#juvenile

Juvenile black-throated green warbler  (Setophaga virens)

BabyStegostoma fasciatum! I couldn’t wait to post this picture. Confusing to many, this is where the Zebra shark gets its name: the baby is born with black and white stripes and as the animal ages, its stripes are lost and morphed into the mature pattern we see as black spots over beige skin - which leads to the misnomer of “Leopard shark” (which is actually Triakis semifasciata, a houndshark).

byJP-Photography.fr on Flickr.

“I came across another juvenile jewel beetle in Nasu in Tochigi Prefecture. This guy with a teddy bear head shape on its carapace fell on my sleeve when a monkey shook the branches of a tree I was walking under. I was surprised to see my question was already answered when I arrived, but thought others might enjoy another photo of this neat bug.”

Thank you very much for your beautiful photo, and also for sending me a pre-identified Bug of Japan! It’s really helpful, and I’m so glad my blog was able to help you out!

Juvenile XVII: Daniel by Marta

Jardim da Estrela, Lisboa, July 2017

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Title page of “Eunuchism display’d”

By a person of honour. 1718.

“The esteem they have met with in the world, and how they came to be made so. Wherein principally is examin’d, whether they are capable of marriage, and if they ought to be suffer’d to enter into that state.”

“Occasion’d by a young lady falling in love with Nicolini, who sung in the opera at the Haymarket, and to whom she had like to have been married.”

“There are, who in soft Eunuchs place their Bliss;”

- John Dryden’s “Juvenile”, 1693

Eunuch: source for male-en-Femme nec plus ultra  (“nothing further beyond”)

The colour-changing Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)

I’ve always had a soft spot for Cuvier’s beaked whales, which their recent dive records only deepened. However, during the creating of their illustrations, I learned so much more about them. I thought I was familiar with their markings, and originally I had meant to paint just two: an adult male and female. Until my client corrected me that I had, in fact, painted a subadult and a young adult male, instead of the truly mature old male he’d had envisioned. And so two illustrations became four, and in the end I think they work together very nicely to show the “Cuvier gradient”. I had no idea adult females were so light-backed - I had always assumed these to be males. And the ghostly old males were an especially big surprise. Apparently this is a totally normal and common colour pattern for mature males, which is simply not often represented in illustrations of the species. Really cool to learn more about this species, so I just had to make a proper poster out of it. Hopefully you’ll find it interesting too!

Juvenile Common Moorhen.

creatures-alive:

Little Oneby Dalia Kvedaraite

Juvenile punk.

Juvenile Moorhen through the grass. by phil smith

Red-shouldered Hawk (juvenile), Buteo lineatus

Hide and Pounce ! by cvsk