Luke Lythgoe
🦌➡️🦘 | Laurasian in Gondwana
📢🌱🦎 | Communicating #biodiversity
📸📽️🤳🏼 | All my own unless credited otherwise
Visit me at luke-lythgoe.bio
- Fluted Giant Clam on John Brewer Reef, on the #GreatBarrierReef 🪸 Giant clams are hermaphrodites, developing both male and female sex organs. #BiodiversityMonth #Australia
- Brolgas at Corroboree Billabong #NT A member of the crane family, renowned for their spectacular courtship dances. (This photo isn't showing that...) #BiodiversityMonth #Australia
- Just dipping a toe into the very diverse damselfish family (Pomacentridae) with this post. The Fishes of Australia website lists 161 species in Australian waters alone... "Nemo" being the most famous 🐠 fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/family/... #fish #reef #scicomms #biology #australia
- Our #FishOfTheWeek this week is… the Banded Humbug (Dascyllus aruanus) 🐟 👇More #fishfacts and the latest #research featuring ASFB members: doi.org/10.7717/peer... 🌐 Info via Fishes of Australia: fishesofaustralia.net.au #Australia #fish #biology
- It's International #FlamingoDay. Here are some American Flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber) I saw in the Santuario de Fauna y Flora Los Flamencos near #Riohacha in #Colombia 🦩🇨🇴 By far the best #flamingo plumage, imho. Deeper pink, black wings 🤌 #ornithology #birds #biodiversity #nature #wildlife
- The key information in this post is knowing the difference between Whitetip Reef #Sharks (not very dangerous) and Oceanic Whitetips (pretty dangerous) 🦈 What part of the ocean they're living in is a good place to start 🪸 🌊 #fish #biology #marine
- Our #FishOfTheWeek this week is… the Whitetip Reef Shark (Triaenodon obesus) 🐟 👇More #fishfacts and the latest ASFB #research below. #Australia #fish #biology
- I've just finished another #YouTube #video from an Australian #nationalpark: the Dandenongs 📹🥾 It's half an hour of... 🎶 Lyrebirds mimicking stuff 🪶 Kookaburras scary laughing 🌿 Very tall ferns 🌳 Even taller eucalyptus #biodiversity #botany #nature #wildlife #travel youtu.be/G2pZ8toLhI0?...
- Reposted by Luke Lythgoe🌿 Our new study in @natplants.nature.com: Most European temperate forest plants are associated with semi-open, herbivore-shaped habitats—not closed-canopy #forests 🐎🌳🔆🌸 Highlights the need for trophic #rewilding in #conservation & need to avoid uniform dense #reforestation🌿 📄 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
