Predator or caregiver? Hyenas defy the label. Strategy, strength, and maternal care shape one of nature’s most misunderstood animals. Clan life reveals a balance few expect.

Watch or listen: https://TPC8.short.gy/DeD6tImI

Prefer to read? https://TPC8.short.gy/F6v66GpJ

Strength and care define the rhythm of hyena life.

On our evening stroll last night, the pup treed three black bears on our street. She was pretty full of herself afterward.
#fauna #dogsofmastodon

På takinspeksjon på foreldres kråkeslott hørte jeg en karakteristisk knitrende freselyd. Her har flaggermus-leieboere skaffa seg en fin overdagingsplass under løse metall-beslag på vindskier.

Men hvordan KAN de overleve under svarte beslag midt i solsteika? Flaggermus-sauna! Knalltøffe dyr!

University of Queensland: UQ study reveals rich but vulnerable picture of island frogs and fish. “A first database has been compiled of the frog and freshwater fish species on hundreds of Australian islands. It was developed at The University of Queensland to help target conservation efforts across Australia’s 9,300 islands using information from multiple sources, including the Atlas of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/16/university-of-queensland-uq-study-reveals-rich-but-vulnerable-picture-of-island-frogs-and-fish/

'perspectives'

#Fauna #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #HeatWave #LoveNature #sustainability
#WaterColour #DigitalArt #MastoArt #Krita

I går kveld så jeg noe knøttlite krype over gulvet. Men det var noe som ikke stemte, det stakk ut to lange ting foran. Ikke følehorn, men... armer?

Så, i går oppdaget jeg at det finnes skorpioner i Norge! Denne lille mosskorpionen/pseudoskorpionen heter bokskorpion, den har ikke hale, og den liker seg blant gamle papier og spiser støvmidd (så den er veldig flink!). De lever over hele verden og helst i menneskers hjem. Ikke farlig.

https://snl.no/bokskorpion

„Biene an Johanniskraut (Hypericum)“ (2014)
Sony RX100M2

Schönbär (Callimorpha dominula)
Photo Dietmar Bachmann
Aargau, Switzerland

Beautiful bear, Butterfly (moth) from the bear moth subfamily (Arctiinae). The beautiful bear was butterfly of the year 2010.

Mosaikjungfer (2012) #Aeshna
Photo Dietmar Bachmann
Nikon D4 / Nikkor 24.0-70.0 mm ƒ/2.8
#InsektenSamstag

Gattung aus der Familie der #Edellibellen lat. #Aeshnidae aus der Ordnung #Libellen lat. #Odonata.