Posted By: Gulo
Photo Phriday 6 - 07/23/21 12:19 PM
Good morning/day/evening/whatever. This week's selection will hopefully pique your interest in the outdoor world.
The first is a red fox image taken this week by a trail camera set up on my driveway. Note that he's got a dried toad in his mouth.
This one is a photo I took this week of a western terrestrial garter snake (Thamnophis elegans), which surprisingly, is indeed a poisonous snake. However, they have no fangs for delivery, and the toxins are very weak.
This third photo this week is a head-scratcher. I was going to include it with a question as to what is it? (No. Not a gelding device.) Instead, I'll spill the beans and tell you it is a photo of beaver external ear bones. I discovered them many years ago. All beavers have them. You'll not see any mention of them in the scientific or popular literature. I'm assuming they are to seal off the ear canals to exclude any water entering the ears when a beaver submerges and folds their ears rearward. Kind of a neat "gee-whiz" discovery. No other mammal has them, as far as I know. I'm calling them the superior and inferior auriculars.
The first is a red fox image taken this week by a trail camera set up on my driveway. Note that he's got a dried toad in his mouth.
This one is a photo I took this week of a western terrestrial garter snake (Thamnophis elegans), which surprisingly, is indeed a poisonous snake. However, they have no fangs for delivery, and the toxins are very weak.
This third photo this week is a head-scratcher. I was going to include it with a question as to what is it? (No. Not a gelding device.) Instead, I'll spill the beans and tell you it is a photo of beaver external ear bones. I discovered them many years ago. All beavers have them. You'll not see any mention of them in the scientific or popular literature. I'm assuming they are to seal off the ear canals to exclude any water entering the ears when a beaver submerges and folds their ears rearward. Kind of a neat "gee-whiz" discovery. No other mammal has them, as far as I know. I'm calling them the superior and inferior auriculars.