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Saw this Cross Fox just outside of the town of Churchill, in Manitoba, while out looking for polar bears. It ended up being one of my favorite animal interactions I’ve ever had and gave me one of my favorite photos. I saw it just off the road and got out of the van dropped to the ground and watched as it carried this bird. It was running straight towards me and looked right down the barrel on my lens. The winds kicked up a flurry of snow and the shot was memorialized forever. Then as it got closer to me (about 10 feet) it moved away from the road and further into the frozen wilderness.

Probably either the start, or the straggling tail end, of a hermit crab swap meet. The one on the right is clearly too small for the shell that it's sheltering in, and the one on the left is firmly hanging on to it, presumably to reserve its place in an anticipated future shell game.

Look at how he takes up an entire lane! That thing had to be pushing 1.8 or 1.9 meters and still was hardly as big around as my finger.

That first picture was later stolen off of my website and turned into numerous memes, many of which were shared tens of thousands of times. It then was taken by a software company for use in a viral ad campaign that was very successful. Finally, I was contacted by a board game company asking my permission to use the picture in their meme-based board game, which was the first I had known that people on Twitter and Instagram were using the photograph with abandon. I mean....he WAS a very photogenic snake, and I'm all for sharing pictures, but it feels dirty for people to just grab something off of someone else's page on the web and then profit off of it, especially the shady profits that come from viral advertising.

https://bangkokherps.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/long-nosed-whip-snake/

Found in the grates on the outside of an air conditioner. There was a porch light about 8 feet away though and they’ve been known to be found a little further away when found at artificial lights as opposed to directly by the light. Still could be a connection there though.

Now the 3rd time(atleast to my knowledge but maybe more) that this genus has been found at an air conditioner.
Surrounding habitat was just a good amount of mixed deciduous forest in urban setting.

I’m guessing it likes either the heat or humidity of the ac. Only other thing i can think of would be the smell or the look of the ac but i don’t think it would be those. Maybe, idk.
Either that or all times one was found at an ac there was a light present close by.
Always a cool species to see though .