Beautiful Animals

Just love that crow! What a beaut!!

Me too. I guess a lot of people don't like crows, but I do.

Here's an interesting pic from another source -

oops, there was another photo there yesterday of a wild mouse on a wheel, but this one is sweet too -

Could this dormouse also enjoy a little wheel running? Photograph: Andrea Zampatti/HotSpot Media


The article is about this -
According to a newly published study, wild mice frequently and voluntarily run on an exercise wheel if provided access to them in nature, even in the absence of a food reward. Further, the length of running bouts by wild mice matched those of captive mice. These findings dispel the idea that wheel running is a product of captivity, indicative either of neurosis or a mindless repetitive behaviour that may be associated with poor welfare or close confinement.

more -
http://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2014/may/21/wild-mice-exercise-wheels-behaviour-stereotypy-neurosis

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot Representing France at 2015 Venice Biennale
http://news.artnet.com/in-brief/celeste-boursier-mougenot-representing-france-at-2015-venice-biennale-24354

Please be patient ... I'll have it open in a jiff ... Just 10 more minutes ... Three-toed sloths make the worst doormen. (Floating house in the Lago do Janauari, a park of forest, floodplain and flooded trees in Manaus, Brazil)
PHOTO BY FELIPE DANA/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Now to play Find the Baby Sloth..

from today's Guardian:

Marilyn and baby. Keepers were shocked to find the adult sloth was pregnant as they were unaware she had mated with a male who arrived at the zoo in 2012. Photograph: Tony Bates/London zoo/PA

article -
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/23/sloth-baby-surprises-keepers-london-zoo-mate

They must have had a quickie. (groannnn)

I thought I had saved a video of a sloth squeaking that I saw on Huffington Post a month or so ago, but it turned out that the site gets rid of those in that section after a week goes by. Anyway, that video would have fit right in to this scenario..

I find this really amazing -

According to www.primalastrology.com , I'm a sloth.

I can be an immovable object, at times, but generally I'm hyperactive.

At half a century, I'm still leaving younger site workers in my wake.

On a farm in Beyşehir, Turkey - shortly after the birth of lambs, the shepherd wears a poncho made of their mothers' wool. This makes the lambs feel closer to the shepherd while their mothers are out feeding.

That appears to be a graphic.

Royal flycatcher:

Lovely plumage!

Hekan - the dog that rides horses!

I wanna be the human who rides horses!

vonny, Rides horses? That dog is in charge of the whole ranch.

From Nat Geo:

A lioness hunts a baby wildebeest on the Great Plains of the Serengeti.

Basslet:

Why These Cute Animals Are Illegal To Own

Love them, love them, the dog and the horse.