Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
Matthew is in Shanghai for a week at some conference, and complaining that it’s blood hot. But while wandering about, he spotted a cat. Here’s his photo; can you find the cat? I rate this “medium hard”. Click on the photo to enlarge it.
Reveal at 11 a.m. Chicago time.
Did you spot the salamander in this morning’s post?
Here’s the original photo again:
And the salamander is circled. Note that it’s just the head. Tricked you!
An enlargement of the head (circled). , Note that I didn’t say it was an entire salamander.
Okay, this one is really hard—perhaps the hardest “spot-the” photo we’ve ever had.
Somewhere in the photo below is a salamander. Can you spot it? If you do, just say “found it” or “didn’t find the damn thing” in the comments below. The reveal will be at 1 p.m. Chicago time.
The photo comes from reader Bob Woolley from North Carolina. He sent an “easy” one first, but I thought it was too easy so I’m posting the second one he sent. Here are Bob’s notes:
If you’d like an easy “spot” feature, attached is a picture I took yesterday of a salamander in a stream in Gorges State Park, North Carolina, on the trail to Rainbow Falls. [JAC: this photo isn’t shown.]
On the way back from the waterfall, I looked for the salamander again. This time he was much harder to see. I’ll send those in the next email, in case you want to do what I think would be a very hard version of the same game.
And it’s the “very hard” version you see below.
Click the photo to enlarge it: twice (with a short pause between clicks) to make it big:
OMG this didn’t get posted again. Well, better late than never!
Did you spot the viper in this morning’s post? Here it is, circled, and below this photo there’s an enlargement. It surely is well camouflaged!
Here’s a “spot the. . .” photo from reader Stephen Warren. His notes:
See if you can spot the baby viper in here. I think it is a horned desert viper [Cerastes cerastes], but not certain.
It was photographed a couple of days ago in the Fish River Canyon, Namibia. I did the 4-day trek, finishing yesterday, with my daughter Charlotte and two of her friends. I first heard of the trek when I read about it here in WEIT, and I immediately wanted to do it!
Can you spot it? I think it’s a bit harder than medium difficulty. Click to enlarge it. If you find it, don’t give the location in the comments; just say “I found it” and add any notes you had about how hard it was.
There will be a reveal at 11 a.m. Chicago time.
Did you spot the grasshopper in this morning’s photo from Mark Richardson? Here it is, circled (click the photo to enlarge)
. . . and enlarged:
Reader Mark Richardson sent us a “spot the. . . ” photo. As he wrote:
Yesterday, I spotted this grasshopper land on a gravel path. I could barely spot it even though I knew where it landed. This might be considered a cruel “spot the…” post, but I couldn’t resist. It is remarkably cryptic against the grey gravel. . . . Not sure of the species, but my best guess is a Pallid-winged grasshopper (Trimerotropis pallidpennis).
Can you spot it (this is pretty hard)? If you do, don’t say where it is, though you can say “Found it!” in the comments. There will be a reveal at 11 a.m. Chicago time. Click to enlarge the photo:
