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"It’s pure natural history, and highlights that there are many impressive hunting behaviours waiting to be discovered,” he says. “There are so many things that we don't know and with the right technology we could get a glimpse.”

https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/10/11/mindblowing-european-bat-hunting-behaviour-observed-for-the-first-time-by-researchers

#Bats #NaturalHistory

‘Mindblowing’ European
bat hunting behaviour
observed for the first
time by researchers
Elena Tena

11/10/2025

This study marks the first time that this
behaviour has been documented.
During the observation period, the
researchers identified two notable
attacks. As part of its attack, the bats
climbed above 400 metres before
spotting prey. They then picked up
speed and turned downwards to pursue
their target, using echolocation to help
them make the final catch.

Although one of the attacks was not
successful, the researchers were able
to document a successful capture of a
European robin, confirmed through
audio of the bird's distress call. The bat
captured, bit, and ate its prey for 23
minutes, all without losing altitude.
“This suggests that the bats, while in
flight, remove the wings to immobilise
their prey, reduce drag, and ease prey
handling — a technique reminiscent of
aerial-hawking strategies used for
capturing large insects,” the authors

Abyssal Zone

Depth: 8,178 metres.Pressure: eight hundred times the air.A place without dawn,where light has never leaned. Temperature steady as grief.Sound moves as a thief through basalt corridors.The sea floor expandswith the slow tectonic breath of the world. There, a body,soft as the thought of mercy,spine dissolving into translucence,eyes wide though no sun exists. The snailfish drifts, ethereal,its skin a blur between presence and surrender.It does not resist the weight,it becomes the weight,and […]

https://dhjervis.xyz/2025/10/12/hadal-psalm/

Chihuahua.

Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki.

#naturalhistory #naturalhistorymuseum #animal #helsinki #taxidermy #skeleton #dog #chihuahua

Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki.

#naturalhistory #naturalhistorymuseum #animal #helsinki #taxidermy #skeleton #monkey #ape #monkeys

This is another reminder to leave the leaves!
#AutumnLeaces #InsectConservation #NaturalHistory #Gardening #GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/realestate/leaving-leaves-yard.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU8.s-Fy.RKXwz5QnPK7d&smid=url-share

Friday on a square meter of prairie
#NaturalHistory #Biology #Conservation #Restoration #Ecology
https://prairieecologist.com/2025/10/10/photos-of-the-week-october-10-2025/

Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki.

#naturalhistory #naturalhistorymuseum #animal #helsinki #taxidermy #frog #skeleton #frogs

Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki.

#naturalhistory #naturalhistorymuseum #animal #helsinki #taxidermy #turtle

Alpine marmot

Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki.

#naturalhistory #naturalhistorymuseum #animal #helsinki #taxidermy #marmot

Mountain goat

Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki.

#naturalhistory #naturalhistorymuseum #animal #helsinki #taxidermy #goat #mountaingoat

Smew

#naturalhistory #naturalhistorymuseum #animal #helsinki #taxidermy #duck #bird

Tufted duck

Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki.

#naturalhistory #naturalhistorymuseum #animal #helsinki #taxidermy #duck #bird

Manthey et al. used genome data from contemporary and historical samples of 8 Ethiopian Highlands bird species, indicating idiosyncratic shifts in genetic structure and diversity following 100 years of environmental change.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf163

#genome #evolution #naturalhistory

GBE | Temporal Genomics Reveal a Century of Genomic Diversity Shifts Across a Biodiversity Hotspot Avian Assemblage

Saimaa ringed seal.

Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki.

#naturalhistory #naturalhistorymuseum #animal #helsinki #taxidermy #seal #saimaannorppa

1220-year-old mummified crabeater seal.

Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki.

#naturalhistory #naturalhistorymuseum #animal #helsinki #taxidermy #seal #mummy

Two-headed calf, born in Hyvinkää in the 1930s.

Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki.

#naturalhistory #naturalhistorymuseum #animal #helsinki #taxidermy #calf

I didn't catch this last month, but it's a lovely story of healing nature by truly loving women
#Conservation #Restoration #Ecology #NaturalHistory #GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/climate/wisconsin-nuns-prairie-restoration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rU8.u3bu.M266gS3S7ZNN&smid=url-share

Poachers and other criminals love iNaturalist!
#inaturalist #naturalhistory #biology #citizenscience #opendata #poachers #poaching #crime #endangeredspecies #plantpoaching #animalpoaching #wildlifepoaching #wildlifetrafficking #ecology

About 100 mile races and insects, maybe some seedy stuff
#NaturalHistory #Biology #Conservation #Restoration
https://prairieecologist.com/2025/10/01/photos-of-the-week-october-1-2025/

A Year With Gilbert White: The Story of a Nature Writer by Jenny Uglow, 2025

Fresh, alive and original - and packed with rich colour illustrations - A Year with Gilbert White invites us to see the natural world anew, with astonishment and wonder.

#books
#nonfiction
#biography
#diary
#NaturalHistory
#England

#NaturalHistory

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