Tagged: snake

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baya weavers nesting

It is nesting season for the baya weavers! Baya weaver birds are small, sparrow-size birds that resemble the sparrows during the non-breeding season. During May-June, as the breeding season approaches, their gonads (sexual glands)...

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skink mimicking a snake

In the recent articles we talked about tactics from the snakes, spiders, birds and others for survival, and for saving their offspring.  In the picture below, you can see a skink (kind of lizards)...

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captain’s wood snake

We discovered this snake from under the ground while digging, the same time when this species was being named. That is, it was not known that such a species existed, taxonomically. It was in...

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nest raiders at our backyard

One day we heard a lot of commotion just outside of our house. We saw 3 or 4 purple sunbirds, red whiskered bulbuls and yellow browed bulbuls at the same location, hovering and squeaking...

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nature, bounded and bonded

We took a long long break after the wedding. Guess what we were doing mean time?!   We got this teeny weeny frog from the bush nearby home. Yet to be identified. Seems it loves...