Found in Brazil and Paraguay. Photos 1-7 show normal coloration while 8-10 show coloration immediately after emerging.
Photo 1 by deniszabin, 2 by ricardomoyano, 3-4 by carlosalexandreraposo, 5 by rodrigo_m_ferronato, 6 by carlossch, 7 by joaopaulorosa, 8-9 by gabyfachinelli, and 10 by cbernz
August 31, 2023 - Black-bellied Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus diardi)
These cuckoos are found in forests, swampy jungles, bamboo, and mangroves across parts of Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia. They feed on insects, such as beetles, ants, grasshoppers, and caterpillars. Breeding between January and April, they build shallow saucer-shaped nests in bushes from fine twigs and green leaves. Females lay clutches of two or three eggs. They are classified as Near Threatened by the IUCN due to moderate declines to their population caused by deforestation.
added live plants to the enclosure and monday comes 3 of the 6 things we ordered and the next 2-3 weeks the stuff from Etsy comes 🤩 to add onto the enclosure
Voyager's episode Survival Instinct is such a fantastic episode and one of our favorites.
It is also representative of the waking hell that is being a semi fragmentary subsystem operating as system host.
I never know often if I'm Simonov or Felix or Alex or others in our cluster. Combinations therein? Is this my thought or your desire? Fuck its exhausting. It adds a brain fog tax to my day and a spoon tax when interacting with outsiders.
DM: Oh, there's something I didn't mention before since it wasn't relevant on Midnight Island, but it is relevant now that you're back on the mainland. The country of Breya is a magicpunk society, and part of its infrastructure includes a very primitive magical internet.
Lyra (playing Hesty): Woah.
DM: Anyone who grew up in Breya - that's all of you except Winnifred - has a device which I have yet to name, basically a crystal which lets them access this magical web.
Andy (playing Diardi): Yass! Can we order Ubereats?
DM: It's very basic - you can't google things. Their main function is essentially the same as a Sending Stone, but you can call anyone whose device you've connected yours to.
Hamish (playing Hunter): Awesome.
Lyra: You really liked the Sending Stone group chat TTC set up, didn't you?
DM: I set it up because I hated not being able to contact anyone! Worlds with no technology are super inconvenient. Anyway, you can choose to already have one if you grew up here. How long have you been in Breya, Winnifred?
Marijn (playing Winnifred): Probably only a couple of weeks. I ran into the party pretty quickly. I don't think I'd have one.
Andy: I don't have one either. I've lived in Breya for a while, but I don't want people to be able to contact me.
DM: Fair enough. I'll say they're 20 gold. Even most peasants can save up to get one.
Hamish: I have two. For obvious reasons.
Lyra: Can I suggest their name be Stoppers? Their original name was Contact Crystals, but most people hated that so it got shortened to CCs. That got colloquialized to Ceases, which then changed to Stoppers. 'Stopper me when you get home!'
Similarly to the leopard cat and the sunda leopard cat from the very beginning of this tournament, the clouded leopards are sister species respectively from mainland Asia and southeast asian islands (Sumatra and Java). There are only a few, hard-to-spot differences between them:
"The canines on the Sunda clouded leopard are even longer than seen on the mainland clouded leopard, and they have more dots in their cloud-shaped markings than mainland ones." (source)
[ID: a photo of a sunda clouded leopard and a photo of an oncilla. the sunda clouded leopard is a medium sized cat with a tan coat covered in large spots, with smaller spots inside. the oncilla is a small cat with a tan coat covered in small rosettes. end ID]
note: the Sunda clouded leopard is also known as the Sundaland clouded leopard, Enkuli clouded leopard, Diard's clouded leopard, and Diard's cat. the oncilla is also known as the northern tiger cat, little spotted cat, and tigrillo