Beautiful Animals

I'd like to invite you folks to another thread where I posted some "beautiful" animal pictures while I was in Austin this past week. These are amzazing pictures, because they are all stuffed animals within a huge sports store complex located a few miles south of Austin.

http://able2know.org/topic/133582-1

Francis, SPECtacular photo. Thanks.

c.i., Didn't see any pictures of animals. Fine-looking people though.

Shar-pei puppies:

Bengal tiger:

Francis, I missed this picture when you first posted it. It's truly special. Merci, mon ami.

Siberian tigers (the largest felines):

You are very welcome, Boida.

Francis, Magnificent cheval. Wonderful picture. Thanks, kid.

Cotton-top tamarin:

Images of one of Africa’s most elusive cats has been caught on camera.
The African Golden Cat (Profelis aureate) was caught with a digital infrared camera trap, set up by Yale biologist Dr Gary Aronsen.

Thanks, Walter. Here's one with the lights on. These are real beauties.

Sea anemone:

Deb just had an hairdo:


Angora rabbit

Hey, Francis. That ain't Deb. That bunny doesn't smoke.

Izzie, Thanks for the glorious pics, kid.

Baby skunk:

A bilby, Australia's most endangered animal, grazing for food at the Sydney Wildlife World ahead of national bilby day in Australia this Sunday. The bilby, an Australian marsupial known as a natural digger, live in spiraling burrows that reach 2m in depth, and are well equipped with backward-facing pouches and three large central claws on their front feet
Photograph: Rob Griffith/AP

Hey olga, Thanks for the bilby. Cute little thing.

Ocelot:

Oh, that elephant w/girl photo is gorgeous..

from today's SFChronicle:


Shaanxi Rare Wildlife Breeding and Research Center in Zhouzhi County.)
Photo: Yuan Jingzhi / Xinhua

osso, That picture has me plotzing all over the computer. Wonderful! Thanks, kid.

Purple-crowned fairy wrens (male and female):

I'm very taken with the photograph of this ocelot, Roberta. She (she looks like a she) is quite startlingly beautiful. That superb coat & those eyes!

some pics from the north

ducks at the dock



pup in a truck


chipmunk in a tree


horse who wasn't to keen on having his picture taken


horses in a field


sandhill cranes in a field


little green frog at tai chi's place



saw some deer this trip but always while driving

also saw a black bear and her cubs, but again while driving and unable to get pics, but it was an unbelievable site, the mother bear was sitting on her haunches on the side of the road about 10 feet from the car, with her two cubs behind her, she was waiting to lead them across the road, and we watched them cross in the rear view mirror