#cornuta

[boschintegral-photo]

Pansy

#photographers on tumblr #nature #flowers #spring #blue #floral #flores #primavera #azul #pansy #pansies #viola #viola cornuta #original photographers #original photography #vertical

[proton-wobbler]

Horned Screamer (Anhima cornuta)

"The fact that the universe saw fit to let this thing exist" "horn, prominent spurs on wings, "The most peculiar feature of the screamers is a skin filled with small bubbles of air about a quarter of an inch thick, which produce a crackling sound when pressed; the function of this layer of air bubbles is unknown.""

Hey these guys are ducks! No I'm not lying- they're ducks! They belong to the same order as ducks, geese, and swans! What the fuck!

While my surface level digging did not confirm this, my thought is that screamers represent a branch in anseriformes where the ducks had recently split from gamebirds in galliformes, but hadnt yet specialized to have their spatulate bills. I'm not a source to quote on this though, as the paleontological record is a bit hazy for screamers.

For some actual facts: their horn is not a modified feather or something adjacent, but is "a cornified structure loosely attached to the skull, which frequently breaks off at the tip." They eat water plants but only have partially webbed feet. They have wing spurs. Despite being 8lb (3.5kg) birds, they nest on floating vegetation. What the heck is going on with these guys??

Sources:

Image Source: eBird (Bradley Hacke)

#in memoriam (joke) #horned screamer #anhimidae #anseriformes #Anhima cornuta #south american birds

[exotic-venom]

many horned adder I photographed by Nathan Jordan

#many horned adder #Bitis cornuta #Bitis #viper #old world viper

[bloodbrown]

It's Froggy Friday! Here are some frog dish images. Sister Legs and Sprout sat in one dish together.

Also, brother Beans sat by himself in a frog dish while staring and being cute.

Lastly, Nugget took a bath.

#froggy friday #frogs #australian green tree frog #dumpy tree frog #whites tree frog #pacman frog #ceratophrys cranwelli #ceratophrys cornuta

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Desert mountain adder (Bitis xeropaga)

Photographer Spends 10 Days Tracking Down Snakes in Namibia

Photographer: Marisa Ishimatsu

Many-horned adder (Bitis cornuta)

Horned adder (Bitis caudalis)

Namaqua dwarf adder (Bitis schneideri)

#marisa ishimatsu #photographer #namibia #desert mountain adder #adder #snake #bitis xeropaga #reptile #many-horned adder #bitis cornuta #horned adder #bitis caudalis #namaqua dwarf adder #bitis schneideri

[podartists]

Aniuma, Palamedea cornuta | Die Vogel (1913) | Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884) | Biodiversity Heritage Library

#alfred edmund brehm #hornwehrvogel #anhima cornuta #anhimidae #biologie #ornithologie #vögel #illustration

[bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Horned Screamer

^image credit: Bill Bouton, Wikipedia

Horned Screamer (Anhima cornuta) 

The Horned Screamer has a strange growth from its head that attaches loosely from the skull, which is unique among birds. Unlike other horned animals, which may use their horns for fighting, it is speculated that the Horned Screamer's 'horn' is merely decor, as it is fragile and often breaks at the tip, or even snap off once it gets too long - though it grows back.

#horned screamer #anhima cornuta #tropical birds #birding #cool birds #weird birds #weird animals #weird wildlife #weird and wonderful #birdwatching #birds #ornithology #bird of the day #birdoftheday #bird fact of the day #bird facts #bird fact #animal facts #bird #bird lovers #birdblr #bird tumblr

[house-of-spellbound-gardens]

#viola cornuta #viola #violets #house of spellbound gardens #house of spellbound

[emvisual]

La Pavoni "La Cornuta" una maquina para hacer espressos. Gio Ponti, 1947. Extremadamente rara, se presume que sólo existen dos ejemplares

#La pavoni #la cornuta #gio ponti #1947 #espresso #machiine #maquina #design #diseño

[pnwnativeplants]

The same corylus cornuta about one month apart

#corylus cornuta #beaked hazelnut #pnw native plants #native plants

[boschintegral-photo]

Pansy

#photographers on tumblr #nature #flowers #spring #purple #white #floral #flores #primavera #blanco #pansies #pansy #viola #viola cornuta #vertical #original photographers #original photography

[raccaryusui]

駅に向かう途中の家の花壇で咲いていた、

「ビオラ・コルヌタ」と言う名前の黄色い花。

別名：ヒメサンシキスミレ(姫三色菫)。

欧文名：Viola cornuta

#photo #flowers #ビオラ・コルヌタ #ビオラ属 #黄色 #yellow #Viola cornuta #iphone11 pro max

[faguscarolinensis]

Ilex cornuta 'Masashi's Gold' / 'Masashi's Gold' Horned Holly at the JC Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC

#Ilex cornuta 'Masashi's Gold' #Ilex cornuta #Ilex #Masashi's Gold horned Holly #Horned Holly #Chinese Holly #Holly #Berries #Nature photography #photographers on tumblr #Jc raulston arboretum #North Carolina State University #nc state #ncsu #Raleigh #Raleigh NC #North Carolina #Plants

[bloodbrown]

Happy Froggy Friday! Brother Fern sat nicely on the skull.

I'd also like to show off my cranwelli x cornuta hybrid who is a useless lump of a frog with short sad limbs.

His name is Nuggie, and he often refuses to eat anything that isn't his favorite food, goes on random hunger strikes, is really bad at shedding his skin and starts hyperventilating every time we come near him. We really love him a lot. He just needs a lot of help because he's extra useless.

#froggy friday #frogs #australian green tree frog #dumpy tree frog #whites tree frog #pacman frog #ceratophrys cranwelli #ceratophrys cornuta

[seabeachobjects]

#Lactoria cornuta #gif #Fisha #Seapoda #Oceana #shades of blue

[mayra-quijotescx]

back at it again with Incastrati ep. 2 (yep, that's the name of the show, it's glossed in English as Framed!) and our buddies Salvo (not-mario) and Valentino (not-luigi) are having a Worse Time

-the maintenance guys finally leave after ad-libbing their a cappella rendition of Luna Mezz'o Mare into a song about a guy getting cucked, complete with waving around the mano cornuta in attack position before ending their turn (Salvo starts crying again)

-Valentino lectures Salvo into getting his shit together long enough for them to flee, and they are immediately accosted and backed into the murdered guy's apartment by two door-to-door proselytizers, who they then have to convince to leave WITHOUT using the (crime scene!) bathroom

-They hastily exit the apartment complex, cleaning the whole way, and a couple of kids make fun of them bc there's a strike on and nobody should be working

-Salvo's wife is there and ends up bonking herself on a post trying to avoid being seen by them bc she thought they were out of town and she's trying to get some fucc from the guy she doesn't yet realize is dead of murder

-They go to the place that was their alibi, a monastery that sells cookies, and are held hostage by a contemporary worship service that the monks are doing before they can buy said cookies, alleluia alleluia

-then they come back with the cookies to some party that's going on (that I missed the context for; skill issue) and Salvo gets himself utterly lost in the sauce, winds up on the roof with Valentino pleading with him to not do a stupid, then the cops show up, delighting absolutely goddamn nobody but the ambulance-chaser journalist (who had previously expressed to Valentino how sad he was that Sicilian journalism isn't chocka with murder like it used to be) and the guy who afaict is just happy to be there (he declares 'applause for the police!' and everyone gives him the stinkiest of stink-eyes before turning back to watch the cops.)

#i specify mano cornuta attack position bc there is a defense position against bad luck/the eye (horns pointed down or to the side) #i'm very glad the sicilian murder slapstick said acab