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This is Lexi, 🐰 our #CritterOfTheWeek.
He’s been in our care for over 208 days and is anxious to find somebunny to love! He’s a mini lionhead who is incredibly social, friendly and always ready to make new friends!
His fee has been reduced by 50%! ✨
Find out more at aarcs.ca/animal/a2000217046/
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Meet Philophthalmus attenuatus, the seagull eye parasite you never knew existed (and probably wish you still didn’t). Listen to Richard talking to Jesse on RNZ for today's #CritterOfTheWeek.
📸 Image by flaxington
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
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Help us find Fangoria a home! 🐰
She is back as our #CritterOfTheWeek again! We don’t understand why this sweet bun hasn’t been adopted!
She has a curious spirit and a love for snacks! 🥬
Right now she’s just $50!
Apply at aarcs.ca/animal/a2000204970
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You can eat our #CritterOfTheWeek...
Karengo is a group of red seaweeds considered
the nori of Aotearoa. But don't just think sushi 🍥 you
can eat it like pasta, chips, or bake it into cakes.
📷: Jorge Jimenez via iNaturalist CC BY-NC 4.0
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Listen to #CritterOfTheWeek on RNZ to learn more about the piriwai yellow mayfly 💛
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
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A beautiful bright yellow mayfly sitting on a stone in front of a dark background.
Mirror mirror waterfall, who's the prettiest mayfly of all? 🪞💧 Our canary-yellow elegant #CritterOfTheWeek, the piriwai yellow mayfly 💛
They're also ripped as, with 10-pack abs. No mouthparts, though – these short-lived beauties are all buzz and no bite!
📷: Emily Roberts via iNaturalist CC BY 4.0
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Maroro Australasian Flying Fish. Credit scienceco_fn CC BY-NC
Maroro Australasian Flying Fish. Credit ashtonreiser via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Our #CritterOfTheWeek is a muscly torpedo that can reach speeds of up to 60km/h, and glide for up to 400m in a single leap. This fish wasn't up for #FishOfTheYear, but with wings like that (+ more flight than a kiwi) maybe it could enter #BirdOfTheYear? 🤔
Learn more: www.rnz.co.nz/.../critter-....
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🙅♀️Not all moths love lamps... The magpie moth, our #CritterOfTheWeek, flies during the day & is often spotted around ragwort daisies – the fave snack of the moth's caterpillars 🐛
📷: Moth-Drake adapted from Jacqui Geux CC BY 4.0
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A strange green orchid with long filaments and a hood that looks like a figure dancing.
A close-up of a green hooded orchid.
Meet the windswept helmet orchid: a critically endangered orchid & our #CritterOfTheWeek. First discovered on subantarctic Macquarie Island, this species has since been spotted in the central North Island & Wellington region
📷: Pat Enright CC BY-NC 4.0
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Meet the knobby argonaut, our #CritterOfTheWeek 🐙
She’s a devoted octopus mum, building a delicate shell that keeps her and her eggs safe while hanging out in the ocean column. Her significant other is the size of a peanut! 🥜
📷 via iNaturalist: capetowncaroline CC BY-NC 4.0
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A pink Valentine's card with love hearts and a blowfly and the words 'you blow my mind' and 'to:' and 'from:' in comic sans font with space to put names.
A blue Valentine's card with 2 blowflies and the words 'to my love bug, time flies when i'm with u' in comic sans font and a blue love heart emoji
A green Valentine's card with three blowflies with bright metallic blue bodies and hot sweating face emojis with the words 'ur lookin super fly' and 'to:' and 'from:' in comic sans font and space to put names
A pink and orange Valentine's card with purple love hearts and a blowfly wearing cartoon sunglasses with the words 'what if we met on the rotting carcass... aha ha... just kidding... unless...' and the pleading eyes emoji and two fingers pointing at each other emojis.
