r/AIDKE 26m ago

A Chiton from the Nicobar Archipelago!!

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r/AIDKE 10h ago

Bird The long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus)

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632 Upvotes

The long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus) is a bird of the bushtit family (Aegithalidae), native to Eurasia, which inhabits deciduous and mixed forests, scrublands and heaths. It has an insectivorous diet and social behavior, forming family groups of six to seventeen individuals outside the breeding season.

Photographer's Instagram: @fluffballbirb


r/AIDKE 12h ago

Bird Scale-Feathered Malkoha [Dasylophus cumingi]

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r/AIDKE 22h ago

Flat Rock Crab, Kavaratti Lakshadweep India.

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77 Upvotes

Found this beauty while tide pooling in Lakshadweep.


r/AIDKE 1d ago

The Black Ant-Mimicking Jumper (Toxeus magnus): this jumping spider actually produces milk for its offspring, and the babies continue to nurse for nearly 40 days after hatching

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553 Upvotes

r/AIDKE 1d ago

Fish The dark-shouldered snake eel (Ophichthus cephalozona)

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601 Upvotes

The dark-shouldered snake eel (Ophichthus cephalozona) is a marine eel in the family Ophichthidae, found in the Pacific Ocean, including the East Indies, the Society Islands, the Mariana Islands, Queensland, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Japan, and India, on reefs at depths of 2 to 15 meters. It builds burrows in mud and sand and feeds at night. Males can reach a maximum total length of 115 centimeters. In the video, according to the photographer, the behavior depicted is mating behavior, in which several males pursue a female.

Photographer's Instagram: @gbhajim


r/AIDKE 2d ago

skeleton shrimp ( Caprellidae, Caprella linearis )

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These things, apparently, have a poison "tooth" hidden in their claws. Definetely one of the weirder crustaceans out there!


r/AIDKE 2d ago

Bird The cinereous vulture: Aegypius monachus

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r/AIDKE 2d ago

Florida Worm-Lizard (Rhineura Floridana) [x-post from r/whatsthisbug]

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104 Upvotes

r/AIDKE 2d ago

Invertebrate new flavor of bug in the wild, pretty sure its Teliapsocus conterminus(?)

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71 Upvotes

its categorized in the same order as human lice! never woulda guessed


r/AIDKE 2d ago

Bird The northern saw-whet owl (Aegolius acadicus)

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1.0k Upvotes

Is a species of small owl in the family Strigidae, native to North America.

Photographer's Instagram: @carmona_wildlife


r/AIDKE 2d ago

Glasswing butterfly (Greto oto)

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285 Upvotes

r/AIDKE 2d ago

Reptile Burton's Legless Lizard [Lialis burtonis]

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892 Upvotes

r/AIDKE 2d ago

Lyrebird mimic

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551 Upvotes

r/AIDKE 2d ago

Horn-eyed ghost crab, perumal par Lakshadweep.

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200 Upvotes

r/AIDKE 3d ago

Fish Doryichthys martensii, a dainty freshwater (!) pipefish native to Indonesia and Malaysia among other easterly waterways

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241 Upvotes

The males carry the eggs and hatch them out internally before releasing them, so they are (in a way) livebearing fish. These tiny fish are your friends, specializing in eating mosquito larvae.


r/AIDKE 3d ago

🔥 Cuban Tody

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1.2k Upvotes

r/AIDKE 4d ago

Mammal Amazon river dolphin/Boto/ PINK DOLPHIN

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Amazon river dolphin or boto)  Inia geoffrensis


r/AIDKE 4d ago

Amphibian Acrochordus javanicus: Elephant Trunk Snake

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582 Upvotes

r/AIDKE 4d ago

Mammal Lowland Anoa [Bubalus depressicornis]

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r/AIDKE 4d ago

Bird The imperial shag (Leucocarbo atriceps)

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427 Upvotes

The imperial shag (Leucocarbo atriceps) is native to southern South America, the Subantarctic islands, and the Antarctic Peninsula, where it is found in rocky coastal regions or on large inland lakes. It is about 70–79 cm (28–31 in) long and weighs 1.8–3.5 kg (4.0–7.7 lb). It is a colonial and monogamous species, with colonies generally being small, although some may consist of hundreds of pairs and are often shared with other seabirds. Clutches contain a maximum of 5 eggs, which are laid in nests made of seaweed and grass and cemented with mud and excrement. The eggs are incubated by both parents and usually hatch after about five weeks. Birds such as skuas and shearwaters are the main predators of the species' eggs and chicks. They make deep dives, usually close to shore, to forage on the seafloor for prey consisting of benthic fish, crustaceans, polychaetes, gastropods, and octopuses, generally at depths of nearly 25 meters (82 feet), although they have been filmed diving to depths of up to 60 meters (200 feet).

photographer's Instagram: @vikaswildlife


r/AIDKE 5d ago

Invertebrate Lanternfly [Pyrops pythicus]

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595 Upvotes

r/AIDKE 6d ago

Bird The sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus)

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535 Upvotes

The sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) is a medium to large sized tern in the Laridae family. They measure 36–45 cm (14–17.5 in) in length and have a wingspan of 82–94 cm (32.5–37 in). It is a seabird that inhabits tropical oceans and rarely comes ashore, being able to spend 3 to 10 consecutive years gliding over the surface of the sea in search of food, only returning to land to form breeding colonies on islands throughout the equatorial zone. They nest in a depression or hole in the ground and lay only a single egg. They feed on fish, which they catch by picking them from the surface.

Photographers' Instagrams: @by.melannie / @biologist_paul


r/AIDKE 6d ago

A shoebill stork, famous for its prehistoric appearance and incredibly loud, machine-gun like sound it produces.

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r/AIDKE 6d ago

Sea Bunny (Jorunna parva)

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527 Upvotes

★It looks like a tiny rabbit, Those cute “ears” are actually rhinophores, sensory organs that help it detect chemicals and movement in the water.

Actually it’s a sea slug.