Beautiful Animals

Murphy

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk41/LzzieIzzie/whatever/DSC08673.jpg

the Handsome Black Kitty
<click on his pic for slideshow>

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@Izzie,

There they are again, Iz!

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/11/4/1257358184911/nocturnal-monkey-at-Santa-001.jpg

A grey-bellied night monkey (Aotus lemurinus), called Marteja, feeds its baby at the Santa Fe zoo in Medellin, Colombia. The cub is the first to be born in captivity after almost 10 years of attempts
Photograph: Edgar Dominguez/EPA

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Thanks for the boids and cats, Izzie. I'll come back when I can watch the slide shows.

Olga, Tres wonderful. Thanks mucho.

Gopher:

http://smallfarms.oregonstate.edu/sites/default/files/gopher.jpg

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@Roberta,

Love the gopher, Roberta! Sort of an "oops!" moment. Laughing

(And I hereby nominate it for the "caption the picture" thread.)

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"Did I remember to lock the door?"

Alfalfa butterfly:

http://www.laspilitas.com/butterflies/Butterflies_and_Moths/alfalfa/alfalfa_butterfly_on_lessingia.jpg

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Vizsla...

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Gorgeous, reg. Absolutely gorgeous. Thanks, kid.

Christmas tree worms:

http://bio.classes.ucsc.edu/bio162/Moorea%202006/Study%20Material/Invert%20pics/spirobranchus_blue.jpg

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Chestnut horse:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hdJuTJIBxx4/ShDPJg2YmRI/AAAAAAAAAwQ/SMLQgy4zrdA/s400/princetonmaariner300.jpg

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/11/polar_obsession.html

Quote:

How many people can say with nonchalance, "I've had good friends of mine ... eaten by grizzly bears"? Paul Nicklen can, for one. He's a National Geographic photographer who was raised in Canada's Arctic and has spent the past 20 years documenting extreme polar regions.

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@tsarstepan,

i'm pretty sure that's not a polar bear Confused

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@djjd62,

no, but it appears to be eating the extremely rare polar chicken...

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@djjd62,

Pelican. According to the story... the elephant seal was flirting with the photographer by capturing birds and bringing them to the photographer for him.

The photographer is promoting a book entitled Polar Obsession (if that's where the confusion is...).

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@tsarstepan,

watching the BC series Coast, some of my favourite parts were when they would dive in areas where there were grey seals, they're like nautical friendly dogs, always coming around to see what was going on, sticking their faces in the camera lens

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@tsarstepan,

tsarstepan wrote:

The photographer is promoting a book entitled Polar Obsession (if that's where the confusion is...).

i rarely suffer confusion, i have a more serious condition, smart ass

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@djjd62,

Listening to the author talk about this particular elephant seal was both heartbreaking and funny. The seal kept bring live pelicans to the photographer so he could "learn" to hunt and kill the pelican. The poor seal kept getting frustrating when the pelican would obviously escape after the seal let it go and the photographer obviously wouldn't kill it, let alone eat the bird meat raw.

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Oy, confusion is my middle name these days. Seal and pelican? Can't get the link to work (wrong flash player). Was the seal flirting with the photographer, or did the seal think that the photographer needed to be fed, like a baby seal?

Why are these animals so confusing?

Hey, animals. Stop confusing me.

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@Roberta,

It could have been the latter where the elephant seal was trying to feed the photographer ... or more accurately to teach the photographer how to hunt because the first pelicans were brought still alive to the photographer....

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120399312

Quote:

One Man's 'Polar Obsession,' In Pictures
Melissa Block talks with photographer Paul Nicklen about Polar Obsession, his new book of photos documenting the wildlife in the Arctic and Antarctic, out this month. Nicklen's work has been published in hundreds of magazines around the world, including National Geographic.

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http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/3/12/1236862698320/Week-in-wildlife-A-polar--019.jpg

A polar bear growls at St Felicien zoo in Quebec. Canada is home to approximately 15,000 of the estimated 20,000-25,000 polar bears worldwide, according to Environment Canada
Photograph: Mathieu Belanger/REUTERS

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That looks like a sneer, olga. A bear with attitude. I guess when you're the largest land predator on the planet, you can have some attitude. Who'se gonna argue with you?

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@Roberta,

Not me, that's for sure, Roberta! Laughing

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