Michdevilish Merch

My, what big tootsies you have! Leggy, long-clawed and long-toed: all the better to tramp on lily pads. The African Jacana dad can carry his babies under his wings. Mama keeps a he-harem; she is footloose and fancy-free! (CC-BY-2.0; h/t: Chris Eason: "https://www.flickr.com/photos/mister-e/393959159/in/photostream/")

Passionflower, the very fine vine flower.

The Kori bustard! It is the largest flying animal. Lighten your load with a Gompou, and some flair.

The Marico Sunbird bird loves hanging out in thorny acacia trees and sipping aloe nectar. (CC-BY-4.0; adapted from photo by Leon Emanuel)

This friendly octopus is into tête-à-têtes! The Larger Pacific Striped Octopus is stunning and gregarious. ("CC-BY-SA 4.0": http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figures?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0134152)

Press all the buttons! Not a jelly: packs a zinger of a stinger, the plenty-polyp-, one-mouthed hydrozoan colony. My precious. (H/T; NOAA)

Each flower only lasts one day but the plant makes plenty. A most primitive wild iris.

The common plains zebra is uncommonly attractive. Is it a white-striped dark horse or a black-striped white horse?

The striking quill-feathered secretary bird is a formidable hunter that hunts its prey on foot. They build their nests in Acacia trees and are threatened by the loss of grassland habitat.

Because it's not a white elephant!

Inspired by HTML and the alarm response of the baby Caribbean reef squid.

The grey crowned crane's regal crown of gold cannot leave you cold. Be bold, be bold, it says.

The Gerbera was named after the German botanist dr. Traugott Gerber (1710-1743), a friend of Carl Linnaeus. This one is a red African Daisy that has been domesticated.

From Wikipedia: "Sirdavidia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants from the family Annonaceae described February 4, 2015, by Thomas L.P. Couvreur of France's Institute of Research for Development, Raoul Niangadouma of the Herbier National du Gabon, Bonaventure Sonké of the University of Yaoundé, and Hervé Sauquet of Université Paris-Sud. The genus was named in honor of Sir David Attenborough. The type species Sirdavidia solannona was discovered and collected in Gabon in Crystal Mountains National Park on November 15, 2013, at elevations of 300–600 meters. The species name refers to the resemblance of the flowers to those of Solanum species." CC-BY-4.0; based on work by T.L.P Couvreur; Hans de Vries

"The rose was sacred to a number of goddesses including Isis, whose rose appears in the late classical allegorical novel The Golden Ass as "the sweet Rose of reason and virtue" that saves the hero from his bewitched life in the form of a donkey. The ancient Greeks and Romans identified the rose with the goddess of love, Aphrodite (Greek name) and Venus (Roman name)." (wiki)

Please don't eat me! The most trafficked mammal in the world, sadly. (Based on picture by Mark Simpson; CC-BY-2.0)

The Lilac-breasted Roller brightens up even the palest day. (CC-BY-SA 4.0; built on photograph by Prabir2011)

A bulbous beauty associated with spring and rebirth.

Dance in your own shoes; it's A okay! Built on a PD picture of Olga Spessivtseva, Russian ballet dancer.

that elliptic lip! oh glabrous, clawed petals and translucent flowers! CC-BY-4.0:Kolanowska M, Szlachetko DL, Trejo RM (2016) Telipogon diabolicus (Orchidaceae, Oncidiinae), a new species from southern Colombia. PhytoKeys 65: 113-124. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.65.8674

Ubiquitous cosmopolitan, buff perchance, with no regrets.

The more Kucings, the merrier!

A jolly jelly that goes with the flow. From Wikipedia: "Crossota is a genus of jellyfish of the family Rhopalonematidae. The genus comprises five species. Unlike most hydromedusae, these jellyfish do not have a sessile stage. Rather, they spend their entire lives in the water column as plankton. The genus Crossota is widespread throughout the oceans."

The showy caper bush has fragrant, edible flower buds and berries.

Amaryllis's sis. This one is blue, but there are white ones too. Neither a lily nor from the Nile, native to Southern Africa and naturalized around the world.

The Stargazer lily is a hybrid that looks up.

The upside-down dance of life's many seeds; monkey-bread tree; dead-rat tree, cream of tartar: Adansonia digitata!

The adorable axolotl is an amphibian from the lakes of Mexico. It is critically endangered.

Everybody must get inked!

Not a leopard. Possibly a mimic octopus. Maybe a cheatah. It's black and white, except when it's not. Miaows and tickles!

Narinari, based on wood-cut by Marcgrave. Under the sea: "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"-- Muhammad Ali.

Not your average pig. In fact, a pointy-quilled rodent! How do porcupines keep warm? They wear redbubble hoodies!

Rosemary is a fragrant herb used in cooking and perfumes. It is associated with remembrance and memory.

Woo-hoo! The Snowy owl, Bubo scandiacus. H/T: Andy Reago and Chrissy McClaren, on flickr CC-BY-2.0

Is it a crane; is it a bird of paradise? No, it's a Strelitzia inviting a sunbird for a visit!

The duck-billed platypus is a mammal that lays eggs!