Monatsarchive: Juli 2016

Shit happens part VII – disastrous missteps

Publiziert am 23. Juli 2016 von Markus Bühler

The series comes gradually to its end. Once again this part includes deer, in this case roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), the most successful and in many areas also the last wild ruminant of Europe. Just again the featured cases come … Weiterlesen →

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Shit happens part VI – crowned with barbed wire

Publiziert am 18. Juli 2016 von Markus Bühler

Deer antlers are in my opinion one of the most bizarre organs among all mammals. A pair of bones sometimes surpassing the mass of the limb bones which grows annually in extremely short time out of the skull just to … Weiterlesen →

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Shit happens part V – grasped by killer mussels

Publiziert am 17. Juli 2016 von Markus Bühler

Bivalves are usually not the kind of animals which are regarded as potentially dangerous. But they can actually cause a lot of trouble or even fatal accidents if they accidentally grasp other beings with their shells. One of this cases … Weiterlesen →

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Shit happens part IV – a barbel muzzled with a rubber ring

Publiziert am 16. Juli 2016 von Markus Bühler

A lot of mischance can happen to tetrapods, but non-tetrdapod vertebrates are also not immune towards misadventures. One example for this is this common barbel (Barbus barbus) from the exhibition of the Deutsches Jagd-und Fichereimuseum (German Hunting and Fishing Museum) … Weiterlesen →

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Shit happens part III – a tufted duck with a rubber ring girdle

Publiziert am 15. Juli 2016 von Markus Bühler

Shit happens not only to mammals, but to birds as well. This poor tufted duck (Aythya fuligula) somehow managed to put a rubber ring over its body. I wonder if this possibly already happened when the duck was still not … Weiterlesen →

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Shit happens part II – deadlock in a tree hole

Publiziert am 14. Juli 2016 von Markus Bühler

This series will feature several kinds of accidents which include deer. So I make a break and go on with a marten. Like in the antlers from the first part of the series, the specimen comes from the Danish Museum … Weiterlesen →

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Shit happens part I – when antlers get stuck and grown into trees

Publiziert am 12. Juli 2016 von Markus Bühler

Sometimes animals – like humans -have just really bad luck and come into situations which lead to weird handicaps or even bizarre deaths. In this series I want to show some of those cases. Many of them are from one … Weiterlesen →

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Photo of the day: Aye aye skull

Publiziert am 10. Juli 2016 von Markus Bühler

It´s quite hot here at the moment and I have not much time to write a more extensive blogpost, so here´s a photo of an aye aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) skull in all its weirdness. The photo was taken at the … Weiterlesen →

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American Bullfrogs at Lake Agia, Crete

Publiziert am 2. Juli 2016 von Markus Bühler

During my holiday on Crete some years ago, I visited Lake Agia, a small artificial lake in the southwest of the island. This reservoir is mainly known for its various species of waterfowls and a popular place for birders. But … Weiterlesen →

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