TIL: In 1943 Winston Churchill called upon Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373 to allow the English Navy to lease ports in neutral Portugal. This gave England access to the Azores Islands and helped change the Battle of the Atlantic. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Por…
Climate change listed as official cause of extinction for a mammal for the first time: The Bramble Cay melomys [Australia] // https://t.co/pBcfGEfYqa blogs.scientificamerican.…
TIL that of the 5000 or so species of mammals on the planet only female humans have permanent breasts. businessinsider.com/why-a…
A friend of mine asserts that she loves all animals. However, I did point out to her the distain she holds for large African water-dwelling mammals.
I just think she’s being a bit hippo critical.
Marine experts in Norway believe they have stumbled upon a white whale that was trained by the Russian navy as part of a programme to use underwater mammals as a special ops force. theguardian.com/environme…
Wind Map shows the eye of hurricane Lorenzo near Azores ventusky.com/?p=38.0;-28.…
This long necked wierdo is called a gerenuk aka a giraffe gazelle and they have heavy butts for balance. Only the males have horns. They eat the lower part of trees beneath the giraffes and over the other plant eating mammals. They often weigh around 39 kilos (85.9 pounds)
TIL It’s hypothesized that warm-bloodedness evolved in mammals and birds because it provided defense against fungal infections. Very few fungi can survive the body temperatures of warm-blooded animals. By comparison, insects, reptiles, and amphibians are plagued by fungal infections. wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm-b…
Not a trail for the faint of heart! A crater lake on Sao Miguel island, in the Azores, Portugal.
Do you know of Madeira and the Azores?
Madeira and Azores are the two main Portuguese archipelagos, both being in the Atlantic Ocean. Madeira being closer to Africa and the Canary Islands, while the Azores are closer to the middle of the Atlantic.
I notice most people tend to know Madeira due to it being a quite popular tourist destination, but not so much the Azores, since they're not a very popular tourist destination compared to Madeira, Lisbon or the Algarve.
Before making this post, did you know of these two archipelagos or that they belonged to Portugal? Or did you know where they're located, more or less? This might sound like a strange question, but the Azores are not as popular or well-known as other European islands and archipelagos such as Madeira, Corsica, The Canary Islands or Sicily; so that's why I'm asking this.
TIL that while the Bald Eagle is widely known as a national symbol of the United States, the American Bison is the national mammal. The population of American Bison, once 60+ million, dropped to <600 by 1889, but due to conservation efforts is now 500k and growing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ame…
There's a hidden consequence of climate change: A deadly virus that's killing key marine species | Melting Arctic sea ice has opened new pathways for Arctic and sub-Arctic species to interact, and that contact has introduced a potentially deadly virus to mammals in the Northern Pacific Ocean - study cnn.com/2019/11/11/us/cli…
"The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals." -- Christopher Hitchens reddit.com/r/quotes/comme…
Lagoa do Fogo, Sao Miguel Island, Azores. One of the most cool and beautiful places and hikes I've experienced. [5760x3840] [OC]
Stumbled upon this beautiful boy while on vacation in the Azores! He was very friendly and had a beautiful home in one of the many stunning churches on São Miguel island.
This is a Slow Loris. They have toxic saliva created by licking a gland under their arm. They are one of the few venomous mammals on earth.
Along with the platypus, the echidna is a member of the monotremes, an order of egg-laying mammals found in Australia. Females lay a single leathery egg into her pouch and after ten days the baby echidna, called a puggle, hatches.
My PB fish ever, 16 kg wahoo caught of the coast of the Azores
Terceira island, Azores [beLOMO Vilia | first of the roll, expired film]
These are all over the island of Faial in the Azores, my family was trying to figure out what they were... anyone know?
Explore Portugal: Lisbon, Porto, Madeira and five islands of the Azores in one trip from London for £145 fly4free.com/flight-deals…
Before dinosaurs, stem-mammals (synapsids) were the dominant land vertebrates of the Earth. Here is Inostrancevia, a gorgonopsid from the late Permian. It would be another 150 million years after the Permian-Triassic extinction before synapsids would rise to prominence again.
Redesign of the flag of The Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal.
Microplastics found in every marine mammal surveyed in UK study. The research on 50 stranded creatures, including porpoises, dolphins, grey seals and a pygmy sperm whale, found an average of 5.5 particles in their guts, the most comprehensive analysis of microplastics in wild cetaceans and seals. theguardian.com/environme…
A size comparison of Paraceratherium, the largest land mammal to have ever roamed the Earth
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Finally got my DNA results.. surprised at the France bit since my mom’s side of family were from the Azores islands. Working on completing my tree to better understand what’s going on here!
Granastrapotherium snorki, a 3.5 ton ungulate mammal from the Late Miocene of South America. This species and it’s relatives had features that made them appear to have evolved convergently with proboscideans.
🔥 Ili Pika , a very rare and small mammal that is found in the Tianshan Mountain Range of China.
The koala has one of the smallest brains in proportion to body weight of any mammal, weighing only 19.2 g. Because of this, they have a limited ability to perform complex behaviours. When presented with plucked leaves, they don't recognize them as food
When herbivores are born, they can stand up and walk within hours of birth. By the time a lion is 3 months old it begins learning to hunt. What can human babies do that other mammals can't?
Footage of a stage in the Azores rally run on the side of a volcano v.redd.it/r3slhzu72hy21
‘Horrific’: Animal rights groups have slammed Norway for slaughtering pregnant whales, calling it “even more unacceptable” as they carry the next generation of the mammals. The criticism follows a new documentary featuring the murder of female whales carrying a fetus. rt.com/news/380105-norway…
Blue Waters & Volcanic Rock of Flores Island in the Azores [OC] [4896 x 3264]
Everybody knows that sloths are slow. It's true they possess the lowest metabolic rates of any non-hibernating mammals. But sloths are actually three times faster in water than they are on land v.redd.it/yv15zu1ql2u21
In the Azores they grow hedges of hydrangeas because the cows will not eat them: effective (and free) fence.
Aerial view of the Hotel Monte Palace - an abandoned 5 star hotel in the Azores that sits at the rim of a volcanic crater. Opened in 1989, it went bankrupt less than 2 years later.
The bellybutton is probably the first scar in all of mammal history
The post office 930 miles from the mainland -- The city of Horta in the Azores is home to one of the most remote bars in the world, where sailors from around the globe collect their mail during their voyages across the vast Atlantic ocean. bbc.com/reel/video/p07kjh…
Discovering both the geothermal and the family warmth of the Azores - The Boston Globe bostonglobe.com/lifestyle…
Free-ranging domesticat cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually in the United States and are likely the single greatest source of anthropogenic mortality for US birds and mammals. They are considered one of the top 100 worst invasive species.
Beware China's Inroads into the Atlantic: From trade deals to bases, Beijing taking advantage of US's diminished presence: Greenland, the Azores, Cape Verde nationalinterest.org/feat…
Lagoa do Fogo ~ The lake of fire on São Miguel island, Azores [OC] [1616x1080]
Pangolins are the only mammals covered in scales. They tend to be solitary animals, meeting only to mate and produce a litter of one to three offspring, which are raised for about two years
