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| Komodo dragon, the worlds largest lizard, grows to 10 feet (3m) and over 500 pounds. They have an acute sense of smell and are notorious meat-eaters. The saliva of the Komodo dragon is deadly, an adaptation to help it more quickly consume its prey. Image ID: 12821 Species: Komodo dragon, Varanus komodoensis | Komodo dragon, the worlds largest lizard, grows to 10 feet (3m) and over 500 pounds. They have an acute sense of smell and are notorious meat-eaters. The saliva of the Komodo dragon is deadly, an adaptation to help it more quickly consume its prey. Image ID: 12822 Species: Komodo dragon, Varanus komodoensis | Komodo dragon, the worlds largest lizard, grows to 10 feet (3m) and over 500 pounds. They have an acute sense of smell and are notorious meat-eaters. The saliva of the Komodo dragon is deadly, an adaptation to help it more quickly consume its prey. Image ID: 12823 Species: Komodo dragon, Varanus komodoensis |
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| Red-bellied piranha. The piranhas teeth are so sharp that Amazonian Indians use them as knives. Each tooth has sawlike edges that allow the fish to slice through prey. The teeth are continually replaced throughout the piranhas life. Piranhas are illegal to import, sell or own in California. Image ID: 13956 Species: Red piranha, Pygocentrus nattereri | Red-bellied piranha. The piranhas teeth are so sharp that Amazonian Indians use them as knives. Each tooth has sawlike edges that allow the fish to slice through prey. The teeth are continually replaced throughout the piranhas life. Piranhas are illegal to import, sell or own in California. Image ID: 13957 Species: Red piranha, Pygocentrus nattereri | Red-bellied piranha. The piranhas teeth are so sharp that Amazonian Indians use them as knives. Each tooth has sawlike edges that allow the fish to slice through prey. The teeth are continually replaced throughout the piranhas life. Piranhas are illegal to import, sell or own in California. Image ID: 13958 Species: Red piranha, Pygocentrus nattereri |
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| Red-bellied piranha. The piranhas teeth are so sharp that Amazonian Indians use them as knives. Each tooth has sawlike edges that allow the fish to slice through prey. The teeth are continually replaced throughout the piranhas life. Piranhas are illegal to import, sell or own in California. Image ID: 13959 Species: Red piranha, Pygocentrus nattereri | Red-bellied piranha. The piranhas teeth are so sharp that Amazonian Indians use them as knives. Each tooth has sawlike edges that allow the fish to slice through prey. The teeth are continually replaced throughout the piranhas life. Piranhas are illegal to import, sell or own in California. Image ID: 13960 Species: Red piranha, Pygocentrus nattereri | Red-bellied piranha. The piranhas teeth are so sharp that Amazonian Indians use them as knives. Each tooth has sawlike edges that allow the fish to slice through prey. The teeth are continually replaced throughout the piranhas life. Piranhas are illegal to import, sell or own in California. Image ID: 13961 Species: Red piranha, Pygocentrus nattereri |
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| Red-bellied piranha. The piranhas teeth are so sharp that Amazonian Indians use them as knives. Each tooth has sawlike edges that allow the fish to slice through prey. The teeth are continually replaced throughout the piranhas life. Piranhas are illegal to import, sell or own in California. Image ID: 13962 Species: Red piranha, Pygocentrus nattereri | Emerald tree boa. Emerald tree boas are nocturnal, finding and striking birds and small mammals in complete darkness. They have infrared heat receptors around their faces that allow them to locate warm blooded prey in the dark, sensitive to as little as 0.4 degrees of Fahrenheit temperature differences. Image ID: 13965 Species: Emerald tree boa, Corralus caninus | Emerald tree boa. Emerald tree boas are nocturnal, finding and striking birds and small mammals in complete darkness. They have infrared heat receptors around their faces that allow them to locate warm blooded prey in the dark, sensitive to as little as 0.4 degrees of Fahrenheit temperature differences. Image ID: 13966 Species: Emerald tree boa, Corralus caninus |
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| Matamata turtle. The fringed flaps along the head and neck of this unusual turtle look like weeds or algae and help the animal to stay camoflaged until prey swims by. Image ID: 13972 Species: Matamata, Chelus fimbriata | Port-and-starboard light fish. The fish, also called pinecone fish, have two light organs that are housed in pits in their lower jaws. The organs produce a greenish light that allows the fish to feed at night by luring small prey with their dim lights. Image ID: 13973 Species: Port-and-starboard light fish, Cleidopus gloriamaris | Electric eel. Like other members of the South American knifefish family, the electric eel relies on electrolocation to navigate in find food in murky water. However, its electric organs are more powerful than its relatives, allowing it to produce sufficiently high voltage pulses to stun predators and prey. Image ID: 13989 Species: Electric eel, Electrophorus electricus |
