Nature's Marvels. Text by Lucy Berman. Illustrations by Roy Coombs. 1971.
Meet Uroplatus garamaso, a new leaf-tailed gecko from Madagascar!
Uroplatus garamaso are absolute masters of camouflage. During the day, they rest with their heads down and fringes expanded, rendering them practically invisible. Here, I have revealed the outline of the gecko against the tree trunk. As you can imagine, that makes them pretty difficult to spot in the wild.
Fortunately, at night, they wake up and prowl the branches, and can often be found up to a few metres off the ground hunting for invertebrates.
This remarkable gecko has been known about for over 20 years, and has even been in the pet trade for well over a decade. But only now have we finally amassed enough information on it to be able to formally describe it and give it a name. The trouble was that it is extremely similar to Uroplatus henkeli, which is also found nearby. The key to distinguishing them turned out to be the colour of the eye, and the tip of the tongue, which is pink in U. garamaso (left), and blackish in U. henkeli (right).
These geckos open their mouths as a warning signal, so looking at this feature is quite easy. But we are not sure why the mouth colour so often differs between species. Some more behavioural studies are needed.
The new species was described on 15 August 2023 in the Open Access journal Salamanadra. You can read the paper here.
Mizora is hilarious because they really did nail the fact that Devils are just magical sticklers for rules. Like sure, evil, scary, bat wings, horns, etc- but they get you because they spend way too long thinking about contracts and contingencies so that the contract works in their favor always. You think you have her beat and she goes '☝🤓Actually in Section 15, Subsection B, paragraph 7- it says, and I quote, 'nuh uh'.' and you just have to deal with that because she's not technically breaking any rules, you just didn't read the fine print and that sounds like a you problem not a her problem.
Hey can anyone tell me what the FUCK this behavior means
See me sweet
Then see me silly
see me sweet then see me silly
see me writhe round willy nilly
see me bite and kick a toy
i am ricky baby boy
"[Wait and see] began on Tumblr. And then, seeing I was writing episode 5 at the time and it was already a thing, it crept into the show." — Neil Gaiman, and his commitment to the bit.
This is THE heritage post IMHO
I have had the honor of working on two different comics projects with Don Hertzfeldt. But this is the story of my first interaction with the man.
The Wildlife of Africa. Jocelyn Arundel. Illustrated by Wesley Dennis. 1965.
Red wolf. These are Endangered; written by Charles Cadieux and illustrated by Bob Hines. 1981.