biology
2025-07-30 @ 19.48.28 ∈ In English
2025-03-20 @ 19.18.27 ∈ In English
They’d rather die: The lesson that male roundworms refuse to learn
The female worms quickly learned to draw a link between the odor of the harmful bacteria and the disease that it causes, and therefore chose to eat the other bacterium. Most males, however, failed to learn and continued consuming the harmful bacterium, even though they got just as sick.
2025-02-13 @ 10.37.46 ∈ In English
2024-12-11 @ 11.36.35 ∈ In English
2024-11-09 @ 17.35.40 ∈ In English
2024-10-31 @ 17.09.07 ∈ Suomeksi
Luontotohtori | Järvestä nousi laituriankkurin mukana korallia muistuttava möhkäle, jota asiantuntijakin ihailee
Kyseessä on yksi järviemme erikoisimmista ja hienoimmista eliölajeista[,] järvisieni. Se ei nimestään huolimatta ole sieni lainkaan, eikä kasvikaan[,] vaan lasketaan kuuluvaksi eläinkuntaan.
2024-07-12 @ 14.23.50 ∈ In English
2024-07-08 @ 17.36.22 ∈ In English
Brain size riddle solved as humans exceed evolutionary trend
"For more than a century, scientists have assumed that this relationship was linear—meaning that brain size gets proportionally bigger, the larger an animal is. We now know this is not true. The relationship between brain and body size is a curve, essentially meaning very large animals have smaller brains than expected."
2024-07-05 @ 10.15.23 ∈ In English
Identifier Profile: @k8thegr8 · iNaturalist
If you’re photographing a caterpillar, Kate recommends getting at least three photos: one the top of the caterpillar, one of the side showing all the sets of legs, and a photo of the face (aka head capsule). It’s also really important to note the host plant (or make an observation of the host plant and get it identified on iNat). Even then, she reminds us that not all caterpillars (or adults) can be identified to the species level from photos alone.