Killer #whales feed upon herring using “tail-slap feeding”. From simultaneous acoustic and video data recorded by animal-attached tags in Icelandic waters, this #RSOS study observed that individuals appear to temporarily specialize on certain roles during tail-slap feeding: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Canberra is holding its annual poultry show this weekend and it’s bloody fantastic

🌱 A global investigation into animal interactions with unique #holoparasitic #plants was recently conducted, synthesising nearly 20 years of field data across 76 countries. ➡️See which species were predominantly present in our #openaccess article: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.275.192014

Disappointed* but not surprised * very much not surprised Similar to a unnamed fishing lobby group harassing wildlife rescuers and actively petitioning for expanded fishing in Perth Swan Coastal Plain wetlands. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

are you fucking kidding?

Huzzah - quicksand www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Rob Crank Photography's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections Pied Stilts at Eric Singleton Bird Sanctuary, Perth, 2012. #wildoz #birds

The community facebook page identifying this bedraggled creature in inner Perth as a potoroo or ash grey mouse @pezoporus.bsky.social .

Nice to see little quenda running around along the bike path near Windan Bridge - Bardon Park.

crikey jingo www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Sky bridges, citizen scientists work to protect endangered Malaysian monkeys. A fragmented habitat, conflict with humans, and poaching have all pushed dusky langurs to endangered status. But the Langur Project Penang is building bridges to help the monkeys navigate deadly roads u.afp.com/SREf

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #DucksInTheAir, any Duck that's flying ... Plumed Whistling Ducks at 14 Mile Pool, in the Pilbara, WA.

If you find a frog in your groceries - do not just dump it in the nearest waterway. This is likely to be an eastern states bell Frog of uncertain disease status being dumped among a population of local spotted thigh frogs. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

A cool Australian insect sound. Not a cricket, cicada or katydid - it's a male Common Whistling Moth (Hecatesia fenestrata)! They have special structures on the edge of their forewings to make these very unmothlike sounds while they buzz around in circles in to attract a mate! #wildoz #bioacoustics

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #ruffled, any bird with ruffled feathers. Little frown Brown honeyeaters having a bath

Reef restoration brings back marine life and boosts Swan River's health www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

what a cunt www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

The journey of pollen to a plant www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Nevermind Elon's tanty over the casting of actors in classical Greek tales, here's the entire film of Orfeo Negro (1959) (English dubbed). www.youtube.com/watch?v=d25u...

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FeathersInFoliage any bird pictured in or near foliage. A cheeky young red-winged parrot eating native figs. Mareeba, QLD

A Brown Gerygone hunting scale insects on our Callistemon. #birds

no u were up until 2:30am watching a guy with a modded USPS mini camper ebike ride 100 miles on abandoned railroad tracks while cutting down trees that had fallen on the tracks with a cheap bad chainsaw from amazon youtu.be/qtc8TftZYFM?...

And now it has a Wikipedia article, because why not? As usual thanks to the many people who uploaded pictures to iNaturalist, particularly John Barkla. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crasped...

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme alt Theme is #Blue, any bird with Blue in it's plumage. A Splendid Blue Wren boy in the white everlastings (Cephalipterum drummondii). Kadji Kadji (near Morowa)

Today is Endangered Species Day, a day to focus on the plants and animals under threat. In our region, animals such as warru and sandhill dunnarts face the threats of feral predators, buffel grass and climate change, which is why we work with communities to help protect them. #wildoz

More than 800 northern corroboree frogs released into the wild in southern NSW to bolster numbers www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Nasty politics from Angus Taylor today, saying the Coalition will remove income support from permanent residents if they get sick or injured or lose work. Pauline Hanson is living rent-free in that bloke's head, and it's feeding his meanness.

Cloacal and gill diving

Born #onthisday in 1812, the English artist, musician, author, and pioneer of nonsense literature Edward Lear. Take a walk (and flight) with the birthday boy in this wonderful series of rare sketches from 1860, "Walk on a Windy Day": publicdomainreview.org/collection/e... #otd

Irish TV to air Father Ted instead of Eurovision final in protest against Israel’s inclusion

Today's #TransArtMay, because sometimes you just feel like being fancy...

Members of the public spotted the marsupial fleeing the wheel arch of a truck in Brisbane and alerted authorities.

This is good. As bored, cynical 18-year-olds a long time ago we walked in to do their personality test as a pisstake and they detained us in separate rooms for targeted creepy attention before we walked out. Fuck them. May kids today repeat a Scientology speedrun until they close permanently.

A sudden influx of protected birds at Victoria's Tower Lake has led to a ban on duck shooting on its waters. au.news.yahoo.com/controversia...

re-reads Perth Now sidebar headline

'Dimpled' koalas lived on Australia's west coast until eucalypt forests collapsed www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Scientists were shocked to find that the Houtman Abrolhos Islands’ coral reefs survived a prolonged extreme heatwave in 2025 virtually unharmed, which may reveal how to protect corals elsewhere

Authorities issue a warning for possible ember attacks as an unseasonal bushfire burns at Herdsman Lake in suburban Perth.

Post your warning sign/s

Conservation work helps endangered flora recover in Stirling Range www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Bad Boy Blubby

🇧🇩 🐅 Bangladesh's tigers stalk uncertain future in Sundarbans The slow growth in the number of tigers in Bangladesh's Sundarbans, despite years of conservation work, is stoking fears that the world's largest mangrove forest may one day lose its apex predator.

Sea #anemones may look simple, but their biology tells a far more complex story. A new #OpenBiology study has uncovered how specialised stinging cells used for prey capture and defence are regulated at a deeper level than ever before. Read more in this blog post: royalsociety.org/blog/2026/04...

Three children have been attacked by dingoes in Karijini National Park since Saturday, prompting a warning from authorities.

Ecologists say thousands of hours of audio recordings have detected night parrot calls in south-west Queensland.

*rushes in * Australind train service set to return between Perth and Bunbury, set to formally resume from Monday, 29 June 2026. www.wa.gov.au/government/m... @drdrehistorian.bsky.social

$12billion….

Note: This article emphasizes the need for #taxonomy for #NewSpecies discovery