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A Froggy breakfast 🤤🦩
15/02/2026

A Froggy breakfast 🤤🦩

15/02/2026

Filming the gentle giants 🐘🥰

The black leopard “Giza” with her cubs in Laikipia of Kenya 🐆 🐈‍⬛ She is easily the most beautiful cat I’ve ever seen. ...
12/02/2026

The black leopard “Giza” with her cubs in Laikipia of Kenya 🐆 🐈‍⬛
She is easily the most beautiful cat I’ve ever seen.



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Not just a hunter, but an opportunist of the skies.🌾🧐The Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus) is not a typical falcon. It...
12/02/2026

Not just a hunter, but an opportunist of the skies.🌾🧐

The Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus) is not a typical falcon. It looks like a raptor, hunts like a crow, and scavenges like a vulture. Intelligent, opportunistic, and strangely charismatic, this bird blurs the lines between predator and trickster.

Something for Knowledge 🧠

📌 Caracaras have demonstrated problem-solving skills similar to corvids. In captivity, they can manipulate objects and solve food puzzles, showing advanced cognitive flexibility for a raptor.

📌 Unlike peregrines or kestrels, crested caracaras spend a surprising amount of time walking on the ground, using long legs to patrol fields like feathered detectives.

📌 The small black crest on their head becomes raised during excitement or confrontation, acting as a visual signal in territorial disputes.

📌 They typically form long-term monogamous pairs and build large stick nests in trees, shrubs, or even on man-made structures.



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11/02/2026

Your perspective changes when you rise higher 🦅✨

05/02/2026

The Sri Lankan Grey Hornbill (Ocyceros gingalensis)



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📷 Ravisara Jayamanna

05/02/2026

Sound on for those ear flaps 😍😁🙃

Dragonfly snack..🫣🤤Little bee-eater flips its ✨Photo credit goes to the respective owner.© Antoinette Kloppers
30/01/2026

Dragonfly snack..🫣🤤
Little bee-eater flips its ✨

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© Antoinette Kloppers

When termites move, I wake 🌞The numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) is one of Australia’s most unusual mammals, a small, stri...
15/01/2026

When termites move, I wake 🌞

The numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) is one of Australia’s most unusual mammals, a small, striped survivor with habits found in almost no other marsupial.

Something for Knowledge 🧠

📌 Australia’s Only Day-Active Marsupial Predator
Unlike most marsupials, numbats are strictly diurnal, timing their activity with termite movement rather than avoiding daylight.

📌 No Pouch, No Problem
Female numbats lack a true pouch. Instead, the tiny newborns cling directly to the mother’s ni***es, protected only by curled abdominal fur.

📌 Reduced Teeth, Sharp Strategy
Numbats have fewer and weaker teeth than most mammals because termites require little chewing, an extreme example of evolutionary efficiency.

📌 Today, the numbat is Western Australia’s faunal emblem, representing fragile ecosystems and the power of targeted conservation.



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📷 huntingforparadise
(Lewis Burnett)

A stunning Sri Lankan pit viper..💖🐍photo by endlessserpent! 💚
15/01/2026

A stunning Sri Lankan pit viper..💖🐍

photo by endlessserpent! 💚

15/01/2026

The puma has such a sweet purr❤️❤️

15/01/2026

Oops Who put that stick there 😒😤

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