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I meant to do that

A stunned Common Kingfisher rests after it lost consciousness after hitting a window of a house in the countryside near Warsaw. A few seconds later the bird flew away.

Welcome to the jungle

A monkey navigates his way through a web of wires hanging above a street in Jammu, India.

Yes, but can you fly?

A swan swims as an elephant from the Circus Knie bathes in Lake Geneva on October 4, 2010 in Lausanne.

But I was invited

A Rothschild giraffe sticks its head through the door of the Giraffe Manor to be fed in Langata, some 5 kilometers outside of capital Nairobi, Kenya. The Giraffe Manor is a small hotel and a former residence of American conservationists Jock and Betty Leslie-Melville who found the Giraffe Center in 1979 in a bid to protect Rothschild giraffe, one of the most endangered giraffe subspecies.

Morning has broken

A spider is lit by the morning sun as it clings to its web in Salina, Kan.

Solitude

A bull walks on a frost-covered field near Schwentinental, northern Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009.

Lone squirrel

A squirrel sits on a snowy tree branch in a Moscow park on Nov. 17, 2009. Moscow is undergoing its first snows of the winter as temperatures fluctuate above and below the freezing point.

Veiled chameleon

A veiled chameleon extends its tongue to catch a cricket. Canadian wildlife photographer Scott Linstead, formerly an aerospace engineer and high school teacher, uses a device called Phototrap "to not only photograph the elusive, but also the unimaginably quick."

Phototrap "interfaces with either your camera or your flash," he says, and it basically helps "trigger the shutter of your camera when the photographic subject passes through a defined position in space."

In this photo, "the success of the image depends on the willingness of the captive chameleon to eat outside of its regular enclosure," he says. "The veiled chameleon is the ideal chameleon species for this project as it is often less prone to stress during handling than other chameleon species."

Beautiful Blue Bird

Orange spider

 I. Agnarsson / Courtesy of Conservation International

This new spider species from the genus Anelosimus was found in the Nakanai Mountains of New Britain, one of four new species of this genus not previously documented from New Guinea.

Surprising find

 Stephen Richards / Courtesy of Conservation International

This tiny frog, measuring just an inch long, was the most exciting herpetological discovery of the Nakanai Rapid Assessment Program survey in Papua New Guinea. It belongs to a group of frogs previously only known from the Solomon Islands, and its discovery in the wet montane forests of New Britain was a complete surprise. Unlike most of his relatives this little frog did not call at night, preferring to advertise for females late in the afternoon.

Playing possum

This cute little feather-tailed possum was attracted to a light-trap put up by entomologists to catch nighttime insects at around a mile of elevation in the Muller Mountains. It may have been attempting to catch and eat moths. This animal is only known from this site and a nearby mountain, where it was discovered in 1985. The species still does not have a name.

Proud, loud and green

Stephen Richards / Courtesy of Conservation International

Living 100 feet above the ground in the forest canopy, this large bright green frog was more often heard than seen in Papua New Guinea's Muller Range. At night, males proclaimed their presence with loud, guttural croaking sounds high above the camp - causing much frustration among the visiting scientists. The expedition's local tree-climber proudly delivered a handsome male to the researchers.

Hard-to-get ant

Andrea Lucky / Courtesy of Conservation International

Scientists found only two specimens of this super spiny ant species, which represents an entirely new genus of ants.The workers were found in the canopy of a fallen tree at mid-elevation. Conservation International entomologist Andrea Lucky suspects that these types of ants live up high in trees. As a result, they're hard to reach and therefore little-studied.

Golden discovery

Stephen Richards / Courtesy of Conservation International

This new species of frog (genus Litoria) has extremely variable color patterns and distinct yellow spots in the groin. The colorful frogs were surprisingly difficult to spot in the lush foliage along small rainforest streams in the Muller Range. Males were most frequently identified after they uttered a very soft ticking sound to attract females in the vicinity.

High-altitude ant

Andrea Lucky / Courtesy of Conservation International

This new species of ant (genus Strumigenys) was found at the highest altitude ever recorded for an ant in New Guinea - nearly 9,500 feet in the Muller Range. This ant species must have the ability to withstand both cold and wet conditions in the rainy season, as well as extremely hot and dry conditions in the dry season.

Just hangin' around

Piotr Naskrecki / Courtesy of Conservation International

This tube-nosed fruit bat represents a previously observed species in the genus Nyctimene that has not yet been given a scientific name. Its range is likely limited to hill forests on New Guinea. Fruit bats are important seed dispersers in tropical forests.