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Cutie pie with a tail on top!

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Boyd’s forest dragon (Hypsilurus boydii), Australia, 2009

photograph by SNAKE

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These amazing gifs come from the photoshoots for the photos used in the book BIRD by Andrew Zuckerman. This enormous coffee table book has the most amazing photos of birds you’ll ever see. I have it, and it’s one of my favorite things.

Check out the beautiful book.

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I told Acorn he is internet famous now, I am not sure if he understands ‘famous’ but he seems pretty certain it means ‘banana’.

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This is a reduced melanin Black-headed Python (Aspidites melanocephalus) produced by K Brothers Pythons in Australia.

I want it. So. Bad.

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Glossy Black Cockatoo by EOS-Husky

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A blue-tailed skink I saw today! ok, so it’s not a TRUE blue-tailed skink (Cryptoblepharus egeriae), which are native to Australia. This is actually a juvenile Western skink (Plestiodon skiltonianus). When it grows up, it will be far duller in coloration. But, until then, it’s a very fancy little lizard! This is the first time I’ve seen one. :D

Another very similar species is the five-lined skink (Plestiodon fasciatus), native to the east US. That species undergoes an even more dramatic change from juvenile to adult: as adults, the males have bright red throats. Female five-lined skinks sometimes nest communally and will switch duties between guarding and foraging for food.

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I wanna touch it

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ME TOO, IT LOOKS SO SMOOTH. But I was so worried about accidentally breaking off that beautiful tail.

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I upgraded to a 7D yesterday and these are the first photos from it of my beautiful friend and her child.

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Long Wiggeler and Mini Maybemiddle Wigler: the mampa-kiddo Combo thatell make your Daybreak Day! 9.73/10 tufty crestts, too

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Chris Palmer wants you to ask a simple question the next time you watch a wildlife documentary or television show: “How did they get that shot?” The answer might not always be that simple. Did the filmmakers really come across a whale in the middle of the big blue ocean, or did they pump recordings of whale calls into the water to attract whales to them? Did they sneak up close enough to wild wolves to get footage of them in their den, or did they use captive wolves on a game farm? Does the shot of a bear running through a river sound accurate because the camera crew also captured great audio, or were the splashes dubbed in later in the studio? Palmer knows all of these tricks because he has used them himself. A wildlife filmmaker for 30 years, Palmer has produced dozens of films, TV shows, and TV documentaries. In his new book, Confessions of a Wildlife Filmmaker, he details how the industry demanded more exciting—and less accurate—shows, all in the name of ratings.

Read more at Is That Wildlife Documentary Lying to You? | TakePart (via dendroica)

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Omfg he just looks so happy and excite like hello yes friend where are we going today?

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I love the indigenous dot painting style patterning they have!

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Coastal Taipan - Oxyuranus scutellatus

The Coastal Taipan, Oxyuranus scutellatus (Elapidae) is considered to be one of the most venomous species in the world. It is commonly about 1.5-2 m long, but can grow to 3m. Sporting a slender light to dark brown body, and a cream/yellow belly with pink or orange flecks, the snake’s head is often a lighter brown than its body.

Native to Australia and Papua New Guinea, the Coastal Taipan can be found in forests, heaths and grassy beach dunes, and also in cane fields.

Venom of the Coastal Taipan is neurotoxic and causes the paralysis of peripheral skeletal and autonomic nerve terminals in envenomated subjects.

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