headlikeanorange: A “howling” grasshopper mouse.
(via: Untamed Americas - NGC)
Western Hognose Snake (Heterodon nasicus) Displays 2 Defenses
Top - The animal puffs itself up with air, flattens its head, and loudly releases air in a hissing sound.
Bttm -The animal plays dead; rolling over, opening its mouth, sticking its tongue out, and releasing a foul death like stench.
(photos: Mark Hakkila, Las Cruces BLM, Wildlife Biologist)
drama queen
feathersandbeaks: Rufous Hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus)
These Beautiful Bridges Are Just For Animals
by Jess Zimmerman
If we’re going to keep putting roads in the middle of their habitats, animals are sometimes going to need to cross the road. But it’s better for everyone involved if they don’t have to push a button and wait for the light to change, because they don’t have thumbs and nine times out of 10 they’ll just careen into the side of your car. Which is why some highways have overpasses built specifically for animals like deer, elk, and grizzly bears.
Nobody teaches moose pedestrian etiquette like “look both ways,” but they figure out pretty quickly that crossing the terrifying asphalt river is safer if you take the beautiful grassy bridge. That’s just my guess at a moose’s internal life, but there’s data too: In Banff National Park in Canada, animals have used the six overpasses and 35 underpasses more than 200,000 times since monitoring began in 1996…
(read more: Grist.org)
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Top - Highway A50, Netherlands (photo: Niels Verheul)
BL - France. BR - Banff, Alberta, Canada (photo: Joel Sartore)
A couple of years ago, my friend and I were walking and came upon a Hummingbird Moth (Macroglossum sp.) :3
:3 :3 :3 !!!
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I NEED to see one of these one day.
(Source: letsgo-onadventures, via ecdysozoa)
How many Black Footed Ferret kits can fit in one burrow?
Three 2011 kits all try to peek out at the same time from their unit at FCC. This year’s litters are on their way and we’ll let you know when the first kits are born!Find out more: National BFF Conservation Center
(Photos: KT, USFWS)
fairy-wren: Prothonotary Warbler
(photos via audubon and liz odum)
Rusty Tussock Moth or Vapourer (Orgyia antiqua)
… a moth in the family Lymantriidae that is native to Europe, but now transcontinental in distribution in the Palaearctic and the Nearctic regions. The orange-brown male flies mostly during the day, but the female is flightless, spending her brief life attached to her cocoon. The hairy caterpillar is spectacular, with “humps”, “horns” and a “tail” in a combination of dark grey, red and yellow. It feeds on a wide range of broad-leaved trees and shrubs, and may reach pest proportions in forests and cities…
(read more: Wikipedia)
(images: T - caterpillar, by Georg Slickers; ML - flightless female w/ coccoon, and MR - Male mates with flightless female, by GRManners; B - male, by Beentree)
by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.
Birds of New York,.
Albany,University of the State of New York,1910-14..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14746743
