The network pipefish has a wide distribution across the world’s tropical reefs. During courtship, the male and female “dance” around one another above the substrate. The female lays her eggs in a sheet, which she then presses against the underside of the male. The male will then grow skin over the eggs to form a brood pouch.
Reed Cormorant__Microcarbo africanus; is a small comorant, it breeds in Africa south of the Sahara, and Madagascar. This species can dive to considerable depths, and takes a wide variety of fish. It prefers small slow moving fish such as mormyrids, catfish, and cichlids.
Photo by Andries Pretorius.
SHIO KUSAKA (dinosaur 22), 2014 Stoneware 22 ¼ x 12 ¼ x 12 ¼ inches (56.5 x 31.1 x 31.1 cm)
An X-ray image of the Cassiopeia-A supernova rendered in needlepoint by astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. (She was the first to work out that stars are predominantly made of hydrogen, a pivotal finding at odds with expert opinion in the 1920s, when she published the work in a doctoral dissertation.)
She crafted the needlepoint in 1975. It being the 70s, her friend and colleague John R. Whitman had to use a giant mainframe computer at the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Short-Lived Phenomena to output the schematic.
via True Anomolies
dying before your friends and welcoming them to hell like
AAAAAAAAAAAA
i cannot believe, either!
(found on the door of the ornithology room on campus)
Red-winged blackbird chick (source)
Tag yourself I’m Sleve McDicheal
BOBSON DUGNUTT
Rangers lineup looks good this year
“Please, do not feed the bird “
© Sammy Slabbinck 2016
