Beautiful Animals

A sneaky young otter is waved away by an elder as it attempts to steal its fish in this stunning photo taken in the Peruvian Amazon.

Hi gang, As usual, you guys are posting great shots. I'm still having trouble hunting for pictures, but I'm not giving up.

Panda ant (may be a wasp, not an ant):

I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

...but...

...WOW.

They are great pix...of an extraordinary animal, Roberta.

The bottom one looks as though it is on someone's skin or palm.

The Chinese have almost perfected miniaturization.

Everybody was cone-fu fighting.... A pair of squirrels squabble over a pine cone in a forest in Voronezh, Russia.

The benefits of alternative therapies such as acupuncture are well documented but whooo knew that it can actually be used to tweet owls! An owl sanctuary in Madrid recently used the treatment to aid the recovery of this Little Owl who injured his back after flying into a stovepipe at a factory. Brinzal, a local owl rescue centre, reported that the owl couldn't even stand up when he was first rescued, but now thanks to acupuncturist Edurne Cornejo, the injured bird of prey is flying high once again.

Baby meerkats:

(Love the adorable baby meerkats)

Tawny frogmouths gaze intensely from their perch on a golden shower tree in Queensland, Australia.

I just looked up those trees as they remind me of some others. All parts are poisonous, according to a website I use, but I figure an owl wouldn't give a fig. Beautiful, the owl and the tree.

Sable antelope:

Two lion cubs burn off excess adolescent energy.

They are stunning trees in bloom - will try and find the shots I took of the local one next to the Stratford public library.

When I saw that intro line vonny I expected to scroll down to the cubs stealing a car for a joyride

King Parrot. Numinbah valley.


Dave is a school friend of mine.

The bird's name is Dave? Looks more like a Joffrey to me.
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And you are? A pride of lions come face to prickly face as they surround a porcupine in South Africa's Kalahari Desert.

Pinkgy the orangutan shyly offers a bouquet to her keeper. After 13 years chained by the neck and fed on a diet of junk-food and fizzy drinks, Pingky was rescued and brought to the International Animal Rescue Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre in Ketapang, West Kalimantan. Her rehabilitation included a strict diet and extensive dental surgery to repair the damage of a sugary diet. Since her rescue Pingky has blossomed into a brown-eyed beauty on the look-out for love. International Animal Rescue’s ultimate aim is to release Pingky and the other 82 orangutans in its care back into protected areas of forest where they will have a second chance to live as nature intended. Pinkgy the orangutan shyly offers a bouquet to her keeper on Valentine’s Day. After 13 years chained by the neck and fed on a diet of junk-food and fizzy drinks, Pingky was rescued and brought to the International Animal Rescue Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre in Ketapang, West Kalimantan. Her rehabilitation included a strict diet and extensive dental surgery to repair the damage of a sugary diet. Since her rescue Pingky has blossomed into a brown-eyed beauty on the look-out for love. International Animal Rescue’s ultimate aim is to release Pingky and the other 82 orangutans in its care back into protected areas of forest where they will have a second chance to live as nature intended.