Markus Bühler (Bestiarium-Blog)
@markusbuehler.bsky.social
Zoology and Paleontology Blogger on "Bestiarium", Wildlife- and Paleoartists, Author, Nature Aficionado, Archeology- and History-Enthusiast www.bestiarium.kryptozoologie.net
Sadly you can't see the beaver which is right at the moment sitting and eating in the grass in front of me.
July 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Sadly you can't see the beaver which is right at the moment sitting and eating in the grass in front of me.
Like this small herd of highland cattle here around.
May 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Like this small herd of highland cattle here around.
Find the error.
May 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Find the error.
Yes, but you can often get a certain idea about the size by its proportions which have a certain size relation. It's likely a Nepalese gray langur.
May 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Yes, but you can often get a certain idea about the size by its proportions which have a certain size relation. It's likely a Nepalese gray langur.
Ich bin gerade vorher dort gewesen. Zwar sind sie Wasserbüffel, Koniks und Esel noch nicht auf der Weide, abeyes ist jetzt schon unglaublich schön.
April 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Ich bin gerade vorher dort gewesen. Zwar sind sie Wasserbüffel, Koniks und Esel noch nicht auf der Weide, abeyes ist jetzt schon unglaublich schön.
Yesterday I visited another fantastic place in the Chiemgau Alps, it must look even much more awesome when everything is green and flowers all around.
April 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Yesterday I visited another fantastic place in the Chiemgau Alps, it must look even much more awesome when everything is green and flowers all around.
Today I visited this awesome lake in the Chiemgau Alps of Bavaria. The weather was rainy but the colours of the water still incredible. I could see a few rainbow trouts, some brown trouts and a single char of unknown species plus a lot of minnows, and as an ornithological surplus also a merganser.
April 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Today I visited this awesome lake in the Chiemgau Alps of Bavaria. The weather was rainy but the colours of the water still incredible. I could see a few rainbow trouts, some brown trouts and a single char of unknown species plus a lot of minnows, and as an ornithological surplus also a merganser.
Today I visited a very nice special exhibition in the Mammut-Museum Siegsdorf about the fossils from the Hammerschmiede Lagerstätte in Bavaria, illustrated by one of my favorite paleo-artists, Mauricio Anton.
April 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Today I visited a very nice special exhibition in the Mammut-Museum Siegsdorf about the fossils from the Hammerschmiede Lagerstätte in Bavaria, illustrated by one of my favorite paleo-artists, Mauricio Anton.
The beavers in the bog area Inzeller Filzen are very active and their activities can be seen all around. The beavers themselves are very elusive however. Just saw this really nice artwork in honour of the local beavers.
April 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The beavers in the bog area Inzeller Filzen are very active and their activities can be seen all around. The beavers themselves are very elusive however. Just saw this really nice artwork in honour of the local beavers.
Some impressions from lake Chiemsee. The weather was really great, and despite rather low overall number of waterfowl I have seen, I can add two pretty awesome new species on my list of first sights in the wild.
April 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Some impressions from lake Chiemsee. The weather was really great, and despite rather low overall number of waterfowl I have seen, I can add two pretty awesome new species on my list of first sights in the wild.
Great crested crebes from my tour to lake Constance. I have seen them even in "Jurassic Park Dilophosaurus"-style but also feeding on fish, like the stickleback on the last photo. Not really rare but really remarkable birds with fascinating behavior and intersting anatomy.
April 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Great crested crebes from my tour to lake Constance. I have seen them even in "Jurassic Park Dilophosaurus"-style but also feeding on fish, like the stickleback on the last photo. Not really rare but really remarkable birds with fascinating behavior and intersting anatomy.
Yesterday I was on a very awesome birding tour on Lake Constance. Besides many wonderful wild birds and other animals I came along a particularly flamboyant captive bird. Can you imagine what it was?
March 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Yesterday I was on a very awesome birding tour on Lake Constance. Besides many wonderful wild birds and other animals I came along a particularly flamboyant captive bird. Can you imagine what it was?
Another photo from my visit of Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart, a white-naped crane (Gruß vipio). The texture of the skin is really remarkable, and photos like this are always great references for palaeoart.
March 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Another photo from my visit of Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart, a white-naped crane (Gruß vipio). The texture of the skin is really remarkable, and photos like this are always great references for palaeoart.
This are my favourite photos from my recent trip to Wilhelma Zoo Stuttgart. Not even of a zoo animal, but a wild nile goose which was hanging around near the pelicans. Not exactly a particular popular and invasive bird, but I still really like their appearance.
