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She/her, Oregon, USA. White cubicle drone scraping by learning ASL.

I try to add image descriptions sometimes. Correct me if one is wrong. If you want zoo & aquarium pics/video, that's nearly 100% of my Media tab.
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Video: 6-week-old fennec fox glancing nervously at the camera before tiptoing away. One of their parents, either George or Lidl, calmly trails after.

[via Potawatomi Zoo]
November 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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> Exciting news for tamandua lovers out there! Winnie, our seven-year-old southern tamandua, is expecting!

[via Denver Zoo]
Two animals like small arboreal anteaters standing up on their hind legs. One is holding up a strip of ultrasound images in a curled hand. A tamandua, Winnie, standing up on her hind legs to lick something in a dish. Another human has an ultrasound wand held over the tamanda's abdomen and is clearly staring at a computer screen with imaging on it.
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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> We’re thrilled to announce that the female Komodo dragon is now viewable in the Australasia Pavilion! The male Komodo dragon will likely be viewable shortly. 🦎

[via Toronto Zoo]
Wistful-looking large lizard gazing off into the distance while hanging her arms over a low wood wall. She looks like she's watching her husband march off to war.
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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> Look for our new bumblebee poison frogs! In the wild, their bright coloring signals that they’re dangerous to eat, because they secrete toxins through their skin. However, the toxins come from the insects they eat, so here at the Zoo, they aren’t poisonous.

[Potawatomi Zoo]
Black-and-yellow frog, as bright as caution tape, stretched up along a tree branch. Same bright frog huddled down in a lump. Mostly black, bands of the solid yellow with rounded black gaps like Swiss cheese across back and limbs.
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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> Stingrays forage along the sea floor for food, so our Aquarists created this spooky festive enrichment for them to navigate!

Video: submerged jack-o-lantern, holes stuffed with seafood, getting slurps from passing rays.

[via Audubon Zoo]
October 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Luna the capybara has honed her skills devouring her prey items efficiently. Billy the cheetah is more wary.

[via Edinburgh Zoo]
Shaggy giant rodent steadily nibbling down the rim of a jack-o-lantern. A cheetah loping by, just out of his own paw's reach of his jack-o-lantern, staring suspiciously.
October 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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There is also this fluffy little lemur or marmoset and an ominous ungulate, but I couldn't ID them on sight and I'm *really* sleepy today so your knowledge is welcome. Buffalo Zoo please describe and label your creatures.
Solemn little primate standing up, one hand gripping a Halloween treat bucket for stability and the other turning over a snack in hand for inspection. They're black with tan tipping, lighter color thicker at their face and shoulders. Looming hoofed mammal staring out the darkened doorway of a stone and teal shed. They have a V of horns, white bars down the sides of their face, and a white nose + knee socks. Think it's some kind of oryx.
October 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Happy Halloween from the Buffalo Zoo!
Squirrel monkey, white-faced with mustard highlights over gray, fishing treats out of an orange paper bag reading Trick Or Treat. Giant anteater inspecting a small pumpkin with its nozzle snout.
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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> Beware of spooky capybara cuteness from Turkey, Sequoia, Charlotte, Tiana, and Lewis! 🎃 🪦

📸: Senior Keeper Grace, Audubon Zoo
Two adult and three juvenile capybaras clustered around a jack-o-lantern stuffed with hay. They are all very round and stoic-looking, the adults are mostly just bigger and shaggier, a little more blond with sunshine.
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Video: Lemur Halloween enrichment! Skeleton hands thrust up from the dirt, clutching carrots. A cauldron of green shoots. A full-size skeleton with its ribcage stuffed with lettuce & an apple heart, seated between carved pumpkins + fake fur tails forming imitation lemurs.

[via San Francisco Zoo]
October 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Video: Adult bush dogs Dora & Twenke round up their eight offspring and send them home in single file for bedtime. The newest litter of four are Kronk, Pacha, Kuzko & Yzma.

[via Dudley Zoo]
October 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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My new nudibranch keychain decorations from @fossilforager.bsky.social ! The purse has a Cooper's aeolid and the wallet has an orange-peel doris. PERFECT defenses for my tendency to lose essentials in dim corners and dark surfaces.
A gray canvas purse and a black leather wallet on a desk, both with brightly colored acrylic sea slugs clipped to zipper pulls. Cooper's aeolid: slender, pale bluish body with clusters of scarlet tendrils and orangey-tipped antennae. Orange-peel doris: round and orange, nubbly-textured, with a white cottontail-bunny puff at one end and stubby orange 'horns' on the other.
October 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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> An anemone being kept at Toba Aquarium has been named a new species "Tsukisome Isoginchaku". This species is a pale pink anemone that creates a "lodging" for hermit crabs, and the origin of its name comes from the "feelings of love" sung about in the Manyoshu.

