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A New Species of Orca is Changing Marine Biology

This vídeo about orca taxonomy is possibly the best Way possible If a similar species is possibly multiple distinct species or just a species complex in general

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2024/12/02
09:50 UTC

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I have a question About something

Why do we need to find New species

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2024/12/02
09:28 UTC

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I was Wondering in order to classify New species

What is the best Way in order to know that to indentify a New specie

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2024/12/02
09:25 UTC

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I have been wondering About the reclassifation of the Green anaconda and king cobra

Can someone explain in details that why in this year that the Green anaconda and the king cobra's taxonomy were recently questioned and they were possibly reclassifed into two species for the former and four species for the latter because i don't understand that story?

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2024/12/02
09:19 UTC

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I have a question About the pygmy right whale

What is the reason that despite their least concern status Why was the pygmy right whale only seen or Heard from only drawings and Beached individuals until It was filmed alive between 2022 and 2023?

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2024/12/02
07:10 UTC

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I have been wondering About the giraffe

Why is sometimes the giraffe is treated like a genus with multiple species or sometimes as a monotypic genus with only one species?

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2024/12/02
07:06 UTC

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I have been wondering

What's going with the king cobra? I Saw it's page on Wikipedia and It says that the king cobra has become a species complex instead of a Full Blown or only species,can someone explain why is the king cobra's taxonomy is changing?

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2024/12/02
06:10 UTC

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Bat's and vision

So obviously there is a common misconception that bats are blind, which I know has been debunked and revealed as just being not true, but I am curious to find any research or pockets of information directly relating to this matter to greater expand my knowledge of this fact, I am of course doing my own research as well but I am curious if anyone know's of any interesting research that has been done or somewhere I might see more information on this subject if I wanted to elaborate on it with other people.

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2024/12/02
06:02 UTC

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The extreme bite force of squirrels, is this actually true

A quick Google search told me that ! These tiny rodents can apparently bite with 7,000 PSI?

I find this highlighter likely to be true, since the strongest bite force on any animal live today belongs to that of the nilev crocodile which can deliver 5000 PSI, so this would imply that a tiny squirrel has near T-Rex level jaw power

And if this is actually true, how do the squirrels not break their own Jaws, force their teeth into their jaws whenever they close their mouths or chew acorns

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2024/12/01
23:30 UTC

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Quick question

I want to pursue zoology but i want to be able to travel and ive recently learned theres different jobs you can do and im not quite sure which one im meant to be looking at to travel and research animals if anyone could answer this at all with any answer its apreciated

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2024/12/01
20:39 UTC

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Animal in human-modified environments

Does anyone have any interesting examples of behaviours of animal that are interacting with human-modified environments?

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2024/12/01
17:18 UTC

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Could an organism have both lungs and gills?

I was watching Luca and started thinking about a hypothetical organism that could fully breath water and air equally. I know stuff like the lungfish exist but it’s not fully water breathing despite being a fish. And every other adjacent creature I could find has either pseudo lungs or gills. I wonder what y’all think of this

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2024/12/01
09:18 UTC

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What's your favorite animal that gets overlooked?

Mine are pigeons, I love pigeons so much

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2024/12/01
01:41 UTC

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Are there any species that kill humans more often than humans kill them?

We read all the time how many more sharks are killed by humans than humans are killed by sharks. This seems to be trure for a lot of animals. Are there any for witch it is not? Are there an species that kill more humans than humans kill them?

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2024/11/30
18:23 UTC

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Extinction Question

I’m trying to completely understand why the food chain doesn’t completely collapse when animals go extinct. Google says it’s because of multiple diets but, if one animal gains an additional predator, why doesn’t the added threat completely wipe an additional group out?

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2024/11/30
06:31 UTC

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Is Owning A Zoology/Wildlife Biology Company A Job

I'm a high school student and I've been looking a lot at wildlife biology and related fields. My dad always tells me to work for myself, and I like the idea of owning an animal research company. When I try and find any info on this it only shows me a zoologist or wildlife biologist and not an owner of the company they work for. I want to act like an employee and do the same as the other people I hire or at least help out, but control what we research, where we go, how we get our money, and things a manager would do. Not finding anything about this makes me have lots of questions. Is it even a thing that people have done? How would I even do It? What would the pay be like, and would it be worth it for extra schooling and more work? How would I run it? I want some answers to things like that. Thanks

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2024/11/29
22:17 UTC

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All animal battle royale

I come needing experts to settle a long debate i have had for while. The question goes as such: if you have a large enough earth with perfect conditions to house every animal in history at once and place them all in they’re relative spots (properly spaced so they’re not crammed together and not spawn camping each other i’d say like 100 of each species). What species would thrive and which would not.

My friend believes it will be a clean house for dinosaurs but i believe some modern species have the edge in some places due to intelligent and what not.

(we’ll ignore things like ecosystem instability, starvation and dehydration due to being unable to find water or food, disease things like that, just animals oh and humans start with nothing)

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2024/11/28
18:03 UTC

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How do bull elk make their bugle

I understand that it's a call they mainly do during mating season but what in their body makes them capable of making that noise?

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2024/11/27
20:03 UTC

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How can Africa have such a high diversity in large animals?

Other places such as the Neotropics may surpass sub-Saharan Africa in total biodiversity, but African ecosystems have high diversity even among the larged animals. Tens of different grazing and herbivorous mammals, tens of mammalian predators of all size classes, extremely diverse birds of prey and also high biodiversity in smaller owls, kingfishers, nightjars and other smaller birds, Reptiles, amphibians and so on. How can all those animals coexist without competition? How many ways are there to graze the Savannah or to fly over the Savannah in order to catch something? Eurasian ecosystems have all those niches filled with far fewer equivalent species for example. Evens the so much celebrated northern Pleistocene megafauna comprised much fewer species.

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2024/11/27
19:58 UTC

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I’m back looking for another interviewee!

Hey, I have another informational interview I need to do for my college class, it’s the last one. Would anyone on here like to be interviewed for this assignment? For some extra details I will need your name, job title, and where you work so if you’re not comfortable with that, then this is not for you. Also I will unfortunately not be paying anyone for the interview so my apologies if that is a deal breaker. Hope to hear from someone soon :)

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2024/11/27
18:33 UTC

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Weekly: Career & Education Thread

Hello, denizens of r/zoology!

It's time for another weekly thread where our members can ask and answer questions related to pursuing an education or career in zoology.

Ready, set, ask away!

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2024/11/27
17:01 UTC

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