Natural Science

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Bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus) in Canada by Colin Franks Photography.

 

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Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius) in Brazil by Celso Queiroz.

 

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Black naped monarch
Pic Credit Instagram/sanjaysen_photography

 

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African Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) in flight by Hisao Kanno

 

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Laccaria amethystina. Southern Denmark

 

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Australian Pink Robin

 

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The endangered Crested Ibis (Nipponia nippon) in China by jxjinjin. https://www.instagram.com/jxjinjin/. Despite its Latin name the last wild Crested Ibis in Japan died in October 2003, with the remaining wild population found only in Shaanxi Province of China, until the reintroduction of captive bred birds back into Japan in 2008.

 

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White-throated kingfisher - Sri Lanka

 

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Rhyssa persuasoria, or sabre wasp, laying eggs
Photo by Carlo Galliani Wildlife Photographer

 

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One of my dogs tried this (cheetahs don't really have claws like most cats, their claws are similar to dogs)

She was chasing a squirrel and she got nearly 3m up

Then she fell. But pretty impressive to climb a straight up pine tree to well above my head height.

She's climbed another tree, also in pursuit of squirrels but it was a milkwood, so plenty of branches. Even that surprised me.

 

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Austrocylindropuntia Crested, also known as Crested Eve’s Needle.

 

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Northern Royal Flycatcher (Onychorhynchus mexicanus) in Costa Rica by Mario Wong.

 

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𝑹𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒅𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒕, 𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒉.

 

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Indian Malabar Squirrel

 

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Cypripedium fargesii, A dwarf slipper orchid from the mountains of Sichuan, Gansu, and Hubei in China.

 

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Raffelasia, the world's largest flower. It strongly smells like rotting meat. Around 1m diameter.

I was lucky enough to find one on Java, in the jungle. Their habitat is mostly in Sumatra.

Curiously, the smell is likened to a dead donkey, but in both trips to Indonesia, I never saw a donkey.

Useless extra fact: in the same nature reserve I also saw jungle fowl in the wild, these were domesticated and are what we now know as "chickens"

 

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Black-and-red Broadbill (Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos) in Malaysia by Kin.