Dr. Wildlife

A city street is covered in deep snow, with parked cars and trees nearly buried under thick snowdrifts during a heavy snowfall.

Where's that groundhog? I just want to have a word with him.

If you tried to vote earlier and hit an issue with the form, go try again now! We have extended our response limit to handle all the love coming in 💚

Love is Wild This Valentine’s Day, we’re doing more than just celebrating wild love—we’re protecting it. Vote for the animal you love the most and a secret admirer will contribute $10,000 to protect them

seriously go check out these profiles, they're ridiculous. and remember to vote for the one who holds your heart! 👉️ www.rewild.org/love-is-wild

for valentine's day I built a "dating site" for threatened animals where people vote for their fave and a secret admirer gives $10k to a conservation partner associated with the winner.

highlights:
- a toad with main character energy (currently winning)
- unlimited voting (bc love isn't fair)

Thank youuuuu! I need to make some more, been ITCHIN' to see what other animal sounds could look like in this style!

Wildlife attacks and strange animal behavior — fake images spark conservation concerns When Houssein Rayaleh received a WhatsApp message from a local ecotourism guide showing footage of a lioness in Djibouti, he was excited. The video showed the big cat running directly in front of a mo...

This is one of many cases in a growing list where AI wildlife content is sparking real human-wildlife conflict, fear, and wasted conservation resources. @mongabay.com report 👇

news.mongabay.com/2026/01/wild...

Screenshot from a news article. It reads: When Houssein Rayaleh received a WhatsApp message from a local ecotourism guide showing footage of a lioness in Djibouti, he was excited. The video showed the big cat running directly in front of a moving vehicle along Route Nationale 11, a road that Rayaleh knows well. This was shocking. Lions are officially extinct here: There are no records of Panthera leo in this Horn of Africa country. “I said whoa, we have a lion in Djibouti,” says Rayaleh, the CEO and founder of the NGO Djibouti Nature. So he forwarded the video on to the Cat Specialist Group at the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority. “As it happened, it was a fake,” Rayaleh says. Certain details spring out in the video identifying it as an AI-generated video, says Urs Breitenmoser, co-chair of the group. “The lion behaves very strangely and there are also a few sequences where you can actually see that it is morphologically not quite correct.”

Conservation in 2026: explaining that the lion in Djibouti was rendered, not rediscovered.

It was making me go CROSS EYED for DAYS but after several tutorials and just "getting my hands dirty" playing around with projects it has definitely gotten so much easier and FUN! Happy to help with any questions you may have!

WHOAAAA! This is absolutely incredible!

I taught myself TouchDesigner to show that the wind, the trees, and the animals are making music too.

Here is my first project: a visual study of a familiar winter sound, the white-throated sparrow’s song.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 🎉🎉🎉

Experiencing the Chronicles of Bushwick right now. What do you MEAN the DJ set I am looking for is past the main stage, up some stairs, THROUGH a GENDER NEUTRAL bathroom, and into a whole seperate ass room?

SNOWWWW

Cars and a yellow taxi drive down a snowy street at night in New York City, with bright neon signs including "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and "Angelo’s Pizza" visible.

The winter storm has officially arrived in New York City! ❄️

This is so cute to see! The little things like this give me so much joy!

Photo of a turtle frog. Attribution: By Stephen Zozaya - Vertucci S, Pepper M, Edwards DL, Roberts JD, Mitchell N, Keogh JS (2017) Evolutionary and natural history of the turtle frog, Myobatrachus gouldii, a bizarre myobatrachid frog in the southwestern Australian biodiversity hotspot. PLoS ONE 12(3): e0173348.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0173348.g001., CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58023200

I haven’t stopped thinking about this frog since learning about it a few days ago, so now this knowledge is your problem too.

Meet the turtle frog (Myobatrachus gouldii) – a round burrow gremlin from Australia. It gets its name from looking like a turtle that lost its shell.

📸 Stephen Zozaya

Welcome To Iguana “Love Island”, A Conservation Success Story Saving Iguanas On The Brink Of Extinction A tale of loss, love, and a lot of iguanas.

Want the full story of how a tiny Caribbean islet turned into a lifeline for a critically endangered iguana?

@IFLscience.com did a deep dive on the science, the teamwork, and the people (including @rewildorg.bsky.social) who made this a reality 👇

www.iflscience.com/ambitious-ig...

This win took local communities, cross-island teamwork, and serious invasive species control.

Next up: reintroducing iguanas back to mainland Anguilla inside a protected sanctuary.

Conservation moral: give wildlife space, support, and a solid dating pool, and they’ll handle the rest 🦎💚

So in 2021, ten young iguanas from Dominica flew to Prickly Pear East to kickstart their species’ comeback.

Less than five years later? Over 300 adults and juveniles roam the island - one of just FIVE places on Earth where they’re thriving.

In 2016, conservationists moved the last 23 Lesser Antillean iguanas off mainland Anguilla to Prickly Pear East, which was invasive-iguana free.

Great move. But 23 iguanas is… 𝑛𝑜𝑡 a lot. So the team called Dominica and said, essentially, “hey, can we borrow some eligible bachelors & bachelorettes?”

Quick backstory: Lesser Antillean iguanas were disappearing FAST across the Caribbean.

Enter invasive green and striped tailed iguanas - bigger bodies, fast breeding, disease spreaders, & hybridize with native iguanas.

That combo can erase a species’ genetic identity even if “iguanas” still exist.

Lesser Antillean Iguana being handled. (Olivier Raynaud / Fauna & Flora)

Prickly Pear East is tiny, uninhabited, and does not have margaritas 𝑜𝑟 cabanas.

Yet somehow it became the hottest dating destination in the Caribbean… for iguanas.

Let me introduce you to Love Island: Lizard Edition 🦎💕

© Olivier Raynaud / Fauna & Flora

This ghostly creature is a glass squid, part of a family of over 60 species called Cranchiidae.

Among them is the colossal squid, whose largest intact specimen measured 5.4 m (17 ft 9 in) and weighed nearly 500 kg (1,091 lb), making it the heaviest invertebrate species alive! 🦑

Wow, wow, WOW! I have had a busy week so just circling back to this and am absolutely blown away with all of your responses and kind words. I will be trying to get back to each of you, but I just wanted to say THANK YOU 💚

I am not asking anyone else to stay, and I'm not tolerating abuse. I have just been choosing to show up where the audience still exists and do what I can. More and more people are moving to Bluesky thankfully, which means I have been shifting my focus too.

If environmentalists, educators, and marginalized folks left every space the moment it became hostile, those spaces would only get louder and worse. The people who most need evidence-based info and visible queer voices are still there.

Chaos contained. Labels printed.
The final batch of Black Friday orders ships tomorrow.
Thank you for keeping indie shops like ours alive 🖤

Bluesky has genuinely revived my love for science communication online. After watching the same posts go nowhere on Twitter, seeing them resonate here has been such a good reminder of why I do this. Thanks for being here 🖤

Absolutely! 🙏

VERY METAL! 🔥