#South American animals

[annoying--moth]

Silly Game Time: SOUTH AMERICAN ANIMAL TIME! Use a random letter generator, then look up South American animals that start with that letter. What's one of them? Post a picture of it!

Chinchillas my beloved

[dearhearted111]

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

psst not sure if you’ve done this one before but could you do the bunny harvestman spider? i love them sm

Sure! This one was hard to find info on. Anyone is welcome to add info in reblogs or comments (as always!)

Both photos from Andreas Kay, who seems to have taken the vast majority of the photos of this species I could find!

[cuttlefishcuddles]

King Vulture

Silly Game Time: SOUTH AMERICAN ANIMAL TIME! Use a random letter generator, then look up South American animals that start with that letter. What's one of them? Post a picture of it!

 Hyacinth Macaw.

[mindblowingscience]

The longest genome of all the animals on Earth belongs not to a giant, or a cognitively advanced critter, but a writhing, water-dwelling creature seemingly frozen in time, right at the cusp of evolving into a beast that can live on land. These are the lungfish, a class of freshwater vertebrates whose peculiar characteristics are reflected in a colossal genetic code. Able to breathe both air and water, with limb-like fins, and a well-developed skeletal architecture, these strange ancient creatures are thought to is thought to share a common ancestor with all four-limbed vertebrates known as tetrapods.

Continue Reading.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #Caturday:

Ceramic bottle modeled in the form of a standing feline, decorated with resist-painted motif. Gallinazo style (aka Virú culture), NW Peru, Early Intermediate Period, c. 200 BCE - 600 CE. Spotted at the American Museum of Natural History NYC.

PS: this vessel may depict the Peruvian subspecies of Pampas Cat aka Northern Colocolo (Leopardus colocola garleppi). The Andean Mountain Cat (Leopardus jacobita) is also often suggested, but their range is more southern and higher elevation than where the Virú were? Also note the stripier legs on the Colocolo similar to the ceramic:

[natureisthegreatestartist]

What are these creatures? They are pudu, the globe's littlest species of deer. The adults usually weigh only about 12 kg (26 lbs.).

[colorsoutofearth]

Long-tailed sylph (Aglaiocercus kingii)

Photo by Fernando Burgalin Sequeria

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

[wildlifetracker]

American bison (Bison bison). Sage Creek Campground, Badlands National Park, South Dakota.

[cutestbabyanimalbracket]

Please vote for whichever animal is cuter, not whichever one you like more!

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

[candlelitcorners]

[herpsandbirds]

Volcán Peteroa Chuckwalla (Phymaturus verdugo), male, family Liolaemidae, Argentina

photograph by Gdebandi