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No Such Thing as a Seagull
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Not seagull; just gull 😜
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🐬 It's National Dolphin Day. This is not just a celebration of their charm — it is also a call to awareness of the complex challenges they face.
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A dolphin swims through clear blur water with the sun shining through ocean ripples. Photo by: טל שמע (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons Text: Dolphins only allow one half of their brains to sleep at a time — the other half stays alert so the dolphin can continue breathing and look out for dangers.
April 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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🦫 It's International Beaver Day! Sink your teeth into some beaver facts.
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🧠 Learn more: nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news...
A North American beaver with long, wet, brown fur, stands in the water beside the felled and brown wood of a beaver dam or lodge. Photo by: GlacierNPS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Text: North American beavers are known as ecosystem engineers because the dams they build create ponds and wetlands that are biodiversity hotspots, and can reduce the risk of flooding downstream.
April 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Manatee Appreciation Day is celebrated on the last Wednesday of March to raise awareness for imperiled manatees and their aquatic habitat.
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A manatee, colored gray with dark green algae on the top of its body, swims just below the sea bottom. A school of silvery fish swims underneath it. Photo by: Ramos Keith, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Text: Manatees slumber for half the day. They can enter a restful state underwater sinking to the bottom or hovering just below the surface. They are not deeply unconscious as they rise to the surface to breathe every 3-5 minutes.
March 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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🐻 It's World Bear Day! It raises awareness about bears' various global challenges and highlights the ecological significance of bears and the threats they encounter.
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A solitary Kodiak bear, very large and with light brown fur, stands tall above grass. Photo by: Yathin S Krishnappa (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons Text: Bears are usually solitary animals, except for mating, mothers with young, or times when lots of food is available like a salmon run.
March 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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🦭 Happy International Seal Day! It is set to raise awareness about seal conservation around the world.
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🧠 Learn more: www.visitsealife.com/scarborough/...
A harbor seal, colored in shades of gray with brown splotches, sits on the shore. Photo by: Marcel Burkhard (CC BY-SA 2.0 DE), via Wikimedia Commons Text: “True seals” lack external ears. Instead, they have small openings on the sides of their heads. They are also known as crawling seals as they move on land by wriggling their bodies in a caterpillar-like motion.
March 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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🌳 It's International Day of Forests. This year’s theme, “Forests and Foods,” connects forests to global efforts to combat hunger, protect biodiversity, and address climate change.
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The Ferhmin Forest, a dry landscape with umbrella shaped Socotra Socotra dragon trees. Photo by: Ahmedxalkatheri (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons Text: The dragon’s blood tree of the Ferhmin Forest on Socotra Island in Yemen is named for the blood-like color of the tree’s red sap.
March 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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🐸 It's World Frog Day! Its beginnings are deeply connected to @savethefrogs.com and Save The Frogs Day.
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An American bullfrog, colored in different shades of green with a yellow throat, sits in grass. Its disc-shaped tympanum is situated just behind the eyes. Photo: Carl D. Howe (CC BY-SA 2.5), via Wikimedia Commons Text: A frog’s tympanum is a large oval shape membrane that is stretched across a ring of cartilage like a snare drum that vibrates. It transmits sound waves to the protected inner parts of the ear.
March 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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It's World Sparrow Day! It was started to raise awareness of the house sparrow by the Nature Forever Society of India.
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Two house sparrows stand on top of a branch. The male in front has a black beak, face and breast, with reddish brown on the back of the head and brown wings. The female behind has a paler brown color. Photo by: Ximo Galarza (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), iNaturalist Text: House sparrows are one of the most widespread and common songbirds in the world today because of their ability to live with humans. They even prefer to nest in manmade structures such as eaves or walls of buildings instead of in trees.
March 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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🐼 It's National Panda Day. Habitat loss has dwindled their numbers.
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🧠 Learn more: www.wwf.org.uk/learn/world-...
A giant panda, a black and white bear, eats a stem of bamboo. Photo by: Joachim S. Mü̈ller (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), iNaturalist Text: Although 99% of the giant panda’s diet consists of bamboo, it gets little protein and energy from the plant. The bear still has the digestive system of a carnivore, as well as carnivore-specific genes.
March 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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It's Buzzards Day. In some part of North America, turkey vultures are known as buzzards.
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A close up image of a turkey vulture with dark brown feathers, red featherless face, pale yellow beak point and large nasal cavities. Photo by: Dori (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons Text: Unlike most birds, turkey vultures use their sense of smell to locate their food, mainly carrion. They prefer the recently dead, avoiding carcasses that have reached the point of putrefaction.
