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Welcome to r/Zoology: A community about the scientific study of the behavior, structure, physiology, classification, and distribution of animals. Please read the rules for submissions. Founded 2011 · 150K members

150.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 14.8K upvotes, which works out to 98 per 1,000 members.

98peak upvotes per 1,000 members
150.2Kmembers
14.8Kbest post
1.3Kmost comments
496posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

25% 21% 16% 16% 11% 11%
Image 25% Video 21% Gallery 16% Question 16% Text 11% Link 11%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Question 170 Discussion 82 Identification 61 Other 57 Article 16 Weekly Thread 7 Monthly Thread 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

What behavior is this?

↑ 14.8K 💬 1.3K video 2026

How come prairie dogs gather around another to hear it squeak?

↑ 14.8K 💬 594 video 2026

Could anyone explain why this anole wants to come inside so bad? She’s here every day…

↑ 13.2K 💬 784 video 2024

Is there a word for this behavior in pinnipeds? Where they put their snouts toward the sky to enable sight on their backside?

↑ 12.8K 💬 279 image 2026

What is the lion doing?

↑ 8.9K 💬 325 video 2026

I find it Saddening that there are only two alligator species alive today

↑ 8.8K 💬 167 gallery 2026

Is there an explanation for this? Is this just acidental?

↑ 8.7K 💬 316 video 2026

Domestic cats are devastating invasive predator that kill hundreds of billions of native animals worldwide per year, and do not belong outdoors and h…

↑ 8.2K 💬 894 image 2025

New giant squid footage, captured feeding on a diamondback squid near the surface

↑ 8K 💬 198 video 2025

How do you show love to an animal that can't display any emotions besides hunger?

↑ 7.5K 💬 292 video 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/zoology, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/zoology?
r/zoology describes itself this way: Welcome to r/Zoology: A community about the scientific study of the behavior, structure, physiology, classification, and distribution of animals. Please read the rules for submissions. It was founded in 2011 and has 150K members.
How many members does r/zoology have?
r/zoology has about 150.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 496 of its posts; the biggest reached 14.8K upvotes, which is 98 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/zoology?
"What behavior is this?" reached 14.8K upvotes and 1.3K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/zoology.
What subreddits are similar to r/zoology?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/PopCultureV2, r/SpaceXBets, r/interestingnewsworld, r/circled, r/International.
What kind of posts do best on r/zoology?
Of the posts we hold, 25% are image posts and 21% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/zoology?
Across 496 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 05:00 UTC (5.9K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (2.7K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 17:00 UTC (2.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/zoology?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/zoology has 4.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 101 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/zoology, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.