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Interested in the natural world, though very much still an amateur. I have a special place in my heart for moths, marsupials, and a few other animals.

This is a sideblog. Main is mothclock.

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Obscure psara! The larva feed on pokeweed.

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Picked this dead leaf up and he decided to poke his little head up over the bottom edge.

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Saw not one but two wolf spider mothers with babies on their backs today. Adorable.

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The weather’s been horrible for mothing and I still need to get supplies together. If not this summer, then by next summer. Eventually.

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Crested rat (Lophiomys imhausi) By: Ernest P. Walker & P. F. Wright From: Walker's Mammals of the World 1964

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The crested rat actively transfers poison onto its fur in the form of cardiac glycosides. The rodents chew on the bark and leaves of the highly toxic poison arrow tree (Acokanthera schimperi) before transferring a mixture of toxins and saliva specifically to the lateral lines of fur on their flanks. The poison extracted from this particular plant is the same that was used by people in East Africa on their arrows when hunting elephants or other large animals. It is fast-acting and causes paralysis and rapid contractions of the cardiac muscle that can be deadly.

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A male small emperor moth (Saturnia pavonia) in Yorkshire, England

by Will Atkins

[life-on-our-planet]

The flat-headed cat has eyes positioned farther forward and closer together than other cats, which maximizes binocular vision and makes them especially good at finding and catching food in water. ©Photo Ark

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A captive flat-headed cat at Batu Secret Zoo, Indonesia.

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A flat-headed cat snapped at night on the Kinabatangan River in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.

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A bay cat captured on camera trap in Tabin Wildlife Reserve in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.

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A bay cat hunting in the Nuluhon Trusmadi Forest Reserve in Sabah, Borneo.

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A male black-footed cat inside a den.

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A female black-footed cat killing a struggling white-quilled bustard.