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| Frogfish, unidentified species. The frogfish is a master of camoflage, lying in wait, motionless, until prey swims near, then POW lightning quick the frogfish gulps it down. Image ID: 14511 | Frogfish, unidentified species. The frogfish is a master of camoflage, lying in wait, motionless, until prey swims near, then POW lightning quick the frogfish gulps it down. Image ID: 14512 | Frogfish, unidentified species. The frogfish is a master of camoflage, lying in wait, motionless, until prey swims near, then POW lightning quick the frogfish gulps it down. Image ID: 14513 |
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| Frogfish, unidentified species. The frogfish is a master of camoflage, lying in wait, motionless, until prey swims near, then POW lightning quick the frogfish gulps it down. Image ID: 14514 | Frogfish, unidentified species. The frogfish is a master of camoflage, lying in wait, motionless, until prey swims near, then POW lightning quick the frogfish gulps it down. Image ID: 14515 | Frogfish, unidentified species. The frogfish is a master of camoflage, lying in wait, motionless, until prey swims near, then POW lightning quick the frogfish gulps it down. Image ID: 14516 |
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| Brown pelican preening. After wiping its long beak on the uropygial gland near the base of its tail, the pelican spreads the preen oil on feathers about its body, helping to keep them water resistant, an important protection for a bird that spends much of its life diving in the ocean for prey. Image ID: 15157 Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Brown pelican preening. After wiping its long beak on the uropygial gland near the base of its tail, the pelican spreads the preen oil on feathers about its body, helping to keep them water resistant, an important protection for a bird that spends much of its life diving in the ocean for prey. Image ID: 18343 Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Brown pelican preening. After wiping its long beak on the uropygial gland near the base of its tail, the pelican spreads the preen oil on feathers about its body, helping to keep them water resistant, an important protection for a bird that spends much of its life diving in the ocean for prey. Image ID: 18381 Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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| Brown pelican preening. After wiping its long beak on the uropygial gland near the base of its tail, the pelican spreads the preen oil on feathers about its body, helping to keep them water resistant, an important protection for a bird that spends much of its life diving in the ocean for prey. Image ID: 18383 Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus Location: La Jolla, California, USA | A bull sea lion shows a brand burned into its hide by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, to monitor it from season to season as it travels between California, Oregon and Washington. Some California sea lions, such as this one C-704, prey upon migrating salmon that gather in the downstream waters and fish ladders of Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. The "C" in its brand denotes Columbia River. These sea lions also form bachelor colonies that haul out on public docks in Astoria's East Mooring Basin and elsewhere, where they can damage or even sink docks. Image ID: 19430 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Columbia River, Astoria, Oregon, USA | A bull sea lion shows a brand burned into its hide by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, to monitor it from season to season as it travels between California, Oregon and Washington. Some California sea lions, such as this one C-704, prey upon migrating salmon that gather in the downstream waters and fish ladders of Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. The "C" in its brand denotes Columbia River. These sea lions also form bachelor colonies that haul out on public docks in Astoria's East Mooring Basin and elsewhere, where they can damage or even sink docks. Image ID: 19433 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Columbia River, Astoria, Oregon, USA |
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| A bull sea lion shows a brand burned into its hide by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, to monitor it from season to season as it travels between California, Oregon and Washington. Some California sea lions, such as this one C-520, prey upon migrating salmon that gather in the downstream waters and fish ladders of Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. The "C" in its brand denotes Columbia River. These sea lions also form bachelor colonies that haul out on public docks in Astoria's East Mooring Basin and elsewhere, where they can damage or even sink docks. Image ID: 19434 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Columbia River, Astoria, Oregon, USA | A bull sea lion shows a brand burned into its hide by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, to monitor it from season to season as it travels between California, Oregon and Washington. Some California sea lions, such as this one C-704, prey upon migrating salmon that gather in the downstream waters and fish ladders of Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. The "C" in its brand denotes Columbia River. These sea lions also form bachelor colonies that haul out on public docks in Astoria's East Mooring Basin and elsewhere, where they can damage or even sink docks. Image ID: 19441 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Columbia River, Astoria, Oregon, USA |
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