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wow... my snake is doing the thing she does most days... i must appreciate this rare opportunity to see her and sit here for half an hour watching her

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i love how she's either majestic or one of the derpiest animals i've ever seen depending on the camera angle. boas are amazing

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I for one welcome our tiny extinct monkey-lizard overlords.

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Ringneck & rattlesnake from the sketchbook

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you dont need to smell the camera

Editing: This is Tonic! He is a carpet python!

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boss makes a dollar i make a dime so i photograph the exhibits on company time

(first four are Eastern Indigo Snake, 5 is Sonoran Gopher Snake, 6 is Poison Dart Frog, 7 is Caiman, 8 is an Eastern Collard Lizard, 9 is a Chuckwalla iirc, and 10 is a grasshopper :])

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one of the most impressive animals I met this year was a huge platyrhacid millipede, found chugging through some bamboo leaf litter in Malaysia.

he was a pleasant weight to hold in the hand, but spread out over so many gentle, graceful legs. the video offers a nice look at his eyeless face—all polydesmidan millipedes lack eyes.

I only hung onto this animated spinal cord for about thirty seconds before setting him back in the leaves, but I recall this encounter so vividly. a truly memorable creature

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she's so cute

i posted this on tiktok originally but am trying out this app for the first time and adding it here as well, i didn't steal this video. her name is violet :)