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Beautiful Animals

 
 
Arella Mae
 
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Reply Wed 31 Mar, 2010 07:12 pm
@tsarstepan,
I am guessing you mean my baby mule? You must have seen him on youtube or on the I'm A Nervous Wreck Thread? Oh wait, I put his pic on here too. I have some new youtubes of him if you want to see them.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=horselady11000&aq=f

Uploading the one from today now. He was one wild little guy today! And thank you. I do think he is adorable too but I know I am biased a bit!
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 31 Mar, 2010 07:20 pm
@tsarstepan,
I like all animals, far as I know, unless for a moment they are charging me across a field. I have very soft spots for dogs and rabbits. It's taken me a while to get interested in bats, but I am.

Cockroaches, nooooooooo. There was an issue of the New Yorker within the last year or two that had drawings of beetles and roaches interspersed with fiction, non-fiction. I had to hand-shield the drawings from my eyes to read the articles..

Anyway, I thought those bunnies were great - well, the lil' bat too, as well as smiley tree frog..

tsarstepan
 
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Reply Wed 31 Mar, 2010 07:24 pm
@ossobuco,
I am truly repulsed by cockroaches, earwigs, and the too many nasty bugs in between.
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littlek
 
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Reply Wed 31 Mar, 2010 07:42 pm
This deep sea sponge is named for it's luminescent quality - Chondrocladia lampadiglobus . Sponges: stretching the concept of animal for years!

http://madethere.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/mbari_chondrocladia_72.jpg
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Wed 31 Mar, 2010 07:47 pm
@littlek,
That would make a exotic model for a great new Star Trek alien species.
littlek
 
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Reply Wed 31 Mar, 2010 07:58 pm
@tsarstepan,
I'm still strying to figure out how they classified it as an earthly sponge....
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Ionus
 
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Reply Wed 31 Mar, 2010 10:31 pm
@littlek,
So when some parents get cranky and tell their kids to leave home and get a job, they are calling them one of those ? Confused
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Roberta
 
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Reply Fri 2 Apr, 2010 01:00 am
littlek, Still staring at the ping-pong ball sponge. Them deep sea animals is amazing!

Yellow-fronted woodpecker:

http://chandra.as.utexas.edu/~kormendy/brazilss/YellowFrontdWoodpeckr2616ss.jpg
Francis
 
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Reply Fri 2 Apr, 2010 01:52 am
@Roberta,
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly--high!
...

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/gismonda/letsfly.jpg
Letty
 
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Reply Fri 2 Apr, 2010 05:40 am
@Francis,
Love that one from Fame, Francis.

I can fly higher than an eagle, you are the wind beneath my wings.

http://clarkvision.com/galleries/images.eagles-2004/web/eagle.c09.11.2004.JZ3F4717.b-700.jpg
Francis
 
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Reply Fri 2 Apr, 2010 06:18 am
@Letty,
while you were the one with all the strength....

Love that, Miss Letty.
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Fri 2 Apr, 2010 12:48 pm
@Francis,
http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/csm-photo-galleries-images/photos-of-the-day-images/2010/0401/11/7670632-1-eng-US/11_full_600.jpg
Quote:
A male stork feeds his mate in their nest on the roof of a house in the town of Wijk Bij Duurstede in central Netherlands on April 1. Breeding season for storks has commenced, with storks usually laying two eggs per nest. Young storks are expected in early May.

Michael Kooren/Reuters

http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2010/Photos-of-the-Day-04-01/(photo)/10
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 2 Apr, 2010 05:03 pm
@littlek,
wow, littlek. Such a beautiful creature, that Chondrochladia lampdiglobus.
I also can use the name as an epithet instead of bubblehead...

I love latin names..
Some of us who used to study names and features of a lot of plants would sometimes not be able to get one plant name out of our brains, and sometimes we could hardly remember a name we knew but that just ran away and hid behind some brain bit.

For example, a friend got hooked on the name Zizyphus jujuba.
I'm fond of Cotoneaster lacteus as a name.
Sometimes I have to give up and look at plants starting with C to remember Calodendron capense..
A friend will say, 'but what's the common name?' I know some of those, but that's usually not how I think of the plant..

As I learned from name changes in microbiology, and learned again about plant names, names change. I just enjoy them when they are running around in my mind.
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Fri 2 Apr, 2010 05:05 pm
@ossobuco,
Could also make a great space age candy as well. <<<Mmmm!>>> Cosmically yummy! Razz
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Fri 2 Apr, 2010 06:15 pm
@tsarstepan,
http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/csm-photo-galleries-images/in-pictures-images/t-rex/05/7639907-1-eng-US/05_full_600.jpg
Quote:
In this picture taken on March 18, 2009, a boy reaches out to touch the teeth of a moving life-size model of a Tyrannosaurus rex during a press launch of 'Walking with Dinosaurs' at the O2 Arena in London. Tyrannosaurus rex, once believed to have only roamed the Earth north of the Equator, may also have lived in the southern hemisphere, paleontologists said on March 26, 2010. In a study, the researchers said they had found a hip bone belonging to a T. rex ancestor in Australia, shedding new light on the evolutionary history of this group of dinosaurs.

Arian Dennis/AFP/Newscom/File

http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/The-T.-rex-lives/(photo)/5
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Fri 2 Apr, 2010 07:05 pm
@tsarstepan,
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/04/02/world/02seal_337-395/02seal_337-395-articleLarge-v2.jpg
A harp seal pup lay on the ice in 2008 near Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/world/americas/02seal.html
Quote:
Despite Few Hunters, Seal Pups Face Threats
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Fri 2 Apr, 2010 08:13 pm
@tsarstepan,
http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-74445-galleryV9-neno.jpg
Quote:
Half of all Germans consider Easter to be a religious holiday, but many younger people view it primarily as an important tradition and day for families.

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-53448.html#ref=nlint
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Fri 2 Apr, 2010 08:16 pm
@tsarstepan,
http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-74368-galleryV9-kfel.jpg
Quote:
Egg painting is also popular in other parts of the country: Here, a woman in the northwestern German state of Schleswig-Holstein displays two ostrich eggs decorated for Easter.

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-53448-9.html
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Fri 2 Apr, 2010 08:21 pm
@tsarstepan,
http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-74448-galleryV9-alek.jpg
Quote:
And Easter celebrations aren't just limited to people. Here at Munich's Hellabrunn Zoo, baby elephant Jamuna Toni plays with an oversized toy Easter egg in his enclosure.

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-53448-15.html
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Sat 3 Apr, 2010 11:44 pm
@tsarstepan,
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/photo/2010/04/04/20100404SANTONIO/32943220.JPG
Flying fish of San Antonio.

Quote:
Illuminated fish hang from an overpass along a new section of the River Walk.
Photo: Erich Schlegel for The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/04/03/travel/20100404SANTONIO_9.html
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