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An American Alligator (Alligator Mississippiensis) slowly glides thru the moss covered lake at Brazos Bend State Park, Texas, USA.
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"There are some who will say that Charlie Hebdo tempted the ire of Islamists one too many times, as if coldblooded murder is the price to pay for putting out a magazine. The massacre was motivated by hate. It is absurd to suggest that the way to avoid terrorist attacks is to let the terrorists dictate standards in a democracy." NY Times
Island Of Madagascar
Off The East Coast Of Africa
Berenty Reserve
Another image of the unknown chameleon I first posted from Madagascar, but this time I found out the name of the chameleon and changed it. The previous image shows the chameleon with a slightly different color pattern.
The first image can be seen in the first comment section.
Wikipedia-
Furcifer verrucosus, also known as the warty chameleon, spiny chameleon or crocodile chameleon, is a species of small reptile endemic to Madagascar. It was first described by Georges Cuvier in 1829.
The warty chameleon is found only on the island of Madagascar including Manderano in the Tulear region. It occurs over much of the west part of the island and in drier parts of the south. It is seldom found in primary rainforest but favours arid disturbed land, including near the sea. It is a terrestrial species and also climbs around in low bushes. In hot weather it sometimes retreats into a sandy burrow to keep cool.
There are two subspecies, Furcifer v. verrucosus and Furcifer v. semicristatus, the latter being found mainly in the southernmost part of the island. This chameleon is closely related to Oustalet's chameleon Furcifer oustaleti (Malagasy giant chameleon), the pair forming a species complex, but each member of the group may be a cryptic species (two species indistinguishable in the field and currently believed to be a single species) and the exact taxonomical relationship between members of the group is unclear.
The warty chameleon feeds largely on insects which it catches with its long sticky tongue. The female lays one clutch of 30 to 60 eggs a year and these are incubated for about 200 days. They hatch into juvenile chameleons which may take six months to a year to become mature.
The eastern lubber is surely the most distinctive grasshopper species in the southeastern United States. It is well known both for its size and its unique coloration. The wings offer little help with mobility for they are rarely more than half the length of the abdomen. This species is incapable of flight and can jump only short distances. The eastern lubber is quite clumsy and slow in movement and mostly travels by walking and crawling feebly over the substrate.
Lubbers have aposematic colouration: their bright colours warn predators that they are not palatable. In the wild, if approached by a predator, the lubber will display its red rear wings, which are normally kept folded beneath the front wings. If the predator is not scared off by the colour warning and comes into contact with the lubber, the lubber will secrete a foam from its thorax that creates a chemical mist around the insect. A bad odour and a hissing noise accompany this chemical mist. If that does not deter the predator, the lubber regurgitates a toxin-rich liquid made from recently-eaten plant material that contains noxious chemicals. In this way, the insect recycles the noxious chemicals it ingests to protect itself from being ingested. This regurgitate is called "tobacco spit" and can stain clothing. The loggerhead shrike is one bird that has learned to eat the lubber. It impales the grasshopper and lets it sit for a few days. The toxins dissipate leaving the grasshopper edible.
"It feels like ... times have changed."
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Diorama by RK
Iguana iguana (Green Iguana)
Family: Iguanidae (Iguanas)
Order: Squamata (Lizards and Snakes)
Class: Reptilia (Reptiles)
An American Alligator (Alligator Mississippiensis) slowly glides thru the moss covered lake at Brazos Bend State Park, Texas, USA.
Tenerife. Icod de los Vinos
Mariposario del Drago
Papilio rumanzovia
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Tenerife. Icod de los Vinos
Mariposario del Drago.
Papilio maackii
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Island of Madagascar
Off The East Coast of Africa
Peyrieras Madagascar Exotic Reserve
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Here's a Parson's chameleon showing different colors from the last one I posted which can be seen in the first comment section.
Wikipedia-
The Parson's chameleon (Calumma parsonii) is a large species of chameleon that is endemic to isolated pockets of humid primary forest in eastern and northern Madagascar.
A long-lived species, C. parsonii may not reach sexual maturity until they are 3 - 5 years of age and may live to be more than 20 years old. C. parsonii are native to the primary rainforests of the elevated eastern area of Madagascar, up to an altitude of about 7,000 feet. However, their range extends all the way down to the eastern coast, where trade winds bring moisture ladden air to the land.
Parson's are very stationary animals. Adults may go for long periods without moving except to eat, drink, mate or deficate. They also do not spend much time basking, like many other true chameleons. They will, however, sit in the sun for short periods and slightly flatten one side of their body toward the sun. These sunning sessions are rarely more than 10 - 15 minutes long and usually take place early in the morning as soon as sun is available.
