I cannot be reborn as a velociraptor, but I can study lizard behaviour and coloration. Close enough.

Lund, Sverige
Joined February 2012
Excited to share our latest paper on lizard contests and agonistic signals! Read on for a daydream on how being a lizard could be like, disguised as a discussion on the relative impact of static colour patches and behavioral displays in animal contests 🧵 academic.oup.com/beheco/arti…
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PP, VOX Y ANIMALES 🗳️ Recopilación de ejemplos reales para acordarnos de todo de aquí al #29N Todo el mundo a votar para frenar a esta gente 🔥
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¿Puede ser este uno de los incunables más chulos desaparecidos en España? El Libro del Anticristo. Una especie de antihagiografía que en vez de la vida ejemplar de un santo cuenta la del Anticristo. 👇🧵
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1/9 No son ataques En este estudio se reúnen evidencias de que las orcas ibéricas no están atacando agresivamente a las embarcaciones, es algo mucho más complejo y más cercano a una tradición cultural de juego. (paper) DOI 10.1111/mms.70247
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Limitar los pechos femeninos a lo sexval es banalizarlos. Sobre todo históricamente. En otras épocas han sido símbolo de fertilidad, maternidad e incluso de poder político. Y el gesto de mostrarlos, relacionado con esto último, tenía un nombre...
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Te has superado a ti mismo con este video @PutoMikel . Que barbaridad de repaso. Y confirmaste mis sospechas de que Sapiens gustaba mucho por el tirón que tiene el tecnoptimismo transhumanista en esta época de desigualdad exacerbada que se nos está quedando...
NUEVO VÍDEO (Resubido porque se había borrado una seccioncilla) Me llenaron la arqueología de BULOS youtu.be/ej36vu1TsqA?si=cHFm…
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Reptile welfare hot-off-the-press, by @bartolomealici1 Captive lizards provided with three different enrichments (structural, nutritional, chemosensory) reduced their abnormal behaviours and their "stress hormone" levels in their poop! 🦎 #animalwelfare sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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FOUR Amigos…
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Analicemos datos que ha presentado el @mapagob_ el mes pasado. Habrá sorpresas? #LaVerdadDeLaCaza #NoALaCaza
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🚨 Fifty years of research on "badges of status" in animals, and we still don't know if the hypothesis holds. In our new reply, we argue that the evidence is shakier than recently claimed. 📄 doi.org/10.1002/ece3.73578 💻 Code & data github.com/ASanchez-Tojar/me…
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En su momento dijimos que la ley de bienestar animal estaba tan mal planteada que iba a traer paradojas y problemas. Pues ya van llegando... Sobre linces y gatos callejeros theconversation.com/linces-q…
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Cristo ha vencido a la Muerte. Cada año procesionan en la Semana Santa española las "Caninas", los esqueletos que forman parte de las alegorías del Triunfo de la Cruz sobre la Muerte. La más célebre es la de Sevilla. Pero hay más... ↘️
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In an attempt to explain just why it is that some 77 million Americans voted for the dumbest man alive to be their president for a second time, I’m absolutely delighted to present you with the expanded list of US food that you cannot legally sell in Europe!🧵
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Why does this inspire such disgust and conflict in us? It's hard to argue that this solution isn't better. Better a brainless sack of protein than a living creature capable of pain, longing to see the sky but forced to live in hideous lifelong bondage. So why does the Harvest Hen or the Domesticated Meat Pig feel worse? I think it's because it makes the instrumentalization visible. We already treat living creatures as production units, but this takes it "too far"... it stops pretending otherwise. An organism that has been openly, unapologetically designed as a object. And for some people, in some ways, something about that honesty is harder to look at than the cruelty we've already normalized. Original brainless meat pig "bodyoid" art by @Coolio_Art made me want to make my own.
the ultimate solution is through technology we engineer what has been called a bodyoid: brainless animal bodies that provide as much meat as we desire without harming any sentient beings this would transform medicine - the same platform would allow us to grow organs on demand, eliminate transplant waiting lists, and produce perfectly matched tissues for each patient experimental therapies could be tested on full biological systems without involving conscious animals, regenerative medicine would accelerate as entire replacement tissues become manufacturable in the same way that agriculture turned food from a scarce resource into an abundant one, engineered bodyoids would turn biological material into infrastructure - meat without slaughter, organs without donors, and medical research without sentient suffering
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Watching wildlife documentaries you would think the world was teeming with wild life But in reality there is hardly any wildlife left and what remains is rapidly being destroyed What took billions of years of Earth fine tuning is being destroyed in a few decades
Humans and their livestock now account for more than 96 percent of all mammal biomass on the planet. Actual wild animals are only a tiny, tiny sliver by comparison.
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La vida dels rapinyaires no és senzilla. Tirar endavant suposa un fràgil equilibri entre costos i beneficis, que es trenca quan uns quants perdigons entren en joc 🦅 ✍️ i 📸 @RGarcia_Roa via secció «Focus verd» núm.127 metode.cat/revistes-metode/s…
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Lizards and the colors we can’t see! 🦎✨ Juvenile Podarcis muralis undergo ontogenetic color changes that are invisible to humans but perceptible to conspecifics, likely functioning as social signals. #Herpetology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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The African wild ass (𝘌𝘲𝘶𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘴) is the most endangered wild equid in the world. 🐎 Found mostly in Eritrea and Ethiopia, the species’ numbers (approximately 200 mature individuals) are declining due to climate change and human and livestock impacts. In Eritrea, however, the population is stable and slowly increasing due to strong commitment from the government and local communities. 🌍 At our upcoming #CMSCOP15, more #MigratorySpecies will be considered for international conservation measures under our Convention. Learn more: cms.int/news/42-amendments-t… #MigratoryMonday
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