Lytechinus williamsi (Camarodonta: Toxopneustidae) - jewel urchin - Sunset House Reef, Grand Cayman Island
Photo license and credit belong to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH), the Hakai Institute, and MarineGEO | http://specifyportal.flmnh.ufl.edu/iz/ | Field Number: BHAK-1850 | This observation is a part of the collaborative work between FLMNH, the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO) and Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and the Hakai Institute
Photo license and credit belong to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH), the Hakai Institute, and MarineGEO | http://specifyportal.flmnh.ufl.edu/iz/ | Field Number: BHAK-6699 | This observation is a part of the collaborative work between FLMNH, the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO) and Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and the Hakai Institute
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/23343#page/683/mode/1up
http://fishbiosystem.ru/PLEURONECTIFORMES/Cynoglossidae/Symphurus_nigrescens2.html
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Larval-development-of-the-spotfin-tonguefish-and-of-Mart%C3%ADnez-Medina/512df2c04fb55f3362f6bb5c5aa3bcca625f1573#extracted
(Figure 2 of Figures and Tables tab)
Nearly stepped on this guy in my driveway this evening, so I put him in a daffodil for the night, and then found him crawling on the outside of it the next day.
Queen with three drones. They were in the grass beside the bay trail. Queen climbed onto the twig so I could take the photo.
Basking on the nest of a Western Grebe or Clark's Grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis or A. clarkii).
The only rabbits on this reserve are New England Cottontails
Unexpected find, still snow on the ground.
Lots of American Chestnut trees in eastern South Windsor.
Pheidole xerophila major and minor workers. (DLQ Loc: A18045)
One of the rare times I've got to observe pink eyes!
Accidental by catch from a bird banding operation. Caught around 6:10am. Released without incident.
Este día se observaron 6 ejemplares adultos de coloración normal y cuatro crías (1 albino y 3 de coloración normal).
Gymnure - Short-tailed @ Fraser's Hill, Malaysia
"It was around 6.45pm and I had been in position for barely five minutes. The young badger came through the undergrowth and returned to his sett before emerging again a couple of minutes later. He knew something was not right but still tentatively came towards me, posing for a moment before returning to ground. A great moment."
Un articolo su quest'osservazione:
https://ecomuseoterradarneo.net/2021/09/10/dare-voce-alla-biodiversita/
Ed il video del protagonista:
https://youtu.be/-u4-vdZbJZE
This snake's eyes were definitely bigger than it's stomach. After only being able to make it to the k-rats ears, the glossy snake eventually gave up and left the scene of the crime.
Encountered along trail to Tembaling Waterfall from Danum Field Center
1-24-20 Bald Eagle eating a duck or a raven.
This adult had stolen the meal from a small group of juvenile eagles which were squabbling over it. When I walked over to see what it was eating it skreeled & hissed at me to stay back and resumed its repast.
Then, it gave me "The Glare" - the one that drives nightmares so I backed out of its territory - about a foot, and it went back to ripping it's meal apart and gulping down large chunks of meat, bones, feathers.
We have over 500 Bald Eagles here and while both life forms have learned to have respect for each other it is well understood by us lesser creatures that at certain times of year (nesting season) - Eagles Rule. They've been practicing Dino's for a long time, apparently lack any sense of humor and have no compunctions about attacking intruders about the head and shoulders. A bird with a 6 foot wing span and 3+ inch really dirty talons can do a lot of damage.
Some nesting eagle pairs are known to be very territorial and more aggressive so... most folks here - when near those nest sites avoid wearing certain kinds of hats (no one knows for sure which kind since hats and eagle strikes vary from year to year), shiny reflective things or pushing rattling carts out of the Post Office between May and September.
The last two fotos show how the bird will anchor its beak and then extract its talons before moving its foot to a new spot while eating. This helps hold down the prey and prevent it from being stolen by other eagles. If you toggle the images back and forth you can see the action.
best photo I've ever gotten of one of these!
roadside ditch saltgrass, salt-encrusted soils ..
Cow moose harvested on the first day of hunting season. The papillae in the mouth were particularly interesting.
salt-encrusted soils with sparse saltgrass
Ballena barbada varada en la Playa de Tampico en 1922