I like animals
Quotes, interesting things, conservation related and endangered animals
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# Everything else
# And some of my own photos
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Those Eyes. Portrait of a White-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) shot at a tiny zoo on Margitsziget, Budapest. The zoo has a...
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Ring-Necked Pheasant. Photo by nomoredarkroom
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Calf (by Blissfully-Blind)
astronomy-to-zoology: Baron’s Mantella (Mantella baroni)
is a colorful species of frog found in the forests of Madagascar. As you may of guessed by its bright coloration this frog is poisonous and uses its coloration as a warning signal. Sadly like most amphibians this species is in decline as habitat destruction and other factors have riddled their population.
Phylogeny: Animalia-Chordata-Amphibia-Anura-Mantellidae-Mantella-baroni
colorsoffauna: Green Poison Arrow Frog (Dendrobates auratus)
* dart frogs, though they may be highly toxic in the wild, are not toxic in captivity. it’s their diet of ants that provide the components for their toxins, and in captivity they are fed fruit flies and pinhead crickets (so they have no dietary source from which to make toxins). - paxon
(by Robin “Evil Bob” A on Flickr)
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wild-at-heaart: Male poison arrow frog (Dendrobates macero)
(photo by pbertner on Flickr)
YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL.
aka Amereega macero
Adults were found to be near small streams during the end of the dry season, and presumably move out into the general forest during wetter times of the year. Tadpoles are thought to be deposited in streams as opposed to standing water. Originally described from Manu National Park, Peru, A. macero is now known to occur some 240 km to the north-northeast, on the Rio Alto Purus, and the drainage system of the Ucayali…
(read more: http://www.dendrobates.org/macero.html)
Poison Dart Frog, Dendrobates tinctorius ‘Brazil’ (by Coolsox)
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octopoda: The rare Poison Ocellate Octopus (Octopus mototi)
(via daydreamering)
Pseudechis porphyriacus
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Giant Rat Kills Predators with Poisonous Hair
by Jennifer Welsh
By utilizing the same plants that African tribesmen use to poison their arrows, the furry fury known as the African crested rat can incapacitate and even kill predators many times its size, researchers have found.
“This is the first mammal that is borrowing a deadly poison from a plant and slathering it on itself without dying,” said study researcher Jonathan Kingdon, of Oxford University in England. “This is an extraordinary thing to have evolved.”
Growing up in Africa, Kingdon was frequently exposed to these rats, even keeping one (very cautiously) as a pet. He had heard this animal was poisonous, but it took 30 years for him to figure out how and why this special animal kills and sickens its predators…
(read more: Live Science)
