Beautiful Animals

I guess they have very slow metabolisms. Or I could be wrong. Much of the info I have is from watching wildlife tv shows. Only some of it is from reading. I'll see if I can find confirmation on the Web.

Night Monkey (or Owl Monkey), A New World Monkey

My very first school report was on coati. It was in fourth grade; we were being taught to use the encyclopedia in the elementary school library. I picked the volume starting with C - dunno, my last name starts with C - and the book opened with the page describing coati. Voila! I wonder if I plagerized...

That anteater is quite the handsome animal. Looks sort of like a mid fifties automobile... or, better, they look a bit like it does.

Now sloths I can understand.

Thanks, Rosborne, for the beautiful monkey. What a face.

Did some reading about sloths. Fascinating stuff. They spend most of their lives hanging upside down. In fact they even have babies upside down. Their grip is so strong and so effortless that they often die and remain hanging upside down. This is one of the reasons that they are rarely hunted by humans. The human shoots the sloth, but it won't fall to the ground. As to the weekly "relief," here's a quote from Wikipedia: "They come to the ground, to urinate and defecate, only about once a week." Three natural enemies listed: humans, jaguars, and harpy eagles.

Speaking of harpy eagles, I believe that these are the largest of the eagles and are quite impressive looking. Take a gander:

An albino skunk:

More from South America--red and blue macaws eating clay.





A toucan. I've never seen one this color before.




And a rhea, South America's largest bird. It's flightless and related to the ostrich of Africa and the emu of Australia. btw, emus and rheas are great crossword puzzle words.

Thanks for the albino skunk, Jes. Here's one that's two-toned.

Australia Day celebration. Indulge me

Roberta, has anyone mentioned the slender loris?

If not, I guess now would be the time...

I know a bloke named Loris. He's Swiss. He doent look like that though.








Last one for me

Individually they are not much to look at, but when assembled around a vat of milk they offer one of the most breathtakingly beautiful animal displays one will ever see...

The Slow Loris is certainly a primate of intrique;

What's that primate doing with hits hands in the milk... disgusting

Happy Australia Day, dadpad and all other Aussies. Consider yourself indulged. Can't go wrong with a roo, koalas, and that wonderful crossword puzzle word the emu.

Gus, the slender loris has an amazing face. But frankly it doesn't look all that slender to me. As for the rats, the site at which the photo was taken is, I believe, a temple in India at which rats are worshipped.

dys, The slow loris is a beauty. Thanks.

In honor of Australia Day, here's another of Australia's amazing boids--the cassowary.

I always liked jumping spiders.

coluber, Thanks for the leaping arachnids.

dadpad, how about a brand new to the world saltie.

what's up with the aussies, no love for the wombats?

tasmanian devil

a kiwi bird