Fantastic Critters #17

[Blumf]

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[BlodwynPig]

Some beauties from my private collection

[Mr Eggs]

Thats one pretty lil Smooth Newt.

[BlodwynPig]

Feel sorry for it, my mum's pond has a leak and is overrun with duck weed. Waiting til the summer is over to fix that. Critters still seem to abound (frogs and newts), but don't know how much stress they are under.

[ZoyzaSorris]

we absolutely sure its not a palmate? it is in a palm, which is a key indicator.

[small_world]

Some beauties from my private collection

What the fuck are you doing?

[ZoyzaSorris]

Feel sorry for it, my mum's pond has a leak and is overrun with duck weed. Waiting til the summer is over to fix that. Critters still seem to abound (frogs and newts), but don't know how much stress they are under.

wouldnt worry about that, they love the weed and are tolerant of leaks in a manner you might otherwise ascribe to a welsh trustafarian.

[small_world]

Ha, wow that's really weird.

I thought you'd stolen some of my photos, I have some really similar ones (mine are more shit and I can't find the really similar newt one I was looking for).

The ones I was thinking of were from the same album that has these... My Hadrian's wall and other adventures album

(the one I thought you'd stolen from... )

[BlodwynPig]

Nice, very nice. Especially your sheep in the background...an old grumbler.

[Mr Eggs]

Feel sorry for it, my mum's pond has a leak and is overrun with duck weed. Waiting til the summer is over to fix that. Critters still seem to abound (frogs and newts), but don't know how much stress they are under.

The duckweed aint an issue and neither is the pond leak ( Well, as far as adult amphibians are concerned. The buggers only need ponds to breed in. They are mostly terrestrial at this time of year) .All nipper frogs and toads should have fucked off out of the water by now so that just leaves the newt tadpoles. As long as there is 6" of reasonably oxygenated water left, some of them will make it to the next stage in their life cycle and become an 'Eft'.

(It could be a Palmate...Too trixy to tell outside the breeding season....Unless a sub-adult...Thems piss easy to tell apart)

[BlodwynPig]

I was under the impression it was a common newt. I saw a few tadpoles a few weeks ago, got them back in after clearing some of the overgrowth.

[Mr Eggs]

It almost certainly is a Smooth (Or 'Common') newt. They have rather fetching golden-ringed eyes if you look close up. If you flick the buggers over and they've got spotted throats then they are deffo Smooth Newts.

[Cerys]

Cor!

New favourite!

[gabrielconroy]

^What is that?^

[Cerys]

One of our new alien overlords.  Or possibly just a fractal sea slug[nb]It's a blue dragon sea slug[/nb].

[Mr Eggs]

my deep-sea Ostracod is in love with one.

[Koant]

The blue Glaucus is pretty badass too! It feeds on Portuguese Man o' War and uses the stings for its own defense.

[ZoyzaSorris]

love the fact that there so many zoology nuts on here.

[Mr Eggs]

The Mimic Octopus takes the piss.


The ' Big moustache'


The 'Fractal'


the 'Pimp walk'


The 'Space-age lion Rasta'

[biggytitbo]

[Mr Eggs]

Is that Elton John?

[biggytitbo]

Is that Elton John?

No, but they are working on a project together.

[Jemble Fred]

It's Space Piglit!

[Mr Eggs]

It is simply the Roslin Institute Burns Night Maglev Haggis. They had to up their game after Dolly the sheep died young.

[Johnny Yesno]

Axolotl!

[Mr Eggs]

Awww... Bless its daft fucking face.

[mook]

last and not least. the bob todd fish.

[ZoyzaSorris]

Fleshlights have let themselves go!

(callback)


Cephalopods and neotonous amphibians are always hard to beat in this kind of field. (Easy to beat in a field, unless its a flooded meadow)

[mook]

might as well post this oldie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmDTtkZlMwM

[Buelligan]

Cor!

I've loved these for long time.



We have lots of Hummingbird Hawkmoths here, which are pretty lovely.  Yesterday, I had an Elephant Hawkmoth in my bedroom[nb]which was nice.[/nb].