Biologists Are Tweeting Photos Of Animal Booty With The Hashtag #WildBum

    Wild Bum Awards 2016

    Biologists on Twitter are trying to find the most impressive animal butt.

    Chipmunk, because #wildbum needs more rodents.

    Gabriella, a 26-year-old biologist from the University of Edinburgh, told BuzzFeed News that it all started on Thursday evening with a photo of a musk duck bum.

    .@Lee__Mc @AnneWHilborn Musk duck bum! I feel like this deserves a hashtag. #WildBum?

    "It started innocently enough," she said. "[It] was born out of all of those photos where no matter how hard you try you end up with a blurry shot or a bum shot of the animal."

    "For each decent photo there will be dozens, sometimes hundreds of misses - and a lot of them are bum shots."

    Biologists started sharing their own pictures, and the #WildBum competition was born.

    Some bums were magical looking, like this sea urchin's.

    Of course, not all bums look alike...(Astropyga radiata) #wildbum @AmidstScience

    Some bums were really big.

    If we are doing this then zebra #wildbum is best #wildbum

    Really big!

    Not a shark, but definitely our best #wildbum photo!

    And some were really small.

    By far the cutest #wildbum I've seen, here's a baby sooty mangabey being enthusiastically groomed by his mother.

    Other bums were hard to miss.

    Who are you looking at?! Pronghorn does. #wildbum

    Some animal bums were probably best to admire from a distance.

    A #wildbum you DO NOT want to get close to...

    But doesn't mean they were any less bootylicious, like the toned bum of this Sitatunga.

    Sitatunga says: "Does my bum look big in this river?" #wildbum #animals

    And this spiky Turtle backside.

    .@TaskForceTurtle @AquaTurtlesRule Three can play at that game #wildbum #spikybum #teamturtle

    Other bums were cute and fluffy.

    This Marmot had a nice round one.

    Ok, lets leave Oz #wildbum for a sec. How about a marmot one?

    Some biologists couldn't wait to share their favourite animal bums...

    Been waiting my entire Twitter life for #wildbum to come around! Marvellous female Mallard, uncommonly elegant.

    Like the flamboyant backside of the red shafted northern flicker.

    Here's my addition to #wildbum Red shafted Northern Flicker 😃

    And the beautiful blue bum of this Steller's Jay.

    Wait...what? #wildbum is a thing today? MY TIME HAS COME! Steller's Jay #becurious

    The Antarctic fur seal pup has a cute and squidgy one.

    An #Antarctic fur seal pup's #wildbum: all fur and flippers.

    Thank you, biologists, for sharing such fabulous booty!

    This hartebeest was proudly shaking his derriere #wildbum