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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Aug 11, 2011 - 01:13am PT
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Elephant seals near San Simeon ( California ).
These guys are as big as my truck, which allows them to lay around for weeks at a time, and not have to worry about being bothered.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Aug 11, 2011 - 02:19am PT
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Bugs are wildlife too!!
A bunch of us odonate nerds got our ode on in Tahoe last week, so here's a couple of shots, including a very confused mixed species pair. Since dragonfly genitalia are so specialized, you almost never see this sort of thing, especially not across different genera.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Aug 11, 2011 - 09:46pm PT
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Here's a Tailed Copper from today at Galena Falls, on the way back from Mt. Rose:
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Aug 12, 2011 - 02:38am PT
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Aug 12, 2011 - 03:42am PT
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Baby long-eared chipmunks - too cute!!
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scuffy b
climber
dissected alluvial deposits, late Pleistocene
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Aug 12, 2011 - 04:54pm PT
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Willoughby, do you have the roles reversed in your wheel position dragonflies?
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Aug 12, 2011 - 05:32pm PT
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Aug 12, 2011 - 05:56pm PT
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Scuffy B, Nope. Meadowhawk on the left, whiteface on the right. Odonoate sex is kooky: the male has some accessory gear in its 2nd or 3rd abdominal segments, including a sperm reservoir. When he's feeling the need, he self-inseminates from where the sperm are produced in the 9th segment
and then runs out and grabs a female by the back of the neck. If she's feeling receptive, she curls up and inseminates herself from that reservoir. Thus the wheel.
Damsels are a little different in that the male usually grabs the female first, and then has to do the whole self-insemination thing while they're in tandem. I don't have any shots of that move, but this gives you the idea (he's either halfway there, or just finished):
Kids, don't try this at home!
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cyndiebransford
climber
31 years in Joshua Tree, now Alaska
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Aug 30, 2011 - 01:12am PT
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Muncho Lake area of British Columbia. I am driving down to the lower 48 for my youngest son's wedding.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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"Oh, give me a home...where the deer and the antelope play."
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, all.... oooops, had the wrong window... had two opened at once.... :))
reading and posting. ...
will be back with a critter, soon...
:)
here you go:
as wild as i can come up with, recently,
though, in LOOKS only:
***will have to add this later, computer is too slow, and i had
two failed attempts :( can't use up any more time...
but, believe me, it DID look wild.... well... kind of sort of, it did... ;)
ahh, perhaps tomorrow... :)
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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TY
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Tony, I can't tell what he is.
FYI you might like to know this from an 1898 issue of "Scientific American":
I'm just glad I'm not a sovereign.
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Quasimodo
Trad climber
CA
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Sep 16, 2011 - 04:26pm PT
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Waiting for the shuttle near Agnew Meadows we saw these critters playing near the road -
Sierra Marmots
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Oct 15, 2011 - 02:01am PT
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Doing a study on Western Tiger Beetles this month. They're friggin' rad.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 28, 2011 - 12:02am PT
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Wyoming antelope shot with LED lighting.
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