Bobcat strode across our yard last evening. First one for us. Lynx rufus rufus #Connecticut #Hamden #suburbanwildlife #bobcat

Snow bunny!

That red fox was back tonight and again a security camera caught a few seconds of its antics in a far corner of the video, here cropped. It seems to be retrieving a squirrel it must have killed and stowed earlier.

Red fox troops through snow w/ an Eastern Gray Squirrel. Love its tapeta lucida in the IR. Not sure what’s going on at the extreme edge of the frame; stowing the squirrel for later? Squirrel wriggled loose and tries to escape? Zoomed in on one corner of backyard security camera, 4 am, Connecticut.

Frost figures outside my window.

“Castle Rock,” the 2019-20 Netflix series, briefly shows a character’s handwritten notes including (for no reason discernible to me) a redrawn copy of Darwin’s famous tree of life doodle, complete with his “I think.” This is at 37:54 of S2 E9.

“Measurements were made point-to-point with digital calipers and data were recorded to an accuracy of 0.01 mm.” Oh really? 🤣 Source: bdj.pensoft.net/article/1539...

That’s a tiny adult longhorn beetle on my fingertip. 𝘏𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘺𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢. Hamden, Connecticut.

New cichlid nomenclature paper by Chris Scharpf! One hopes it lays to rest this long-simmering issue. Paywalled but with free abstract. doi.org/10.11646/zoo...

How is it that, after walking on my living room carpet daily for years, I only noticed the Guinea pig today?

1/9 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 "𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲" 𝗰𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗱𝘀 The largest tribe of African cichlids are the "Haplochromines." Alas, as I recently showed (doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....), "Haplochromini" is a junior synonym of the correct name, 𝗣𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗱𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗶. I made new subtribes within it too: - A 🧵

Excellent review of anti-slavery efforts by a few 19th century British clerics in what is now Malawi. The lands around Lake Malawi were the chief areas raided for slaves from the East coast by Arabs and their African collaborators. thecritic.co.uk/in-search-of...

Ok I’m gonna need you all to repost today’s #EtymologyEpithet far and wide because this is one of my fav fishes I’ve ever described.

1/4: My recent cichlid paper is open-access: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... It presents the first survey of variation in much of the cichlid skeleton behind the head. My data cover species in all but one of the 166 genera of African cichlids. …🧵