These guys are SO CUTE. The klipspringer also has a super-fun scientific name, Oreotragus oreotragus, to fit with their bouncy personality. | +
Ribbit no more. | +
A pair of white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) in the Kruger National Park. A total of 448 rhinos were poached from within the South African National Parks system in 2011 alone, and 135 by March of 2012. And by poached, I mean viciously slaughtered for their horns, which are valuable on the Asian traditional medicine market. When will it end? When they’re all gone? | +
the sea slug Clione limacina is a deadly predator of the pelagic zone | photo by Alexander Semenov | +
Colonial explorers with two of the remaining stems of Encephalartos woodii at Ongoye Forest, late 1900s. In 1895, John Medley Wood, curator of the Durban Botanic Garden, discovered a new species of cycad in the misty Ongoye Forest of KwaZulu-Natal. Named Wood’s Cycad (Encephalartos woodii), this multi-stemmed plant was the last of its kind: no other specimens have ever been found. Read one of my old blog posts about this rare plant here.
Hi, Tumblr! Did you miss me? I missed you. You look good; have you been working out? I apologize for my absence. I have moved back to South Africa. This is what it looks like where I live now. | +
the hooded grasshopper (Teratodus monticollis) hails from India and Sri Lanka and feeds on the leaves of sandalwood. | +
The male King Eider (Somateria spectabilis) is a large and gorgeous seaduck from the Arctic coasts of northeast Europe, North America and Asia. | +
A school of scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) lazily swims by Darwin’s Arch, Galápagos Archipelago. | photo by Eric Cheng | +
In this photo from 1912, whalers on South Georgia, an island in the South Atlantic, stand on the beach alongside their catch: a southern right whale (Eubalaena australis). | +