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[vintagewildlife]

Bobcat By: Harvey Payne From: The Zoogoer 1994

[snototter]

A blood red skipper (Haemactis sanguinalis) in Ecuador

by Dave Wendelken

[cuiledhwenofthegreenforest-deac]

Красноносик by Валерий Субачев

[mutant-distraction]

Black-faced Spoonbill.

📸: Nicole Abdou.

[zay4ik]

[fat-birds]

Pretty Punk by left-hand on Flickr.

[animalworld]

PALAWAN PEACOCK PHEASANT Polyplectron napoleonis ©left-hand / ©Stuart Richards

The male is the handsomest and most peacock-like member of the genus Polyplectron. It has an standing crest atop its head and highly  iridescent metallic blue and black plumage. The tail feathers are  decorated with large blue-green ocelli or eyes,  which may be spread fanlike in courtship displays

©GalacticConquest (photo below)

Other photos you may like:

Bornean Peacock-Pheasant

Palawan Peacock Pheasant - Full shot

Grey Peacock Pheasant

[animalworld]

MORPHO BUTTERFLY — have ears on their wings Morpho didius © m0nz0

Scientists thought butterflies were deaf until 1912 when the first butterfly ears were identified. Only in the past decade or so have researchers examined the anatomy and physiology of butterfly ears, which they are finding to be quite diverse and present in several butterfly species. The latest discovery was made with the blue morpho butterfly.

Scientists knew from relatively recent research that the morpho sports simple wing ears. In the new study, Kathleen Lucas of the University of Bristol in England and her colleagues were interested in the odd-looking hearing membrane that sits at the base of the blue morpho’s wing. The tympanal membrane, as it is called, is oval-shaped with a dome at its center that kind of resembles the yolk at the center of a fried egg, Lucas said.

Sound waves from, say, crackling leaves or a singing bird hit the membrane and get converted into nerve impulses by nearby sensory organs. Those impulses are picked up by nerve cells.

As for why the morpho butterfly would need such expert ears, Lucas speculates they could help the butterflies figure out if birds are about to attack. Lower pitch sounds would indicate the flapping of bird wings, Lucas said, which could signal the butterflies to turn tail and fly away.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33483193/#.Tp3bKnHoxGJ

Other posts:

Ulyssus Butterfly

Madagascan Sunset Moth - Sunset Moth Wing Scales

Periander Metalmark

[th-orne]

eastern emerald elysia, elysia chlorotica

(inaturalist)

[bigcatkingdom]

I see you (by Sera.D.)

[earthlynation-blog]

black jaguar

source

[snototter]

A Przewalski's horse stallion (Equus przewalskii) in Mongolia

by Soyolbold S

[expressions-of-nature]

Elephants at Sunset, Kenya by Jim Zuckerman

[thelovelyseas]

3 Sisters Springs by albert kok

[fyeahwildanimals]

by Carlin

[snototter]

A Yacare caiman (Caiman yacare) in Mato Grosso, Brazil

by Roger Wasley

[amnhnyc]

Meet the Sunda flying lemur (Galeopterus variegatus)—which can’t fly and is not a lemur! Also known as the colugo, this tree-dwelling mammal can be found in parts of Southeast Asia. Its patagium, the membrane of skin between its neck and limbs, allows it to glide (not fly) more than 300 ft (91 m) through the air. Once considered a close relative of primates or bats, scientists now place this critter on its own branch of the evolutionary tree. 

Photo: henrik_frietsch, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[sayazuri]

Arunas Daunoravicius - Fox

Source: flickr.com