This is the place where I post pictures of all the remarkable animals I encounter in my life. I am a practicing veterinarian, rookie biologist, enthusiastic birder, and I have some experience working with wild animals in a veterinary setting. I’m currently researching infectious disease in reptiles and every turtle on this planet fills my heart with joy! I like to post photos and videos of wildlife that I see and interesting animal behavior. I make lots of very silly biology memes
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A Kitchen Full of Cats by Tirzah Garwood, ca. 1932.
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"So do you ever engage in surface feeding"
"Oh I dabble"
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Today's moment of zen; a mourning dove at sunset
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#pied crows are smart but not enough to individually hang each jewelry piece to face the same direction#ai#ai generated#African pied crow#kinda
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I love the kind of books that are written from the perspective of a completely ordinary animal, telling a story of their ordinary life, painstakingly researched to be as close to nature as possible, save for being written out in a language that humans understand. The challenge is always in how much the author tries to anthrophormise the animals, I especially hate when they're given humanlike ideas of love and romance. I'm more down for them having their own bizarre religion than them having stable, monogamous romantic relationships if the subject animal does not actually do that in nature. Like rather give me a story about a completely regular deer buck who observes the beginning of rut like
It's starting to be that time of the year when I become stupid. I hope I won't get killed or injured this year from doing anything idiotic. Hey who the fuck is that guy, get the fuck off my turf.
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Do people who live within the ecosystem of the Gambel's quail know how lucky they are? These little fellas are really something special
#birds in the wild#Gambel's quail#cute#birds#in tucson for the fossil convention!#the birds here are marvelous
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ok but if i actually made this into a bumper sticker, would you mind?
You have my every blessing to do that but if you have any funny interactions with fellow trekkies as a result I only ask that you come back and share those stories with us
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Lovely Subway Tile Art at 81st St B,C stop at Museum of natural history
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Time for some spring cleaning! I spotted this burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia floridana) doing a bit of excavation on the family burrow. Though this species often relies on other animals (like gopher tortoises) to dig the underground burrows that they inhabit, you can see from the flying sand here that they can certainly handle a bit of digging on their own!
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I was so lucky to see this stunning short-eared owl on Genovesa island in the Galapagos. Owls of this endemic subspecies are slightly smaller than their counterparts on the mainland, and they primarily hunt small birds like storm petrels. Short-eared owls in the Galapagos are clever, often diurnal hunters that can be seen stalking their prey around nesting sites, and even ambushing petrels as they emerge from lava rock tunnels in which they nest.
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Gotta love watching an amorphous fluffball of feathers turn back into a bird before your eyes
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From a list of some funky animals I like lol
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