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Protecting her eggs in Namibia. She shuffled around, threw dirt over the eggs, scanned for predators, then settled in for an uneasy sleep.Thousands of red-billed queleas take a bath in an oasis. Etosha, Namibia.Tens of thousands of red-billed queleas migrating across Namibia. These flocks can obscure the sun, coat every square inch of a tree, and when taking off, make a tremendous whoosh that scares away all other wildlife at a watering hole.Strawberry poison-dart frog. Not edible (in case you were wondering). Costa Rica.A frog floats on fresh figs that have fallen from a tree into the waters of a quiet oasis hidden deep in the Naukluft Mountains of the Namibian desert. The huge rafts of figs floating on the water made the oasis smell like a wonderful dessert, as if someone was baking a really good batch of cookies.An amazingly colorful crab lets the water rush over. Dominica.Oh, hi there. Wild golden asters and color-matching resident. Goldenrod crab spider, Nederland, Colorado.Come into my parlor... Spiders aren't for everyone, but they have an unusual and colorfully fatal attraction. For a certain type of person, a large print on the office wall will make the right sort of statement. Goldenrod crab spider, Nederland, Colorado Blanket flower and its rare moth. The schinia masoni moth coevolved with the blanket flower and is perfectly disguised with its yellow head near the petals and its red wings over the central disk. The rare schinia masoni is endemic to the Front Range of Colorado (found only in a few counties), and this beautiful guy was in Forsythe Canyon in the Roosevelt National Forest.A giant jungle cricket in Nicaragua.Winner takes all. Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska.An elephant and his mahout cooling in the Ping River, Thailand. Not technically wildlife, of course, but perhaps the elephant should be. The small blessing of domestication is that a conscientious mahout will protect his elephant from ivory poachers.

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