This tumbler is a gathering of herpetology, zoology, fieldwork and other animal/nature related observations by me. I'm a student earning a degree in wildlife biology, working in a natural history museum preserving animals for future generations, spending countless hours in the field herping, birding and observing and enjoying documenting my finds to teach others about the wonders of the natural world.

3rd January 2012

Photoset reblogged from Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum with 29 notes

umzoology:

Melanerpes 

  This genus of woodpeckers’ name in Latin means black creeper, which I find misleading and amusing if you think of it out of context.  Black creepers.  You’d think it were describing some kind of noxious disease, not these dainty little birds all lined up in rows.  Aw, I got a bad case of the black creeper. 

I am getting back into the lab tomorrow to do some work on an elk leg that has promised to have some interesting pathologies.  Stay tuned! 

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