More photos from Arizona

[guppiecat]

More photos from the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. (Wrapping up the set that's here.


This is for all you that have been wondering what a two-hour old big horn sheep looks like. I call it a little hornless big horn sheep.




Turns out that birds have wings mostly just for steering.


When not flying around, bats store little tiny books in their ears.


When the frog on the bottom reaches the top of its jump, the one on the top leaps off. After much practice, they can get up to a stack of four frogs, by which point the little frog on the top can reach the cookie jar on top of the fridge.


Garden eels are big fans of Georgia Tech. (Yes, I made a sports joke ... it took much research.)


Lizards in Arizona are 5-grit.


If I had taken video, you'd have seen the jay wag his tail before leaping for that mouse.


Grey fox doubts the veracity of some of these statements.


Laughing parrot tries to convince grey fox that all are 100% true.

Comments

[mplsfish.livejournal.com]

I don't get the sports joke.

[guppiecat]

That school's colours are white and gold.

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Great shots!

Little hornless big horn sure has attitude for someone who hasn't been here even one whole day.

[pameladean]

I am with the gray fox. But sometimes your narratives are so much better than the truth, they achieve a kind of higher -- no, I cannot use the phrase "higher truth." It is too terrible.

P.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Jolly Ranchers stick to everyone's teeth.

K.