March 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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🐻‍❄️ It's International Polar Bear Day! Their main threat is sea ice loss from climate warming. They are listed as a vulnerable species by the IUCN.
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A polar bear, colored white with dark nose, sleeps on snow. Photo by: Morten Ross (CC BY-NC 4.0), iNaturalist Text: Polar bear fur isn’t white. Their hairs are actually transparent and hollow. The white color comes from light scaterring inside the hair and reflecting back to your eyes.
February 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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🐳 It's World Whale Day. It was first established in Hawaii to commemorate humpback whale recovery and raise awareness about them and the threats they still face.
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🧠 Learn more: www.pacificwhale.org/elementor-22...
A group of humpback whale mouths break the ocean surface swallowing fish while gulls fly above them. Photo by: James Maughn (CC BY-NC 4.0), iNaturalist Text: Humpback whales sometimes cooperatively hunt by bubble net feeding: swimming in a shrinking circle while blowing air from their blowholes, capturing prey above in a cylinder of bubbles. The whales then swim up into the “nets” with their mouths gaping and swallow the coralled fish.
February 17, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Yesterday was World Pangolin Day, a time to bring attention to the world's most trafficked animal.
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🧠 Learn more: www.ifaw.org/internationa...
A giant ground pangolin, with bronze colored scales, long claws and long snout, sits in a curled position in the dirt. Photo by: Royle Safaris (CC BY-NC 4.0), iNaturalist Text: Pangolins are also known as scaly anteaters because of their tough scales used for armor and their long tongues which they use to eat ants and termites.
February 17, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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🦛 It's World Hippopotamus Day! Their population has seen a recent decline, with the IUCN reporting a drop to between 115,000 and 130,000 hippos in the wild.
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🧠 Learn more: www.awf.org/news/world-h...
Two hippos fight by opening their jaws wide and exposing their teeth. Photo by: Mathias D'haen (CC BY-NC 4.0), iNaturalist Text: Hippopotamus incisors and molars aren’t used for eating, but for combat. Bull hippos use their incisors to block each other's attacks and their large canines as offensive weapons.
February 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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🐒 Yesterday was World Bonobo Day. Closely related to humans, they are known to be more peaceful than chimpanzees.
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Three bonobos, black colored primates, groom each other while sitting on tree branches. Photo by: DBeaune (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons Text: While other primate species use aggression and dominance to settle conflicts, bonobos are known to use social interaction, including grooming and physical intimacy, instead.
February 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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🦉 This #SuperbOwl Sunday, I'm cheering for the Blakiston's fish owl.

The Ainu peoples of Hokkaido, Japan, rever the owl as a Kamuy (divine being) called Kotan koru Kamuy (God that Protects the Village).
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A Blakiston's fish owl, mottled brown and white, catches a fish from a snowy waterway with its sharp talons. Photo by: Julie Edgley (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons Text: To better catch fish, the Blakiston’s fish owl’s legs and toes don’t have feathers. The feet have spiky scales on the undersides and long, curved talons to provide grip.
February 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Today is World Ostrich Day, first set up in 2020 by Auckland Zoo keeper and ostrich coordinator, Jade Tinker.
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An ostrich, with thick black body feathers and long pale legs and neck, runs across dusty ground. Photo by: Charles J. Sharp (CC BY-SA 4.0 ), via Wikimedia Commons Text: Ostriches can run for long distances at a speed of 55 km/h, with short bursts of almost 100 km/h, making them the fastest land animal on two legs and the second fastest of all land animals behind the cheetah.
February 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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💤🐿️ It's Marmot Day and Groundhog Day, with groundhogs being a type of marmot.
