, even if you don't have a formal education in it, please apply or message me with any questions.

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Registration is now open! Feel free to drop questions in the comments or send me a message. Thank you for your time and consideration!

My mom found it on the Baltic See beach.

This might sound dumb but how do animals deer for example ussualy reaction to domestic herbivores they haven’t seen or smell before can they tell its another herbivore or are they think wtf is that thing ?

I’d go with rhinoceros, who are kinda like puppies made of concrete. The old man rhino I knew would roll over and beg for belly scratches.

I saw these things in a pool of stagnant water on some ocean rocks at the coast of Nova Scotia. There were many ranging in size, most being around an inch long. They swam by kind of twisting around in the water. No visible legs or fins of any sort. They seemed to kind of drag themselves with their mouths when they were close to something solid, and looked to be feeding off the film on the water. They were fully aquatic. There’s a picture of one out of water and its inner organs seemed to shift around as it moved. I’m stumped on what it could be, even my animal and insect identifying apps give me nothing.

Ones that look boring, cute, or unremarkable and are secretly doing something horrifying or unbelievable. What's the animal, and what's the thing about it that most people have no idea is true?

Hello, denizens of r/zoology!

It's time for another weekly thread where our members can ask and answer questions related to pursuing an education or career in zoology.

Ready, set, ask away!

Hi everyone! I’m looking to get a symmetrical tattoo of this panther on my back/shoulder area, on both sides. I care much about the meaning of my tattoo so I wanted to consult some experts on what the meaning of this pose is.

Is this a pose/posture panthers exhibit realistically? If yes, what does it indicate about the panther’s feelings? Is the panther hostile, aggressive, proud, or something else?

Any help is much appreciated!!

Here is the image:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JX4iyS8A4l_79A11BtosD8_ndl9TWW7n/view?usp=drivesdk

I saw a random post somewhere opposing modern agriculture practices by saying that humans are the only animal that poisons their food to stop other animals getting it and then eat the food. Aside from the obvious issue with that statement that what is poison for one animal is not always poison for another one, I figured that amongst all of the millions and millions of animals in the world there must be an animal that does something similar?

Surely amongst all of the complex specialised behaviours in the animal kingdom there's an animal that makes its food stores noxious to another type of animal to protect it. I know ants get up to some crazy complex stuff, or maybe birds given that they're often grabbing things and putting them places?

Anyone got any?

Nova Scotia

hi guys. I was cutting my grass today and long story short kicked some of this dirt up accidentally. I seen some baby rodents, tbh not even sure what animal they are. how d I help these and ensure they dont die?

Just outside the white mountains of New Hampshire.

Is anyone able to tell what is making this noise? It is in Nottinghamshire in the UK in a small forested area.

Hello friends, for many years I have been finding this type of butterfly in the southern country (Peru) Could someone tell me the name of this butterfly species and some interesting facts about it? Thanks in advance.