Scenes from Sandy Bottom: Calico pennant dragonfly (Celithemis elisa ♂), in Newport News, Virginia.
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In this Wednesday photograph, a young deer and a large cat touch noses in a French village near Jodhpur, Rajasthan state, India.
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Geoffroys Cat (Oncifelis geoffroyi)
by FCF staff
Geoffroy’s cats are one of the smallest wildcats on earth. Average weight ranges from 4 to 8 pounds. Other names for the Geoffroy’s cat are Geoffroy’s ocelot and gato montes (mountain cat). The feline was named after the French naturalist Geoffroy St. Hilaire.
The Geoffroy’s cat is a rugged feline. It has survived in some of the most formidable terrains. At 10,000 feet on the Antiplano in Bolivia, a barren windswept plateau of salt flats to the “Green Hell”, a vast central lowland area along the eastern slope of the Andes of northwest Argentina. It can survive and thrive in the hottest temperatures in all South America.
If adaptability is the key to survival in this ever-changing environment, this little feline may out survive all other cats in the wild! Reported to be nocturnal, the Geoffroy’s cat will hunt mainly rodents and birds. He will utilize both trees and open land for hunting. Mainly terrestrial, he will use any available cover to hunt, avoiding open spaces, moving from rock or bush when possible…
(read more: Feline Conservation Federation)
Hmmmm…it appears we are getting new neighbors moving in next door…by the looks of the furniture coming off the truck they are stuck in the 70’s. Am waiting on the black-light posters….
Just another day in the men’s locker room at the zoo…
On April 9 the Duke Lemur Center welcomed two new Pygmy Slow Loris twins to mother Loris, Sovanni. The Duke Lemur is the foremost prosimian research and advocacy center and sanctuary. Prosimians are primitive primates that include lemurs, lorises, bushbabies and tarsiers. (via zooborns)
animals-animals-animals: Zimmermans Variable Poison Frog (Ranitomeya variabilis), Peru
(photo by John P Clare)
