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These gentle giants are wonderful creatures and the largest of the Macaw species. This one lives at the Fort Worth Zoo!
And this one is the star of the show. The almost light blue coloured cactus is native to South America and is very rare indeed. The owners informed us that it was worth several lakhs (a lakh is an Indian term for one hundred thousand, so one million is called ten lakhs in India). Due to this, this light blue cactus is kept securely locked inside a green house. (May 2009)
Yesterday's road trip of 515 miles with Pat and Judy Conner
was such a great day. They are longtime friends of mine, Pat is the one who taught me so much of what I know about photography. I have not seen them this year due to Covid so it was extra special to spend the day together. The first find we happened upon is this beautiful creature who stood there for the longest time and let us photo as much as we want. A friend of Pats was able to ID this is an African Waterbuck. I thought it kinda humorous that there is a circle around its tail looking like a target. Not sure if they are all like this.
26 July 2008 - Madagascar Exotic Reserve Peyrieras, Madagascar.
Southern Leaf-tailed Gecko or Mossy Leaf-tailed Gecko / Mosbladstaartgekko (Uroplatus sikorae).
Captive specimen.
There is still quite some debate within the scientific world on how to classify the suborders and infraordes within Squamata. Here I've joined the snakes and geckos together in one suborder (in a previous blog post I placed the snakes classically still in their own suborder).
Read the complete story at my blog: wildlifespotting.blogspot.com/2010/08/madagascar-day-2-le...
Click a link and you'll go to the page for that rank in the biological classification on Schaapmans' Wildlife Spotting.
Kingdom: Animalia;
Animals / Dierenrijk
Phylum: Chordata; Vertebrates / Gewervelden
Class: Reptilia; Reptiles / Reptielen
Order: Squamata; Scaled Reptiles / Schubreptielen
Suborder:Scleroglossa; Monitors, Snakes, Geckos, Skinks / Varanen, Gekko's, Skinken, Slangen
Infraorder: Gekkota; Geckos, Blind Lizards, Legless Lizards / Gekko's, Blinde Hagedissen, Slanghagedissen
Family: Gekkonidae; Geckos \/ Gekko's
Subfamily: Gekkoninae;
Genus: Uroplatus; Leaf-tail Geckos or Flat-Tail Geckos / Bladstaartgekko's
Species: Uroplatus sikorae; Southern Leaf-tailed Gecko or Mossy Leaf-tailed Gecko / Mosbladstaartgekko