Animal Blog

Just a blog where I collect animal and nature posts! Personal blog: Kabber

[herpsandbirds]

Mangrove Pitta (Pitta megarhyncha), family Pittidae, order Passeriformes, Sunderbands, southern India

photograph by Dr. Abhijit Bagui

[herpsandbirds]

Plush-crested Jay (Cyanocorax chrysops), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Brazil

Photograph by Luis Carlos Maringa

[kirexa]

NEW !!! SNAKE DISCOVERED

ITS CALLED THE LIMESTONE EYELASH PIT VIPER. THAT iS SO CUTE. ITS SO PRETTY

[identifying-snakes-in-posts]

Putting this here for snake enjoyers

Also

@snake-spotted

[snake-spotted]

snake spotted!! HOLY SHIT A NEW SNAKE

𓆙thank you for the tag!𓆙

[becquerelnoir]

I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!

[lionfloss]

Provence Hairstreak / Tomares ballus

[apsciencebylyn]

Took a wrong turn on a trail yesterday and ended up having to back track, (not ideal to add an extra mile in 95° blazing sun/white sand) but it ended up worth it because this little nugget mantis found me in the middle of the trail! The Little Yucatán Mantis (Mantoida maya*) is indeed little, she's full grown and barely over an inch. Not that much bigger than the tiger beetles which roam the sands. I've only seen 3, and a couple babies (which are ant mimics!), and had just one picture of an adult before today. 🖤

*This species is native to central Florida and southward into Central America, as the name implies

[bogleech]

This is the least mantised mantis I have ever seen

[onenicebugperday]

Psychedelic forbhopper, Thericles obtusifrons, Thericleidae, Orthoptera

Found throughout southern Africa

Photos 1-2 by jolandiswart, 3 by alexdreyer, 4 by wolfachim, 5 by mstrimas, 6-7 by botswanabugs, 8 by bartwursten, 9 by grant_reed_botswana, and 10 (for scale) by roxylaz

[herpsandbirds]

False Tiger Moth (Dysphania subrepleta), family Geometridae, Singapore

Diurnal moth.

photograph by KS Tan

[herpsandbirds]

Green Crambid Moths, T - Arthroschista hilaralis, B - Arthroschista tricoloralis, family Crambidae, Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Malaysia

photographs by David Fischer

[bunjywunjy]

Hi I just learnt that grebe the bird existed and I am intrigued do you have any knowledge to drop on the dudes

BOY DO I! grebes are my favorite waterfowl!

they're specialist divers and fish hunters, and they're a pretty wide group with a LOT of species!

and they're all freaks. every single one of them.

they're most closely related to FLAMINGOS, of all things, which is why their feet are so weird! they evolved completely separate from other waterfowl like ducks and geese, so they did the flipper thing totally backwards.

this is going to be a theme, nothing these birds do is normal.

unlike other specialist diving birds (coughcough LOONS coughcough), they aren't totally incompetent on land! just, again. total freaks about it.

aaagh I love them so much I might actually explode

also they swim like frogs, babies can dive pretty much immediately after hatching, and adults can minutely adjust their buoyancy in the water at will like a fucking submarine. you just can't make any of this shit up.

weirdest fucking bird 100/10

[bunjywunjy]

also for emphasis on that last point: you're out on a river and you see a smallish brown duck-thing paddling around in the water. it makes eye contact with you and then just. fuckign sinks.

[theropoda]

love leopard seals. they are so dragon coded. that is an entire mammalian marine wyrm

[theropoda]

Look at this fucking. beast. Medieval painting animal that eats princesses

[kindlingnorah]

princesses

[onenicebugperday]

Chilean plasterer bee, Caupolicana fulvicollis, Colletidae

Photos 1-2 by pedrova, 3 by enriquezrenteria, 4-5 by cesar_picar, and 6 by edonoso

[onenicebugperday]

Black saddleback caterpillar moth, Acharia nesea, Limacodidae

Found in Central and South America

Photo 1 by heimatlos, 2 by berniedup, and 3-5 by lilatomazelli

[mutant-distraction]

mark.smith.photography

Osprey with a puffer

[a-book-of-creatures]

There’s even a video

[heartnosekid]

african peach moth (egybolis vaillantina) | source

[bugtarded]

standin on business

(olive arta moth, Arta olivalis)

[valtsv]

btw i found out that there are actually two major types of bleeding heart doves, and that while one of them looks like it bears a wound on its chest, the other looks like the one who made it

[valtsv]

star-crossed lovers

[terranlifeform]

Changeable hawk-eagle (Nisaetus cirrhatus) at Yala National Park in Sri Lanka

Miguel Martí