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Photographs
By D. Bruce Means©2000 Bruce Means
Around the World 2001 • Ice Flowers
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 A big Australian green tree frog eating a little bent-wing bat with a children's python behind it doing the same. Bat Cleft at Mt. Etna National Park. |
 King brown or mulga snake, Pseudechis australis, Western Australia. |
 Bruce and Kathy with the Roberts family on King Island; left to right: Tony, Kathy, Trish, Bruce, David and behind their fabulous 1940s vintage Beechcraft-18. |
 Copperhead displaying defensive behavior, photographed in South Australia. |
 Fantastic red color phase of the Common Tiger Snake, Notechis scutatus, Southern Australia. |
 Black Tiger Snake |
 Stimson's python, Morelia stimsoni, Western Australia. |
 Details of Stimson's python's head showing labial heat-sensitive pits in lip scales (pink depressions). |
 Details of the scalation of the blue-tongued skink showing colors that help blend it with brightly colored desert soils. |
 Yellow-bellied blacksnake, Pseudechis butleri, a narrow endemic of Western Australia. |
 Details of the scalation of the desert death adder, showing how it color matches the brightly colored desert soils it lives on. Both the blue-tongued skink and desert death adder have converged upon the same color scheme to survive. |
 Eastern brown snake, Pseudonaja textilis, coming at me and posturing aggressively because I stepped in front of it, near Alexandria, Victoria. |
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1313 Milton St.
Tallahassee, FL 32303
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