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Winter Romance. A pair of Himalayan Monals share a quiet moment high up in the canopy of Chopta, Uttarakhand in the Indian Himalayas.
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Coiled on a limestone karst substrate in southern Thailand, a pit viper displays a sophisticated mosaic of turquoise, burgundy, and emerald.
📷 Yensen Tan
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Testing the Waters. A mountain goat dips its hoof into a glass-still alpine pool, testing the temperature before committing to drink.
📷 Kenny Bloomberg
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New Zealand’s kea is the world’s only alpine parrot. Its olive-green plumage hides a flash of orange and scarlet beneath its wings, visible only in flight.
📷 Richard Sidey
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Pink Puffball. A male Pink Robin displays his brilliant rose-pink breast in the cool temperate forests of south-eastern Australia.
📷 Ravi Arora
1806 White bodice and red scarf in Jane Austen style. Hats, bonnets and evening headdress. #Regencyfashion #JaneAusten #Hats suzilove.wordpress.com/2026/… via @suzilove
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Desert Armour. At Uluru, Australia, a thorny devil displays its extraordinary spiny armour, complete with a false head to fool predators and tiny channels between its scales that direct water to its mouth.
📷 Bastien Louchart
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A silver-phase red fox kit embraces her tawny brother, a bond formed in their first months together before they find their independence.
📷 Marcia Walters
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Desert Sprinter. The Greater Roadrunner is a ground-dwelling predator built for speed, able to outrun prey and even snatch insects mid-air.
📷 David Lei ( @davidlei )
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La Panterita. A rare melanistic kodkod prowls the leaf-littered floor deep in the dense rainforests of Reñihué, Chile. At only 5 pounds it is the Americas' smallest wildcat.
📷 Eduardo Minte Hess
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In the shadowed ravines of the Himalayan foothills, a wild tusker quietly bathes in the misty shallows.
📷 Dr Ramakanta Panda
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A bobcat surveys the arid landscape of Joshua Tree National Park in the Mojave from high in a desert tree.
📷 Luke Sabal/NPS
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Perched high in the rocky hills of Segovia, a griffon vulture fluffs its ruffled plumage against the biting chill.
📷 Jorge de la Cruz
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The Malabar parakeet is a striking forest-dweller endemic to India's Western Ghats. A male shows off his brilliant blue-green plumage and long, yellow-tipped tail.
📷 Sujanyan T. Harihar
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Boing! Japanese stoats have an exceptionally high metabolic rate, requiring them to constantly bound across rocky scree and subalpine slopes in search of prey like small rodents, pikas, and insects.
📷 Glee Yamaguchi
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She ‘looked the nicest and most serious like’.
#AnneBrontë as a Sunday school teacher
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