#Trophic discrimination of amino acid -specific nitrogen stable isotopes in #raptor nestlings: implications for estimating trophic position - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #GoldenEagle #Gyrfalcon #tundra

Opposite geographical body size patterns in two subspecies of spur-thighed #tortoises in North Africa match #climatic niche divergence - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #BergmannsRule #morphology #climate #Testudo

Noninvasive assessment of #corticosterone and #triiodothyronine levels in the endangered Pyrenean #Capercaillie - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #galliformes #hormones #Tetrao

Did you know that it's officially #PeerReviewWeek? 📑💭 Whether you're looking to learn more about #PeerReview for the first time or want to brush up on some best practice tips, check out our free guide below 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/eoffzyiudg

Revealing #trophic interactions among #sympatric #odontocetes in an oceanic ecosystem through stable isotope analysis zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #cetaceans #IsotopicNiche #NorthAtlantic

Geographical variation in #chiffchaff song: across three #subspecies and two secondary contact zones zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #birdsong

New study by @exetermarine.bsky.social @heriotwattuni.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social underscores the critical importance of Very Large Marine Protected Areas for safeguarding wide-ranging marine species. #MPAs news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

Good news! 🐍 The world’s smallest snake, the Barbados threadsnake, has been spotted again! It had been missing from scientific observation for 20 years.🌏🧪 Read more in @mongabay.com 

'Discover the Secrets of the South American Dwarf Caiman: A Dive into Genetic and Historical Diversity' - read the post on the Journal of Zoology blog, written by Beatriz Diogo Vasconcelos jzoblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/d... Photo credit: Leandro Alves da Silva

A giant crocodile-like apex predator hunted large prey — probably including medium-sized dinosaurs — around 70 million years ago in what is now southern Argentina go.nature.com/4fUstCQ

#ProcB in @theguardian.com | Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Find out more about the Perspective article in Journal of Zoology by W.L. Franklin about the 'Fuegian dog', that has been featured in the news - www.sciencenews.org/article/fueg...

Foxes as pets: Case study of the #FuegianDog and its relationship to extinct #Indigenous cultures - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #TierradelFuego #domestication

Parthenogenic hybrid #geckos differ from their sexual counterparts in skin #microbiomes but not in rates of water loss - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #parthenogenesis Photo credit: Stephen Zozaya

#SnowLeopard prey selection on the mountain-adapted #ibex: seasonal switching between prime-aged males and newborn kids - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #predation #GPScollar

You may remember @davehone.bsky.social went to Utah a couple of years back to get help with a sauropod excavation. That trip was with sauropod supremo Matt Wedel who was recently in London, and so we scooped him up to get him onto #TerribleLizards. terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls11e08-sau...

📣 Bookings now open! Reserve your free place at our next Science and Conservation Event on 30th September at ZSL's Huxley Lecture Theatre to hear about how a animal behaviour can be implemented as a tool for conservation: www.zsl.org/news-and-eve...

Our new paper is out in @jzoology.bsky.social! Turning trade-offs: hummingbird power reserves are used to decrease turning radius or increase turning velocity. 🪶🌍 zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Explore the latest Journal of Zoology issue, with an amazing photo of Anna's #Hummingbird by Sergio Rivero Beneitez on the cover! Read also about aging #cheetahs in the field using gum-line recession, #iridescence in wall lizard, and more zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14697998...

🪰 Are you having trouble identifying an insect? Stop the guesswork & get the answers you need with a free expert consult. Fill out our form & our knowledgeable team will help you out 🔽 buff.ly/8XIysJt #AskAnEntomologist #Entomology #Insects #AskAnExpert #InsectIdentification

Attending @eseb2025.bsky.social? ♿ Check out their inclusivity initiatives: eseb2025.com/inclusivity-... Excellent material, emotional & social support to ensure everyone has a great experience 💙 💡Lots to learn - even if you don’t face additional challenges! 👏@eseb.bsky.social🙏 #InclusiveScience

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

While both #island & mainland #lizards may recognize their own #scent and that of others — islanders tongue-flick much less, hinting at reduced reliance on chemical cues in island environments zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @uafunmorph.bsky.social @simon.baeckens.bsky.social

How can we use #fossils and their modern analogs to comprehend past #environments? Read this post in the Journal of Zoology blog, written by Jenna Dagher, to find out! jzoblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/d...

