#Mammal

[vintagewildlife]

Raccoon with babies By: Bill Ivy From: Getting to Know Nature's Children: Raccoons 1985

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

Requested by @heartz4moth!

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

African elephant Beekse Bergen 3L0A2640 by safi kok

[morgansram]

Baikal seal having a swim

[critter-creature-or-beast]

The Siberian ibex is officially a beast!

By Quinet - Own work, CC BY 3.0

[bedupolker]

Most bats can actually be sorted into one of four groups. Happy batwatching out there!

(left > right, top > bottom: canyon bat, some sort of generic vesper bat & leaf nosed bat, visored bat & pendlebury roundleaf bat, flying fox)

[fucxingcuties]

[revretch]

Average Animal: Uh-oh, it's getting chilly. Guess I have no choice but to move very slowly until it warms up again

Average Mammal/Bird: Haha, not me! I've got my body temperature jacked waaaaay up at all times always. I'm running circles around you, buddy, rain or shine, day or night, summer or winter! Sure, I have to eat every day, multiple times a day just to keep the engine running, but it's not like I can't afford it when I'm this awesome.

Average Animal: So what happens if your body temperature *does* drop?

Average Mammal/Bird: I fucking die

[typhlonectes]

[vintagewildlife]

White lion cub post-feeding By: Unknown photographer From: The White Lions of Timbavati 1977

[mammalianmammals]

SCIENCE FRIDAY PODCAST:

New Footage Shows How Narwhals Use Tusks To Hunt And Play

LISTEN HERE

We’re taking a polar plunge into the science of sea unicorns, also known as narwhals! Narwhals are mysterious arctic whales with long, twirly tusks protruding from their foreheads, like a creature out of a fairy tale. And it turns out that we don’t know too much about them, partly because they live so far north in the remote Arctic. An international team of researchers used drones to observe narwhals in the wild and learned new things about their behavior, including how they use their tusks to hunt and play. Host Flora Lichtman gets on the horn with Dr. Gregory O’Corry-Crowe, research professor and biologist at Florida Atlantic University, who was an author on the new narwhal study, published last month in Frontiers in Marine Science.

New Footage Shows How Narwhals Use Tusks To Hunt And Play

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

Requested by @heartz4moth!

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

African elephant Beekse Bergen 3L0A3384 by safi kok

[morgansram]

Baby saiga being nestled in the hands of a scientist.

[samimarkart]

raccoon stickers are here for patreon this month and they look SOOOO good I’m so excited about them - patreon is in my pinned post and you can get one of these guys if you join this month!!

[snailtongue]

[ID: Two photos at slightly different angles of a ribbon seal sitting on an ice floe. The background is of pure blue water with smaller ice floes in it.] via