It& #39;s International Day for Biodiversity! Reply with your favourite animal or plant. Like this tweet and I& #39;ll share one endemic species from the Philippines https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💚" title="Green heart" aria-label="Emoji: Green heart"> #IDB2020 #BiodiversityDay
My fave bird is the endangered Visayan tarictic hornbill https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥰" title="Smiling face with 3 hearts" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with 3 hearts"> In the wild, this species can now only be found in Negros and Panay islands. Follow Talarak Foundation on IG for news on their captive breeding program for these. #IBD2020 #BiodiversityDay
Staying with island endemics theme, here& #39;s a Visayan spotted deer. They& #39;re endangered. Endemic to West Visayan region but presently only known from forest patches in Negros & Panay. @silliman_u CENTROP has a captive breeding program for this species. #IBD2020 #BiodiversityDay
The Philippine guitarfish, a #sharkray endemic to the Philippines. It was described in 2014 from specimens collected at fish markets by my #PatingKaBa co-authors in 1999.
#IDB2020 #BiodiversityDay
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📸" title="Camera with flash" aria-label="Emoji: Camera with flash"> from Shark References https://bit.ly/2Zu8F44 ">https://bit.ly/2Zu8F44&q...
The Pogi perchlet discovered from a fish market in Iloilo City, Panay. It was described in 2015 and named in honor of another of my #PatingKaBa co-authors, @mudjiesantos. "Pogi" is a Filipino word for handsome https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😍" title="Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes">. #IDB2020 #BiodiversityDay
The Latigo fairy wrasse from the mesophotic depths of Philippine seas https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😍" title="Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes"> Described just 3 months ago by @FishGuyKai @CoralReefFish and colleagues.
#IDB2020 #BiodiversityDay https://twitter.com/FishGuyKai/status/1232023941679435777?s=19">https://twitter.com/FishGuyKa...
And these three mesophotic damselfishes from Mindoro and Batangas just described last year by @CoralReefFish and colleagues: Chromis gunting, C. bowesi, and C. hangganan #IDB2020 #BiodiversityDay https://twitter.com/CoralReefFish/status/1113857317416517633?s=19">https://twitter.com/CoralReef...
Not an endemic but because of their patchy distribution and small population size in the Philippines, I& #39;m spotlighting Irrawaddy #dolphins too. Here& #39;s a pregnant mum spotted in Guimaras Strait last year on one of @makoy28& #39;s surveys! #IDB2020 #BiodiversityDay
Last 1 for tonight, in honor of Daniel Bennett, who passed away recently. He worked for conservation of monitor #lizards in the https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇵🇭" title="Flag of Philippines" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Philippines">. Here& #39;s the Bitatawa, endemic to Northern Sierra Madre forest in Luzon. #IDB2020 #BiodiversityDay

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📸" title="Camera with flash" aria-label="Emoji: Camera with flash"> National Geographic: https://bit.ly/3cXgQK3 ">https://bit.ly/3cXgQK3&q...
Last 1 for tonight, in honor of Daniel Bennett, who passed away recently. He worked for conservation of monitor #lizards in the https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=. Here& #39;s the Bitatawa, endemic to Northern Sierra Madre forest in Luzon. #IDB2020 #BiodiversityDayhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📸" title="Camera with flash" aria-label="Emoji: Camera with flash"> National Geographic: https://bit.ly/3cXgQK3&q..." title="Last 1 for tonight, in honor of Daniel Bennett, who passed away recently. He worked for conservation of monitor #lizards in the https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇵🇭" title="Flag of Philippines" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Philippines">. Here& #39;s the Bitatawa, endemic to Northern Sierra Madre forest in Luzon. #IDB2020 #BiodiversityDayhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📸" title="Camera with flash" aria-label="Emoji: Camera with flash"> National Geographic: https://bit.ly/3cXgQK3&q..." class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
#DYK the world& #39;s largest fruit bat, Golden-crowned flying fox, can only be found in the Philippines? One of their roost sites is in Boracay. #IDB2020 #BiodiversityDay

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📸" title="Camera with flash" aria-label="Emoji: Camera with flash"> by Pol Cariño for Friends of the Flying Foxes Boracay. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/2AXmazj ">https://bit.ly/2AXmazj&q...
Critically endangered Visayan warty pigs in the wild can now only be found in fragmented forests of Negros & Panay. Last year, a zoo in Paris documented these pigs to use tools such as sticks to dig! Read more here: https://bit.ly/3e8BiIj 
https://bit.ly/3e8BiIj&q... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/IDB2020"> #IDB2020 #BiodiversityDay
#13 is the Philippine forest #turtle because it& #39;s also #WorldTurtleDay today! This freshwater species is known only from Palawan. More info about it here (where I also nicked this pic from): https://bit.ly/3d1PR04 

https://bit.ly/3d1PR04&q... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/IDB2020"> #IDB2020 #BiodiversityDay
#DYK there are 352 species of #butterflies endemic to the Philippines? Here are 2 Striped ringlet butterflies in courtship dance position photographed in Balinsasayao Twin Lakes https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥰" title="Smiling face with 3 hearts" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with 3 hearts">

Follow @jaa_99badon on his IG for more lepidopteran beauties https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦋" title="Butterfly" aria-label="Emoji: Butterfly">

#IDB2020 #BiodiversityDay
This miniature tarantula species described from Pangasinan last year is named after the legendary warrior princess, Urduja. It was found outside a cave forest. #MythologyInTaxonomy
#IDB2020 #BiodiversityDay

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📸" title="Camera with flash" aria-label="Emoji: Camera with flash"> and paper here: https://bit.ly/3eagvUG ">https://bit.ly/3eagvUG&q...
To round off this species count to 20 (for 20 likes so far), #DYK all 5 bleeding-heart pigeons in the Philippines are endemic? Each species is an island endemic too -- for example, Negros bleeding-heart pigeon can only be found in Negros & Panay! #IDB2020 #BiodiversityDay
And that concludes my #IDB2020 #BiodiversityDay #scicomm series! Thanks for following along https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😊" title="Smiling face with smiling eyes" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with smiling eyes">
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