Jason GRIZZLED Bittel

A box full of brand new copies of Jason Bittel’s new book, GRIZZLED, emerges from a hole in the ground, surrounded by dirt and tree roots, as if it has just woken from hibernation. The book’s cover features a grizzly bear prominently.

Text that reads, “To Jess, Mark, June, and Huck: For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.” —Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

Happy Publication Day to GRIZZLED—a day I’ve been dreaming about for 10 years! 🧪

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@dovergirl.bsky.social I would like this book for my birthday.

Grizzled by Jason Bittel: 9781426223358 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Funny, fascinating, and scientifically grounded, this charming book reveals unknown details about 50 well-known animals. Effortlessly readable, Grizzled reintroduces nature lovers to species they th...

Happy GRIZZLED Eve, to all who celebrate!!!

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www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804002...

Come for the skunk. 🦨🧪
Stay for the great horned owl! 🦉

Today’s mantra:

MAXIMUM ADHESION. IMPOSSIBLE TO CRUSH. BECOME THE MOST EFFICIENT SHAPE

Come for the skunk. 🦨🧪
Stay for the great horned owl! 🦉

Terrible headline (this is NOT what the new research - link below - shows!), terrible AI image! Argh!
Here’s the actual research:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Where do I start?! 1/4

Our coyotes (outside Pittsburgh) also love a good siren! Best time to hear them is at night, about ten seconds after the local fire whistle goes off.

Ha, we just saw this show for the first time. I was entertained!

Tampa International Airport also recently banned pyjama sharks.

Wait, pajamas. They have banned pajamas. Sharks still okay.

Peep as in, get too close or spy on them? They do this regularly???

oh wow, lucky you!

Americans Are Uniquely Infatuated With Bald Eagles. Too Bad Most of Us Have No Idea What They’re Actually Like. For one thing, there's the sound they make.

Ready for a new kind of animal book? A wildlife wonder-guide, if you will?

GRIZZLED: Love Letters to 50 of North America's Least Understood Animals drops NEXT WEEK! Get a taste over at @slate.com, which has published my bald eagle chapter in full! 🧪🦅

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Probably should have tagged @batcon.org in here, who I just realized is on Bluesky!!

Meet the bat that eats other bats Scientists are learning more about the rarely seen spectral bat, Latin America’s “jaguar on the wing.”

I also wrote about the time I got to watch @winifred-frick.bsky.social catch a spectral bat the size of a dang crow -- one of the greatest animal moments of my entire life!!! 🧪

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Bats of the World A marvelously illustrated look at bats from around the world

Fred is also one of the expert sources in my GRIZZLED chapter on Mexican free-tailed bats. Go buy her bat bookkkkkkkkkkk! 🧪

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A photo of Winifred Frick’s new book, “Bats of the World: A Guide to Every Family”

An adorable diagram from Frick’s new book, “Bats of the World”, which explains the facial anatomy of bats.

Do you love bats as much as I do? Well my friend @winifred-frick.bsky.social has a bat book coming out the same day as GRIZZLED — #bookbuddies” — and it is a beauty!! 🧪

#amphipodstoday

me tooooooooooo

Oof I’m in this post and I don’t like it

Another great 🧵 by @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social!

Side note: I wonder what exactly makes the fossa have that sheen-y, slightly wrinkled look of a hairless cat. Like, why don't mountain lions look like that? Thicker, longer fur? I can't put my finger on it.

Haha, either way, thanks for the skeet!

So. Cool.

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I mean, that's gotta be bigger than some birds, right? Be curious to see a comparison with a hummingbird

Thanks, Torie! You're in the acknowledgements, too, btw!! Thanks for everything!!!

Woooooohoooooo!!! 🦊🦑🐜🦀🐍

Americans Are Uniquely Infatuated With Bald Eagles. Too Bad Most of Us Have No Idea What They’re Actually Like. For one thing, there's the sound they make.

This is a delightful profile of bald eagles, which are kleptoparasites (they steal food from others), have talons the size of your thumb that lock onto prey, and sound like they're ... giggling. slate.com/technology/2... by @bittelmethis.bsky.social on @slate.com

Quick aside: I cut my science-writing 🧪 teeth at @slate.com, so it's super special to me that they would publish an excerpt from the book I've been working on for nearly a decade.

Three cheers to @laurahelmuth.bsky.social, @thekibosch.bsky.social & Rachel Gross, 3 of my earliest Slate editors! 🫶