The Travelling Taxonomist
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Dr Mark D. Scherz
Curator of Herpetology at the Natural History Museum of Denmark. I work mostly on the reptiles and amphibians of Madagascar. Also a photographer and occasional poet. Sometimes I bake.
My tumblr is concerned mainly with reptiles and amphibians, my research, evolution, biodiversity, systematics, and taxonomy, but I also try to keep things light-hearted. I am a huge fan of puns...
The Travelling Taxonomist
3d ago
Ptychadena nilotica or Pelophylax saharicus; see this previous ask on precisely this topic ..read more
The Travelling Taxonomist
3d ago
Thanks everyone (gosh there were a lot of you) for clarifying (SO quickly) that tumblr only tracks ..read more
The Travelling Taxonomist
3d ago
This isn’t entirely correct. You of course get some of the notes arising from a post you ..read more
The Travelling Taxonomist
5d ago
boss-of-armadildos:
markscherz:
sherlockisademigod:
godmybackhurts:
i-accidently-everything:
I’ve searched high and low for the wonderful original post because this is amazing and deserves to be rebloged but I hope this is good enough.
As thundercrumbs said GET OFF THAT MANS FACE!
@plaguedocboi
has @markscherz seen this one yet
Yup, in fact I know Brian, and this captures his essence pretty well.
EDIT: I just rebagled the original post here.
#Dr Fisher is an ant expert and works in Madagascar#and has developed the most amazing team there#he has helped me solve quite a number of pro ..read more
The Travelling Taxonomist
5d ago
thundercrumbs:
DOCTOR FISHER GET OFF THAT MANS FACE YOU’RE A SCIENTIST NOW ACT LIKE ONE ..read more
The Travelling Taxonomist
5d ago
sherlockisademigod:
godmybackhurts:
i-accidently-everything:
I’ve searched high and low for the wonderful original post because this is amazing and deserves to be rebloged but I hope this is good enough.
As thundercrumbs said GET OFF THAT MANS FACE!
@plaguedocboi
has @markscherz seen this one yet
Yup, in fact I know Brian, and this captures his essence pretty well.
EDIT: I just rebagled the original post here ..read more
The Travelling Taxonomist
1w ago
I had the opposite problem; I had a very specific interest (reptiles and amphibians and Madagascar ..read more