✨Animal evolution fans, rejoice! CRISPR-Cas9 is now in Corallochytrium ready to unlock secrets of animal origins! 🔬Led by @patriciasuarez.bsky.social & @sebasn1.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @royalsociety.org @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social#holozoans #ProtistsonSky

It's a bumper-wasp year: here are my top tips on how to dine alongside wasps, without getting stung. GET INVOLVED! Tell us what wasps want at YOUR picnic: www.sumnerlab.co.uk/wasp-picnic-... theconversation.com/what-to-do-w... @uclcber.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com

A taste for dung: food preferences of #dungbeetles uncovered - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Scarabaeoidea #feeding #Coleoptera

Behavioural and physiological #adaptations of a jumping #spider to a #marine environment - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #hydrophobicsilk

We’re in Shetland to learn more about Gannet vision, particularly looking at the ‘black eye’ bird flu survivors and what the virus has done to their eyes. (All birds handled under license, with appropriate Institutional & Government ethical approvals).

You can also read more about this project and the ecologists behind it on @BBCNews

Agony aunt 🖋️ A cancer researcher is suspicious about a paper they’ve been asked to review. What steps should they take? go.nature.com/3UhImt0

‘Stealth flippers’ helped this ancient mega-predator stalk its prey

Habitat alteration impacts #predation risk in an #aposematic amphibian - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Salamandra #claymodels

Behavioral novelties and morphological #exaptation underlie #trophic novelty in an anemone-feeding fish zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ecomorphology

🦋 The UK has amazing #Butterfly diversity, but their numbers are on the decline, in fact Butterfly Conservation has declared a butterfly emergency! How can we help? Join the #BigButterflyCount this month, a citizen science project that will help inform conservation efforts. bigbutterflycount.org

A few of the lifers from Wednesday night's mothing in Kent: Lace Border, Chalk Carpet, Moitrelia obductella and Bisigna procerella. Revised total of exactly 200 species for me, with 19 lifers and 50 NFY. Already 620 species photographed in 2025 (vs 551 in all of 2024). #TeamMoth

The #evolution of sexual dimorphism in semi-fossorial #lizards: a case study with Ablepharus kitaibelii zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #morphometrics #skink

Do predatory tactics correspond to aggressive #mimetic fidelity? 3D video recordings using a portable underwater stereo camera system revealed the #hunting tactics of three carnivorous fang blennies - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #aggressivemimicry #cleanerfish

A nice unauthored tribute to Henry Walter Bates, who was born 200 years ago. Bates famously discovered "Batesian mimicry" - between palatable and unpalatable species. However, his paper "Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley" had many other firsts! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

New opinion piece from #BiologyLetters: Pigeons in a flock go cheap: a re-evaluation of the energetics of flying in cluster flocks buff.ly/hUuyAhw | #Behaviour #Biomechanics

#Fossil from #Triassic of #Brazil sheds light on the #evolution of the #neck in sauropodomorph #dinosaurs 🦕 Damke et al 2022 @anatrecord.bsky.social The elongated neck of sauropodomorph dinosaurs evolved gradually doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...

Our latest work is out! Ancient DNA from Danube sturgeon fossils dating back 10,000 years reveals that, despite centuries of decline, some populations have preserved high genetic diversity and ancient lineages. doi.org/10.1098/rstb... @royalsociety.org @lukeeholman.bsky.social

Interspecific differences of #ladybirds in their repellency to ants zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #predation #repellence #pyrazines

Nature research paper: Bowhead whale faeces link increasing algal toxins in the Arctic to ocean warming go.nature.com/45WokLU

Plain Language Summary: Understanding Hong Kong residents’ views on free-ranging semi-urban water buffalo on Lantau Island. 🐃 relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/06/17/p...

Establish a simple and quantitative deep learning-based method to analyse complicated intra- and inter-species social interaction behaviour for four stag beetle species buff.ly/OPj2Fs5 | #OpenBiology #Biotechnology #Cognition #Neuroscience

Exploring the effects of #anthropogenic habitat change on Euplerid #carnivore occupancy in a humid evergreen #forest, south-east Madagascar - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #cameratrapping #Madagascar

Multi-scalar #habitat selection unveils ecological domains in #wolves when selecting rendezvous sites - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #wolf #carnivores #Apennines

We are looking for active researchers to join the Editorial Board of our #openaccess journal, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation 📑 Find out more about the selection criteria and expertise required, and apply before 25 July: zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

The geometry of life: testing the scaling of whole-organism surface area and volume using #sharks. Read the full #RSOS paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @physiologyfish.bsky.social‬