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Post No Such Thing as a Seagull ‪@nosuchseagull.bsky.social‬ 💤🐿️ It's Marmot Day and Groundhog Day, with groundhogs being a type of marmot. 🦊🌎 🧠 Learn more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmot_... A husky yellow-bellied marmot, a large ground squirrel with light brown fur and pale yellow underside, sits on rocks over looking a valley. Photo by: Inklein (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons Text: The largest marmots are true hibernators, with their body temperatures falling to just above freezing, their hearts beating 30 beats per minute, and breathing only once or twice per minute. ALT February 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM Everybody can reply Write your reply No Such Thing as a Seagull ‪@nosuchseagull.bsky.social‬ Home Search Notifications Chat Feeds Lists Profile Settings New Post Following Marine Life! 🦑 Birds! 🦉 Mammals! 🦊 Marine Mammalogy 🐋🦭 Seabirds Reptiles/Amphibians! 🐍 Ecology and Conservation Invertebrates! 🐙 Naturalists 🌿 SciArt 🐡 📰 News 📰 Trending News My News More feeds Trending Luka Doncic Beyoncé Knicks WWE Royal Rumble Black History Month Caturday Feedback • Privacy • Terms • Help A husky yellow-bellied marmot, a large ground squirrel with light brown fur and pale yellow underside, sits on rocks over looking a valley. Photo by: Inklein (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons Text: The largest marmots are true hibernators, with their body temperatures falling to just above freezing, their hearts beating 30 beats per minute, and breathing only once or twice per minute. A husky yellow-bellied marmot, a large ground squirrel with light brown fur and pale yellow underside, sits on rocks over looking a valley. Photo by: Inklein (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons Text: The largest marmots are true hibernators, with their body temperatures falling to just above freezing, their heartbeats dropping to 30 times per minute, and breathing only once or twice per minute.
February 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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🦓 It's International Zebra Day! In some places they are under threat from habitat loss, climate change and poaching.
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Several zebras run together on grassland habitat, with their stripes blending together. Photo by: Bart Wursten (CC BY-NC 4.0), iNaturalist Text: There are several hypotheses for the purpose of zebras’ black stripes on their white coats including camouflage, identification, thermoregulation, and fly protection.
February 1, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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🐧 It's #PenguinAwarenessDay!
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A molting emperor penguins stands in front of a snowy background, with its old shaggy white, black and yellow feathers being replaced smooth new ones. Photo by: Carlie Reum, National Science Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Text: Penguins undergo a “catastrophic molt” with all their feathers being replaced at once. During this time they are forced to stay on land and are unable to feed because they are not waterproof when molting.
January 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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🦆🦢🪿 #WorldWaterfowlDay was on Friday!
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🧠 Learn more: https://www.waterfowlday.org
Two mottled pale colored ducks mating, with the male on top having a corkscrew shaped penis. Photo by: Basile Morin (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons Text: While most birds have cloacas, almost all male waterfowl have penises.
January 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Not flying reindeer, but a flying fish.

🐟🎄 Thanks for following along for my version of @drkatfish.bsky.social's #25DaysOfFishmas. I hope you learned something cool.
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A Bennett's flyingfish, colored silvery blue, uses its wing like fins to glide above the ocean water. Photo by: Alex Castelein (CC BY-NC 4.0), iNaturalist Text: Flying fish are able to leap out of the water and use their wing like fins to glide through the air. It is thought they fo this to escape predators in the ocean, but long glides make them vulnerable to seabirds.
December 25, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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Imaging seeing a spirit looking like this on Christmas Eve.

🐟🎅🏻 One more day left of @drkatfish.bsky.social's #25DaysOfFishmas.
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The large, bulky head of an Atlantic wolffish, colored gray with canine teeth protruding out of its mouth. Photo by: Poul Erik Rasmussen (CC BY-NC 4.0), iNaturalist Text: The large head, powerful jaws, and strong teeth of the Atlantic wolffish are used to eat hard-shelled invertebrates like sea urchins and crabs.
December 25, 2024 at 4:56 AM
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🐟🎄 A living fossil for today's entry of @drkatfish.bsky.social's #25DaysOfFishmas.
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A West Indian Ocean coelacanth, a large, plump, lobe-finned fish colored bluish green with white spot like markings, swims close to rocks. Photo by: wrecklessmarine (CC BY-NC 4.0), iNaturalist Text: Coelacanths were thought to have gone extinct around 65 million years ago before a living fish was found in South Africa in the 1930s. The coelacanth’s lobed fins are arranged and even move in a way similar to the limbs of land animals.
December 24, 2024 at 4:29 AM
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Definitely not like Santa's beard.

🐟🎅🏻 Another day of @drkatfish.bsky.social's #25DaysOfFishmas.
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A tasselled carpet shark or wobbegong, a shark with a flattened body, wide head, and a fringe of branching dermal flaps around its head, lies on the sea floor. Photo by: Roxanne Lazarus (CC BY-NC 4.0), iNaturalist Text: Some carpet sharks are known as wobbegongs — an Australian Aboriginal word meaning "shaggy beard". The “beard” of the tasselled wobbegong breaks up its outline to help with camouflage in reefs.
December 22, 2024 at 11:03 PM