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Ian Rose

2 weeks ago

Meet the world's newest described genus and species of amphibian, the Kenyan volcano toad, Kenyaphrynoides vulcani.

Long toes, slender head profile. No notes. Excellent toad.

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad160/7379316

#toads #amphibians #AfricanWildlife #OpenScience

Four artist's renderings of the newly described Kenya volcano toad. It looks very much like a frog, with long toes ending in round knobs. Overall, body is striped green on top and whitish on the belly.

SpringGnoll

1 month ago

#Lion #Pride #Nature #Love #Wild #Cub #AfricanWildlife #Lioness 1366 x 768 #wallpaper

Anette Mossbacher Photography

6 months ago

#elephants having their sundowner at a waterhole in the desert. :emoji_wink:

#Photography #Nature #MastoArt #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #AfricanWildlife #Photographie #Fotografie #wildanimals #photooftheday
#photographyisart
#pictureoftheday
#potd
#Canon #AnetteMossbacher

Black and white fine art photo print of 2 elephant bulls quenching their thirst at a waterhole in the desert of Africa.

Bownaan Kamal Wildlife 🦁

8 months ago

It was a perfect plot but the target was missed | Masai Mara | Kenya
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Bownaan Kamal Wildlife 🦁

8 months ago

Bownaan Kamal Wildlife 🦁

8 months ago

Young Maasai giraffes, also known as calves, have an interesting fact about their growth rate. During their first year of life, they can grow up to an astonishing 1 inch (2.54 cm) per day, resulting in a rapid increase in their height. This fast growth rate allows them to better evade predators and reach the tall vegetation their species is known for consuming.
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🦒 Masai Mara | Kenya
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#africanwildlife #waowafrica #discoverwildlife #animalelite #wildlifeplanet

David Wakeham

8 months ago

#TIL I should remember to clear the whiteboard between students.

Had my youngest student today question what the term 'pseudo-penis' was.

Told them it was above their pay grade and was able to distract them with the trumpets I had brought for today's double lesson.

#Biology #AfricanWildlife #Hyena #LaughingHyena #SpottedHyena #Pseudopenis #Trumpet #Tutoring #Whoops #TodayILearned

Photo of a female spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) with pseudo-penis showing.

Carol Brass trumpet with upturned bell sitting atop case. Behind it a Merck veterinary manual and purple stethoscope is visible.

Bownaan Kamal Wildlife 🦁

8 months ago

Bownaan Kamal Wildlife 🦁

9 months ago

Now officially Tryggve (Marley) is also gone, killed by the same nomads who took away Snyggve (Bob Jr). Unfortunate to see the great brother are gone, but their legacy remains.
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🦁 Serengeti | Tanzania
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Art History Animalia

9 months ago

For #NationalAardvarkWeek:
Aardvarks by Robert Jacob Gordon (Dutch, 1743-1795), from The Gordon African Collection, 4 albums of #NaturalHistory illustrations made during 4 expeditions to the #Dutch Cape Colony (#SouthAfrica) from 1777-86. Now in the Rijksmuseum collection.

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-1914-17-215
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-1914-17-234
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-1914-17-235
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-1914-17-236

#AardvarksAareAawesome
#Africa #AfricanAnimals #AfricanWildlife #AfricanNaturalHistory

Title: Orycteropus afer (Aardvark)
Object type: drawing
Object number: RP-T-1914-17-215
Inscriptions / marks
annotation: ‘onder: Caaps Sogenaamt Aardvarken / Sijnde een regte Miereneter van het Vrouwelijk geslagt ~.; l.b.: regter voor poot, van onder gesien.; r.b.: regter agter poot van onder gesien; m.b. Lengte [...]’
Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon
Dating: Oct-1777 - Mar-1786
Material: paper, deck paint, ink, watercolor (paint), pencil, chalk
Technique: brush / pen
Measurements: height 660 mm × width c. 480 mm
height 232 mm × width 353 mm
height 194 mm × width c. 353 mm
Explanatory note:
Gordon classified the aardvark among the anteaters, but not the American ones.
Rijksmuseum collection:
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-1914-17-215

Title: Orycteropus afer (Aardvark)
Object type: drawing
Object number: RP-T-1914-17-234
Inscriptions / marks
annotation: ‘onderaan: Caaps Sogenaamt Aardvarken / sijnde een regte Mieren - eter, van het Vrouwelijk geslagt ~.’
Description: An anteater of the female sex.
Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon
Dating: Oct-1777 - Mar-1786
Material: paper, ink, watercolor (paint), pencil, chalk
Technique pen / brush
Measurements: height c. 660 mm × width 480 mm
height 225 mm × width 361 mm
height 194 mm × width 361 mm
Explanatory note:
Practically identical to G. 215; the systematic place is uncertain; Gordon places him among the anteaters.
Is part of: The Gordon African Collection : Quadrupeds (RP-T-1914-17B)
Rijksmuseum collection:
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-1914-17-234

Title: Orycteropus afer (Aardvark)
Object type: drawing
Object number: RP-T-1914-17-235
Inscriptions / marks
annotation: ‘onderaan: Caaps Sogenaamt Aardvarken / Sijnde een regte Mieren = eter. van het Vrouwelijk geslagt~. / [...]’
Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon
Dating: Oct-1777 - Mar-1786
Material: paper, ink, watercolor (paint), pencil, chalk
Technique: pen / brush
Measurements: height c. 660 mm × width 480 mm
height 224 mm × width 351 mm
height 173 mm × width 341 mm
Explanatory note:
Practically identical to G. 215; the systematic place is uncertain; Gordon places him among the anteaters.
Is part of: The Gordon African Collection : Quadrupeds (RP-T-1914-17B)
Rijksmuseum collection:
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-1914-17-235

