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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist
@chelseaherps.bsky.social
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Multi hyphenate anime herpetologist or something like that. From Dominica 🇩🇲. I draw sometimes I promise.

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Making myself the promise to post here more if only for my art 😭 also I just had another birthday. So I’ll be updating soon.
Also been thinking about streaming in a serious sense?????

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November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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I can’t post a video longer than 60 seconds so you’ll just have to follow me on TikTok for the whole thing.
November 28, 2024 at 12:46 AM
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Had a great day yesterday. Thank you for all the birthday wishes and everything 🖤🖤🖤
Mirror selfie. I’m wearing black as always. Picture from dinner Another picture from dinner Another one.
November 19, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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Birthday is tomorrow
My cat looking at me with disdain
November 17, 2024 at 5:06 AM
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Two of four new designs I finally got around to uploading as a birthday present to myself!

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Gamer shrimp posture check. Illustration of a shrimp in tears in a red gaming chair with headphones and a controller Chest xray dog meme but it’s hummingbirds and I drew it
November 17, 2024 at 4:56 AM
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Just here for a bit to tweet about my birthday in 6 days.

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Little seal in a pool standing on his back flippers like he’s standing on his tip toes
November 11, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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And our last new species right at the end. There's a blue-grey bird with a large yellow beak that I'm gonna say is a Dollarbird. And to his bottom-right, a Yellow-bellied glider of sorts.

📸: Frédéric Leviez
📸: Michael Mcmaster

Thank you so much if you got this far. You made it to the end!
Several fairies hiding in the twists and bends of a large tree along with a grey-blue bird and yellow glider Picture of a dark blue and black bird with an orange beak Picture of light brown squirrel like glider with large ears
January 24, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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Magic is happening.
The wallaby and possum are looking on with our first prolonged close up Psittaciforme (parrot family). A Black cockatoo. Probably the Southeastern subspecies of the Glossy black cockatoo.

📸: Jonno Downes
From right to left: the mother wallaby and joey again, a possum returns, and now a dark coloured cockatoo sits on the tree branch near them. All are in shock. Photo of a Southeastern glossy Black cockatoo eating some kind of berry somewhat smugly in a tree
January 24, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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Trees are being cut down and animals are running away.
There's Rainbow lorikeets, the monitor is back (please look at its toes. Please watch the movie for its forked tongue and head shape. He's not a gecko pls) and in the back those two little dots hopping away. Red-backed toadlets!

📸: Isaac Clarey
Three distant rainbow lorikeets (yes they're rainbow lorikeets) The brown monitor is back but now in the back are two very small frogs. They are dark brown/black with red A toadlet. It is dark brown/black with a red-brown back and some red-brown on its legs
January 24, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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Off-white/pale yellow butterflies! Lemon migrants!
A platypus! (they have very sensitive electroreception to detect the tiny electric signals made by muscle contractions!)

📸: Jacky Cudon
Five off-white/pale yellow butterflies A pale yellow butterfly irl. Not much to say. Zak swimming with a platypus
January 24, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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Briefly there's a Short-eared brushtail possum!
An Australian barn owl swoops in.
Then a brown lizard. He's built like a monitor. Like a Banded/Spotted tree monitor (I won't pick which one cause I don't want to tussle)

(And yes I considered geckos omg)

📸: Colour Blind Flora Enthusiast
Animated possum in a tree Animated barn owl I had to take a picture of on my phone A large brown monitor like lizard. He is drawn smiling. Yes I considered geckos please read my parameters omg. A real monitor. I don't think he is smiling. But he is tan with dark spotting/banding and in vegetation where he thinks he hasnt been spotted
January 24, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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Bro IDK who this we never see it in full, but it's giving amphibian. I'm gonna say its a frog inspired by the Australian green tree frog and Giant Barred-frog.

📸: Alec Karcz
📸: Brian C Adam
Zak laying on a flat mushroom playing with a drop of water. Unbeknownst to him he is being closely observed by a large pair of amphibian-esque eyes A green tree frog looking at you with clear judgmental disappointment in his eyes A large brown frog with narrowed pupils staring incredibly intensely at something just past you. What is it? What eldritch horror can he see?
January 24, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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But with the colour and spines, I would say this is probably Dan’s design of a caterpillar inspired by the Emperor gum moth and Four-spotted cup moth. If I’m overlooking a caterpillar, please let me know!

📸: Ron Greer
📸: Felix Fleck
Photo of a green-blue caterpillar with red-orange protrusions covered in spikes all along the top of its body A yellow green caterpillar with yellow to orange spines all along the top of its body
January 24, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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This caterpillar is ? I even stared at the design directly from Dan Jeup’s website (the animal designer for FernGully).
The dots on the side of a caterpillar are spiracles. They’re how it breathes.

