🐱👱‍♂️ A study of 31 #cats found they use increased vocalizations when greeting male humans compared to female caregivers. The difference appears driven by gender differences in responsiveness to quiet signals like tail flicks and head rubs.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/cats-scream-louder-at-men-and-its-probably-the-mens-fault/

#animals #pets #felines #psychology #science #zoology

🐱👱‍♂️ A study of 31 #cats found they use increased vocalizations when greeting male humans compared to female caregivers. The difference appears driven by gender differences in responsiveness to quiet signals like tail flicks and head rubs.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/cats-scream-louder-at-men-and-its-probably-the-mens-fault/

#animals #pets #felines #psychology #science #zoology

New in our electronic collection:

➡️ Who is Conscious? A Guide to the Minds of #Animals

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197818657.001.0001

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #books #bookstodon #consciousness #AnimalWelfare #zoology #ecology

The zoologist in me is laughing so hard at this 🤣

"New 'Wolf Skull' Tattoo Trend Exposed As Being Raccoon Tattoos"

https://brobible.com/culture/article/wolf-skull-tattoo-trend-exposed-raccoon/

#zoology #tattoos

Loved this encounter with a cuttlefish near Sydney (from Peter Godfrey-Smith, author of Other Minds)
https://metazoan.net/124-bower-cuttlefish/

#cuttlefish#MarineBiology #biology #zoology #animals #nature#AnimalBehaviour #mollusks #photography#NaturePhotography#UnderwaterPhotography#PeterGodfreySmith

Lizards wearing tiny backpacks live fast and die young
By Jacinta Bowler

Ecologist Kristoffer Wild spent a year in the Australian outback fitting bearded dragons with hand-sewn jackets with GPS trackers to track every second of the lizards' lives.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-07-17/bearded-dragons-backpacks-research/105532670

#Reptiles#AnimalBehaviour#ScienceandTechnology#Biology#Zoology#EndangeredandProtectedSpecies#Nature#Animals#JacintaBowler

Lizards wearing tiny backpacks live fast and die young
By Jacinta Bowler

Ecologist Kristoffer Wild spent a year in the Australian outback fitting bearded dragons with hand-sewn jackets with GPS trackers to track every second of the lizards' lives.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-07-17/bearded-dragons-backpacks-research/105532670

#Reptiles#AnimalBehaviour#ScienceandTechnology#Biology#Zoology#EndangeredandProtectedSpecies#Nature#Animals#JacintaBowler

Anyway on a more serious note: is there an animal with four animal names in its name? Or more?

Just saw a leopard catshark on the telly and started wondering.

Eg:
1 dog
2 whale shark
3 tarantula hawk wasp
4 ???
4+ ???

#wildlife #zoology #animals

Anyway on a more serious note: is there an animal with four animal names in its name? Or more?

Just saw a leopard catshark on the telly and started wondering.

Eg:
1 dog
2 whale shark
3 tarantula hawk wasp
4 ???
4+ ???

#wildlife #zoology #animals

I will never not click on cuttlefish. This episode of Many Minds with Dr Tessa Montague taught me so much about these amazing animals:
https://manyminds.libsyn.com/the-cuttlefish-and-its-coat-of-many-colors

#podcast #science #cuttlefish#MarineBiology #biology #zoology #animals #nature #neuroscience#AnimalBehaviour #mollusks