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Beautiful Animals

 
 
Roberta
 
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Reply Fri 31 Jul, 2009 01:32 am
dj, An unfuzzy bee. Wonderful pics. Beautiful flowers. Does that dragonfly have blue eyes, or am I having a Paul Newman flashback?

Petalled nudibranch:

http://www.oceanwideimages.com/images/2511/large/24M1622-09-many-petalled-nudibranch.jpg
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Roberta
 
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Reply Sat 1 Aug, 2009 03:27 am
Wild dog of Africa:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/inline/bio-boundary-for-african-wild-dogs_1.jpg
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Roberta
 
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Reply Sun 2 Aug, 2009 03:09 am
Labradoodle:

http://blog.oregonlive.com/pets/2009/01/labradoodle.jpg
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msolga
 
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Reply Sun 2 Aug, 2009 03:46 am
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/7/29/1248891764401/South-American-Sea-Lion-c-014.jpg
South American Sea Lion cub in the Schjoenbrunn zoo in Vienna
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Roberta
 
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Reply Sun 2 Aug, 2009 04:22 am
Positively brilliant picture, msolga. Thanks mucho.
msolga
 
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Reply Sun 2 Aug, 2009 04:35 am
@Roberta,
My pleasure, Roberta. S/he is only 4 days old. (But beautiful already!)
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Roberta
 
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Reply Mon 3 Aug, 2009 03:15 am
Pod of dolphins:

http://www.dizzydolphin.com/photos/36.jpg
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dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 3 Aug, 2009 03:39 am
@Roberta,
Roberta wrote:

Redback spider:

http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Animals/weirdest-spiders/Redback-spider.jpg


The females can kill if you cannot access anti-veneme in time.

They ARE a lovely spider, though.....and you almost have to crush them to be bitten. Thing is, they love confined, dark spaces....so it is easy to get bitten without knowing they are they.
dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 3 Aug, 2009 03:44 am
@TTH,
TTH wrote:

Wow, those are amazing pictures. I like the cheetah stare, from a distance, wouldn't want to be up close to one in the wild.


Cheetahs are almost more dog than cat (eg non retractable claws).

They were trained by the Egyptians almost as hunting dogs are, so they are semi-domesticable.


Glorious creatures!!!

But very fragile....they nearly died out some time ago, so the current gene-pool is dangerously small, and zoos, for instance, are very careful in their breeding programs, since genetic faults are so common.

Sad.
Dutchy
 
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Reply Mon 3 Aug, 2009 03:46 am
@dlowan,
dlowan wrote:

Roberta wrote:

Redback spider:

http://www.moolf.com/images/stories/Animals/weirdest-spiders/Redback-spider.jpg


The females can kill if you cannot access anti-veneme in time.

They ARE a lovely spider, though.....and you almost have to crush them to be bitten. Thing is, they love confined, dark spaces....so it is easy to get bitten without knowing they are they.



This is where you usually find them Roberta!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QldU_HKEHd4
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Roberta
 
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Reply Mon 3 Aug, 2009 05:41 am
deb, Yup, sad. There's speculation that the population of cheetahs is so small that most if not all are related to one another.

dutchy, Thanks, I needed that.
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Roberta
 
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Reply Tue 4 Aug, 2009 03:11 am
Sea otters:

http://www.jyi.org/volumes/volume2/issue1/images/patyten_seaOttersSwim.jpg
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msolga
 
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Reply Tue 4 Aug, 2009 07:12 am
Ah, otters! Smile




http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/7/22/1248282154213/A-great-blue-heron-holds--013.jpg
A great blue heron holds a small fish after catching it in a pond in Roseburg, US
Photograph: Robin Loznak/AP
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TTH
 
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Reply Tue 4 Aug, 2009 09:16 am
@dlowan,
Thank you, I did not know that dlowan.
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Tue 4 Aug, 2009 09:31 am
Polish frizzle chickens
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7713/article11693110440243f0.jpg

rosborne979
 
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Reply Tue 4 Aug, 2009 09:33 am
@CalamityJane,
It's amazing what enough inbreeding can do.
CalamityJane wrote:

Polish frizzle chickens
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7713/article11693110440243f0.jpg
CalamityJane
 
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Reply Tue 4 Aug, 2009 09:39 am
@rosborne979,
rosborne979 wrote:

It's amazing what enough inbreeding can do.


Yes! Tell that to the Royals in Europe! Very Happy
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Roberta
 
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Reply Tue 4 Aug, 2009 01:06 pm
msolga, Fine lookin' boid. Not so happy fish.

Jane, I want to reach out and touch those chicks. Soft? Fuzzy? Fluffy?

Rosborne, Inbreeding or cross-breeding? Probably a combination of the two. We humans don't seem to be able to let well enough alone.
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djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 4 Aug, 2009 06:28 pm
people in a Toronto, Ontario neighbourhood have been seeing a strange beast at night, and now the mystery has been solved

http://torontoist.com/attachments/StephenMichalowicz/20090730raccoonmystery.jpg

Mystery solved (sort of). According to Nathalie Karvonen, the executive director of the Toronto Wildlife Centre, and Ralph Toninger, senior project manager of restoration services at the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, the naked (and rather terrifying looking) creature that’s been seen skulking around Parkdale is indeed a raccoon, and come winter, one that's in grave danger.

Here's what Karvonen told Torontoist:

The shape looks exactly like a raccoon. We get hundreds of raccoons in here a year, and by process of elimination, there’s really not anything else it could be. The face shape, the size, the posture, and the length of the legs, they all look exactly like a raccoon. Opossums are quite a bit different. Their legs are a lot shorter for one thing; they’re low squat creatures and they don’t have the same body shape as a raccoon…even though this raccoon seems to be doing fine now"the body weight and hydration look good"it’s going to die when winter comes. It needs its fur to survive the Canadian winter. I don’t know what’s happened to put it in this condition, but it would definitely need some help.

And here's what Toninger told us:

It’s definitely a raccoon.

My first inclination would be that this is a hairless mutation. It doesn’t look thin, it looks reasonably robust, and it doesn’t look in poor health. It also looks like a lactating female. In one picture it looks like it has teats hanging down, which would imply that it’s healthy enough that it produced young. But it’s hard to say.

A number of parasites"mange is the biggest one"can cause hair loss in animals. I’ve seen many coyotes that are very mange ridden, and they’ll be almost completely bald, but mange is a parasite that affects the skin and causes irritation and itchiness, and the animals actually scratch their hair off. The raccoon's skin looks to be in good shape. There are no obvious blisters or lesions, or anything like that that would indicate it was mange. It may have had mange a long time ago and it healed over"that’s a possibility. Personally, I have never seen a completely naked raccoon. I’ve seen raccoons that have had skin parasites, and have had bad cases of mange and have looked almost like this, but they still usually have little patches of hair where they can’t reach. Even its feet and toes look completely hairless.

There are also some cruel people out there that might grab an animal and do something to it. It wouldn’t be the first time. If it was natural, I don’t know how it would have survived up until now, unless it’s somebody’s weird pet. If it’s outside it would have no chance of survival over the winter.

If you see this poor raccoon, please contact the Toronto Wildlife Centre at (416) 631-0662.
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djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 4 Aug, 2009 06:29 pm
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