Mike Pingleton
Naturalist, Author, Peru wildlife guide, all photos mine 📷 Panasonic G9🪲 Host of the So Much Pingle herpetology podcast 🐸 Co-author of "The Field Herping Guide" 📗 Co-creator of HerpMapper (herpmapper.org) 🦎 Herpetofauna blogger at fieldherping.org 🐢
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- Reposted by Mike Pingletonreading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum define term “eplungulate” - lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous
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- Promotion is the last step in creating an episode, and I just suck at it for some reason :( Kukri snakes are awesome, and I had a great conversation with Justin Lee of UMich and @krohnzone.bsky.social about their awesomeness. #herps #herpetology #snakes 🌿 www.somuchpingle.com/2026/01/11/e...
- Reposted by Mike PingletonYou may have seen pictures, but have you ever seen video of a gigantic jet #TLE from space? Astronaut Jeanette Epps captured this incredible sequence on July 20th, 2024 for the DTU/@science.esa.int Thor-Davis experiment. 🧪🔭 youtu.be/xN2J7_rOBJY Credit: ESA/NASA/J. Epps Processing: Simeon Schmauß
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- Reposted by Mike PingletonHey cuties. Everything sucks ass. Get some valentines and send them to your friends. I'm sad. You're sad. They're probably sad. Send them a valentine. It keeps Skype a Scientist running, which hey, is very good too. squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/deep...
- 🧵1/3 I've had all the doom & sadness my heart can hold for today. How about a primitive aquatic frog? A Pipa Toad (Pipa pipa), found in NE Peru and ranging across the Amazon Basin in northern South America. Lacking a tongue, they capture prey using suction. #herps #frogs #NaturePhotography 🌿
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- The always-beautiful Tetrataenia surinama, a common grasshopper in the Peruvian rainforest. Photographed last week at our field station at the Tapiche Reserve. A species I see almost every day. #insects #NaturePhotography 🌿
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