Q: What’s the difference between Elon Musk and a lemur? A: One made an electric car. The other Madeagascar!

More birds along the Huron - white-throated sparrow, mourning dove, belted kingfisher, and downy woodpecker!

Hooded mergansers plus a mallard and a great blue heron on the Huron River!

Happy Penguin Awareness Day! Photos taken at: Bronx Zoo (little blue penguin) Detroit Zoo (king, chinstrap, and southern rockhopper penguin) London Zoo (Humboldt penguin) Whipsnade Zoo (northern rockhopper penguin)

Trumpeter swan on a frozen river!

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Songbirds I found today! Northern cardinal, white-throated sparrow, song sparrow, and dark-eyed junco!

Common goldeneye on the Huron last week!

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Belted Kingfisher illustration recently finished. Watercolor, colored pencil, and a bit of gouache on 6x9" cotton paper. #sciart #birds

Someone just called me a “Tylenol baby” in a thread about climate change and I fear that’s going to become a thing.

🐍Cape sand racer (Psammophis leightoni) Max size ~140 cm (~55.1"). Males tend to grow larger than females. Mildly venomous. Found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. Considered Least Concern by the IUCN. 📷by Nadine Marfurt on Unsplash

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Whooping Cranes Came Back From the Brink of Extinction. Now, New Threats Are Converging on Their Texas Wintering Grounds development, saltwater intrusion and bird flu are putting pressure on the species’ recovery www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

California sea lion! Photo taken at Bronx Zoo

Madagascar! (the exclamation mark is part of the name), including my first time seeing the collared brown lemurs in over 7 years! Photos taken at Bronx Zoo

🐸Sipurio snouted treefrog (Scinax elaeochroa). Max size 40 mm (1.6"). Females tend to be slightly larger than males. Found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama. Considered Least Concern by the IUCN. 📷by Alejandro Orozco on Pexels

🦎Emma Gray's forest lizard or forest garden lizard (Calotes emma), Max. size ~38 cm (~15"), most of which is its tail. Found in in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam Insectivore. Considered Least Concern by the IUCN. 📷by Erik_Karits on Pixabay.

The outdoor seabird colony at Bronx Zoo!

The snowy owls were in their element! Photos taken at Bronx Zoo

Vultures and eagles! Photos taken at Bronx Zoo

A few inhabitants of the Mouse House, one of the cutest places at Bronx Zoo!

A Thompson’s gazelle, the only tropical African species I saw outdoors! Photos taken at Bronx Zoo

Jungleworld photos! Sorry for the poor quality of the Rodrigues fruit bat pic, but I wanted to share it anyways as I’ve never seen one awake at Bronx before!

My best photos from World of Reptiles! Young Chinese alligator, Merten’s water monitor, false gharial, and Vietnamese pond turtle! Photos taken at Bronx Zoo

Whooper swan, red crowned crane, golden pheasant — all Asian birds that live naturally in places where it gets cold and snowy. Not so the free-ranging Indian peafowl, yet they didn’t seem any less comfortable outside! Photos taken at Bronx Zoo

Amur tiger and snow leopards enjoying wintry weather! Photos taken at Bronx Zoo

American plains bison and Père David’s deer! Two even-toed ungulates saved from the brink of extinction by zoo breeding programs! Photos taken at the Bronx Zoo

The prehistoric shark found in a suburban town in Scotland

OG Winnie the Pooh toys at the New York Public Library!

In honor of Christmas, here’s a reindeer I photographed at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium a few years ago! BTW, only female reindeer retain antlers in the winter (they’re the only deer species in which both sexes have them), so Santa’s sleigh team would realistically all be girls!

More feathered friends on the same trip! Hooded mergansers, common goldeneye, mallard, and white-breasted nuthatch!

Went birdwatching the other day and saw many trumpeter swans!

Yes, this is an iPhone video, but it’s still the best footage I’ve ever gotten of Detroit Zoo’s beavers! In all my years of visiting the zoo, I’ve only seen these nocturnal rodents on three occasions, and they’ve all been after dark during Wildlights.

Crowned, ring-tailed, and red-ruffed lemurs in their indoor habitat! Photos taken at Detroit Zoo

Greater rheas and sandhill cranes getting fed! Always a bit odd to see a ratite shorter than the cranes it shares its enclosure with! Photos taken at Detroit Zoo

DYK? Unlike a camel’s, which stores fat, a bison’s hump is pure muscle! Photos taken at Detroit Zoo

Fun fact the Walrus used to live in cape cod and sable island until the 1700s when they were wiped out by mass scale hunting. #walrus #extinction

Little Spruce, I found at Stokes Forest in New Jersey #inaturalist #newjersey #spruce

Here are photos I took back in October of Jahari the pygmy hippo at the John Ball Zoo! This guy infamously killed a sitatunga that was intended to be his roommate back in 2023. On a lighter note, he’s also now a dad to Hugo, who was born back in September!

For my first post, here’s a polar bear I recently snapped at the Detroit Zoo!