Hello,
As everybody knows, content discovery on Lemmy can sometimes be a bit tricky.
To help smaller communities to get more activity, I launch this thread for people to promote the communities they are active one.
One important criteria: please only promote communities that have been at least one post in the last 7 days. And if there is none, feel free to post there and then promote it here!
Animals:
!bunnies@lemmy.world !bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org !foxnews@lemmy.sdf.org (I promise this is about the animal, not the conservative American news network) !snakes@lemmy.world
I have been told before
!communityname@instancename.comstyle links do not work for everyone and that[link name](/c/communityname@instancename.com)works for others, so:bunnies@lemmy.world bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org foxnews@lemmy.sdf.org snakes@lemmy.world
Feel free to add more, these are just the animals I personally like enough to have sought out a Fediverse community for them
I block sports related stuff like I do other things im not interested in so when purusing all I don’t see it and almost blocked superb owls
I do kinda wish !superbowl@lemmy.world had gone with something else, as I’m not much into the Reddit copycat stuff, and it confuses people longer than it entertains them, but it was established before I got here.
I like to think it’s a bit different than the Reddit version as well. Much less memes and reposted stuff without context. I like to do longer form articles when I get the chance and people show interest. I’ve done some articles about owl anatomy and some ELI5 on some scientific journal articles. The Owl of the Year tournament ran for like 2-3 weeks in December and everyone had a blast with that, and I plan to do it again.
If there’s anything specific you want to see or learn about, just let me know.
I definitely appreciate when someone posts a long-form article about the animal in question, even if I don’t always have the energy to read it.
It’s fun to get a deeper dive into things more than just basic facts.
The lead scientist that discovered owls can hunt using only their ears later went on to do more groundbreaking research on whale communication. It was interesting to learn about the test enclosures and the methods used to see how much vision vs hearing played into hunting. There were also some great stories about how training owls is as much fun as training cats.
I’ve also read some papers on how other birds of prey hunt. They analyzed different vectors of attack and studied where the birds focus their eyes when they are attacking.
Just lots of insights on anatomy and behavior in general like how they time extending their talons and the orientations of the toes to maximize catching prey.
Even egg laying and hatching or growing feathers are all complex and amazing processes, and it’s a miracle all these things evolved to work the way they do.
The amount I’ve learned about owls this past year is crazy, and I still come upon new things all the time.
I just like the owl pictures when I scroll all :)
I do enjoy the great variety of animals one sees scrolling All these days. Not just cats and (surprisingly few) dogs, but birds, opossums, raccoons, and bats. Sometimes I get some cute pics of other beasties when I’m going through my animal rescue feeds and I like there’s good places to share those as well.
Thanks!