Zookeeper Gabe’s Animal Thread V8.0

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Zookeeper Gabe said:
Biofluorescence is showing up in a lot more mammals, basically we never thought to look before. In the past couple of years I’ve seen it myself on flying squirrels, short tail opossums and an article came out a few months ago about platypus.

edit. @jefferz we don’t, we have agouti and one is super friendly but no capybara.
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why is it showing up? what is the evolutionary advantage?
 
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spacegnome said:
why is it showing up? what is the evolutionary advantage?
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In some cases we don’t really know, in others it’s believed to be a way for others of the same species to be able to see them from a ways away. A recent gecko has some very developed bioluminescence and its theorized it’s so they can be seen from far distances in a harsh landscape.
 
Zookeeper Gabe said:
Yes, they have been debating what to do about them for quite a while. Nothing quite like a drug lord with his private hippos for a good story
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If you think about it, if they end up letting them be, hippo become the new largest land mammal of american continent* LOL

I wonder if in the long run they would develop different traits from african cousins

*Edit: i was forgetting elephant seals though, guess if the southern ES can be counted as american continent land mammal it's him, but for some reason everybody seem just consider the much smaller bison to be the one
 
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Bacco said:
If you think about it, if they end up letting them be, hippo become the new largest land mammal of american continent* LOL

I wonder if in the long run they would develop different traits from african cousins

*Edit: i was forgetting elephant seals though, guess if the southern ES can be counted as american continent land mammal it's him, but for some reason everybody seem just consider the much smaller bison to be the one
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they are getting out of control as there are no known predators and no dry seasons to limit reproduction in columbia. i just read an article stating they are most likely going to have to kill all of them. i think that is terribly sad.
 
spacegnome said:
they are getting out of control as there are no known predators and no dry seasons to limit reproduction in columbia. i just read an article stating they are most likely going to have to kill all of them. i think that is terribly sad.
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It is, they also could have easily avoided all of this by cast sting the lone male when they let them out. Or just killed them or captured them all when there was only a few animals.
 
This guy films a lot of the videos for documentaries for the BBC, Discovery Channel, etc.



The small little polyps, Zoanthid corals, contain palytoxin which is one of the most poisonous non protein toxins in the world. You can walk into just about any pet store that carries salt water stuff and buy them.
 
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