“Geckos all the way down” is a work in progress.
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Sign
I’m all in favor of awareness raising campaigns, but sometimes I think we’re getting a little too specific.
Sea Otter Week!
Sea otters sing for their supper. This one is singing “The Sidewalks Of New York” by Nat Shilkret.
Ground Snake (Sonora semiannulata)
If you think about it, since snakes lay eggs that are much smaller than the actual snake, very tiny snakes must be what hatches out of them. However, until a little snake like this, it’s really hard to understand. This snake could fit inside a regular fast food straw. It’s long and curly but, really really tiny. The Internet suggest they can grow to about a foot in length, and this critter was about six inches long, so it was half grown … which means it started even smaller.
That’s right, you’re living in a world full of little teeny tiny snakes that you never even see.
Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia)
This burrowing owl is beginning to suspect that television news channels may not be fully focused on unbiased journalism.
Sea Otter Week!
Sea otters eat frozen shellfish sticks. They also eat lots of other things, but they’re not quite as fun.
Jaguar (Panthera onca)
If you had asked me before I took this shot, I would have been almost certain that jaguars had roughly even patterning across their sagittal plane. I would have been wrong.
Prairie Dog performing Richard II
Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks,
Which, like unruly children, make their sire
Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight:
Give some supportance to the bending twigs.
Sea Otter Week!
This is target training. At zoos, animals are taught a color/shape combination so they can be separated for medical checks.
Rodrigues Fruit Bat (Pteropus rodricensis)
Q: What is the first thing that bats learn at school?
A: The alphabat.
Lion (Panthera leo)
Yep. Valentine’s Day. Sure is thrilling.
Borneo eared frog (Polypedates otilophus)
After years of boxing, even frogs suffer from cauliflower ears and black eyes.
Rodrigues Fruit Bat (Pteropus rodricensis)
If you have the right mutation, you too could stick out your tongue and touch your nose. If you have lots of the right mutations, you would be a bat.
Poison Dart Frog
The yellow stripes help the frog jump faster.
Sign
One of these signs is redundant.
Poison Dart Frog
The skin of the dart frog exudes a form of poison. This is why it is unwise to drink the water when traveling in central America.
Common Ostrich (Struthio camelus)
When threatened, ostriches crouch down, spread their wings, and sway rapidly back and forth to scare off predators. Even though it is located behind the fence, this tree is profoundly dangerous.
Sign
It’s always interesting what a sign can tell you, both from what it does and does not say. For example, the snacks here are intended for ducks, chickens, and left hands. Though the snacks cost but twenty-five cents, they are critical enough that they warrant two padlocks. Also, the snacks are invisible.
River
It turns out, when you get a variable neutral density filter from Amazon Gold Box deals, it might not turn out to be a high quality piece of photographic gear. Still, some of the shots turned out OK.
Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)
This golden eagle is still sad that Bunheads was canceled before it really got a chance to succeed.