Thematic Wildlife

**WPRESTO** · 09-10-2017, 02:02 PM

And know for a truly rare, exotic animal - - - but not from me.

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**aslyfox** · 09-11-2017, 10:24 AM - **1 Like**

at the Topeka Zoo and Conservation Center today

as I approached the bridge at the pond where the swans hang out, a heron flew across in front of me.

I saw it go to a bald cypress tree and I followed

I believe it is a mature yellow crowned night heron Nyctanassa violacea

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

can anyone confirm??

**noelcmn** · 09-11-2017, 12:12 PM

Coucal, a bird known to eat a wide range of items, including lizards.

**WPRESTO** · 09-11-2017, 01:11 PM - **2 Likes**

Emu (zoo specimen)

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**noelcmn** · 09-11-2017, 01:40 PM - **1 Like**

I'll follow

**WPRESTO** · 09-12-2017, 08:38 AM - **1 Like**

Birds? Birds? I LOVE birds!

gifthorse · 09-12-2017, 10:47 AM - **3 Likes**

Me too!

(The cat is a feral and the bird is wild too.)

**noelcmn** · 09-12-2017, 01:50 PM - **1 Like**

Another shot of that jackal scavenging off a Giraffe killed by some lions

**WPRESTO** · 09-13-2017, 04:04 AM - **2 Likes**

A teeny tiny snapping turtle. At this size, they're safe to hold, they won't attempt to bite at all. When the shell gets about three inches long, however, they are quite willing to remove a wedge of your skin.

**noelcmn** · 09-13-2017, 01:32 PM - **2 Likes**

Mother and oldish calf

Racer X 69 · 09-18-2017, 10:09 AM

Originally posted by noelcmn

Mother and oldish calf

Showing their best side too.😂

**noelcmn** · 09-18-2017, 11:15 AM

As is their wont too

RobG · 09-18-2017, 09:20 PM - **1 Like**

A platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, formerly Ornithorhynchus paradoxus. This one was within 2km of Parliament house in Canberra. Sadly they are becoming rare due to habitat loss and poor water quality in rivers from farming. No longer a "paradoxus" because its evolution is better understood. Its original scientific name was because English scientists couldn't understand how one animal could have a duck's bill and webbed feet, fur, and lay eggs.

Platypus by RobGeraghty, on Flickr

**aslyfox** · 09-19-2017, 04:09 AM

this link leads to info regarding how the animal was initially considered a hoax being played on European scientists and naturalists by sailors

" . . . The surgeon Robert Knox later explained that because the specimens arrived in England via the Indian Ocean, naturalists suspected that Chinese sailors, who were well known for their skill at stitching together hybrid creatures, might have been playing some kind of joke upon them. (See the Feejee Mermaid hoax.) "Aware of the monstrous impostures which the artful Chinese had so frequently practised [ sic ] on European adventurers," Knox noted, "the scientific felt inclined to class this rare production of nature with eastern mermaids and other works of art." . . .

The Duckbilled Platypus (1799)

**noelcmn** · 09-19-2017, 11:12 AM

Pied Crow that had a bone to pick, one it had scavenged from a leopard with a kill not far away.

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RobG Otis Memorial Pentaxian Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Canberra Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 8,886	A platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, formerly Ornithorhynchus paradoxus. This one was within 2km of Parliament house in Canberra. Sadly they are becoming rare due to habitat loss and poor water quality in rivers from farming. No longer a "paradoxus" because its evolution is better understood. Its original scientific name was because English scientists couldn't understand how one animal could have a duck's bill and webbed feet, fur, and lay eggs. Platypus by RobGeraghty, on Flickr

09-19-2017, 04:09 AM	#6164
aslyfox Seeker of Knowledge Join Date: Aug 2016 Location: Topeka, Kansas Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 24,581	this link leads to info regarding how the animal was initially considered a hoax being played on European scientists and naturalists by sailors " . . . The surgeon Robert Knox later explained that because the specimens arrived in England via the Indian Ocean, naturalists suspected that Chinese sailors, who were well known for their skill at stitching together hybrid creatures, might have been playing some kind of joke upon them. (See the Feejee Mermaid hoax.) "Aware of the monstrous impostures which the artful Chinese had so frequently practised [ sic ] on European adventurers," Knox noted, "the scientific felt inclined to class this rare production of nature with eastern mermaids and other works of art." . . . The Duckbilled Platypus (1799)

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noelcmn Site Supporter Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: South Africa-Johannesburg Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 46,175	Pied Crow that had a bone to pick, one it had scavenged from a leopard with a kill not far away.

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