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Chinese octopus (Octopus sinensis) living in a discarded bottle. Izu Peninsula, Japan.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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More plants, animals and fungi from Honshu:
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November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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My book Wildlife Spectacles is almost sold out: there's just one new copy left on Amazon for US$11 and a few I still have at home. You can snatch the last one from Amazon or get a signed copy from me for the same price plus postage.
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Wildlife Spectacles: Mass Migrations, Mating Rituals, and Other Fascinating Animal Behaviors
Amazon.com: Wildlife Spectacles: Mass Migrations, Mating Rituals, and Other Fascinating Animal Behaviors: 9781604696714: Dinets, Vladimir: Books
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November 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Japanese greater horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus nippon) in an old road tunnel, Izu Peninsula.
November 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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More Japanese flora & fauna:
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November 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Breaking: zohran mamdani has converted trump to islam
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Caterpillars of giant silkworm moths of genus Rinaca built really cool cocoons. They are very durable and can oten be found on the forest floor long after the moths hatch. Izu Peninsula, Japan.
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Amur hedgehogs (Erinaceus amurensis) went extinct in Japan at the end of the Pleistocene for unknown reasons, but escaped pets occur around Honshu and are established on Izu Peninsula. We found this female on a road through Komuroyama Park in Ito; my kids were delighted and quickly befriended her.
November 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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More plants and animals from Japan:
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November 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Foraminiferans are large single-cell organisms mostly living on the seafloor. But one Antarctic species uses planktonic diatoms as balloons to stay afloat. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A remarkable new monothalamid (Rhizaria, Foraminifera) from the shoreline of Livingston Island, Antarctica
In this study, we describe a novel monothalamous Foraminifera, discovered in shoreline sediment samples from the Southern Ocean. The individuals, appr…
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November 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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More photos from Japan:
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November 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Last night the auroras happened on the same time of night, and the patches were in the same NNW direction, even similar in shape. But they were much less bright, barely visible to unaided eye except for one 3-min outbreak.
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Auroras last night, the way they actually looked. They were much less impressive than in May 2024, but near the end there was a very bright outburst. Waiting for more tonight :-)
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Small rivers in the Pine Barrens are usually blackwater streams; diving there is like swimming in strong tea. But once in a while you stumble upon a clearwater creek. Fish are sparse, but once I found this chain pickerel (Esox niger). Pickerels are 2 species of dwarf pike unique to E North America.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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More photos from Japan:
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November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Forest tree frog (Zhangixalus arboreus) and its foam nests. Hakusan National Park.
November 8, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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The first batch of photos and stories from my trip to Japan last summer:
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November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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A few underwater photos from Musconetcong Gorge: www.instagram.com/vladimir_din...
November 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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LeConte's sparrow (Ammospiza leconteii) is a rare visitor to New Jersey. For over a week, this remarkably tame individual has been delighting dozens of birders in Alpha Grasslands Preserve. To see it, go there 15 min before sunrise and look for a small crowd of people with big cameras :-)
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I didn't think I'd be posting any more insect photos from New Jersey this year, but Saturday night found this northern flatid planthopper (Flatormenis proxima) in Musconetcong Gorge.
November 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Fish horrors: dinets.home.blog/2025/10/29/a...
Anchovies
Last Friday I went diving and found myself in a humongous aggregation of tiny anchovies. There were millions of them, they made it nearly impossible to see anything. But my troubles didn’t en…
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October 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Went diving Friday night (probably the last time this year). It didn't go as planned. Here are some photos and videos.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Putin's Russia is the main driving force of global environmental destruction. Now calling for environmental protections is being considered high treason, punished by decades in gulag. Yet another reason Trump and his GOP minions worship Putin.
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Russia arrests Ukrainian biologist for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing
‘Trumped-up’ charges spark diplomatic row as scientists express fears for health of 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov
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October 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Ever since I saw a "Siberian" weasel in Taiwan I couldn't believe it wasn't a separate species. Local zoologists insisted that their molecular results showed it to be the same. The situation is compounded by populations of introduced mainland weasels on the island. A new paper vindicates me 🙂 (1/2)
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October 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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I didn't get outdoors much this fall, but here are a few photos from around New Jersey:
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October 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM