#fischeri

[cecilnunez]

Lovebird duets, an enchanting harmony that echoes through the aviary, expressing the deep bond between feathered souls. 💑🎤 #LovebirdDuets #FeatheredHarmony

[mascotas-preferidas]

¿Los agapornis son buenas mascotas?

[margocooper]

Гвоздика Фишера или Гвоздика боровая на склоне горы. Август 24. Dianthus fischeri on a mountainside. August 24.

[sarahmackattack]

So how do hawaiian bobtail squids select their bacterial partners?

I have a doodle from years ago just for this question!

So when bobtails first hatch, they don't have the bioluminescent bacteria they need to blend in with moonlight coming from above.

Making light is super energetically expensive, so they don't want to make light if they don't have to. They wait until as a group they can produce enough light to be useful for the squid.

[birdblues]

Fischer's Lovebird

[fortunaestalta]

[birdstudies]

February 22, 2023 - Fischer's Turaco (Tauraco fischeri) Found mostly along the coasts of parts of Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania, these turacos live in forests and wooded thickets. They primarily eat fruit, as well as flower buds, leaf shoots, and sometimes insects. Pairs build flimsy platform nests from twigs in trees where both parents incubate the clutches of two eggs. They are classified as Near Threatened by the IUCN due to declines to their small population from trapping and habitat loss and degradation.

[bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Fischer's Turaco

^Image credit: Doug Janson

Fischer's Turaco (Tauraco fischeri)

Both the common and scientific names for this bird are in reference to the German explorer Gustav Fischer. They have a limited range, but they are common where they are found, although they are more often heard than seen due to the fact that they typically travel alone, or in pairs.

[squawkoverflow]

A new variant has been added!

Red-eared Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus fischeri) © Christoph Moning

It hatches from black, central, dark, diagnostic, green, large, pale, red, and short eggs.

squawkoverflow - the ultimate bird collecting game          🥚 hatch    ❤️ collect     🤝 connect

[0ctogus]

I drew my favourite silly cephalopod from a reference pic :]

Hawaiian bobtail squid my beloved

[probablyasocialecologist]

A tiny Hawaiian squid, Euprymna scolopes, has become a model for thinking about this process. The “bob-tailed squid” is known for its light organ, through which it mimics moonlight, hiding its shadow from predators. But juvenile squid do not develop this organ unless they come into contact with one particular species of bacteria, Vibrio fischeri. The squid are not born with these bacteria; they must encounter them in the seawater. Without them, the light organ never develops. But perhaps you think light organs are superfluous. Consider the parasitic wasp Asobara tabida. Females are completely unable to produce eggs without bacteria of the genus Wolbachia. Meanwhile, larvae of the Large Blue butterfly Maculinea arion are unable to survive without being taken in by an ant colony. Even we proudly independent humans are unable to digest our food without helpful bacteria, first gained as we slide out of the birth canal. Ninety percent of the cells in a human body are bacteria. We can’t do without them.

As biologist Scott Gilbert and his colleagues write, “Almost all development may be codevelopment. By codevelopment we refer to the ability of the cells of one species to assist the normal construction of the body of another species.” This insight changes the unit of evolution. Some biologists have begun to speak of the “hologenome theory of evolution,” referring to the complex of organisms and their symbionts as an evolutionary unit: the “holobiont.” They find, for example, that associations between particular bacteria and fruit flies influence fruit fly mating choice, thus shaping the road to the development of a new species. To add the importance of development, Gilbert and his colleagues use the term “symbiopoiesis,” the codevelopment of the holobiont. The term contrasts their findings with an earlier focus on life as internally self-organizing systems, self-formed through “autopoiesis.” “More and more,” they write, “symbiosis appears to be the ‘rule,’ not the exception. . . . Nature may be selecting ‘relationships’ rather than individuals or genomes.”

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

[cecilnunez]

Lovebird poetry in motion, as their chirps and trills craft verses of joy and serenity throughout the aviary. 📜🎤 #LovebirdPoetry #FeatheredVerses

[amnhnyc]

Have you ever seen the Spectacled Eider (Somateria fischeri)? During breeding season, males sport green plumage in a pattern that's reminiscent of glasses. While this doesn't make their vision sharper, it does help males stand out from the crowd.For the rest of the year, they revert to mottled-brown plumage, similar to females, which have more subdued spectacles year-round. This duck is unique in that it lives in the frigid high Arctic. It sustains itself on a diet of mostly mollusks and crustaceans, diving to pluck prey from the ocean floor.

Photo: Olaf Oliviero Riemer, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 

[herpsandbirds]

Spectacled Eider (Somateria fischeri), male, family Anatidae, order Anseriformes, Alaska

photograph by Matt Misewicz 

[miyrumiyru]

Precious Opal in virid

(M) Fischer’s blue (Tongeia fischeri)

[birdblues]

Spectacled Eider