@eric_wyldEric Wyld

Joey’s dad. 🐕 Behavioral Ecology | PhD candidate | Science communicator 📚 Teaching through TBI recovery. 🧠 @eric_wyld on instagram

card updated Oct 27, 2026 · 12 clips parsed · following 3,812 · 356,600 likes total

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Engagement14.55%above average

Account summary

@eric_wyld has 25,500 followers and 78 videos. Across the 12 parsed clips the average is 128,002 views and 17,658 likes. Engagement to views is 14.55%, which is above average for TikTok. On the newer half of the feed the response is rising (+5.78 pp). Posts roughly 0.7 times a week. An average clip reaches 502% of the follower count.

Followers

25.5K

+1.4K in period

Engagement

14.55%

+5.78 pp newer half

Average views

128K

median 7.2K

Likes per clip

17.7K

405 comments avg

Shares / saves

565 / 2.3K

1.82% of viewers save

Posting rate

0.7 / wk

reach 502% of followers

Latest clips

12 collected

Do animals know why they’re behaving the way they are? Do you? Works c — @eric_wyld

2K4:39Do animals know why they’re behaving the way they are? Do you? Works cited: Skead CJ, 1959. Ostrich 30(S1):274. doi:10.126847514

Does your type change as you age? Mine has always been Channing Marie — @eric_wyld

2.5K4:20Does your type change as you age? Mine has always been Channing Marie Tatum in Step Up idk about yall Works cited: Col30920330

Can we change our type? Works cited: Fowler-Finn & Rodriguez 2012, J E — @eric_wyld

6.5K4:58Can we change our type? Works cited: Fowler-Finn & Rodriguez 2012, J Evol Biol, 25:1855, 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.025738354722136

Replying to @South Sound Sapphic Otters rule Register to vote: https:/ — @eric_wyld

2.1K11:03Replying to @South Sound Sapphic Otters rule Register to vote: https://vote.gov/ Sources: Belanger et al. 2011, IUCN O23524520

100 men vs 1 gorilla Sources: Smith & Jungers 1997, J Hum Evol, 32:523 — @eric_wyld

20K6:09100 men vs 1 gorilla Sources: Smith & Jungers 1997, J Hum Evol, 32:523, 10.1006/jhev.1996.0122 (body mass: ~170 kg male2.5K17541166

Don’t fight chimps Bauman 1926, J Mammalogy 7:1. Chirchir et al. 2015, — @eric_wyld

399.1K7:31Don’t fight chimps Bauman 1926, J Mammalogy 7:1. Chirchir et al. 2015, PNAS 112:366. Hare 2017, Annu Rev Psychol 68:15570.3K3.2K2.8K5.1K

What can a face really tell us? If someone is hot are they better at t — @eric_wyld

9.5K4:32What can a face really tell us? If someone is hot are they better at their jobs? Photos from wikimedia unless cited. W68940986

In 1926 they shot the last wolf in Yellowstone. In 1981 Reagan fired 1 — @eric_wyld

7.7K4:25In 1926 they shot the last wolf in Yellowstone. In 1981 Reagan fired 11,000 air traffic controllers. Both had cascading 873352642

Instagram face isn’t fake. Most of it is real, surgical, permanent. Th — @eric_wyld

6.4K2:58Instagram face isn’t fake. Most of it is real, surgical, permanent. The problem is that it’s all the same face, and a si637501759

Sometimes, your type maybe be filtered before you even assess a mate’s — @eric_wyld

6.8K3:11Sometimes, your type maybe be filtered before you even assess a mate’s traits. Photos from wikimedia commons. One thin630321174

everyone has a type. most people could give you a list. but the list i — @eric_wyld

949.6K1:50everyone has a type. most people could give you a list. but the list isn't the interesting part. where did it come from?110.1K1K2.9K18.5K

They built muscular bodies to look alive while the government looked a — @eric_wyld

123.9K2:46They built muscular bodies to look alive while the government looked away. But, the body could lie. So the community mad24.5K1301K3.7K

Engagement per clip

12 parsed clips · newest on the right · click a bar to open the clip peak: 20.7% ER

Jun 11Sep 2Oct 3

Date	Views	Likes	Comments	Shares	Saves	ER
Oct 3, 2026	1,994	268	47	5	14	16.05%
Oct 2, 2026	2,457	309	20	3	30	13.51%
Sep 25, 2026	6,461	835	47	22	136	13.99%
Sep 20, 2026	2,086	235	24	5	20	12.66%
Sep 6, 2026	20,000	2,518	175	41	166	13.67%
Sep 2, 2026	399,100	70,300	3,217	2,756	5,068	19.11%
Aug 31, 2026	9,501	689	40	9	86	7.77%
Aug 28, 2026	7,710	873	35	26	42	12.11%
Aug 22, 2026	6,438	637	50	17	59	10.94%
Aug 8, 2026	6,778	630	32	11	74	9.93%
Jul 18, 2026	949,600	110,100	1,041	2,877	18,545	12.01%
Jun 11, 2026	123,900	24,500	130	1,012	3,683	20.70%