During times like these, it can be difficult to distinguish mothering from smothering.
Alligator
This alligator is in favor of whatever stupid and cruel thing the government has recently decided to do, because desperate people make good eatin’.
(I made the post in advance but these days it’s not hard to be topical.)
African Crowned Crane
Crane explaining why you shouldn’t worry about the coming economic crash predicted to be ‘worse than the great depression’:
“No, see, the Panama Papers showed us that the rich people have been moving their money overseas for decades, so the vast majority of the world’s monetary supply will be fine. Oh, your money? Your money that’s trapped in the United States? Yeah, that’s going to be worthless, but there’s no point in worrying about it because those same rich people have placed strong barriers in place preventing you from doing anything about it. Since there’s nothing you can do, why worry?”
Cranes aren’t terribly useful economic advisors.
Duckweed
In infrared, duckweed is white* and ducks are invisible**.
* Well, the sensor interprets it as “white”. Colours, even white, are tricky when you’re talking about non-visible light.
**Not really.
African Frog
Republican senator being reminded that women are people.
Bear
Bear pondering the fact that we had telegrams, then 140 character texts, then 140 character tweets with extensions (retweets, links, photos, etc), then doubled – and people are still writing “threads”.
Their minds will be blown when they discover paragraphs and essays.
City
It’s like some tripped and spilled their bucket of buildings
Mountain
Mountains usually stay put because they’re very sensitive and don’t want to destroy all the neat stuff we’ve built. They’ll wait until our bedtime and then sweep it all up when we’re not paying attention.
Air
Ten internet points to the person that first finds this on Google Earth.
Trilobite
I saw a documentary that suggested that they used a light acid to dissolve the soft rock away from a fossil like this, but I never understood how they figured out the fossil was in there in the first place.
Air
Cloud computing sounds cool, but you have to remember that clouds are one small part of the entire water cycle.
Remember to put bounds on your fractal generation scripts to prevent data leaks.
Passenger Pigeon
I prefer to photograph the living creatures instead of taxidermy. But once they’re gone, they’re gone.
Flight
Sometimes farmers get tired of doing a large-scale jigsaw and just slamming the pieces in with a mallet.
UV Flower
Since ultraviolet light doesn’t map to visual colours, sometimes I play with band separation to figure out what look I want. In general, the camera picks up UV light as red, orange, purple, and magenta, with two primary bands falling either into orange/purple or red/magenta. I can then use colour shifting to move them around a bit, and get this sort of blue. I think it looks nice.
UV Monarch
I have, thus far, been surprised to find that most butterflies look exactly the same in ultraviolet.
Dandelion UV
Yep. This is what dandelions look like in ultraviolet.
A lot of yellow flowers have similar patterning. It helps the bees know where to go.
(Bees aren’t that bright.)
Scarlet Ibis
This ibis knows all the secrets. The one about the Kells, the ones about NIMH and Roan Inish, and all the ones in Arrietty’s world.
This ibis is planning to infiltrate the Ya-Ya Sisterhood next.
Red Capped Cardinal
I’m pretty sure that body actually belongs to a different bird entirely.
Roseate Spoonbill
Little known fact: spoonbills never got around to inventing salad tongs.
American Alligator
This alligator likes eating people, thinks alligators should eat more people, and is pursuing this agenda.
This alligator, however, knows eating people is unpopular and actively works to hide true extent of his and his friends’ activities.
This alligator terms his behavior “resistance”.