No two cows have the same pattern of spots

generalfactotom:

chaystar:

Autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire draws spellbinding 18ft picture of New York from memory… after a 20-minute helicopter ride over city.

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 This reminds of a boy in my age at my schoo. He suffers from some form of autism, but that boy. Lemme’ tell you; he is the most fantastic artist I’ve ever witnessed. He’s going to make it big someday.

(Source: patrickharris, via gentlemen-prefer-red-heads)

fairy-wren:

short-eared owls

(photos by the digital surgeon)

fairy-wren:

red-breasted toucan

(photo by pixelnovice2009)

reptilefacts:

Kingsnakes are colubrid snake members of the Lampropeltis genus, which also includes the Milksnake and 4 other species, and 45 subspecies.

Some species of kingsnake, such as the Scarlet Kingsnake (which is confusingly classified as a subspecies of Milksnake!), have colouration and patterning that can cause them to be confused with the venomous Coral snakes. One rhymes that helps people distinguish between the Coral snake and its nonvenomous look-alikes is “Red touch yellow, kills a fellow. Red touch black, friend of Jack” - though this rhyme only applies to North American Coral Snake species.

Taxonomic reclassification is an ongoing but slow process. Different sources often disagree on reclassification, granting full species status to a group of these snakes that another source considers a subspecies. In the case of Isla Santa Catalina Kingsnake (Lampropeltis catalinensis) for example, only a single specimen exists, so classification is not necessarily finite. As well as this, hybridization between species with overlapping geographic ranges is not uncommon, confusing taxonomists further.

Kingsnakes are commonly kept as pets, due to their ease of care; they are overall hardy and are as simple to care for as Cornsnakes. Their captive diet usually consists of appropriately sized rodents and they are good feeders. Kingsnakes are generally docile, curious and gentle, though some can become temperamental and will musk (expel a fishy smell substance from the cloaca) or expel faeces when picked up and handled. With persistent, gentle handling most that object to being handled soon become accustomed to it.

(via studyofnature)