Your friend is tired 😴🤣
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A family of Asian Elephants grazing in the setting sun 🐘🌅
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Peek A Hoo!
Nest boxes, in our mews and flights, offer places to hide and rest for the Eastern Screech Owls in our care.
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You don’t need to look far to find aliens
The world abounds in strange creatures, but the babies of some of them are even odder than any adult form. I can imagine these creatures floating through the clouds of some distant gas giant, but they are in fact a pair of baby undulate rays, an endangered species whose previous range covered the Atlantic and Mediterranean from southern Britain to Guinea. These were born in captivity at the Sea Life London Aquarium as part of their breeding programme, trying to undo the damage from decades of overfishing. Adults of the species grow up to a metre in length, and lives on the sandy sea bottom in shallow waters (down to 200 metres or so). They eat small fish, crustaceans and molluscs and breed slowly, hence the attempts to increase the population with human assistance.
Loz
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Saw this moose the other day taking a dirt road detour only to see a road closed sign 11 miles down the road. We turned back and as we went back by this time there was a baby moose too! Good thing the road was washed out or we would have missed out! I was abke to hurry and get a couple shots before they disappeared.
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Amber fossils demonstrate ecological continuity
Lizards in amber are very uncommon, since they are usually strong enough to not get stuck in the gooey tree resin, but small species do get entrapped and fossilised and a recent set of finds has enriched our understanding of a poorly understood evolutionary radiation of species between 20-15 million years ago and the stability of this aspect of an ecosystem over a very long time, in fact up to the present day. The finds were preserved in Dominican amber from the Miocene.
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Brittle Star in Costa Rica tide pool. Check out our exotic finds in these tidal waters bit.ly/tide-pool
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Ancient Architecture: Termite Mound
Scientists have found an abandoned termite mound in central Africa that is approximately 2200 years old; that’s older than the Coliseum in Rome. The structure is over 6 meters tall and has probably been abandoned for decades, making it all the more impressive that it has survived.
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A banded Eurasian stone Curlew changes shift with its mate and comes to incubate her eggs and protect them from the hot desert sun. Typically they nest in shallow depressions they make on gravel surfaces and lay between 2-3 eggs.
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Vampire Bat
Its got a face only a mother could love and invokes fear in most! So do these scary little creatures actually drink your blood? Yes. Yes they do. Its a dietary trait called hematophagy and the Vampire Bat solely feeds on the blood of mammals. There are three species of Vampire Bat in total; The common Vampire Bat (Desmodus Rotundus), The hairy-legged Vampire Bat (Diphylla Ecaudata) and the white winged Vampire Bat (Diaemus Youngi) and are found throughout the Americas ranging from Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Argentina. The Vampire Bat’s favourite place to dwell is in dark places such as caves or tree hollows, depending on the size of the colony which can range anywhere from a few individuals to hundreds.
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