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@Roberta,

Roberta, the little fella looks like a mythological beastie with the spritely horns. Very Happy

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@tsarstepan,

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@tsarstepan,

I agree about the beastie with the spritely horns.

I'm trying to figure out what's going on in the tiger picture. Is he cleaning his head?

Orphaned badger babies:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0LN0o26eVUI/SfEVxMXVkaI/AAAAAAAABgk/FsptPhz3VV0/s400/badger+babies.jpg

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@Roberta,

Poor little orphaned badgers!

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/1/21/1264079125066/Bangkok-Thailand-A-black--009.jpg

Bangkok, Thailand: A black-shouldered kite that was seized by environmental crime police along with other rare species. These birds of prey are found in Australia and southern Africa and are listed as a threatened species
Photograph: Sakchai Lalit/AP

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@Roberta,

Quote:

I'm trying to figure out what's going on in the tiger picture. Is he cleaning his head?

Just like a big puddy tat...or cheetah.

Badgers!!!!! Awwwwwwww.....

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@msolga,

That kite looks lovely.

Except to a prey animal.

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@dlowan,

Yes, it looks far too nice to be a bird of prey, doesn't it? Such an innocent face! Wink

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@msolga,

Animals kill innocently.

I recall reading Konrad Lorenz's "On Aggression", and realising, as he said it, that, unless fearful of being hurt by their prey, animals kill with an intent, not aggressive, face.

Ya know, we forget how lucky we are with all these lovely highly detailed photographs of animals.

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@dlowan,

That's probably quite right, Deb. What would I know?

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@msolga,

You'd know quite a damned lot, I suspect.

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@dlowan,

Not about things like the expression on an animal's face as it kills it's prey .. no.

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@dlowan,

Some VERY young baby animals:

From here:

http://io9.com/5431824/rare-in-utero-images-glimpse-animals-inside-the-womb/gallery/#

http://4.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv2pooUGuG1qzsmcgo1_500.jpg

kitten

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/12/23/baby-animals-7.jpg

dolphin

More here:

http://news.cnet.com/2300-11395_3-6141187-4.html?tag=mncol

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@Roberta,

I think he's got the vapors!. Seen two mice and he's going to feint away.

Those badger babies are literally and figuratively a handful I bet! Razz

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@dlowan,

Fascinating, Deb

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@msolga,

msolga wrote:

Yes, it looks far too nice to be a bird of prey, doesn't it? Such an innocent face!

I agree with Deb. Animals don't kill with meanness, viciousness, or for fun. They kill to eat or to protect themselves or their young. Sometimes they kill to estaablish dominance. But all of it is innocent and instinctive. (Sorry to carry on, olga. You hit a nerve with me.)

Deb, In utero wonderfulness. Thanks.

tsar, Badgers are a handful--big ones and little ones.

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@Roberta,

Deb, I love Konrad Lorenz, and those unborn animals were lovely.

Let's not forget the groundhog. Tomorrow is its day.

http://www.inspiredstartup.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/groundhog_main.jpg

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@Letty,

More groundhogs..

http://whyfiles.org/187hibernate/images/groundhogs_crop.jpg

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Don't drive angry:

http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/groundhog-day.jpg

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If you look really hard .......

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/1/28/1264690706975/Cape-Burks-western-Antarc-003.jpg

An Adelie penguin in Cape Burks, western Antarctica. Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) are found in the Southern Ocean round Antarctica, and breed further south than any other species of penguin
Photograph: Yonhapnews Agency/EPA

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@msolga,

(He needs an orange scarf or something, msolga.)

http://www.canoe.ca/Travel/Microgalleries/groundhog/2010/01/29/WiartonWilly.jpg

Wiarton Willy (an albino groundhog in Wiarton, Ontario) predicted 6 more weeks of winter <sigh>

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