@edgarblythe,
Pretty! I've never seen a heron like that one.
Thanks for the amazing, wonderful, and spectacular photos.
Pink-throated twinspot (from Africa)
@Roberta,
I wouldn't mind being reincarnated into that beauty, Roberta.
Chevrotain
Masters of crypticity: the round-tailed horned lizard is the most difficult species to find of the three species of horned lizards found in Texas. When they stop, they hunch up and ook like a stone; only a keen eye will spot them. They also have variable color patterns, usually matching the substrate in which they live. This pair was found together in an area with both red and gray rocks. When is the last time you saw them colored like this? From the awesome biologists at Texas Nature Trackers
I GIVE UP DEPT.
MIMIC
Some animals take misleading mimicry to an extreme. Here by one of the largest moths in the world, in Brazil, which is a triple mimic: 2 serpents (one on either wing tip) plus a fallen branch.
Posted by Bernard Master
My neighbor said my dog Rocky encountered a large black pig last week, when nobody was home. It just came up the street and when it saw him, it went to the fence. Rocky backed off at first, but when the pig put its snout against the fence wire, he pushed his snout against the pig snout. They seemed to like each other. I have a suspicion the pig lives at the end of the nearest cross street, because there is a horse living down there.
@edgarblythe,
Tell more, eh, if more happens..
@ossobuco,
Will do. Likely that's all there is to tell.
An Atlantic green sea turtle.
Get the smelling salts! I made the mistake of entering "mutt puppies--photos" in Google. It was a multiple thud situation. I chose the following:
Gang, I continue to be overwhelmed by the wonderfulness and magnificence of your pics. Thanks mucho.
@Roberta,
(love the pup!)
A lioness stretches—seemingly in no hurry to take cover—in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve.
Baby pygmy goat (aka a kid):
@Roberta,
(so sweet)
A harvestman cuts an intimidating figure, here silhouetted against a sunlit leaf in the Hofma Preserve in Grand Haven, Michigan. Also known as daddy longlegs, these creatures are often mistakenly labeled as spiders.
