#kaluga

[sturgeonposting]

currently thinking about the lil baby (kaluga?) sturgeon jeremy wade found

Oh i think about her every day

The little baby, the hope of a generation

If we take care of our world we will see her in 40 years, 8 feet long, swimming along with babies of her own

[inatungulates]

Wisent Bos bonasus

Observed by anikeevv, CC BY-NC

Are bison Bison?

The two living species of wild cattle generally known as "bison" - American bison Bos bison and European bison or wisent Bos bonasus - have traditionally been in a genus of their own, the eponymous Bison, separate from other close relatives of domestic cattle. Genetic research, however, shows that the two bison are actually within the "true" cattle genus Bos, closely allied to the yaks Bos mutus and Bos grunniens. Keeping them separated in their own genus Bison would render Bos paraphyletic - that is, a lineage that is based around common ancestry but does not include all of that ancestor's descendants. The alternatives would be to split the genus Bos into several more-restricted genera (Poephagus for the yaks and Bibos for the South and Southeast Asian wild cattle) to keep the bison Bison, which is not ideal given the obvious close affinity that these cattle share; or, to lump the bison back into Bos. As should be obvious, the latter is the course followed here, as well as by the American Society of Mammalogists.

Ref:

American Society of Mammalogists. Bos bonasus Linnaeus, 1758. ASM Mammal Diversity Database.

Grange, T, J-P Brugal, L Flori, M Gautier, A Uzunidis, and E-M Geigl. 2018. The evolution and population diversity of bison in Pleistocene and Holocene Eurasia: Sex matters. Diversity 10(3):65.

Wang, K, JA Lenstra, L Liu, Q Hu, T Ma, Q Qiu, and J Liu. 2018. Incomplete lineage sorting rather than hybridization explains the inconsistent phylogeny of the wisent. Communications Biology 1:169.

[songs-of-the-east]

Ethnic Russian Girl from Kaluga

[cf8wrk4u-us]

TRANSFORMERS ONE MERMAY 2025

[zeldacd]

I saw the new Zelda game... specifically I was looking 👀 at the fact river zora exist alongside lake zora.

Not many know this about me (In fact, no one might), but this is an idea I've been infatuated with since I first played the oracle series (another couple of my all time favorite Zelda games, though I consider them both as one unit). In one of my older (dead) aus from over a decade ago, i played with the concept before, a Romeo and Juliet style romance between a river zora and a lake zora while their tribes are feuding. (Though back in that AU my river zora was closer to canon)

Its funny that despite how many things change, some things still stay the same. Here's my current AU river zora x lake zora OCs ❤

[vincentthepeopleeater]

Kaluga drawing!

This is one of my ocs Kaluga. She’s a siren, among other things. I’ll probably do some Peregrine art because Kaluga is nothing with Peregrine. Peregrine without Kaluga is happy-

[rethdis-love]

Little cute cosmonauts!

(два дня были в Калуге, космонавтиков 21 штука, мы сфоткали 18)

[henk-heijmans]

A senior citizen finds himself in the path of a group of athletes, Kaluga, Russia, 1988 - by Nicolai Nizov, Russian