Markus Bühler (Bestiarium-Blog)

Faszinierende Art von der ich noch niemals gehört habe! Vielen Dank @thoerren.bsky.social

...so it wasn't one beaver. There were at least two, an adult and at least one juvenile. Those beavers are very used to be around people and I can often watch them from a heavily frequented path along the river.

Sadly you can't see the beaver which is right at the moment sitting and eating in the grass in front of me.

Phenotypic plasticity drives the development of laterality in the scale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis The scale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis, from Lake Tanganyika in Africa, is an excellent model for studying animal lateralization. However, how

🔬 Phenotypic plasticity drives the development of laterality in the scale-eating cichlid fish 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑠.🐟🧪

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The Phenomenon of Piebaldism in Sharks: A Review of Global Sightings and Patterns Chromatic disorders like piebaldism—a rare form of leucism causing partial pigment loss—have been documented in 25 wild shark cases across 17 species and 11 families, with varying anatomical distribu...

The Phenomenon of Piebaldism in Sharks: A Review of Global Sightings and Patterns.🐟🧪

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I really love ulus, I always have a look for them in ethnology museums. By far the biggest and most diverse collection I have ever seen was in the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. It's likely one of the biggest collections of Inuit artifacts in the world.

Btw, the one on the original photo is from the Landesmuseum Konstanz and the most famous one of its kind. There are however some other ones on the Pfahlbau-Museum in Unteruhldingen.

Dieser Kommentar wäre jetzt wirklich nicht nötig gewesen. Ich habe einen Fehler gemacht für den ich mich auch gleich entschuldigt habe. Da jetzt gleich zu Beleidigen ist echt nicht angezeigt.

Sorry, that was really a mistake by me, I somehow forgot that this was neolithic. I am very well aware of ulus and have a very big interest in them, including their history. I even made one myself.

Risso's Dolphins from Berry Head this afternoon.
May seems to be a good month to see them as they are probably coming in close to shore to feed on adult Cuttlefish which have come into the shallows to lay eggs and die at this time of year.

I find it always so frustrating how people find ignorance totally understandable or are sometimes even proud about it.

Oh yes, this is every time so incredibly annoying.

Yes, but of course they only survived due to the nature of the used materials. Wooden artifacts from that age hardly ever survived.

It's not unlikely that they had comparably much free time to make stuff like that. We can be also pretty sure they built some sort of shelters, perhaps tents from wood and hides. We just have no remains of them. But caves as shelters were of course a comparably rare thing to find.

Similar to dog breeds with "long" heads. They aren't really longer, but just very narrow compared to other dogs.

Perhaps, perhaps not. But keep in mind that a huge amount of human crafts were made in rather bad light conditions, in buildings with bad light and without electricity and during times of the year with little sunlight.

Kepp in mind that the original sculpture had probably longer legs that are lost now. And of course this figure is just tiny, only a few centimeters.

Yes it is.

How the disappearance of mastodons still threatens native South American forests Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: the dispersal of seeds from large-fruited plants. A new study led by the Univ...

phys.org/news/2025-06...

In Dänemark habe ich Kühe auch direkt durchs flache Wasser am Meer laufen sehen.

On the other hand, yaks aren't living that far away there.

And now there are even grotesque AI abominations labeled as yaks in the stock sites.

I suppose this was probably an erroneously labeled stock photo.

Like this small herd of highland cattle here around.

Exactly. It's highland cattle.

Source: https://madrascourier.com/environment/the-wild-yak/

Find the error.

An illustration of the (now extinct) Chinese Paddlefish. The fish is swimming away from the viewer, and the water is a slightly murky, greenish color. Two other paddlefish can be seen swimming in the background. The river bottom is silty with scattered rocks and stones.

An old-ish drawing of a Chinese Paddlefish for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡

There are also freshwater sculpins in northern Scandinavian waters.

European map: elephants could occur throughout all the region of today's deciduous and evergreen forest

Imagine you went out to the forest for a sunday walk & saw an elephant herd. Wait, there would certainly be trees, but no forest.
Interesting new paper:
Europe’s lost landscape sculptors: Today’s potential range of the extinct elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus
biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1350...

It would fit Semnopithecus schistaceus, a very large monkey (up to 23 kg) that occurs in Nepal. Here is a skull replica of the closely related Hanuman langur. boneclones.com/product/hanu...