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Please note that pictures have been added to the vacation blog, and here are some amazing pics of animals that TJ took. He clearly took more time on this than I usually take, but the pictures are beautiful, so it's cool.


















A fish from Laguna de Apoyo that Trevor didn't identify for me.
















A truly amazing grasshopper pic.




















A lizard (id anyone?)












***Lauren has corrected us, this is a damselfly. You can tell because when perched, it's wings are together. Good job, non-biologist. Shame, shame, biologists.



















Millipede (2 sets of legs per segment)
















Enormous toad with a tick on his head.

Comments

Anonymous said…
For the record, the dragonfly was like five inches long, the biggest one I've ever seen. Mother nature is a maad scientist.

T
March 4, 2008 at 10:47 PM
Unknown said…
I have no idea what kind of lizard you've got there, but your dragonfly is a damselfly.
March 5, 2008 at 1:14 AM
Anonymous said…
Oh, good point iwasteela. I meant to say Zygoptera. They aren't fish, afterall.

Ugh.
March 7, 2008 at 7:41 PM
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