Looking for a last-minute Valentine's card? The #CritterOfTheWeek, the rango pango NZ blue blowfly, has you covered 💙
📷 via iNaturalist NZ: wild_wind CC BY 4.0 / Erland Refling Nielsen CC BY NC 4.0 / Steve Kerr CC BY 4.0 / Sue Carnahan CC BY 4.0
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This is officially my #CritterOfTheWeek! This is a #gecko I found in #Malaysia on a night herp survey
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The life cycle of Curtuteria australis, which passes through cockle, whelk, and oystercatcher.
The Friday #CritterOfTheWeek was a parasitic worm that lives in three different hosts. No usuable photo to be found, sigh, but I did stumble across this rather beautiful illustration of its life cycle, and the artist agreed to donate it to WikiCommons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cu...
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The Friday #CritterofTheWeek was the grey sided sea slug Pleurobranchaea maculata, which sometimes washes up on our shores loaded with tetrodotoxin. Don’t eat it! We managed to clean up the Wikipedia article a little, but there’s lots of literature to be cited. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurob...
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A spotted sluggy-looking beastie
This Friday's #CritterOfTheWeek on RNZ is Aotearoa's most toxic animal. It may not be what you had in mind. 📷 Tiffany Kosch CC BY-SA.
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The official Wikipedians of New Zealand choice for Bug of the Year is the hobbit kōwhai psyllid (Psylla frodobagginsi) which recently featured on #CritterOfTheWeek and has lovely photos donated under an open licence by an amateur entomologist. It deserves your vote. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psylla_...
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This Friday’s #CritterOfTheWeek is possibly the most disgusting one since 2015 and yes I’m including the parasitic lice that eat fish tongues.
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Almost every week since 2015 @JMulliganRNZ and @naturevision have chatted about a neglected or uncharismatic species on @radionz #CritterOfTheWeek: 333 episodes to date. Complete list here:
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And this is why #CritterOfTheWeek matters. While we long articles about a subpopulation of charismatic dolphins, actual species of plants and insects are going extinct because nobody but a few biologists has ever heard of them.
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Sneak preview: Friday's #CritterOfTheWeek is the amazing resurrection lichen (Xanthoparmelia semiviridis). If you want to join Team Critter and help improve the Wikipedia articles of each week's species, let me know.
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Friday's #CritterOfTheWeek was the Three Kings kaikōmako, Pennantia baylisiana. When it was discovered in 1945 there was one tree left, last survivor of browsing goats that had devastated the island's forest.
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For 7 years @JMulliganRNZ and @naturevision have put new NZ species in the spotlight on #CritterOfTheWeek. Most have poor Wikipedia articles, or none at all. I'm recruiting Wikipedia editors (& the keen-to-learn) to help tackle the backlog. Sign up here:
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Last Friday on @radionz #CritterOfTheWeek, @naturevision talked about the fairly disgusting isopods known as tongue lice (I'm saving the grosser photos for later in the thread because it's dinner time in NZ). Listen here:
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Had a lovely chat with @naturevision, looking forward to helping more with #CritterOfTheWeek and pitching WIkipedia ideas to @Forest_and_Bird now my stint as a digital librarian is drawing to a close.
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Smeagol the gravel maggot was the very first #CritterOfTheWeek, back in September 2015. Finally added a decent photo of it to Wikipedia, thanks to an openly-licensed @inaturalistnz observation by "Wild_wind" (name in your profile if you want to be properly credited, folks!).
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The #CritterOfTheWeek is a feather-munching mite that's only found on the plumage of the Great Spotted Kiwi. Meet Kiwalges haastii, named and described as recently 1985, and hear @naturevision and @JMulliganRNZ chat about it at 3:35.
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Nature photographers and #CritterOfTheWeek fans! This afternoon, 2:00–3:00 pm NZST, I'm running a #wikitutorial on adding your nature photos to @Wikicommons so anyone can use them (with credit) and they can illustrate Wikipedia articles. Sign up:
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I’m love to highlight this endangered species in Wikipedia and #CritterOfTheWeek but the only decent photo of it has a too-restrictive licence. So I’ll have to wait until @Te_Papa opens up its natural history collection photos.
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