Nocturnal Gallery

Common Vampire Bat - close-up face after feeding

NG-1418
Common Vampire Bat - close-up face after feeding
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Desmondus rotundus Desmodus rotundus
Nick Gordon
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America, American, Bat, Bats, Blood, Eating, Face, Faces, Facing, Feeding, Head, Heads, M Ammals, Mammal, Mouth, Mouths, Nocturnal, Nose, Noses, Parasite, Parasites, Scary, South America, South American, Teeth, Wild Life

Sugar Glider - With young on back

JPF-14144
Sugar Glider - With young on back
East Coast, Australia, North-eastern coastal Australia
Petaurus breviceps
Jean-Paul Ferrero
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Adult And Young, Australasia, Australasian, Australia, Australian, Babies, Babies On Back, Baby, Baby On Back, Carrying, Female, Glider, Gliders, In Tree, Joey, M Ammals, Mammal, Marsupial, Marsupials, Mother, Mother And Young, Night, Nocturnal, Oceania, Parenting, Wild Life, Young

Brown Kiwi - adult one poking in the ground with its long beak searching for food in native Kauri forest with fallen Kauri twigs visible

SAS-713
Brown Kiwi - adult one poking in the ground with its long beak searching for food in native Kauri forest with fallen Kauri twigs visible
Trounson Kauri Park Scenic Reserve, Northland, North Island, New Zealand
Apteryx australis
The kiwi is New Zealand's most ancient living bird and a biological oddity. Flightless and largely nocturnal its one-off evolutionary design holds all sorts of biological records. Kiwi build burrows and lay a huge egg that produces a mature fully-feathered independent chick. And that's where they are at their most vulnerable. Introduced predators and ferral cats or dogs kill the chicks and can erradicate a whole generation of kiwi. That's why special programs to protect the kiwi are in place. Eggs and chicks are removed from the bush to return them again to the wild when they gained enough weight to be big enough to fight off predators. The kiwi is highly threatened and also the icon of New Zealand.
Steffen & Alexandra Sailer
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