Critters and Stories

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Have you ever heard of a snake that can "fly?" Like many snakes in the Chrysopelea genus, the paradise flying snake (Chrysopelea paradisi) can glide through the air by propelling itself from tree branches, giving it the appearance of flight. To glide, it flattens its body by splaying its ribs, creating a shape similar to a frisbee. It’s a more energy-efficient way to get around, and it helps this snake avoid predators, too.

Ramadasa sp., family Noctuidae, Malaysia

This moth has no common name in English.

This wolf in British Columbia took a break from eating herring roe to investigate a half-submerged object: the photographer’s camera

In March 2015, it had rained continuously one night and well into the next morning, and we were in the park trying to find Krishna and her three cubs who were by then over a year old. We saw a lot of pugmarks heading towards a big patch of vetiver grass near Rajbagh lake. We assumed that the mother and cubs or at least some of them were resting in the grass, so we hung around. For nearly three hours we did not even hear a single alarm call. Just when we were about to give up we got a glimpse of a tiger’s tail moving inside the grass.

A few minutes later, two cubs came charging out of the tall grass and started playing with each other.

(…) For a very short moment, their third sibling joined in but most of the action that we saw was between Arrowhead and Pacman. Soon after all three of them charged back into the tall grass and we knew that the show was over.

ARTIODACTYLA size chart

Artiodactyls are a very diverse group of mammals, mostly herbivores easily recognizable for their double hoofs. Deers, Camels or Hippos belong to this group. Although it's not obvious at first sight, whales are also derived from this lineage, representing one of the best examples of evolution and adaptation in Natural History

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absolutely! heaps of cow breeds can produce a tricolor coat, notably english/texas longhorns!

Zagrosian Lizard (Timon princeps), male, family Lacertidae, found in the Zagros mountains of Iran, SE Turkey, NE Syria and Northern Iraq