16 November 2012

Images from an Australian rainforest


Four photos from Rainforest Country by Kaisa and Stanley Breeden, depicting the colorful flora and fauna of a northern Queensland rainforest, via Australia Geographic, which has another dozen images.

Top to bottom:  A Boyd's rainforest dragon (Hypsilurus boydii), an adult, male Cairns birdwing (Ornithoptera euphorion), colourful stones where the rainforest meets the beach, and a rainforest dwelling pygmy possum.  The image that impresses me the most is the one of the beach gravel; it's hard to believe that those have not been enhanced in some artificial way.

2 comments:

  1. Another wow entry. There is so much about other earthlings and earth we don't know nearly enough about. While I adore Curiosity and MSL, I so wish we'd devote more of those astounding dollars to exploring our oceans and rain forests with the same singularity. --A.

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  2. Gah! The pygmy possum is killing me with the cute! Life is so amazing, isn't it?

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