Tube Nosed Gallery

Pallas tube-nosed fruit bat, Nyctimene cephalotes

Pallas tube-nosed fruit bat, Nyctimene cephalotes. Vespertilio cephalotes Pall. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Nussbiegel after an illustration by Johann Bernhard Gottfried Hopfer from Johann Christian Daniel Schreber's Animal Illustrations after Nature, or Schreber's Fantastic Animals, Erlangen, Germany, 1775. Date:

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Short-tailed albatrosses (Phoebastria albatrus)

Short-tailed albatrosses (Phoebastria albatrus), parents with a chick. Only one egg is laid; the chick behind is from other parents. Tori-shima, Philippine Sea, Japan

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Southern giant-petrel
Macronectes giganteus
eating a King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) chick, with a Snowy sheathbill (Chionis alba) in the foreground
Crozet Islands, Southern Indian Ocean

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