I cannot be reborn as a velociraptor, but I can study lizard behaviour and coloration. Close enough.

Joined February 2012
160 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
Excited to share our latest paper on lizard contests and agonistic signals! Read on for a daydream on how being a lizard could be like, disguised as a discussion on the relative impact of static colour patches and behavioral displays in animal contests 🧵 academic.oup.com/beheco/arti…
5
19
34
5,212
Javier Ábalos retweeted
Analicemos datos que ha presentado el @mapagob_ el mes pasado. Habrá sorpresas? #LaVerdadDeLaCaza #NoALaCaza
1
9
11
306
Javier Ábalos retweeted
🚨 Fifty years of research on "badges of status" in animals, and we still don't know if the hypothesis holds. In our new reply, we argue that the evidence is shakier than recently claimed. 📄 doi.org/10.1002/ece3.73578 💻 Code & data github.com/ASanchez-Tojar/me…
1
2
210
Javier Ábalos retweeted
For obvious reasons, mating in hedgehogs is a delicate operation. The female has to adopt a special body position with her spines flattened. On the bright side, newborn hoglets have no spikes.

420
754
7,729
5,810,500
Javier Ábalos retweeted
En su momento dijimos que la ley de bienestar animal estaba tan mal planteada que iba a traer paradojas y problemas. Pues ya van llegando... Sobre linces y gatos callejeros theconversation.com/linces-q…
10
50
100
6,363
Javier Ábalos retweeted
Cristo ha vencido a la Muerte. Cada año procesionan en la Semana Santa española las "Caninas", los esqueletos que forman parte de las alegorías del Triunfo de la Cruz sobre la Muerte. La más célebre es la de Sevilla. Pero hay más... ↘️
9
93
747
61,623
Javier Ábalos retweeted
Online now: The evolutionary shadows of whaling dlvr.it/TRYxPR
16
45
2,100
Javier Ábalos retweeted
In an attempt to explain just why it is that some 77 million Americans voted for the dumbest man alive to be their president for a second time, I’m absolutely delighted to present you with the expanded list of US food that you cannot legally sell in Europe!🧵
1,277
5,212
36,359
4,912,810
Javier Ábalos retweeted
Why does this inspire such disgust and conflict in us? It's hard to argue that this solution isn't better. Better a brainless sack of protein than a living creature capable of pain, longing to see the sky but forced to live in hideous lifelong bondage. So why does the Harvest Hen or the Domesticated Meat Pig feel worse? I think it's because it makes the instrumentalization visible. We already treat living creatures as production units, but this takes it "too far"... it stops pretending otherwise. An organism that has been openly, unapologetically designed as a object. And for some people, in some ways, something about that honesty is harder to look at than the cruelty we've already normalized. Original brainless meat pig "bodyoid" art by @Coolio_Art made me want to make my own.
the ultimate solution is through technology we engineer what has been called a bodyoid: brainless animal bodies that provide as much meat as we desire without harming any sentient beings this would transform medicine - the same platform would allow us to grow organs on demand, eliminate transplant waiting lists, and produce perfectly matched tissues for each patient experimental therapies could be tested on full biological systems without involving conscious animals, regenerative medicine would accelerate as entire replacement tissues become manufacturable in the same way that agriculture turned food from a scarce resource into an abundant one, engineered bodyoids would turn biological material into infrastructure - meat without slaughter, organs without donors, and medical research without sentient suffering
464
556
7,356
600,803
Javier Ábalos retweeted
Watching wildlife documentaries you would think the world was teeming with wild life But in reality there is hardly any wildlife left and what remains is rapidly being destroyed What took billions of years of Earth fine tuning is being destroyed in a few decades
Humans and their livestock now account for more than 96 percent of all mammal biomass on the planet. Actual wild animals are only a tiny, tiny sliver by comparison.
28
974
2,551
41,969
Javier Ábalos retweeted
La vida dels rapinyaires no és senzilla. Tirar endavant suposa un fràgil equilibri entre costos i beneficis, que es trenca quan uns quants perdigons entren en joc 🦅 ✍️ i 📸 @RGarcia_Roa via secció «Focus verd» núm.127 metode.cat/revistes-metode/s…
1
1
99
Javier Ábalos retweeted
Lizards and the colors we can’t see! 🦎✨ Juvenile Podarcis muralis undergo ontogenetic color changes that are invisible to humans but perceptible to conspecifics, likely functioning as social signals. #Herpetology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
2
3
85
The African wild ass (𝘌𝘲𝘶𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘴) is the most endangered wild equid in the world. 🐎 Found mostly in Eritrea and Ethiopia, the species’ numbers (approximately 200 mature individuals) are declining due to climate change and human and livestock impacts. In Eritrea, however, the population is stable and slowly increasing due to strong commitment from the government and local communities. 🌍 At our upcoming #CMSCOP15, more #MigratorySpecies will be considered for international conservation measures under our Convention. Learn more: cms.int/news/42-amendments-t… #MigratoryMonday
9
15
632
Javier Ábalos retweeted
Me llamo Jesús Martínez del Vas y soy ilustrador tradicional. ¿Me ayudas a difundir mi trabajo con un retuit? Cada vez que compartas, curas a un gatito, haces feliz a un unicornio, y ademas apoyas arte humano frente a la IA. ¡Mil gracias!
292
10,947
11,769
256,413
Javier Ábalos retweeted
Si tota la vida a la Terra pesés 100 kg: 80 kg serien de plantes 14 kg de bacteris 2 kg de fongs 4 kg d’animals, que es distribuirien així… 2,4 kg d’humans 1,2 kg de bestiar 0,2 kg d’insectes 0,13 kg de peixos 0,06 kg d’animals salvatges Bon dia!
40
212
1,128
50,245
Javier Ábalos retweeted
En el marc del projecte d’elaboració del catàleg d’aràcnids del @PNMontserrat, en @MDomenech6 ha dissenyat un pòster amb algunes de les principals espècies presents al #ParcNatural. 🕷️🦂 Les reconeixeu? N’heu vist cap durant les vostres sortides?
8
64
227
8,391
Javier Ábalos retweeted
Replying to @WhiteHouse
How Global Warming Causes Extreme Cold.
74
217
2,608
78,554
Javier Ábalos retweeted
Two new Science studies on lizard coloration reveal how a delicate interplay of genetics, environment, and social dynamics can either preserve or erase polymorphic diversity in species. 📄: scim.ag/49so9rS 📄: scim.ag/4aGsABy
9
50
217
18,299
Javier Ábalos retweeted
El 86% de los lobos muertos en Europa, mueren por causas humanas. La caza es la principal causa: el 60% de todos los lobos muertos, han sido cazados (legal o ilegalmente). No es un problema de coexistencia, el objetivo es exterminar al lobo onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
2
131
163
2,713