Near threatened according to the IUCN red list. The loss of humid forest, mainly through conversion from slash-and-burn agriculture but also due to logging, is a threat to this species. Much of the habitat of this species is extremely fragmented, and small forest fragments are unlikely to be viable to ensure persistence of this large chameleon that occurs at low densities.
Found this guy along the trail in Lehigh Gorge State Park, PA this afternoon, sunning himself after the last two cold rainy days, this is the Northern Water Snake. Often confused with Copperheads, but check those eyes and markings. Round pupils is non-venomous and the hourglass pattern on the Copperhead is thin on the top, in this example the hourglass pattern in thin along the sides.
Tech Specs: Canon 6D, Canon EF100mm f/2.8L Macro, hand held. Date: May 15, 2019. Location: Lehigh Gorge State Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
This guy went into full territory dance for me... pushing himself up like this on his feet..and then going back on his belly.. I love that you can see that fantastic blue on his underside.
Face to face, American Alligators don't flinch when encountered in the wild. Most of the time they just give an unnerving stare to remind you whose "turf" you're on.
Island of Madagascar
Off The East Coast of Africa
Peyrieras Madagascar Exotic Reserve
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This is the female of the species. The female is wild and was photographed in the forest. The female does not have a horn. An image of the male is seen in the first comment section.
The Parson's chameleon (Calumma parsonii) is a large species of chameleon that is endemic to isolated pockets of humid primary forest in eastern and northern Madagascar.
Tenerife. Icod.
Mariposario del Drago
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India. Nagaland.
Kisama heritage village near Kohima. This is the location of the yearly hornbill festival.
In the early morning the site was littered with moths and night butterflies.
The big one is Lyssa zampa
Thanks to hkmoths, the name of the small one:
Botyodes asialis
Crambidae, Spilomelinae
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Tenerife. Icod.
Mariposario del Drago
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A butterfly is cold-blooded and cannot fly or eat if their body temperature is below 82F – 28C. You find butterflies basking in the sun with their wings open to gain heat and then the veins in the wings carry heat to the rest of the body. A Clipper butterfly has a sense organ on their feet for tasting. When the caterpillar emerges from its eggshell it is the first thing that it eats and then it goes on to eat the plant on which it hatched. When it becomes a butterfly it will feed mostly on nectar from flowers, rotting fruit and water with a proboscis which is a long narrow tube in their mouth that looks like a straw, when it has finished eating it rolls the tube back up, the two antenna on the top of their heads are used to smell, hear and feel. They have three pairs of legs and their feet have little claws that help them stand on flowers.
Malaysia rainforest
its hot & dry..... they are turning yellow from the usual green.... Oriental Whipsnake
Geckos are lizards belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from 1.6 to 60 cm. Most geckos cannot blink, but they often lick their eyes to keep them clean and moist. They have a fixed lens within each iris that enlarges in darkness.Geckos are unique among lizards in their vocalizations. They use chirping sounds in social interactions with other geckos. They are the most species-rich group of lizards, with about 1,500 different species worldwide. The New Latin gekko and English "gecko" stem from the Indonesian-Malay gēkoq, which is imitative of the sound the animals make.All geckos, excluding the Eublepharidae family, lack eyelids and instead have a transparent membrane, which they lick to clean. Nocturnal species have excellent night vision; their eyes are 350 times more sensitive to light than the human eye.Most gecko species can lose their tails in defense, a process called autotomy. Many species are well known for their specialized toe pads that enable them to climb smooth and vertical surfaces, and even cross indoor ceilings with ease (one hypothesis explains the ability in terms of the van der Waals force). These antics are well-known to people who live in warm regions of the world, where several species of geckos make their home inside human habitations. These species (for example the house gecko) become part of the indoor menagerie and are often welcomed, as they feed on insects, including mosquitoes. Unlike most lizards, geckos are usually nocturnal and are great climbers.The largest species, the kawekaweau, is only known from a single, stuffed specimen found in the basement of a museum in Marseille, France. This gecko was 60 cm (24 in) long and it was likely endemic to New Zealand, where it lived in native forests. It was probably wiped out along with much of the native fauna of these islands in the late 19th century, when new invasive species such as rats and stoats were introduced to the country during European colonization. The smallest gecko, the Jaragua sphaero, is a mere 1.6 cm long and was discovered in 2001 on a small island off the coast of the Dominican Republic.