Category Archives: Images
THE LEOPARD AND THE MOUSE
These photos were taken early in summer 2009 by photography student Casey Gutteridge at the Santago Rare Leopard Project in Hertfordshire, England. The leopard – a female called Sheena – discovered a visitor in her enclosure: Intrigued by the mouse, the cat … Continue reading
Filed under Images, Mammals, Uncategorized, Zoos
AMAZING REPTILE IMPRESSION
November 2007 Seeing fossilized trackways is always cool, but this unique fossil from Pennsylvania shows body impressions of 330-MY old amphibians. Is it one animal or two? How was the fossil made?
Filed under Amphibians, Fossils, Images
RANDOM ANIMAL WEBSITES
October 2007 Some great pictures from this couple, who rode their bikes across the world over a 2-year stretch. Get your 3-D glasses out for these pictures. Edinburgh University Natural History collections on line! Surf your way through the whole of their … Continue reading
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EVERY BIRD ON EARTH – ON VIDEO!
October 2007 After last week’s success with the video of the nutty Manakin bird, Per Smiseth sent in this link, which is to the Internet Bird Colection – a site that aims to assemble videos of every bird alive… Some very cool … Continue reading
Filed under Audio files, Birds, Images, Videos
WACKY ANIMAL PAGE
October 2007 Some great pics of some weird animals, plus brief descriptions on this site, sent in by Zofia (2nd Year). I love the baby aye-aye that looks like a Gremlin.
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TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE – 1
October 2007 Pictures from The Guardian showing various ways in which tracking devices are used in studying animal movement and migration.
Filed under Behaviour, Images, Locomotion
FANTASTIC COLLECTION OF PHOTOS
October 2007 Andrew Johnson (First Year) has a website which includes some amazing photos of amphibians and reptiles, taken both on his travels (in particular in Bali) and at home – including one of a minxy gecko that escaped and appears to have … Continue reading
Filed under Amphibians, Images, Reptiles
MARINE IGUANA
September 2007 One of those cool marine iguanas from the Galapagos, photographed underwater.
THE ENGLISH MONKEY
September 2007 The ouakari lives in the Ogapo jungle in the Amazon and looks like this. For some reason the locals call it “The English Monkey”. Obvious question: why do they look like that? How could you test your hypothesis?
