#hippocampus

[greenfinchg-illustration]

Day 9 - MerMay2026

🐚 -MerPony - 🐚

[tridentandtales]

Roman ring, made from gold and aquamarine depicting a woman riding on a hippocamp

1st century AD

Altes Museum Berlin 30891 C

[elbdot]

We're going Windows 2000 with this one New seahorse dropped!! Based on the blackblotch foxface fish 🐠

His name is Koa :D I can't wait to include him in my Herds of Epona trading card set ;w; It's been a while since I got to expand on the series!! I haven't established an online store yet, but I will be selling the first sets of trading cards at Polaris this October! 🥰✨

Patreon | Herds of Epona

[the-cackling-jester]

I forgot about Mermay mb

I was distracted by sexy plant people

Cough

Anyway

Hippocampus sun my beloved <3 <3

Oh how I missed him, I need to redesign my hippocampus moon here in a bit

I have a different mer moon drawing in the works rn that’ll correlate to my other mer sun I posted a few days ago

Plus line art, without the spear, and a close up of his face

[ghoulgeists]

Infinite Lines Seahorse Attack... GO!!!

[thecapturedspy]

Junicorn Day 2: Hippocampus A Koi variant! 🧡🖤

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Gazing from afar activates place cells in chickadees

The results help explain how the hippocampus can recall information about a place without an animal physically revisiting it.

This new study out on chickadees is a great example of how the hippocampus is important to both memory and observation. In this case, black-capped chickadees were shown to have activity in that part of the brain both before gazing out on a wide area, and during their visual scan of the land.

This means that they are anticipating finding something interesting--perhaps a cache of food--before they even start actively looking. It also shows how they can orient themselves with a mental map fueled by their memory. And it demonstrates how the same cells in the hippocampus can have multiple roles, adding to our understanding of the complexity of the vertebrate brain.

None of this should surprise avid birders and other observers; we've seen birds and other animals return to caches of food. But it's another piece of the puzzle of how the brain processes the retention and retrieval of memory, and when these skills may have first evolved in animals millions of years ago.

[toyboxcore]

Tiny Bubbles having fun 🫧