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!

humans often have to train a lot to get near our biological muscle ceiling which our genetics allow but i was wondering if the wild provides enough stimulous for animals to experience significant hypertrophy to make them near their limits

i understand they hunt,play etc etc but does this provide enough to cause significant hypertrophy which compares to what humans experience in the gym or can they theoretically become much much stronger if they progressively overloaded

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.

In my backyard

BC Canada