Title: Orycteropus afer (Aardvark)
Object type: drawing
Object number: RP-T-1914-17-236
Inscriptions / Marks annotation: ‘een Caaps zogenaamd Aardvarken, zijnde een regte Mieren Eter, dog niet de Americaansche, [...]’
signature and date: ‘[...] den 16.August: R:J: Gordon’
Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon
Dating: 16-Aug-1777 - 16-Aug-1786
Material: paper, ink, watercolor (paint), pencil, chalk
Technique: pen / brush
Measurements: height c. 660 mm × width 480 mm
height 332 mm × width 440 mm
height 310 mm × width 425 mm
Explanatory note:
The systematic place is uncertain; Gordon places him among the anteaters.
Is part of: The Gordon African Collection : Quadrupeds (RP-T-1914-17B)
Rijksmuseum collection:
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-1914-17-236

Bownaan Kamal Wildlife 🦁

9 months ago

Bownaan Kamal Wildlife 🦁

9 months ago

Common agama, red-headed rock agama or rainbow agama (Agama agama) is a species of lizard from the family Agamidae found in most of sub-Saharan Africa.
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Bownaan Kamal Wildlife 🦁

9 months ago

Ethiopian highland hare (Lepus starcki) or Starck's hare is a medium-sized species of mammal in the rabbit and hare family, Leporidae. It is endemic to the Ethiopian Highlands, ranging over the Afroalpine regions of the Shoa, Bale, and Arsi Provinces of Ethiopia.
🐇 Bale Mountain | Ethiopia
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Bownaan Kamal Wildlife 🦁

9 months ago

cascoly

9 months ago

The magic of #Serengeti National Park is impossible to describe in words (but we keep trying). First, the sounds – the humming grunts of wildebeest and the donkey-like barking of #zebras.

https://cascoly-images.com/tanzania-serengeti-national-park/

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/hippopotamus-need-to-spend-most-of-the-day-in-water-ayearforart-steve-estvanik.html

Hippopotamus spend most of the day in water,
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The magic of #Serengeti National Park is impossible to describe in words (but we keep trying). First, the sounds – the humming grunts of wildebeest and the donkey-like barking of #zebras.

Hippopotamus spend most of the day in water,

Bownaan Kamal Wildlife 🦁

9 months ago

Baby elephants stay very close to their mothers for the first couple of months. The calves drink their mother's milk for about two years, sometimes longer. They drink up to 3 gallons of milk a day!
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🐘 Masai Mara | Kenya
Photo by @bownaan.kamal
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Bownaan Kamal Wildlife 🦁

9 months ago

Southern ground hornbills are carnivorous and hunt mostly on the ground. Their food ranges from insects to small animals.
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🐦 Serengeti | Tanzania
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Bownaan Kamal Wildlife 🦁

10 months ago

African Fish Eagle with catch | Lake Naivasha | Kenya
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Bownaan Kamal Wildlife 🦁

10 months ago

Black-backed jackal (Lupulella mesomelas), also called the silver-backed jackal, is a medium-sized canine native to eastern and southern Africa.
🦊 Serengeti | Tanzania
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Bownaan Kamal Wildlife 🦁

10 months ago

Don’t search for a magical land in the movies…It is here.. our earth and in the wild…Love it, Cherish and protect it.
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🐾 Masai Mara | Kenya
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#bownaankamal #mungosmungo #africanwildlife #bandedmongoose #masaimaranationalreserve #thisismykenya #wildlife_perfection #masaimarakenya #nb_nature_brilliance #africansavannah #wildlifephotography #visitkenya #safari #mongoose #natgeotravel #natgeoindia #africageo #magicalkenya #masaimarareserve #wildgeography #wildlifeplanet #discovery

Bownaan Kamal Wildlife 🦁

10 months ago

Ian Rose

10 months ago

When we think about carbon sequestration, we too often stop at trees and other plants. They're the ones doing most of the drawing down of carbon, sure, but it's often animals that structure and maintain plant communities to allow it to happen.

This story by Malavika Vyawahare in @mongabay is a great example, showing how forest elephants help big trees thrive by taking out smaller competitors: https://news.mongabay.com/2023/01/elephants-promote-jumbo-trees-boosting-the-carbon-stores-in-africas-forests/

#ecology #elephants #africa #africanwildlife #sciencewriting

cascoly

10 months ago

I use continuous mode for wildlife which can result in GIF like these

https://cascoly-images.com/african-gif-mini-animations/

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#animalArt #wildlifePhotography #wildlifeArt #NaturePhotography
#africanWildlife

gif of elep.hant flapping her ears, Tanzania

Bownaan Kamal Wildlife 🦁

10 months ago

No Doubt, spotted hyenas look cool and calm, but their real life activity never adds up. Do you agree?
🐕 Masai Mara | Kenya
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Bownaan Kamal Wildlife 🦁

10 months ago

Hildebrandt's starling (Lamprotornis hildebrandti) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is a migratory species ranging from Ethiopia and Somalia to Kenya.
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🐦 Ngorongoro | Tanzania
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Ian Rose

10 months ago

New bat species just dropped. Well, not new-new.

Pseudoromicia principis was first described as a separate species this week, based on specimens collected from Príncipe Island, west of Equitorial Guinea, more than 30 years ago. (Paper is open and free to read. Photo by Jorge Palmeirim.) https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jmammal/gyac110/6984673

#bats #wildlife #africanwildlife #newspecies