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Earlier this August @aliciabartolome_ and me found several fireflies when staying some days at my grandpa's village, in León (Spain). I've been trying to post something about them since then, spiralling into madness as I realised that there is simply too
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Earlier this August @aliciabartolome_ and me found several fireflies when staying some days at my grandpa's village, in León (Spain). I've been trying to post something about them since then, spiralling into madness as I realised that there is simply too
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This is the Rosette nebula, photographed by my father from the Astro camp observatory in Nerpio (Albacete, Spain). You may have noticed already why this cloud of interstellar ionized hydrogen also receives the alternative name of "skull" nebula. Pareidoli
Javier Ábalos:
This is the Rosette nebula, photographed by my father from the Astro camp observatory in Nerpio (Albacete, Spain). You may have noticed already why this cloud of interstellar ionized hydrogen also receives the alternative name of "skull" nebula. Pareidoli
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Aratingas de Guayaquil en Valencia, una de las tres especies introducidas de psitácidas que pueden verse fácilmente en la ciudad. #aratinga #valencia #loro #cotorra #psittacidae #parrot #parakeet #green #autumn
Javier Ábalos:
Aratingas de Guayaquil en Valencia, una de las tres especies introducidas de psitácidas que pueden verse fácilmente en la ciudad. #aratinga #valencia #loro #cotorra #psittacidae #parrot #parakeet #green #autumn
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A bunch of Lilford's wall lizards from the island of Aire (Menorca) lay one on top of another basking on a patch of sunshine. This subspecies is a rarity among lacertid lizards for its social tolerance of decreased levels of intrasexual aggression. When m
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The modern world includes wonders like UV torches, which we use to uncover past occupants' sexcapades in hotel rooms. This works because many organic substances have an optical property called "glowtraviolet"—or, more boringly, fluorescence. In short, f
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This is Belchite, a small town 40 km south of Zaragoza that was struck with partícular cruelty during the Spanish civil war. One year deep into the conflict, the legitimate republican government wanted to force the fascist rebels of Franco to divert troo
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A bit of food for thought: would anthropocentrism become so entrenched in European philosophical thinking had we shared the land with other primates? The view that humans are fundamentally different and superior to other animals is central to much of the
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Why should we animales age and eventually die? Aging, or senescence as it is sometimes called, is an inevitable progressive deterioration of physiological function with increasing age, demographically characterized by an age-dependent increase in mortalit
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Ten years ago now, I had the luck to meet this beautiful blue bird. Can you id the species? #nature #wildlife #africa #southafrica #kruger #mammal #bird #savannah #bush #wildlifephotography #colour
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An enduring question in ethology is how and when animals limit aggression. Animals in conflict over access to resources should be, in principle, selected to kill their rivals (that would put an irreversible end to the quarrel for sure). However, fatal out
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This is the first Podarcis vaucheri that we saw in Morocco this year. We were looking for populations showing brown dorsal coloration. Based on amateur naturalist pictures and our gut-feeling, we drove 2 hours until the valley around the village of Tighed
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This odd-lookimg creature is called Valenciolenda fadaforesta, the wood fairy of of Valencia. The first description of this species is from 2021, and its singularity comes from the fact that it is the only representative of the Kinnaridae family in the Ol
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Hyla molleri blinking
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Aurora borealis in Lund (Sweden). Barely visible with the naked eye. #aurora #borealis #colour #northernlights #nightphotography #nightsky #nightimages #nature
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Smooth newton
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Tipula rostrum
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@aliciabartolome_ noticed these tiny metallic-green wasps on our last trip to Cuenca (Nacimiento del río Cuervo). Of course, I left the flash at home so we did what we could with our phone lights. It took me some time battling Google to identify them bu
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Spider and odonate in kvismaren (Sweden)
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Peñalara
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Cappadocia
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Spade-foot toad (Pelobates cultripes) from Madrid
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Wall lizard hatchling
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Grey and harbour seals hauling at Grey seals in Måkläppen seal sanctuary
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Grey seals in Måkläppen seal sanctuary
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Grey seals in Måkläppen seal sanctuary