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A green and blue caterpillar with yellow spines and red-brown spiracles walking by Zak
January 24, 2024 at 11:32 PM
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Everyone is still trying to eat Zak. Now it’s leeches! Leeches are hard like beetles, all I got is that they are definitely jawed leeches.
Sorry ):
Animated black jawed leeches licking their lips and chasing Zak so they can eat him
January 24, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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These frogs look a bit more fantasy than rl because of the artstyle but the colours are right.
Australian Red-eyed tree frogs (Ranoidea chloris) are yellow and green with red/purple-ish colouring on their thighs.

📸: Indra Bone
Animated tree frogs. They have very bold colouring, green, yellow and red eyes. An Australian tree frogs with the same green back and forelegs and yellow underbelly and red eyes. Its colours blend into one another more naturally than the animated versions
January 24, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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During Tone Loc's musical number Zak bumps into a snail. Snails are difficult. If you drew a brown snail with dark brown stripes that covers so many species. It’s a good body plan for them!
But I went by the shell shape & eyestalk colour, so I think Northern rivers treesnail!
Zak stuck to brown snail in a stream A light brown snail with a conical light brown shell with dark brown stripes
January 24, 2024 at 11:29 PM
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Later he lands right infront of Goanna.
Goanna is a goanna, a monitor lizard.
They’re all across Australia. While they took a lot of artistic liberty (adding lots of colour on a constantly green & brown background), the only similarly-sized monitor I could find in that range is the Lace monitor.
An animated monitor lizard coloured purple on its back, red underbelly and peach on the top of its legs with black striping all over its body. A lace monitor. It has a tan underbelly and dark brown/black striping/mottling over the top of its body
January 24, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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Zak is now fairy-sized!
Leaf-surfing (wish that were me), he glides away from a large yellow snake. The Coastal carpet python. This yellow they chose isn’t far fetched, but it’s the out of range Jungle subspecies that is more likely to be brighter yellow.

📸: Toohey Forest Wildlife
A bright yellow snake with green eyes and brown three-pointed star and spot pattern along its body A carpet python. A pale yellow snake with dark green/brown patterning along its body. This one is in a tree. Perceiving.
January 24, 2024 at 11:26 PM
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Crysta and Batty later fly by a macropod drinking water from a stream. The flyby gives us the chance to make a brief size comparison, and with colouring and range, we can reasonably assume that this is a Red-necked wallaby.
A screencap of Crysta and Batty flying past a stream where a wallaby and her joey were drinking water.
January 24, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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During Batty's song! There! On the glider! He's a Kingfisher (which includes Kookaburras!)
He looks a lot like a Common kingfisher but! That's out of range. So in range, is a subspecies of Sacred kingfisher! The size also works! The beak is a bit more Kookaburra though.

📸: Mike King
📸: Gill Stewart
Batty singing to a southern greater glider with a Kingfisher on its head A very round kingfisher sitting on a rock. It is very pretty and very circular. It is green and blue with a rust and pale yellow underbelly. Its beak is large and black. Another kingfisher. It is yelling. Perfection. It is a darker green and blue with pale yellow to white underbelly. Its open beak is black.
January 24, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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Batty Koda (Robin Williams first animated voice role <3) is what I believe to be a Little Red Flying Fox. They also only eat fruit like we see Batty do. With Batty’s origin story as well, a bat whose range spreads across other parts of Australia makes sense.

📸: Brett Mezen
An animated bat with a weird gadget stuck to his head. His eyes are wide and he looks a bit out there to show how human experimentation has affected him A flying fox. A large species of fruit eating bat. This one has red fur on its body and dark coloured wings
January 24, 2024 at 11:09 PM
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While she is taking in the scenery and how far the forest stretches and the mysterious plume of smoke, she fails to notice the Brown Goshawk circling.
You can tell its a Brown goshawk from the way it is (body and eye colors, pattern, rounded tail and hooked beak)

📸: sskcm, iNat
An animated raptor swooping in to catch Crysta. It is dark brown on its back and back of its wings with lighter colouring under and spotting on its belly A brown goshawk which is similarly coloured and has a more detailed striping/spotted pattern on its belly and legs
January 24, 2024 at 11:06 PM
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Crysta flies above the canopy & discovers, some distance away, Wollumbin (formerly Mt Warning) & the expanse of their forest.
A note about Wollumbin.
The mountain is sacred to the Bundjalung People, & has been closed to hikers (which made them angry? Couldn't be me, I support indigenous land rights)
Screencap of the view of Wollumbin and the surrounding forest from the movie A real life view of Wollumbin and some of the surrounding forest
January 24, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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The Beetle Boys are riding beetles of course. What beetles? I am not great with beetle ID but I'm gonna guess some species of Dung or Rhinoceros beetle (!because of my self-imposed range map!)
The ladybird beetle however is most likely a Variable ladybird beetle!
The 'Beetle Boys' a group of male fairies riding beetles around the forest. One of them is very tiny and hidden in a shell with only his arms sticking out
January 24, 2024 at 11:02 PM