Below are all our finalists in the “Animal” section of our Photo Contest. Please look through them one last time before voting for your favorite. We know it is possible to game these polls. Please act like adults and don’t vote more than once. If we believe that the results are invalid, the contest will be canceled. The photos and poll are below the fold.
Which photo best captures both artistic and scientific beauty?
Torn between 4!
What a difficult choice. All the photographers are to be applauded!!
Indeed.
excellent photos, one and all.
I know from personal experience what a difficult (or lucky) cap that hummingbird/wasp shot was to get.
Go go Tympanocryptis cephalus!
i voted for hemisquilla californiensis, but mine was a close second!
Where is that? I keep looking for the picture but all I see is one with a bunch of rocks! :b
Iguana iguana FTW! How could I vote for anything else? ;-)
Look for the rock with eyes… ;)
the Archilochus is really great!!!!
…well, to be entirely fair, there is another lizard. and with a slightly more interesting name. the iguana is one of those few animals who has a common name, genus name, AND species that are all the same.
See also: Bison bison. In fact, there’s even a subspecies: B. bison bison. But these also have an alternate common name.
Or as I like to say, “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”
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I chose Tympanocryptis cephalus by Paul Blake. This one is the best because in addition to picturing the animal, it most successfully also highlight the animal’s environment and surrounding. In fact, it is triking the way in which the Tympahncryptocolus fits into its desert-like world.
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