Sometimes you can’t fit all the guenon in the guenon suit and a little bit blips out.
Schmidts Red Tailed Guenon
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Leopard
This leopard has exhaustive knowledge of essential oils and is certain that one of them will resolve your problem.
Entirely coincidentally, this leopard also sells essential oils.
Ocelot
Your genetics determine being unable to curl your tongue and being an ocelot.
Black Headed Spider Monkey
Spider monkey wondering why we have to link words like “perfume” and “cologne” to gender instead of using the much more appropriate word “ac-scent”.
Florida Cottonmouth
This snake has been studying Solipsism and was thinking about the “brain in a jar” scenario. However, now she can’t stop wondering who made the jar.
Masai Giraffe
After I took this photo, he started lecturing me about low-carb, grain-free, ketogenic diets, and then offered me a free blade of grass – just so I could see what it was like.
Rhea
While I would prefer that wild animals not have to live in captivity, I support zoos because, first there’s not a lot of wild left and second, this bird would not survive in the wild.
You can make an argument that this bird shouldn’t survive and that evolution punishes accident-prone individuals in the same way it does genetics that don’t fit the environment. However, you can also make an argument that humans are altering the environment more quickly that evolutionary processes can adapt and that without a compensating mechanism, we will lose the majority of our biodiversity.
Both arguments are true. Only one applies to our lives and the lives of those we care about.
Palawan Peacock Pheasant
Pheasant puzzling over the fact that Emerald, Agate, Amber, Ruby, Crystal, and Beryl are all considered acceptable girls’ names, but name one kid “Spodumene” and you never hear the end of it.
Gulfodulcean Frog
This frog is already tired of pumpkin spice and wishes that people would just make their coffee the traditional way – grinding the coffee cherries into a paste, combining it with animal fat, rolling them into balls, and then drying them for easy transport.
Lion
This lion hasn’t gotten any of the things done that he planned for the weekend, but since Monday is a holiday, he’s sure he’ll get caught up tomorrow.
Turtle Wall
The wall is porous and low, doing a poor job of separating the turtles on one side from those on the other. However, it does meet its purpose of allowing the turtles who built the wall to feel they are better than the identical turtles on the other side.
Erica verticillata
This is another plant that is extinct in the wild. Though, unlike animals, plants can be easier to manage in captivity (or, as horticulturists call it, “in cultivation”), and has since been re-introduced.
Inula ensifolia
I’ve mentioned this before, but it constantly surprises me when yellow continues to be yellow in UV. I have to imagine that there’s something weird with either the visible light filter or the sensor in the modified camera. Whatever causes it, though, I like the effect.
Pelargonium (UV)
When flowers get bored, they play shadow puppets on themselves.
Monkey Puzzle Tree
The monkey puzzle tree is so-named because in 1850, barrister Benthamist Charles Austin saw one and said “It would puzzle a monkey to climb that.”
Yes. The truth is really that boring.
Welcome to English botany.
Flower
I wonder if any psychology studies exist around biased selection of flowers for “loves me / loves me not” decisioning. I would be unsurprised to learn that our brains pick out odd- or even-numbered petal counts based on the end result we desire.
Kew Pagota
There is a story about how having a common language helped humans to work together, achieving anything they imagined. The common belief is that the threat of these achievements caused their downfall. This is untrue.
It was really the comment sections.
Plant
Unlike the IR and visible range, normal camera sensors aren’t super sensitive to ultraviolet light. Additionally, glass blocks (most) UV, so you need a special lens to gather the light and focus it on the sensor. This results in a situation where you are always shooting at a higher ISO and smaller aperture than you would select for more standard photography, as well as working with a much smaller colour palette.
So, in a lot of cases, if you don’t have a dedicated UV studio (which I do not), you wind up with a grainy, tinted monochrome look.
I think it works though.
Chir Pine
This chir pine thought audition went extremely well but due to a typo by central casting, someone else was awarded the role of Steve Trevor.
Spider
In universe 614, Peter Parker got bit by a spider that was only γ radioactive, on a wavelength of 10-400 nm, and gained the proportional power of glowing at raves.