#animalsUnmoderated tagAll postsTrendingHotNewPromotedPayoutsbeastiq in #animals • 17 hours agoThe Monarch Butterfly: Navigation Across Generations![The Monarch Butterfly: Navigation Across Generations](beastiq in #animals • 4 days agoThe European Hedgehog: The Art of Hibernationbeastiq in #animals • 6 days agoThe Alpine Marmot: Six Months of Sleep in the Mountains![The Alpine Marmot: Six Months of Sleep in the Mountains](gxqwb in #animals • 2 days agoThe language of the honeybeeThe animal and its sound world A honeybee colony is a dark city of forty thousand sisters, and its food lies scattered across several square kilometres. No worker can survey…escott in #science • 4 days agoThe 400-Year-Old Shark Older Than Your CountryImagine a creature born when kings still ruled by divine right — and still swimming under Arctic ice today, completely unfazed. *Image: a Greenland shark (Somniosus…beastiq in #hive-196708 • 4 months agoThe Firefly: Living Light and the Mathematics of SynchronySource: Nativeplants garden — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons The Firefbeastiq in #hive-196708 • 5 months agoTardigrades: The Indestructible Travelers of the Microscopic World![Tardigrades: The Indestructible Travelers of the Microscopic World](beastiq in #animals • 8 days agoMigratory Birds and the Magnetic Compass Withinbeastiq in #animals • last monthThe Clark's Nutcracker: Spatial Memory Beyond CompareThe Clark's Nutcracker: Spatial Memory Beyond Compare Every autumn, a small bird in the mountains of western North America harvests seeds from whitebark pine trees, carries up…beastiq in #animals • 3 months agoThe Dung Beetle: Navigating by the Milky WaySource: Wikipedia The Dung Beetle: Navigating by the Milkybeastiq in #animals • 18 days agoThe Gibbon: Songs, Territories, and the Acrobat of the CanopyThe Gibbon: Songs, Territories, and the Acrobat of the Canopy The gibbon moves through the forest canopy by brachiation — swinging hand over hand beneath branches — at speeds…beastiq in #animals • 20 days agoThe Hammerhead Shark: 360-Degree Vision and Electric PanoramaThe Hammerhead Shark: 360-Degree Vision and Electric Panorama The hammerhead shark's distinctive head shape — the wide, flat cephalofoil that gives the family its name — is one…beastiq in #animals • 2 months agoThe Komodo Dragon: Venom, Strategy, and Apex PredationSource: Wikipedia The Komodo Dragon: Vebeastiq in #animals • 27 days agoThe Migratory Locust: When a Herbivore Becomes a PlagueThe Migratory Locust: When a Herbivore Becomes a Plague The desert locust is, in its solitary phase, a harmless grasshopper. It lives alone, avoids other locusts, is…beastiq in #animals • 25 days agoThe Mantis Shrimp's Strike: Faster Than a BulletThe Stoat in Winter: White as Snow, Sharp as a Blade The stoat is one of the most effective small predators in the northern hemisphere — capable of killing prey ten times its…beastiq in #animals • 3 months agoThe Mudskipper: The Fish That Conquered LandSource: Totti — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons The Mudskipper: The Fish That Conquered Landbeastiq in #animals • last monthThe Pistol Shrimp's Sonic Weapon: A Deeper LookThe Pistol Shrimp's Snap: Physics at the Threshold The cavitation bubble produced by the pistol shrimp's snap reaches temperatures comparable to the surface of the Sun —…beastiq in #animals • 2 months agoThe Raccoon: Dexterity, Memory, and Urban GeniusSource: Wikipedia The Raccobeastiq in #animals • 13 days agoThe Christmas Island Red Crab: A Migration Timed by the MoonThe Christmas Island Red Crab: A Migration Timed by the Moon On Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, the forest floor is home to tens of millions of…beastiq in #animals • 3 months agoThe Sea Cucumber: Liquefying Itself to EscapeSource: Wikipedia The Sea Cucumber: Liquefy