Beautiful Animals

Albino peacock:





American eskimo dog:





Snowy owl:





Persian cat:

Poor, poor over-bred animal.

Humans have been breeding domestic animals for thousands of years, often without regard to the effects the specialized breeding has on the animals. This is especially true for dogs and cats. Great danes have heart problems; dachshunds have spinal problems; bulldogs and other flat-faced breeds have breathing problems.

It saddens me to know that such animals live with these weaknesses. Sometimes it makes me angry. However, they're here; they exist; they're not going away. Some are quite beautiful.

Infrablue, The purpose of this thread it to simply post photos of beautiful animals. Sorry if I posted something that upset you.

Bird of paradise:





Paradise fish:

Antarctic jellyfish (deep sea):





Saffron finch:

there are some nice photos on whatatop.com

Mooches grassy ass, reg. Wonderful photos at that site. I'm picking up a couple more for here:

Dogface butterfly:





Arabian oryx:

That's an interesting photo site, thanks for the link, RP.

Albino peacock = exquisite

it was at the end of a powerpernt slideshow i received in an e-mail.
i usually don't chase links like that, but in this case i'm glad i did...

More from reg's site:

Tarsier:





Arabian tahr:

More from reg's wonderful link:

Sea squirts:





Webworm moth:

Varied thrush:





Sea slug:

Sandhill crane on the ice:





Yellow mongoose:

Hoatzins, from South America (aka, stinkbird):





Spiny flower mantis:

Arabian horse:





Gray-banded kingsnake:

Malaysian leaf insect:





Giant green sea anemone: