Some broken branches aren’t what they appear to be.
Cheetah
Cheetahs earn one spot for each kill they make.
Blue Winged Kookaburra
Until I saw this one, I had thought there was only one species of kookaburra. No, it turns out there are four, so I have two more to track down.
American Alligator
Never understood why guard dogs were do popular when there are more effective methods available.
African Crowned Crane
Movies from the 1980’s gave me inaccurate expectations as to the fighting styles of cranes.
Black Bear
Black bear puzzled at how there can be international conspiracies to control the population through vaccines and “chemtrails”, to run a super-secret child sex group, and to cover up the existence of aliens, that is capable of hiding all evidence from the mainstream press, yet somehow unable to prevent people from talking about it on Facebook.
Kihansi Spray Toad
Last year, I was excited to see the Kihansi spray toad at the Bronx Zoo, as it was one of the few places it was possible to see them.
I had forgotten that there were some at the Chatanooga Zoo. The other place you can see them is the Toledo Zoo.
I haven’t been Toledo, which means that I’ve only seen two thirds of the global population of these little guys.
Yeah, you can’t find them in Kihansi anymore, just in zoos.
Fennec Fox
This fox thinks his sense of humor is his best feature, but no one notices because he lives in a an ear-obsessed world.
Bird
I am pretty sure this is actually a live-action cartoon of some sort.
Not Evil
He wasn’t evil. He was sure of that. He’d seen all the movies and knew all the signs. He didn’t have a mustache or goatee. His laugh was fairly flat and (embarrassingly) a bit high pitched.
More seriously, he’d never really hurt anyone – not physically anyway – not with intent, and that’s really all that mattered. It wasn’t his fault of people put themselves in harm’s way.
He never killed anyone … well, not directly. You couldn’t blame him if people took the things he said literally. Their actions, their choices, were their own.
He’d never even made those policy changes everyone accused him of. Others came to him with the ideas. Saying “yes” and signing something couldn’t be evil. Lots of people do those things and they’re all fine.
Yet, every day, they’d point and call him the devil, evil incarnate, as if every single ill in the world was traced directly to himself. That couldn’t be right. It was just business – and business was good. After all, opportunistic times called for opportunistic measures.
No. He wasn’t evil. They were all wrong. They were fools. Some day they’d see the truth. He’d show them all.
But first, he had some things to sign.
Poison Dart Frog
Frog thinking about how, when capitalistic societies use currency as the one and only variable, it becomes impossible to combat injustices perpetrated by the rich and powerful as there are limits to both the amount of money that can be leveraged in opposition and on what harms money can cure.
Green Tree Python
They say that animals are more afraid of you than you are of them. This is not always true.
This snake is only afraid of a life poorly lived – having made no contribution to future generations, left no legacy, and been meaningless to everyone.
Screech Owl
Resting with the satisfaction of finally having learned how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop.
Birds
Infraredwing blackbirds
Red Brocket Deer
Still waiting on the pigs.
Puma
I wasn’t allowed to get close to the pumas because the cubs were new and not yet used to people.
Fortunately, I had a pretty good lens with me.
Frog
Frog wondering if the story about forty days and nights of rain was actually an early attempt at accelerated weathering as a technique to pull excess carbon from the atmosphere.
Capybara
Must be trainee day at UFO Abductions, Inc.
Chickadee
Chickadee wondering if vampires would have super-powers on the planet Krypton.
Spiderlights
This is fine, right?
I mean, it’s clearly not a real spider, so no one out there should have a problem with this photo, right?