#hippocampus

Day 9 - MerMay2026

An interpretation of a hippocampus done for @doxiedreg

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

1st century AD

*Hands you a Horse Orca...a HORCA* Here :)

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

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.