Getting back out there with some photo contests--fifteen of my favorite shots I've taken this past year are available for votes in the National Wildlife Photo Contest's People's Choice Award gallery!
this is my favorite house in the city partly because it’s adorable but mainly because this is one of the most toxic ornamental plants in existence and I’m really about the whole pastel death aesthetic
funniest discovery so far upon purchasing a home was that the nice weathered-looking dark wood bedroom set the seller left in the guest room is not in fact antique. it is from the Pirates of the Caribbean collection
every time people ask if I enjoy being a molecular biologist I think about the time I dealt with inexplicable PCR contamination on my anole immunogenetics project for months, wasting countless hours and resources, only to eventually discover a gecko was living under the PCR hood
y’all are allowed to not like snakes but replying to photos and videos of them by detailing the ways in which you’d love to harm or even kill them is extreme weirdo behavior
I risked the longevity of my camera body to take a mediocre picture of this pinky nail-sized bird-voiced treefrog in the pouring rain and I would not take it back
ruined my DriveEasy hard braking score to grab this stinky little turtle out of the road a minute ago but I am literally only just now noticing the second passenger
@AITA_reddit
@CarinaDSLR
AITA for using my obscene tortoise strength to knock over a planter ten times my size, eating a plant I shouldn’t have, and making my owner spend half the day on the phone with the emergency vet?
I literally just spent five full minutes trying and failing to convince park visitors from out of town that this alligator is real and not just a prop the park put out to attract tourists
is anyone else who is approximately 26 just constantly stuck in the limbo of knowing it’s time to make real career choices but also suspecting the world only has a few good years left so you should just ignore society and go find some frogs while you still can
two important pieces of context are that 1. this image lacks scale and this tortoise was almost as tall as my waist and 2. he’s such a good and curious boy that the preserve just named him Friend
lots of beginner herpers and naturalists have followed me lately so it feels appropriate to share the
#1
rule of the hobby: if you find any animal with aberrant coloration or patterning, TURN OFF GEOTAGS IN PHOTOS AND TELL NOBODY WHERE YOU FOUND IT
This is not a gecko, salamander, or creature from Naboo
This is a duck-billed tree frog, specifically Bahia's broad-snout casque-headed tree frog. They live in South America, where they reproduce in the tiny ponds that form in the hearts of bromeliads
📷 Konrad Mebert
@jonquilfreedman
this guy I briefly dated a few years ago once handed me his copy of the Scott Pilgrim graphic novel and asked me to read it so I could “understand him better”
birders see me with my camera not realizing it’s a macro lens and talk to me about seeing northern parboilers or whatever that is. I don’t know what you’re talking about but I’m happy for you
I realize my idea of cute is not universal but I find it so confusing when people don’t like opossums. to me this is a peak mammal. look at them riding the mom bus
teenage opossums are so cute and curious. I was kneeling down to take a photo of a mushroom when I noticed him, he noticed me, and then stuck around for several minutes to watch what I was doing with the weird clicky machine