#herps

Just a Satanic leaf tailed gecko pair slow dancing while hanging upside down.

#uroplatusphantasticus #geckos #couplegoals #cryptic #leaves #satanic #cuddles # herps

Callisto bides her time.
Foolish humans.

#uroplatusebenaui #herps #gecko #rbf #cuteandangry #gothic #villainvibes

Sunset colors, all day all night.

Juvenile Dominican Red Mountain Boa (Chilabothrus striatus striatus) head profile.

Arboreal boas tend be bitey, but not this fella who is a sweetheart.

#herps #chilobothrus #boas #red #sneks #blacktongue #smaug #babysnake

Cat geckos earn their name through lots of quirky cat-like things, but the most adorable has to be their penchant for curling up into their tails when they nap, like this sub adult male here

#herps #Aeluroscalabotes #geckos #naptime #catgeckos #cute #malaysian #sleepy

...but not be tempted by the deadly parts below.

#venusflytrap #flowers #pollination #Dionaeamuscipula

Here's a serious problem for carnivorous plants like the Venus flytrap: you eat insects but you also need them to pollinate your flowers and not die while doing so.

Part of their solution is to put their flowers way above the traps that capture bugs, hoping that pollinators that land on them...

This satanic leaf tailed gecko pair is starting a death metal band and needs help thinking of their name.

#herps #uroplatusphantasticus #natureismetal #geckos #couples #blackandwhite #malagasyherps

This gorgeous acid trip of a plant, Passiflora caerulea or blue passionflower, hails from South America.

I've found them hard to get started but hardy and prolific once they've sent down deep roots.

#passiflora #flower #purple #trippy #passionflower

Uroplatus henkeli. Their "beards", along with the most of the rest of their body, have a dermal fringe which is the skin flattening out to blend in with the surface they're hiding on.

And makes them look unreal, like something out of a Jim Henson workshop.

#herps #geckos #uroplatushenkeli #camo

Oconee Azalea (Rhododendron flammeum) firing up for spring. Native to the Piedmont forests of South Carolina and Georgia, they burn brightly but quickly and return to a humble understory bush by the heat of summer.

#nativeplants #azaleas #fire #rhododendronflammeum #springtime #appalachianflora

The large mesmerizing eyes of uroplatus geckos are adapted to the dark of night- when they're on the hunt and also being hunted in the forest of Madagascar.

Uroplatus phantasticus, aka Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko

#herps #uroplatus #geckos #beautifuleyes #malagasyherps

Excellent point!

Good morning sunshine.

Cross Vine (Bignonia capreolata) ambling up an oak trunk.

Form matches function: when you see a colorful and tubular flower like this, it's safe bet that hummingbirds have a mutually beneficial food/pollination pact.

#crossvine #flowers #nativeplants #springflora #red

Uroplatus are sublime.

Magnus is unimpressed.

A "silverback" Short-tailed Boa (boa constrictor amarali) from the southern Brazil and Bolivia regions, noted for their chill temperaments.

#herps #boaconstrictoramarali #boas #snakes #suntanning #silverback

#herps #malagasy #tiny #eyebrows

Uroplatus ebenaui, aka Spearpoint Leaf-Tail Gecko, named for being born with short stubby tails like a spear point...to stab their enemies with (citation needed).

The smallest of the uroplatus group, your thumb is probably comfortably larger than a fully grown ebenaui.

#geckos #uroplatusebenaui

#gecko #camouflage #malagasyherps #castlevania #alucard #gothic #hangingaround #nocturnal

Meet Alucard, Uroplatus phantasticus male.

Every leaf tailed gecko (uroplatus) has a camouflage specialty, and phantasticus are leaf mimics, hanging still from branches like dead leaves during the day.

#herps #uroplatusphantasticus

Peachy day with a juvenile male Argentine Boa.

Unlike most other boa constrictors which need steamy jungles, this species also thrives in the drier and colder "chaco" region at the intersection of Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia.

#boaconstrictoroccidentalis #boa #addherper #snake #flowers

Uroplatus henkeli, or Henkel's Leaf Tailed Gecko, from northwestern Madagascar. They're tree bark camouflage experts, disappearing in plain sight by matching the tree trunks they sleep on during the day.

#uroplatushenkeli #reptiles #malagasyfauna #camouflage #geckos #uroplatus #crazyeyes

#reptiles #geckos #uroplatus #malagasyfauna

Meet Gomez, a Uroplatus phantasticus, aka satanic leaf-tailed gecko, named not for their temperament (they're tiny, mellow, and eat little bugs) but their devilish eye brows.