Beautiful Animals

It's all in the eye of the beholder, Reg. Yes, these are fascinating animals.

Here's a freshwater and electric version of an eel. Also not likely to be winning any pageants. But tres fascinating.

http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/midorcas/animalphysiology/websites/2003/Wilson/cfunspics/ElecEelHead.jpg

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A tern:

http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/winkler/botw/ArcticTern(flying)widea.jpg

A blue-footed booby on the ground (C.I. showed a few photos of these.)

http://www.amerikaventure.com/images/GAL/blue_footed_booby2.jpg

And a blue-footed booby in the air:

http://a1410.g.akamai.net/f/1410/1633/7d/images.enature.com/birds/birds_l/BD0684_1l.jpg

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apparently no one else feels comfortable saying it, so i guess i'll step up to the plate and say it --

nice boobies!

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http://www.wildlifesafari.info/images/giraffe_head.jpg

Grinning Giraffe

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just helping roberta out.

Gouldian Finch Australia

http://www.butterflyworld.com/birdguide/LadyGouldianFinch.jpg

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Region Philbis wrote:

apparently no one else feels comfortable saying it, so i guess i'll step up to the plate and say it --

nice boobies!

Grinning Giraffe

Are you happy now? Smile

Love that giraffe.

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that finch is great

love birds

http://vethospital.huji.ac.il/images/exotics/love-birds.jpg

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Also love that giraffe.

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http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~ted/Alaska/050828_097-Ptarmigan-in-summer-plumage.jpg

Ptarmigan in summer plumage; Denali National Park

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Scissor tailed flycatcher

http://www.birdsofoklahoma.net/images/STFC0681.jpg

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Dadpad, Thanks for the finch. I think I posted one of those a few pages back. So spectacular, I'm glad to see it again.

dj, Love the love birds. And the ptarmigans. Great shot of them.

Rosborne, The flycatcher is not only gorgeous, but it looks like its living up to its name. It caught a fly. If the flycatcher catches flies then the black skimmer skims:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kontonicolas/images/Black-SkimmerC4571.jpg

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Click on this BBC news page, http://news.bbc.co.uk/, and then click on the feature Hidden Treasures, on the left side of the page.. for a slide show of
artic splendours, including the ice fish...

I hope you can see it, Roberta.

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osso, I clicked on the link and it said, "Page not found." Sigh. Thanks for trying, kid.

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Well, I'll go capture the ice fish then..

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Huh, it does that to me too, so that isn't your computer's fault. Phooey. The whole slide show is quite beautiful. The ice fish doesn't have red blood cells, has this ethereal look.

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This is a poem by my dad that showed up in the Saturday Evening Post in 1926 - or something like this -

I wish I was a bird's egg
way up in a big tree.
When a little boy came by
and looked up at me with glee,
I'd bust my naughty self and
sprinkle him with me.

I played around and came up with -

I wish I was a little worm,
the one the early bird is after.
When he'd give my oval tail a tweak,
I'd wrap myself around his feet
and trip him up with laughter.

Which one is worse?

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Well, it worked this time. But, just in case -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/sci_nat_unveiling_the_antarctic/img/6.jpg

quoting text by the photo -
Amazing adaptation
One of the extraordinary adaptations which evolution generates in the extreme Antarctic cold is found in the ice fish.

It has evolved to have no red blood cells and no haemoglobin, meaning that its blood flows more freely. The oxygen which its muscles need simply dissolves in the blood.

(Image: J Gutt, Alfred Wegener Institute)

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Osso. Amazing-looking fish. Aside from the absence of red blood cells, it looks midevolution--on it's way to some kind of repitlian form. Great photo. And thanks. I love learning about new animals.

Thanks for the poems too.

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