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Jon Sullivan<p>Why do most bats fly only at night? Is it because they're afraid of birds of prey? If so, do they try to avoid owls?</p><p>Turns out the answers are not that clear cut, as <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@JKRevell" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>JKRevell</span></a></span> explains in the latest article on <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Synapsida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Synapsida</span></a> </p><p>(I like that parts of the old internet like the Synapsida blog are still going strong, and I can subscribe to their RSS feeds and read interesting and ad-free and AI-free content. *Big thanks* go to those that are still adding quality content to the internet with the aim of informing us instead of making money or manipulating what we think.)</p><p><a href="https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2025/06/i-aint-afraid-of-no-owls.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">synapsida.blogspot.com/2025/06</span><span class="invisible">/i-aint-afraid-of-no-owls.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/bats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/mammals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mammals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/owls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>owls</span></a></p>
Jon Sullivan<p>"The bulk of the scientific literature on the species amounts to "ooh, we saw one!" followed by some locality where they hadn't been seen before."</p><p>I'm enjoying learning about deep ocean dolphins on the latest <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Synapsida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Synapsida</span></a> post by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@JKRevell" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>JKRevell</span></a></span>. That quotation is referring to "pygmy killer whales", which are dolphins that are not whales and not closely related to orcas. This open ocean dolphin is "one of the least likely dolphin species to be seen" and "we know essentially nothing about their mating habits and reproduction".</p><p>It's a vast blue world out there.</p><p><a href="https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2025/05/delphinids-dolphins-of-deep-seas.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">synapsida.blogspot.com/2025/05</span><span class="invisible">/delphinids-dolphins-of-deep-seas.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/cetacean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cetacean</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/dolphin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dolphin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/MarineBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarineBiology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/oceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oceans</span></a></p>
Jamie Revell<p>Just how sophisticated is communication between elephants?<br><a href="https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2024/04/call-of-elephants.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">synapsida.blogspot.com/2024/04</span><span class="invisible">/call-of-elephants.html</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/elephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elephant</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Synapsida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Synapsida</span></a></p>
Jamie Revell<p>Every year my animal science blog takes a look at all the species of a particular kind of animal. In 2024, that will antelopes... which is kind of odd, as they don't really exist 😉 <br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Synapsida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Synapsida</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a> </p><p> <a href="https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2024/01/no-such-thing-as-antelope.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">synapsida.blogspot.com/2024/01</span><span class="invisible">/no-such-thing-as-antelope.html</span></a></p>
Jamie Revell<p>A short history of horse evolution *after* they developed the single hoof...<br><a href="https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2024/01/rise-of-one-toed-horses.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">synapsida.blogspot.com/2024/01</span><span class="invisible">/rise-of-one-toed-horses.html</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Synapsida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Synapsida</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/horses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horses</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossils</span></a></p>
Jamie Revell<p>My blog series on the world 30 million years ago moves to North America to look at early beavers, camels, and more.</p><p><a href="https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2023/12/oligocene-pt-6-devils-corkscrews-and.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">synapsida.blogspot.com/2023/12</span><span class="invisible">/oligocene-pt-6-devils-corkscrews-and.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Synapsida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Synapsida</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/mammal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mammal</span></a></p>
Jamie Revell<p>The third part of my series on skunk species turns to the American Southwest - and also to South America.</p><p><a href="https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2023/10/skunks-of-world-hog-nosed-skunks.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">synapsida.blogspot.com/2023/10</span><span class="invisible">/skunks-of-world-hog-nosed-skunks.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/skunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>skunk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/synapsida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>synapsida</span></a></p>
Jamie Revell<p>How one species of bat picks just the right place to sleep during the day... <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/bats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Synapsida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Synapsida</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2023/08/picking-right-crevice.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">synapsida.blogspot.com/2023/08</span><span class="invisible">/picking-right-crevice.html</span></a></p>
Jamie Revell<p>How the environment shapes the mating strategies of different goat species: <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Synapsida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Synapsida</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/goats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>goats</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2023/08/love-on-mountain-tops.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">synapsida.blogspot.com/2023/08</span><span class="invisible">/love-on-mountain-tops.html</span></a></p>
Jamie Revell<p>Well, that didn't work, so let's try it again: Me on the subject of a mammal that lived alongside the dinosaurs - <br><a href="https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2023/08/not-quite-placentals-of-gobi-desert.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">synapsida.blogspot.com/2023/08</span><span class="invisible">/not-quite-placentals-of-gobi-desert.html</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Synapsida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Synapsida</span></a></p>
Jamie Revell<p>Some thoughts on a very early mammal at my latest blogpost... <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossils</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Synapsida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Synapsida</span></a></p>
Jamie Revell<p>Today's post on my <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/zoology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zoology</span></a> blog <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Synapsida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Synapsida</span></a> (I mean, you've got to start with a toot about <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/cats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cats</span></a>, right?):<br><a href="https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-sex-lives-of-female-jaguars.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">synapsida.blogspot.com/2023/07</span><span class="invisible">/the-sex-lives-of-female-jaguars.html</span></a></p>
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