Hacker News with Generative AI: Zoology

Let's talk about bird tongues (2014) (toughlittlebirds.com)
You don’t have to look at many birds to realize that they are very variable in appearance: hawks look different from hummingbirds, and both look different from peacocks. You can spend a lot of time looking at birds, though, before you realize that they are hiding a lot of variation inside their mouths: long tongues, short tongues, spiky tongues, curly tongues, forked tongues, frayed tongues, brush-like tongues.

Zoology, Birds, Anatomy, Biology

69 points by quuxplusone 5 days ago | 6 comments

The comb jelly can fuse with another (including nervous and digestive systems) (cnn.com)

Biology, Animals, Zoology, Marine Life

101 points by alok-g 17 days ago | 25 comments

Ethiopian wolves reported to feed on nectar (ox.ac.uk)
New findings, published in the journal Ecology, describe a previously undocumented behaviour of Ethiopian wolves (Canis simensis). For the first time, these have been reported to feed on the nectar of Ethiopian red hot poker flowers (Kniphofia foliosa) – the first large carnivore species ever to be documented feeding on nectar.

Zoology, Ecology, Carnivores, Ethiopia

78 points by thunderbong 54 days ago | 23 comments

The nature of a starfish: 'a disembodied head walking about on its lips' (theguardian.com)

Biology, Animals, Marine Biology, Zoology

8 points by howard941 138 days ago | 0 comments

Social organization in a flatworm:parasites form soldier and reproductive castes (royalsocietypublishing.org)

Biology, Zoology, Animal Behavior, Parasites, Social Organization

10 points by NoRagrets 177 days ago | 0 comments

Footfall patterns and stride parameters of Common hippopotamus on land (peerj.com)