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Traveling Exhibit

Dry tropical forest

Cryptic moth
Cryptic moth
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This cryptic moth (1 1/2-inch wingspan) blends in with patterns on the forest floor with optical illusion "curls" that help disguise its wing shape.

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Contents:
1.Ankarana Special Reserve
2.Ampijoroa Forestry Station
 ·Lake Ampijoroabe
 ·Woman and children fishing
 ·Crocodile at Lake Ampijoroabe
 ·Coquerel's Sifaka mother and young
 ·Coquerel's Sifaka
 ·Aroid
 ·Dragonflies mating
 ·Flatid bugs
 ·Flatid bug nymph
 ·Flatid bug
 ·Ant lion
 ·Cryptic moth
 ·Tortoise Beetle
 ·Grasshopper with stars in its e
 ·Golden Silk Spider
 ·Pholcid spider on a leaf
 ·Tiny Salticid spider
 
Golden Mantella, Mantella aurantiaca

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