Reptimania-All things reptilian

I am an animal enthusiast, and a keeper of reptiles, invertebrates, and tropical fish. Most pictures on here are re-blogged from elsewhere, but a few are my own animals.

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there is zero rotational motion in this picture every single one of the dots is oscillating on a straight line

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Well fuck

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I stared at this for a good 5 minutes before reblogging

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it’s messin’ with my eyes!

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Neptune’s doing so much better!

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keeping up with the american elections while not being american like

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#are you guys doing alright

no

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We are so not alright

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The owl man: saving the incredible bird you’ve probably never heard of

Jonathan Slaght has dedicated his professional life to safeguarding the rare Blakiston’s fish owl, the world’s biggest owl. But he wouldn’t have it any other way

by Jeremy Hance

It’s not easy studying an endangered species few people have ever heard of: it’s difficult to raise money, build awareness, or quite simply get people to care. But still, Jonathan Slaght – one of the world’s only experts on the massive, salmon-eating, frog-devouring Blakiston’s fish owl – insisted there are upsides. 

Blakiston’s fish owl is the world’s largest, and in the Russian forests, where Slaght conducts his research, it cohabits with a lot of big names: the Ussuri brown bear, the Amur leopard, the Asiatic black bear and, of course, the grand-daddy of them all, the ever-popular Amur Tiger…

(read more: The Guardian UK)

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That photo is definitely “Don’t ever speak to me or my son again”

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Cozy puff puff puff all snuggled in sand.

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Them: Hey can I borrow your phone?

Me: Yeah sure hang on one sec

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Believe in Nessie !

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I have a massive fear that no one actually likes me, rather everyone is just politely tolerating me hoping I leave them alone

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This bold toad is Leptophryne cruentata, dramatically known as both the bleeding toad and the fire toad. It can be found only at high altitudes in Indonesia. This toad has suffered a severe population decline since its discovery, due in part to the eruption of Mt. Galunggung in West Java. Image sources here and here.

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Flat-shelled Spider Tortoise (Pyxis planicauda)

This small critically endangered tortoise from dry forests in Madagascar has lost 1/3 of its historical habitat, and subsequently suffered a dramatic decline in numbers over the past several decades. They reach a max carapace length of up to 14.8 cm, and feed on fallen fruits, fungi, and flowers.

photo by Dick Bartlett

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While not normally arboreal as adults this large male Blue Iguana climbed this tree after significant rainfall which left the ground slightly flooded.

In 2007 I had the great privilege of visiting Grand Cayman Island to work with and document the critically endangered Grand Cayman Blue Iguana (Cyclura lewisi) with the team at the Blue Iguana Recovery Program founded by Fred Burton.

Blue Iguanas are endemic only to the small island of Grand Cayman and as such are at risk habitat destruction, road kills, free-roaming dogs, and feral cats. Thankfully the Blue Iguana Recovery Program (B.I.R.P.) has brought this beautiful iguana back from the brink of extinction with breeding and release programs as well as the acquisition of habitat.

It is the largest native land animal on Grand Cayman with a total nose-to-tail length of 5 ft (1.5 m) and weighing as much as 30 lb (14 kg).

Nikon D200 + Sigma 70-200mm f5.6 1/400sec ISO640

#iguana #blueiguana #caymanisland #grandcayman #caribbean #wildlife #wildlifephotography #WildlifeConservation #shannonwild #reptile #lizard #blue

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Cyrtodactylus consobrinus by MP7Aquit

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Peters’ Forest Gecko (Cyrtodactylus consobrinus), Malaysia

photograph by Matthieu Berroneau

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PSA the ppl who do these vids are from Minnesota

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This is too ridiculous not to reblog.

1) the music 2) how does the person in there even see? 3) also skating over its own tail 4) how is NO ONE on the ice fazed by this at all? 5) skating over its own tail 6) also is it hot in there? 7) there is a freaking T-Rex on the ice- how is no one staring?

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8) going so fast the head tips right back so it looks like it’s permanently screaming

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9) when they like do a swimmers dive on to the ice and wiggle around. How is no one not either laughing or seeing that there is a fucking dinosaur skating on ice none the less?

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to answer 2): there is a small window in the front of the neck to see out of. 

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Can someone calculate for me the volume of loch ness in liters so I can figure out how many humans you’d need to drink it

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Ok I had to search a bit, but it’s apparently 7,448,160,000,000 liters? this is a problem, the upper limit of the average human stomach is just four liters, and even then that’s a very uncomfortable amount of water to have in there. Which means there aren’t enough humans on this planet to drink all of loch ness

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what if they drank their fill and then peed it out somewhere where the liquid wouldn’t just run back into loch ness? Then they could go back and drink more the next morning. How many days would that take? Would we end up with a new loch made entirely of pee? Loch piss? 

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possibly, but thats not taking rainfall into account and the amount of water fed into it every day by the River Oich

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The upper limit for the human stomach is about 4 liters. It takes the human body about 45 to 60 minutes to absorb/expel 1 liter of water (for the sake of this math problem just go with 60 (1 hour). An average person sleeps 8 hours. An average person spends about 3 hours eating (1 hour for each meal of the day) A day is 24 hours.

1 person alone: 572 billion days or all 7.3 billion people just 78.5 days, roughly. Assuming no one died of e coli or something.

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this is good, but again, this doesn’t take rainfall or the river oich into account. It would have to be done during a dryer season in scottland and the river would need to be dammed.

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There is no dryer season in Scotland though. It hasn’t stopped raining since Roman times.

You might need a second team of people to hold umbrellas over the drinking people.

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the rain would still drip off the umbrellas and into the loch, this is gonna be a problem… someone calculate the annual rainfall over Scotland, can 7 billion people outdrink it?

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The western Highlands, where Loch Ness is located, is one of the rainiest places in Europe, with a yearly average rainfall of 4,577 millimeters (12.54 millimeters a day).  Loch Ness’ surface area is 56 square kilometers.  If it rains 12.54 millimeters every day, then Loch Ness will gain 702,240 cubic meters (over 700 million liters) of water per day.  Everyone will have to drink 0.1 extra liters of water to keep up.

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that sounds doable! our goal is now clear

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ok but why tho?

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if you can think of a better way to find Nessie I’d love to hear it

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Fedex was late as hell, but the day was a perfect one for late packages and she arrived just fine. Aru locality farmed girl, 3.5~yrs.