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Posing for a picture :)
They called these guys the most dangerous animal in the grand canyon, as the most amount of animal-related injuries come from these guys. They're completely desensitized to people and will take food out of your hand.

His name was Elmer! He wasn't planted there but the owner of the truck was very happy to have him, so she named him Elmer because "he's the only thing gluing the truck together" :)

(featuring her dog Po in the front seat)

We were asked by local guides not to share the precise location of any photos from the trip since we were going to some private/secret/sacred locations throughout the week that see trespassers often. I figured it would be better to be overprotective rather than accidentally share something I shouldn't have, so I have edited the accuracy to cover the entire island.

Snorkeling just off the coast. 5-10m deep.

We were asked by local guides not to share the precise location of any photos from the trip since we were going to some private/secret/sacred locations throughout the week that see trespassers often. I figured it would be better to be overprotective rather than accidentally share something I shouldn't have, so I have edited the accuracy to cover most of the island.

Snorkeling just off the coast. 5-10m deep.

We were asked by local guides not to share the precise location of any photos from the trip since we were going to some private/secret/sacred locations throughout the week that see trespassers often. I figured it would be better to be overprotective rather than accidentally share something I shouldn't have, so I have edited the accuracy to cover most of the island.

Catch and release fishing in the Banana river. Came after we chummed the water.
I can’t remember who hooked this monster but it was by far the biggest catfish I’ve ever seen hooked at the dock. Everyone wanted a picture of them holding it :)

See: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/138654431

This fungi popped up in one of my Porcellio scaber cultures 3 months ago and has killed over half of the population (50 individuals). The fungi seems to resemble Lagenidium in behaver capable of growing outside of their host but spreads faster with them.

Photos 2 and 3: Fungi growing post-mortem.
Photos 3, 4, and 5: Fungi growing in the enclosure.
Photo 6: Fruiting body under the microscope.
Photo 7 and 8: Fungi under the microscope.

128 Days Later ↓
All individuals from the original 100 are deceased I have added more individuals to keep observing the effects of this fungi.

Photo 9: Recently deceased female.
Photo 10 and 11: Fungi growing post-mortem.

Was not moving.
Seemed to be filled with the same organisms featured in these observations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/112352855
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/112352929
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/112352993

Collected from fish tank rocks.
First two pics are 250x magnification, others are 1000x.

Flinders Island cave-slater Echinodillo cavaticus. The world has only two known species of the very distinctive Echinodillo cave-slaters. One is found on the Marquesas Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. This other species is known only from a small cave in southern Flinders Island, where its entire global range is measurable in square metres. We found this one during our Bush Blitz on Flinders Island in March 2014.

Dia 82, un individuo.

Day 82, one individual.

Relacionado con // Related to:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2667158
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2667199
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2667420

We saw the snake eagle as it flew up from the ground. It flew in slow circles while it controlled and started to eat the snake. One minute from pic 1 to pic 8 where it started to eat the snake. Total time for this series, three minutes.

Snake at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/14774517

just for fun; part of one of 12 quagga breeding programs aimed at bring back the quagga from extinction - not sure how many generations these guys are - prob 5th or 6th and looking pretty good, some have the orange tinge, lack of stripes on lower half, etc

Definitely in the genus Mordellistena, and the patterns on the elytra look similar to Mordellistena liturata. I haven’t been able to find pictures of Mordellistena species other than the ones listed on iNaturalist, so I’m not certain.