Here are more photos taken by reader Benjamin Taylor on his trip to Southern Africa in 2015. The captions are from his photo site, and we’ll have more soon.
Dancing white lady spider (Carparachne aureoflava), Namibia. The ‘white lady’ spider is hunted by pompilid wasps, which it will attempt to escape by cartwheeling down steep sand dunes:
Namib sand gecko (Pachydactylus rangei):
Peringuey’s desert adder (Bitis peringueyi):
Namaqua chameleon (Chamaeleo namaquensis):
Namib rock agama (Agama planiceps):
Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), Okavango Delta, Botswana:
Papyrus (Cyperus papyrus), Okavango Delta, Botswana:
Water lily (species unknown), Okavango Delta, Botswana:
African wood owl (Strix woodfordii) visiting our lodge dining room:
The Nile Crocodile link points to the Namaqua chameleon.
Herp-tastic pics! Especially the Namaqua Chameleon, what beauty. (in my head I sounded like the Crocodile Hunter for a moment!)
Desert animals are so awesome!
Very good photos. Thanks!
Seeing a gecko always makes me happy. Thanks, Benjamin.
Very nice photos, thanks for sharing them!
Great pics. That chameleon is gorgeous!
Greatly appreciate the reptile pictures.
Finally, some real reptiles on this blog! The gecko is extraordinary.
How nice to see something(s) so out of the ordinary! Great assortment of fascinating critters!