I’m taking a 6-week Biology in Clay class and made a self-portrait last night.
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I’m taking a 6-week Biology in Clay class and made a self-portrait last night.
Look at those paws! Acting like snowshoes, the wide feet of the Canada lynx keep it nimble in the snow. These regal cats have long tufts of black fur on the tips of their ears, a ruff of long hairs that frame their faces, and short, black-tipped tails (distinguishing it from its smaller relative, the bobcat). Their fur varies from yellowish to rusty to reddish-brown, muted with silver and tipped with white – an ideal coloring for an animal active in the shadow hours of dawn and dusk. Though found in Alaska, most of Canada and some states along the northern border and in the Rockies, lynx can be hard to spot. Excellent hunters – hare are their primary prey – they’ll probably see you before you see them. Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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Honey badger (Mellivora capensis)
The honey badger is a mammal widely distributed in Africa, Southwest Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. Despite its name, the honey badger does not closely resemble other badger species; instead, it bears more anatomical similarities to weasels. It is primarily a carnivorous species and has few natural predators because of its thick skin, strength and ferocious defensive abilities. It is listed as the “world’s most fearless animal” in the 2002 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records. As of 2005, 12 subspecies are recognised as valid taxa. The honey badger is mostly solitary, but has also been sighted in Africa to hunt in pairs during the breeding season in May. It also uses old burrows of aardvark, warthog and termite mounds. It is a skilled digger, able to dig tunnels into hard ground in 10 minutes. These burrows usually have only one entry, are usually only 1–3 m long with a nesting chamber that is not lined with any bedding. The honey badger is notorious for its strength, ferocity and toughness. It is known to savagely and fearlessly attack almost any other species when escape is impossible, reportedly even repelling much larger predators such as lion and hyena. Bee stings, porcupine quills, and animal bites rarely penetrate their skin. The honey badger has the least specialised diet of the weasel family next to the wolverine. It accesses a large part of its food by digging it out of burrows. It favours honey and often searches for beehives. It is also feeds on insects, frogs, tortoises, turtles, lizards, rodents, snakes, birds and eggs. It also eats berries, roots and bulbs.
photo credits: CT Cooper, Derek Keats
Heavy metal tortoise beetle I found in the cloud forests of Ecuador
Munich, Germany | michaelkagerer
Collected on Christmas Day in 2008
Christmas fern, collected on Christmas 11 years ago.
Now this is a festive specimen! This specimen of Polystichum acrostichoides, commonly known as Christmas fern, was collected on December 25, 2008 in the woods in Savage, Maryland by Wayne Longbottom. I assume the collector was also singing carols while putting this specimen in the plant press. Christmas fern is a common fern in our woods and fairly easy to recognize. Its name comes from the fact that it is an evergreen perennial, with green fronds even in the winter, including Christmas.
Find this specimen and more here.
Check back for more! Botanists at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History share digital specimens from the herbarium on dates they were collected. They are in the midst of a three-year project to digitize nearly 190,000 plant specimens collected in the region, making images and other data publicly available online. This effort is part of the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis Project (mamdigitization.org), a network of thirteen herbaria spanning the densely populated urban corridor from Washington, D.C. to New York City to achieve a greater understanding of our urban areas, including the unique industrial and environmental history of the greater Pittsburgh region. This project is made possible by the National Science Foundation under grant no. 1801022.
Mason Heberling is Assistant Curator of Botany at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Museum employees are encouraged to blog about their unique experiences and knowledge gained from working at the museum.
Okapi Okapia johnstoni Source: Here
Not sure what this is but I love him
sir, this is a baby.
“Not sure what this is” and they tagged the post “Sable”. What is the truth.
the caption from where I got this said it was a sable, but I never heard of it or seen one before, I just trusted the original poster and tagged it ‘sable’ :p
Can’t wait to for this one to put on some size Nepenthes hamata x edwardsiana! I got this one from @carniveroatx just over a year ago! (at Colorado Springs, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4uxJ9gFhw5/?igshid=zwwt0u256tu0
a group of clouds in the sky at sunset
I love the kind of tired that comes from a lot of fresh air and a little too much sun
my mom calls it “sundrunk”