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    The BEAUTY of ALL ANIMALS and LIVING THINGS
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    Joseph Gatt The BEAUTY of ALL ANIMALS and LIVING THINGS
    January 26, 2025, 10:57 pm -

    Mesmerizing video of a small yellow leaf walking purposefully along a quiet road in China.

    On November 19, 2023, in Harbin, in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province, what seems to be a walking leaf stuns Chinese viewers. It appears to be a walking leaf insect, a species that uses its leaf-like appearance as camouflage, although these generally are typically found outside China in South through Southesast Asia, and Australia. Additionally, to confuse predators, when the leaf insect walks, it rocks back and forth, mimicking a real leaf being blown by the wind. However, in this video, no such rocking motion could be discerned.

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  • Joseph Gatt
    January 19, 2025, 9:20 pm -

    When the cold season comes and food becomes scarce, hedgehogs curl up into a ball and hibernate until spring, slowing down their heart rate and breathing to consume as little energy as possible. Hedgehogs are generally nocturnal and feed exclusively on insects. To protect themselves they have a layer of about 6,000 quills, which however are not poisonous nor do they come off easily like those of the porcupine — which is a completely unrelated species.

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  • Joseph Gatt
    January 12, 2025, 7:08 pm -

    Having admired macaws in our post of five weeks ago (zafoid.com/post/view/11622), this time we will consider a different kind of parrot, namely the parakeet. A parakeet is any one of many small- to medium-sized species of parrot, in multiple genera, that generally has long tail feathers. Shown here (in clockwise direction) is the colourful plum-headed parakeet from India, burrowing parakeets from Argentina during flight, and two images of rose-ringed parakeets.

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  • Joseph Gatt
    January 5, 2025, 12:15 am -

    A team of researchers from Yale University demonstrated that hummingbirds really are the champions of the bird world when it comes to attention-grabbing colours. According to the team’s findings, published in the journal Communications Biology in 2022, the diversity of colours found in hummingbirds they examined exceeds that of all other bird species combined. And not just by a little — when hummingbirds were added to an existing inventory of the so-called bird colour gamut (the full range of colors that birds can produce and detect), they increased that range by around 56%.



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  • Joseph Gatt
    December 29, 2024, 8:46 pm -

    This colourful Javan tree frog can only be found on the Indonesian island of Java! (Check out more about more endearing frogs that can be found in Indonesia, here in this earlier post: zafoid.com/post/view/11364)

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  • Timmy Walsh
    December 22, 2024, 1:45 pm -

    Merry Christmas to all Zafodians and to all the pets around the world.

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  • Tom Smith Happy Christmas everyone!

    December 22, 2024, 1:56 pm
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  • Joseph Gatt The BEAUTY of ALL ANIMALS and LIVING THINGS
    December 16, 2024, 8:08 pm -

    Dolphin gets playful with a dog

    Golden Retriever playing with dolphin in Australian waters (April 2017)

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  • Joseph Gatt
    December 8, 2024, 9:20 pm -

    Macaws are a group of New World parrots that are long-tailed and often colorful. The macaws shown here are from Central (i.e. Costa Rica) and South (i.e. Brazil and Bolivia) America.

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  • Timmy Walsh
    November 30, 2024, 9:28 pm -

    Chameleons, with the occasional dragonfly emergency landing. 😀



    Chameleons' eyes are independently mobile, and because of this the chameleon’s brain is constantly analysing two separate, individual images of its environment.

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  • Joseph Gatt
    November 24, 2024, 2:22 am -

    African elephant families in Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa.

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