Beautiful Animals

Thanks for letting me know about the serval, dj. That's the second time that picture has disappeared. Thanks for the replacement. All wild animals are wild animals. Shouldn't be pets.

Also, thanks for the photos and the info about the toygers. They're cute/beautiful. This hybrid makes me uncomfortable, but I'm not sure why. I need to ponder.

Here's another serval. I have the feeling that the images from the site I got if from will not be stable.

http://www.sa-venues.com/wildlife/images/serval.jpg

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agreed about the wild animal bit, the servals get quite big, the woman i worked with was about 5 foot six inches or so, the male she had could stand on it's hind legs, put his paws on her shoulders and look her in the face, that's a big cat

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A very big cat. Your description reminded me of a time I visited a cousin who had large dogs. One of his malamutes stood on his hind legs and was considerably taller than me (5'6"). That's a big dog. Not the biggest, but it left an impression. (My cousin had great Danes too, but none of them ever chose to stand face to face with me.)

Malamute:

http://www.edgeoftheforest.com/images/Cody.jpg

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Fell in love with this picture:

http://www.doubleexposure.com/uploads/johnissac_animals-swimmingtiger-india.jpg

And this one (snow monkeys)

http://www.snowjapan.com/e/features/snow-monkeys/jigokudani-photo-2.jpg

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Two from South America

Ocelot

http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/mammal/ocelot/ocelot02.jpg

Tapir

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Capybara, the world's largest rodent.

http://k53.pbase.com/v3/94/41794/1/45393564.capybara_web.jpg

There seems to be a bit of disagreement about the smallest rodent. The consensus is the Eurasian harvest mouse.

http://www.waza.org/virtualzoo/img/110-011-040-001%20micromys_top.JPG

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that small rodent has big eyes

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Did a bit of poking around, dj. These mice are nocturnal. Need big eyes and ears to see and hear what's going on.

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Tamandua (South American anteater)

http://www.mybiosphere.com/images/centralamerica/tamandua.jpg

Giant anteater (also from South America)

http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t054/T054572A.jpg

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Male cuckoo wrasse in mating mode. When they're not looking for a mate, their colors are much more subdued

http://www.englishnature.org.uk/virtualtours/Lundy/images/cuckoo_wrasse.jpg

Tangerine Honduran milk snake:

http://www.wildthings-explorations.com/Hunduran%20MilkSnake.jpg

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Sea anemone:

Indian roller bird:

http://212.227.92.102/img/14488/wm/pd958781.jpg

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An Indian roller. These little birds are truly beautiful. I wonder what they sound like.

http://www.birdsoman.com/Birds/088-Rollers/IndianRoller/IndianRoller8588.jpg

Canada goose. I used to see these waddling around the north Bronx when I went to visit my parents. I guess Co-op City was on their migration route.

http://homepage.mac.com/rstacy/%20images/pages/geese/canada/2002/Canada_goose_12110231.jpg

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a mourning dove from one of my favorite nurseries --

mourning dove

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An Indian roller. These little birds are truly beautiful. I wonder what they sound like.

The call of Indian Roller is a harsh crow-like chack sound. ...

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Osso, I took the liberty of picking up the photo and entering it here. Hope you don't mind.

http://www.laspilitas.com/California_birds/Pigeons_and_Doves/Mourning_Dove/Mourning_dove.jpg

dadpad wrote:

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An Indian roller. These little birds are truly beautiful. I wonder what they sound like.

The call of Indian Roller is a harsh crow-like chack sound. ...

Another bubble boist. Sigh. I was picturing (soundwise) a glorious song.

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Another bubble boist. Sigh. I was picturing (soundwise) a glorious song.

Interestingly enough I have the opinion that the more drab a bird looks the more beautiful its song will be. A function of evolution? Contact need to be maintained even whilst camouflaged in the trees.

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