[via Toba Aquarium]
A pale peach sea anemone (extra small) whose base appears to wrap around an orange-freckled white hermit crab to replace the borrowed shell.
October 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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> Happy National Reptile Awareness Day! Let’s take a moment to appreciate the incredible diversity of our scaly friends just like Blue, the prehensile tailed skink.

[via Mystic Aquarium]
A green lizard-like reptile with a blocky head and a large pink-tipped tongue sticking out. He's clambering up a pale human's outstretched hand.
October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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> What better way to celebrate #WorldReptileDay than with a hatchday party? 🥳 Last week, our Komodo dragon Khali turned 8 years old, and he celebrated in style with a beef shank and "bloodsicle" cake!

[via Buffalo Zoo]
A Komodo Dragon at a rock ledge serving as a table. It has a "cake" of frozen blood topped with bright red gelatin and a chunk of cow leg. The enormous reptile tries to get their whole mouth on the beef shank.
October 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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> Here's a sweet start to your week with aardvark Adazee looking like a perfect princess.

[via senior animal care specialist Julia, Kansas City Zoo]
An aardvark lounging in the morning sunshine, pink ears splayed wide and her long sniffer resting aross her shovel paws.
October 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Video: Noodle, a red-tailed green rat snake, balanced on a slender branch. He YAWNS with his little pink mouth.

[via Dudley Zoo]
October 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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> Just how small IS a gray mouse lemur? 🤔 They stand at only about three inches tall and weigh about as much as a single stick of butter when fully grown (and only about as much as a wedding ring when first born!)

[📸: David Haring | Duke Lemur Center]
Taro the gray mouse lemur stands on all fours between a rubber ducky (larger than him) and a fresh persimmon (smaller). One of his hands is actually resting on the persimmon, which looks to be a bit bigger than his whole head (not counting the oversized ears).
October 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Video: Tiny baby Texas horned lizard in their sandy-bottomed terrarium, wiggling its shovel-shaped head back and forth to submerge itself face-first in the sand. The miniscule hands are uninvolved, it's just the noggin doing the digging until the back feet can shove deeper.

[via San Antonio Zoo]
October 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Text: The Mangshan pit viper has a unique hunting method. It uses its tail as a lure to attract prey. The worm-like movement entices prey to get within striking distance. They never see it coming...

Video: green snake motionless but for the vertical squirm of tail.

[via Gladys Porter Zoo]
October 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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> Faced with the injustices of a police state, what would a crab do?

[via Crab Museum]
Photo of a broad long-legged crab with its front claws in tiny handcuffs. Text: "Crab Advice: getting in the good kind of trouble is not immoral."
October 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Video: four fossa pups clambering and slinking about the network of dry tree limbs in their enclosure. These leggy, long-tailed arboreal predators are the only fossa pups in the UK.

[via Chester Zoo]
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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American River otter brothers River, Wilford, and Mayhem will be moved back to their old habitat for a month. The caulk in the bottom of their lovely new enclosure's pool needs to be replaced and protected from further inquisitive destruction.

[via Columbus Zoo]
Pair of otters paused in frolicking on the grass to stare at the viewer. They look devilish. An otter swimming in a tank, twisting and steepling their mischievous little hands together under their nose, as if they are smug over yet- to-be-discovered crimes.
October 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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> A probable species of fulvous fruit bat Rousettus leschenaultii licks nectar from a banana flower in Uttar Dharamtul, Morigaon, Assam.

Photo: Gaurab Talukdar/Sanctuary Photolibrary.
Nighttime photo, small bat hooked on the petals of a purple flower big enough to be a pop-up tent for the little creature. The bat is tipping their head back from the pollen center, slurping the air with a long pink tongue.
October 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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> The brilliantly colored turquoise parrot nests in the hollows of gum trees and can often be found in grasslands & open woodlands. These birds will occasionally wander for food, feeding on grass, seeds, flowers, and fruit.

[Joel Sartore, Parrots in Paradise Glasshouse]
A blazingly multicolored small parrot with a squat pigeon's build, the short little beak its only dull feature. Green back, purest distilled blue on wings and face, chest the rich red-to-yellow of an extra photogenic mango. Gorgeous creature.
October 8, 2025 at 3:42 AM