Beautiful Animals

@Roberta,

Looks like a walking mutated orchid!

Great idea for a horror film taking place at Prom Night!
Corsages come alive and start eating the prom date. Saves the prom queen for last.

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@Roberta,

Interesting! It looks like a cross between a bunny and an orchid.

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@tsarstepan,

Great minds ...

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Men! Harumph.

How about this scenario? The guys wear these as bouttonnieres. At midnight, the bouttonniere comes alive and bites the guys' heads off.

Orchid mantis:

http://www.diariodeunvegano.com/Orchidaceae/Orchid_Mantis.jpg

By the end of the prom, no one is left alive except for Seymour Lipschitz, who was allergic to flowers and refused to wear the boutonniere. Go Seymour.

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Pipefish:

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Some may not consider this little guy a "beautiful animal" but I sure do. This little "mule" is JJ. My paso fino mare gave birth to him Friday morning. He is about an hour old in this picture. My mare was pregnant when I bought her. She was a rescue horse and we were told she was more than likely bred to a Tennessee Walker. Uh, I am now 100% positive it wasn't a Tennessee Walker.

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/7875/sbirthday029.jpg

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@Rockhead,

those little lights are on the bench all the time (but not always plugged in)

saw one of these this morning (too far away for me to get a pic)

http://www.zuropak.com/photogallery/2008-favourites/American-Robin-149.jpg

spring has come
the grass has riz
i wonder where the birdies is
the bird is on the wing
now isn't that absurd
i always thought the wing was on the bird

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@Roberta,

Roberta wrote:

Men! Harumph.

How about this scenario? The guys wear these as bouttonnieres. At midnight, the bouttonniere comes alive and bites the guys' heads off.

Orchid mantis:

By the end of the prom, no one is left alive except for Seymour Lipschitz, who was allergic to flowers and refused to wear the boutonniere. Go Seymour.

Turn it into a 3D Imax film? Starring say Clive Owens and Scarlett Johansson? I'll preorder the tickets now!

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@tsarstepan,

http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/csm-photo-galleries-images/photos-of-the-day-images/2010/0316/01/7578810-1-eng-US/01_full_600.jpg

Quote:

Peruvian surfer Domingo Pianezzi rides a wave with his alpaca, Pisco, at San Bartolo beach in Lima, Peru, on March 16. Pianezzi has spent a decade training dogs to ride on the nose of his board, and now he is the first to do so with an alpaca.

Pilar Olivares/Reuters

http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2010/Photos-of-the-Day-03-16

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@tsarstepan,

that's one butt ugly dog, now...

(cool life preserver, though)

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@tsarstepan,

Uh oh. This is going to engender the photobucketing and posting of some of my alpaca photos. The best have my old business partner in them, thus impolite to post, so on that I'll tell the story instead. We considered the alpacas as cheer-us-ups and almost never passed that highway turnoff without a short drive to the alpaca abode for a quick view and smiles.

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@ossobuco,

You have alpacas? I've read about them but don't know anyone with one. Obviously, they can be trained (amazing that it surfs!) but I was wondering if they make good pets? I don't want one, I'm just curious.

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http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/3/11/1268333060162/A-cattle-egret-in-the-lak-007.jpg

A cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) soars in the Las Garzas eco-park in Cali, Colombia. In the park's 4.7 hectares, some 74 species of tree, 109 species of bird, and 11 species of mammal can be found
Photograph: Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images

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tsar, The flick is still in preproduction. Don't be in a hurry about the tickets.
That alpaca doesn't look happy to me. But I don't know much about the facial expressions of alpacas.

olga, Thanks for the glorious bird in flight.

Alpaca (on dry land):

http://www.livanti-alpacas.com/images/photos/alpaca_horizon.jpg

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@Arella Mae,

No, a doctor in my old area raised them..

ok, ok, putting on my scanner now.

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@Roberta,

A sad story, Roberta. This beautiful animal is almost extinct. The snow leopard

http://www.itsnature.org/Ice/images/article-images/snow-leopard.jpg

Love the alpaca

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@Letty,

Yes, Letty. Sad about the snow leopards. In fact many of the animals posted here are endangered, including the cheetah.

Sighing big time.

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Time for the alpaca extravaganza. I dare you not to smile..

There are a batch of photos, probably two or more posts' full, starting out with more of an overview.

A long shot, somewhere in Humboldt County, by the sea, by the sea:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/ossobuco/longshotofalpacaplace097.jpg?t=1268861783

alpaca distribution -

They see us walk up to the fence, come forward to stare at us. This first photo is overexposed, but shows more faces than the more realistic one that comes next.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/ossobuco/alpacagroupoverexposed095.jpg?t=1268862229

More realistic light -

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/ossobuco/alpacasintheshade096.jpg?t=1268862304

Starting to zone in..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/ossobuco/Notethebabyalp106.jpg?t=1268862407

Mom and babe, portrait size -

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/ossobuco/Notethebabyalp106-1-1.jpg?t=1268862544

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I think this is mom again, might have been a different day.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/ossobuco/Mammaalpaca108.jpg?t=1268862955

alpaca chase (well, I'm not sure about 'chase'. I wish I had photos/videos of the alpacas cavorting around, especially the little ones)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/ossobuco/alpacachaseon104.jpg?t=1268863128

show me your yarn!

what is this?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/ossobuco/alpacalunch100.jpg?t=1268863343

Next post ...

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Alpaca duo -

Alpaca approach -

Alpaca conversation -

and one of business partner and alpaca - she's great with animals. That isn't a fear stance, not that you can really see it, as I cropped. She showed him her palms up first:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/ossobuco/alpacaandhuman2107-1.jpg?t=1268863844

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