March 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This are my favourite photos from my recent trip to Wilhelma Zoo Stuttgart. Not even of a zoo animal, but a wild nile goose which was hanging around near the pelicans. Not exactly a particular popular and invasive bird, but I still really like their appearance.
There´s also this grotesque helmet, however it was nearly certainly never worn in actual battlefields.
February 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
There´s also this grotesque helmet, however it was nearly certainly never worn in actual battlefields.
There is a very bizarre and unique depiction of a sallet with a beak-like visor which would fit here within the lines of bizarre "real" helmets.
February 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
There is a very bizarre and unique depiction of a sallet with a beak-like visor which would fit here within the lines of bizarre "real" helmets.
Here is also a detail view of the gryphon vulture above. You can take photos like this of living animals, as taxidermy specimens never show the full extent of the original colourations and full structures. The mix or blue and violet skin ares on the mainly featherless eyelids is just beautiful.
February 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Here is also a detail view of the gryphon vulture above. You can take photos like this of living animals, as taxidermy specimens never show the full extent of the original colourations and full structures. The mix or blue and violet skin ares on the mainly featherless eyelids is just beautiful.
A gryphon vulture which I´ve recently seen during my last visit to the #Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart. I had the great pleasure to see this awesome birds in the wild on Crete (Greece) and Cres (Croatia). But this was once a rather wide spread bird, which also populated vast parts of central Europe.
February 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
A gryphon vulture which I´ve recently seen during my last visit to the #Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart. I had the great pleasure to see this awesome birds in the wild on Crete (Greece) and Cres (Croatia). But this was once a rather wide spread bird, which also populated vast parts of central Europe.
I also once covered this type of antlers on my blog. bestiarium.kryptozoologie.net/artikel/biza...
February 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I also once covered this type of antlers on my blog. bestiarium.kryptozoologie.net/artikel/biza...
You could place a takin into a movie set and people would later not even notive that it´s a real animal. Their horns alone are absolutely insane. I took this photos in Wilhelma Zoo Stuttgart, sadly the specimen (which was already rather old) is no more alive.
February 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
You could place a takin into a movie set and people would later not even notive that it´s a real animal. Their horns alone are absolutely insane. I took this photos in Wilhelma Zoo Stuttgart, sadly the specimen (which was already rather old) is no more alive.
Makes me think on this historical clock in the Landesmuseum Stuttgart. Sadly I don´t have any additional information, perhaps in one of my books.
February 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Makes me think on this historical clock in the Landesmuseum Stuttgart. Sadly I don´t have any additional information, perhaps in one of my books.
A beautifully preserved termite soldier in a 16 million year old piece of amber from the Dominican Republic. It is a member of the Nasutitermitinae in which highly specialized soldiers have a protruding " fontanellar gun" on top of their heads, with which they can spray a resin-like substance.
February 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A beautifully preserved termite soldier in a 16 million year old piece of amber from the Dominican Republic. It is a member of the Nasutitermitinae in which highly specialized soldiers have a protruding " fontanellar gun" on top of their heads, with which they can spray a resin-like substance.
I just found some old photos I took in 2015 in Kreuzlingen, on the western lakeside of Lake Constance. At that time highland cattle was used for landscape maintenance there. For some time there were also water buffalos (which were probably better dealing with the wet conditions).
January 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I just found some old photos I took in 2015 in Kreuzlingen, on the western lakeside of Lake Constance. At that time highland cattle was used for landscape maintenance there. For some time there were also water buffalos (which were probably better dealing with the wet conditions).
It's a little bit different. There are two mammoths from the Vogelherd cave. The one above found in 2006 was on display in the Archäopark Vogelherd which was closed in 2022. The other one found in 1931 is on display in Tübingen in Schloss Hohentübingen.
January 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It's a little bit different. There are two mammoths from the Vogelherd cave. The one above found in 2006 was on display in the Archäopark Vogelherd which was closed in 2022. The other one found in 1931 is on display in Tübingen in Schloss Hohentübingen.
Frederick habe ich übrigens auch erst vor ein paar Wochen mal wieder gesehen. Was an ihm sehr auffällig ist, ist die ungewöhnlich dunkle, zu großen Teilen schwärzliche Farbe. Wer genau hinsieht, kann auch einen Zahn sehen der den Oberkiefer perforiert, was bei Krokodilen ja vorkommt.
January 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Frederick habe ich übrigens auch erst vor ein paar Wochen mal wieder gesehen. Was an ihm sehr auffällig ist, ist die ungewöhnlich dunkle, zu großen Teilen schwärzliche Farbe. Wer genau hinsieht, kann auch einen Zahn sehen der den Oberkiefer perforiert, was bei Krokodilen ja vorkommt.