Taken November 2, 2013 at Hampi.
These little lizards were one of the most common animal lifeforms at Hampi. They blend into the rock quite well despite the broken white or yellow line of dots on their backs, which itself blends into the splotched pattern of the creature.
I believe they are called Psammaphilus Dorsalis, Peninsular Rock Agamas, or South Indian Rock Agamas. [However, I know nothing about lizards and am open to correction by a herpetologist.]
Taken September 2013 at Nandi Hills, India
Sometimes, you just wonder what a monkey is thinking.
Monkeys always make me smile
Some have hair in human styles
Oh the vanity their locks betray
Can you spot the one with a toupee?
Faces so reminiscent of our kind
Eyes suggesting intelligent minds
Into their faces they’ll one day grow
but the youngsters all look like H. Ross Perot
They’ll sit on your car like they just don’t care
And screw the haters who stop and stare
Have you the courage to leave your mark
on the windshield of one who double parks
It amuses us that they sling their poo
So we banish them to the city zoo
But what of our words so vitriolic
We’re evolved to sling poo symbolic
Taken September 21, 2013 in Nandi Hills, India.
Taken in the fall of 2012 in Phnom Penh
a murder of crows
call from trees in unison
hidden amid leaves
invisible but noisy
what secret taunts curse us
Taken July 2012 at the Reynolds Nature Preserve
Taken in October 2012 at Wat Mahathat in Ayutthaya, Thailand.
Taken in the Summer of 2012 at Zoo Atlanta
Bonus pic
The top pic reminded me of a line of poem I once scrawled: “I see a miracle in each leaf.” The little guy seems pretty fascinated anyhow.
What is he (or she–we weren’t that well acquainted) thinking?
Taken in the summer of 2011 on Seurasaari Island, near Helsinki.
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