#herpertology

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Quando você descobre o que realmente gosta e quer fazer, no meio de milhões de coisas que um biólogo pode fazer, a sensação é maravilhosa 🐸💚 #scinax #anura #anuro #anurofauna #ufpa #herpeto #herpetologist #herpertology #perereca #amphibian #anfibios #nature #scinaxruber (em Universidade Federal do Pará - UFPA - Oficial) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrnUGxjF_z6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1n1qbruih8d6t

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I was tagged by the lovely, lovely @dearmrsawyer to post the first line of all my published fics and my wips.  Thank you so much!!!  I’m going to put this under a cut since there’s a lot of it:

What You Wish For

“I’m just a simple librarian!” Nick finds himself shouting.

In Space No One Can Hear Your Heartbeat

Nick maintains that it’s Louis’s fault, that he’s the one who’d started it because he’d agreed.

First of May (aka the one 1D fic that I’ve written that isn’t Tomlinshaw, although there is side Tomlinshaw)

“I can’t believe I let you talk me into this,” Liam says, moving a tree branch out of his face.

New Adventures in Herpertology 

“D’you know anything about pregnant snakes?”

Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk (Reprise)

Nick can’t quite catch his name.

Five Men and a Hot Dog (aka the single bandom fic on the list)

It all started with a hot dog on a table.

Boys Are Blue

His name is Peter, after Nick’s own dad, but he’s so small, just a touch over five pounds, that Nick takes to calling him Pea.

I Melt with You

Louis is homesick.

A Perfect Forest Through So Many Splintered Trees

“You’re pissed.”

One Blink and Then My Heart

Nick is running very, very late.

Bright as Yellow, Warm as Yellow

Nick shows up with a spreadsheet, an actual spreadsheet, on Wednesday.

Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk

Louis honestly has no idea what his name is.

Of Sheets and Pumpkin Soup

Louis is going to die.

Of Balconies and Ventolin

The room is spinning.

WIPs:

The one where Nick’s a single dad and Louis is a children’s television presenter

Chelsea - not named after the bun, the boot, or the footie team, thank you Harold, Aimee, and Mum - is Nick’s most favourite person in the entire world.

Hello, You Fool, I Love You (Japan fic, Nick & Louis & Aro Harry)

Nick is not amused.

To Wish Impossible Things (the one where Louis makes a deal to save Nick’s life but it comes at the cost of all of Nick’s memories of the two of them)

He wakes up with a killer headache.

The Thing with Feathers (memorysmith au)

He’s sat across from Louis wearing that ridiculous red coat, the one he’d got because it’d had Louis’s name on a patch right across the chest.

I am also very much crafting an answer to that lovely anon from Saturday about Nick and Louis and Louis zip-tying Nick to a chair by his belt loop, I promise.  If you are still here reading, you are the bestest, and I’m going to tag @writsgrimmyblog @jiksax @dictacontrion and @1000-directions

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Nobuhle Ndlovu, Zimbabwe

I still vividly remember the day I received an email from the Tropical Biology Association (TBA) that I had been accepted for a TBA course in Madagascar!!! I was ecstatic and it seemed like ages until we got to November because I knew this experience was going to change my life, my career for the better and it did!!!!

Madagascar is very different from any place I have ever been as it carries its own species endemic to the region. My wildlife experience was very awesome, ornithology lessons and practical unbelievable, thanks to Kim. I can safely say its much easier to identify birds for me. The herpertology lectures and capture practicals were great. Am much better at handling snakes now. The big lizards and geckos (Zonosarus karstenni and Zonosarus eacadatus) were abundant. Thanks to Johannes, the night walks were great, too. We had awesome lectures - one worth mentioning was the one on conservation by Kim. I left Madagascar knowing that conservation is not all about biology but an array of different factors and ideas from different parts of the society. I was inspired by projects done in Amani Tanzania and would love to replicate the ideas in my own country and community to make a difference. Most of the learning was practical and hands on; the teachers were open to ideas and always part of activities.

I got the chance to work on lemurs, vigilance in the red faced lemur. Spending the whole day in the bush was great and I got to work independently on a project and I fell in love with the Lemurs, great animals that are spectacular and intriguing in their behaviour. Kirindy forest was so great I learnt a lot.

TBA gave me an experience in life that I would never forget and would not trade the memories for anything… Natureeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Arctic Blast: 1, Giant Katydid: 0 (and the Anole didn't score too well, either)

Arctic Blast: 1, Giant Katydid: 0 (and the Anole didn’t score too well, either)

Arctic Blast: 1, Giant Katydid: 0 (and the Anole didn’t score too well, either).