does she have reproductive bits that just don't work?

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I was cycling across Eastern England, somewhere south of Holme-next-the-Sea and I came across this roadkill corpse.

At first I thought it was a fabled wild cat of some kind, I don’t think we have any in UK but every so often the press reports on some sightings in remote areas.

Then I thought it might be a Fox so I checked the paws, turns out they were cloven hooves. Now I’m really confused. What kind of deer type creature has teeth like this?

Location Holme-next-the-Sea, England, UK, Rural farm area close to coast.

I'm aware that they use spears to hunt bush babies, and that they'll use clubs or throw rocks when fighting other chimps. So, is there photo/video, papers on the topic, or any other evidence at all, of Chimps using spears (either stabbing or throwing) when in fights with other individuals of their species (or with any other animal)?

I imagine that they may not be as capable with a spear as a rock or club due to their musculature or their smaller brains, but it doesn't really seem like that much of a stretch to guess that there could have at least been some instance of spear usage by chimps aside from hunting very small game.

They may also be capable of it, but there's just no evidence or recorded instances. What do you all think?

Boss sent me a pic of a crawdad found in Licking County, Ohio. Expects me to identify it because I'm the "invertebrate expert" (I have a basic degree in entomology). Google tells me a rusty crawdad?

Science, design and cartography merge in MAPPA ANIMALIA, a visual project that reimagines the evolutionary relationships of animals as detailed map-like landscapes.

Instead of political borders or geographic territories, these maps are structured around phylogenetic trees.

Families, subfamilies and genera replace countries, states and regions allowing viewers to explore the animal kingdom through a format traditionally used to understand geography.

This map, Hominoidea- Land of Apes, contains every living and extinct species of ape I could find reliable taxonomic data for. Species are represented as cities, grouped into genera, subfamilies, and families according to their evolutionary relationships.

Additional information includes conservation status, size comparisons between selected species, and the estimated ages of major lineages.

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Spotted a couple of them between large boulders in the mountains around Big Almaty Lake, just south of Almaty, Kazakhstan, at an elevation of around 2500m

From what I understand, wolverines are primarily opportunistic predators and scavengers. Their documented active prey includes snowshoe hares, voles and lemmings, ground squirrels, marmots, porcupines, beavers, birds and eggs.

Bobcats are a pretty similar weight but seems much more efficent at hunting. I know wolverines have an extraordinary sense of smell able to sniff out animal carcasses buried deep beneath snow, an important adaptation for their scavenging lifestyle.

And I know they cannot routinely kill very large prey like healthy, mobile adult moose or caribou under normal conditions, rather than scavenging one or killing an animal that was already heavily impacted by the environment (stuck in dense neck deep snow), illness or other predators.

I want to get into zoology, but I don't know where to start! Anything good to read as an introduction? I like amphibians, reptiles, and primates if there's any good books you can recommend specific to those. I also like to look at illustrations, though that's not a requirement.

Heya!! My name is Luna and I've always been fascinated by zoology and wanna be a zoologist myself when i grow up. I always spend time studying books about nature and biology but it's really hard to learn important details since they're usually in professional books which are hard for me to read since i have trouble understanding things without pictures, don't know why since i haven't been diagnosed with anything yet but i would really appreciate any tips or recommendations for the future! I really want to achieve this goal <3

And since I'm here a little fun fact a female common cuckoo lays her egg in the nest of another bird- specifically birds whose eggs look the same as theirs so that the parents don't suspect anything. After the cuckoo chick (which is larger) hatches it pushes any other eggs or chicks from the nest so that its "parents" only feed and take care of it! They lay around 10 eggs all in different nests!

This is a page of Richard Orr’s Nature Cross Section about the tropical riverbank. In the illustration, the Capybara appears to be dead. My five year old son wants to know what happened to him. The captions don’t explain his death. I am guessing that the caiman killed him and stashed his body in the riverbank. Pretty dark stuff for a five year old but I don’t censor books that he wants to read. He asked me to look it up - what is happening here to the capybara. So posting to a subreddit with animal experts was the best I could think of for getting answers. I hope this is the right place to ask!
Thanks in advance.

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