“Representatives of the six orders of mammals comprising the Superorder Afrotheria: (Upper Left) African forest elephant (Loxodonta africana); (Upper Right) Golden-rumped elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus); (Middle Left) Aardvark (Orycteropus afer); (Middle Right) Streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes nigriceps); (Lower Left) Eastern tree hyrax (Dendrohyrax validus); and (Lower Right) Dugong (Dugong dugon). [Images of tenrec and dugong reproduced with permission from Andromeda Oxford Limited (18); other images reproduced with permission from Jonathan Kingdon.].”
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“Representatives of the six orders of mammals comprising the Superorder Afrotheria: (Upper Left) African forest elephant (Loxodonta africana); (Upper Right) Golden-rumped elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus); (Middle Left) Aardvark (Orycteropus afer); (Middle Right) Streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes nigriceps); (Lower Left) Eastern tree hyrax (Dendrohyrax validus); and (Lower Right) Dugong (Dugong dugon). [Images of tenrec and dugong reproduced with permission from Andromeda Oxford Limited (18); other images reproduced with permission from Jonathan Kingdon.].”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m065rvN0xz1qgzqeto1_250.jpg)
Wily Fox by Iris-i-ka :)
The Ocean Sunfish - Mola mola
On the history and classification of fishes, amphibians, and reptiles, Volume 2 by William Swainson
Telegraph reader, Raptor Biologist and Wildlife Photographer Shiv Kapila sent us this amazing hour-long exposure of Kilimanjaro at night, from the Amboseli National Park, Kenya. If you have a photograph you’d like us to consider for a picture gallery, please email it to mypic@telegraph.co.uk, supplying a little info on where and when the picture was taken. Picture: Shiv Kapila (via Pictures of the day: 13 February 2012 - Telegraph)
Detail of Plate 396 of Audubon’s The Birds of America, the Burgomaster Gull. If that’s not a bird up to no good, I don’t know what is.
Mischief is afoot
Chris Brown gets attacked by a seagull
Oh man, I’ve just been sitting here, my face is swollen from laughing so hard and I’m going to have to wait for it to unswell before doing anything.
Kinda wish it was a more sharp-taloned bird, and that it made contact…
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