Soft. Corpulent. Splendid. These words and more can be used to describe the banded bullfrog [also known as the chubby frog, Kaloula pulchra], those little microhylids we all love and admire. These frogs can be found in plentiful numbers throughout Southeast Asia, adapting easily to rice paddies and even urban areas. When threatened they fill themselves with air and stand in a defensive posture to intimidate predators. Images by Budak.
ok but robin is such a sweet guy he helps take care of the mass amount of feral cats in his city itās really heartwarming and heās always so polite and nice to the people who watch his videos
also itās clear from the videos that the cats know and trust him because he treats them so well
for example this is a video of him first meeting this cat
and in a couple months, he posted this update
heās really a good personĀ
thatās why i left his name in the screenshots! Heās such a nice man and takes care of all these feral kitties and is very patient with them. love his channel
This is a Saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica), a species listed in CITES Appendix II and evaluated as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List. It lives in Asia (Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan).
Collected from the Egyptian desert in March of 1846, the Helix desertorumĀ specimen was sent to the British Museum, where scientists thought it had expired in transit. It was glued to a cardboard display card shortly after.
One day four years later, curators noticed something strange about their catatonic mollusk: the shell seemed to have moved from its glued position and a trail of discoloration followed it.
Archivists removed it from the card to give it a bath, with a suspicion the snail might have in fact been slumbering.
After just a few minutes of exposure to moisture, the snailās head poked from its shell and surveyed its new home with four eye stalks.
As the snail adjusted to active life again, it became a minor celebrity and sat for a portrait by the museumās zoological artist for inclusion in a book on mollusks, seen below:
