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Regular readers will know that I like covering obscure animals. with luck,
really obscure animals. The problem with such animals is that nice images hardly ever - sometimes never - exist. When they do exist, they re protected by copyright and are unavailable for use on a blog. I m therefore eternally grateful when people are able (and kind enough) to send me photos of an obscure animal,
and are able to give me permission to use them. Recently, herpetologist Kate Jackson of Whitman College, Washington, was kind enough to provide the photos you see here. Oh. My. God.
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may never have been photographed live before. Yes, this could well be a world first.