Yesterday, I was in the Blue Ridge Parkway, hiking the Boone Fork Trail near Boone and Blowing Rock, North Carolina, when I saw this deer camouflaged amongst some rhododendron. Can you find it?  Each picture reveals more of the deer.

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Via National Geographic

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It’s the amazing Uroplatus! Also known as the leaf-tailed gecko, the genus Uroplatus is endemic to Madagascar.

Via dennis.tang on Flickr

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While walking along the Lansing River Trail, in Michigan, I found this female mallard sitting on her nest.

Image by Buck.

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Unless heard or seen in flight, nightjars are rarely observed due to their impressive ability to blend into their environment. Some excellent images showing cryptic nightjars:

Long-tailed nightjar image via

Slender-tailed nightjar image via

White-tailed nightjar image via

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A hooded grasshopper (Teratodus monticollis):

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A new species of gecko (Cnemaspis neangthyi) has been described from Cambodia.

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Can you find the marmots?

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Can you find the caterpillar?

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Can you find the snake?

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Can you find the camouflaged fishes in these four separate shots?

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Image by Mila Zinkova via Wikipedia

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The spiny-crested katydid below may be a new species or it “may be a Diacanthodis formidabilis, but the only known specimen of that species was lost after it was documented in 1838 in Brazil.”

This walking-leaf katydid appears to be different from “previously known walking-leaf katydid.”

Via National Geographic and Conservation International. More about the expedition to Nangaritza, Ecuador can be found here.

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