BaD 21 Feb 2024: Big Buckles/Weird Trousers
Dr Solki Blythe's uniform has a big buckle and weird trousers, but very practical for all her work with animals. Solki is Finnish for buckle. Sometimes those shorts get cold but for the most part she steps in a lot of, well, STUFF... so the shorts are much easier to clean.
Horned lizards (Phrynosoma -- means toad-bodied), also known as horny toads or horntoads, are a genus of North American lizards and the type genus of the family Phrynosomatidae. The common names refer directly to their flattened, rounded body and blunt snout.
I'm not sure which of these is the beauty and which is the beast. At the moment I am inclined to think that, as Pogo said, We have met the enemy and he is us.
In 2014, the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona petitioned the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation to have the Texas horned lizard put on the endangered species list due to the massive declines of its population in Oklahoma, where it was once plentiful. The Center said it may later seek protection for the animal on a Federal level; it also said that reptiles in general are dying off at up to 10,000 times their historic extinction rate, greatly due to human influences.
I was sad to learn of this yesterday as horny toads were a big part of my childhood in Oklahoma.
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Flickr Friday theme: Beauty and the Beast
BaD 21 Feb 2024: Big Buckles/Weird Trousers
Dr Solki Blythe's uniform has a big buckle and weird trousers, but very practical for all her work with animals. Solki is Finnish for buckle. Sometimes those shorts get cold but for the most part she steps in a lot of, well, STUFF... so the shorts are much easier to clean.
Horned lizards (Phrynosoma -- means toad-bodied), also known as horny toads or horntoads, are a genus of North American lizards and the type genus of the family Phrynosomatidae. The common names refer directly to their flattened, rounded body and blunt snout.
I'm not sure which of these is the beauty and which is the beast. At the moment I am inclined to think that, as Pogo said, We have met the enemy and he is us.
In 2014, the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona petitioned the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation to have the Texas horned lizard put on the endangered species list due to the massive declines of its population in Oklahoma, where it was once plentiful. The Center said it may later seek protection for the animal on a Federal level; it also said that reptiles in general are dying off at up to 10,000 times their historic extinction rate, greatly due to human influences.
I was sad to learn of this yesterday as horny toads were a big part of my childhood in Oklahoma.
Information from Wikipedia
created for
Flickr Friday theme: Beauty and the Beast