Beautiful Animals

Morning New York....

Hello Fred
Hello George
How's the wife?
Still nagging
Mine too,she wants me to get the bedrooms ready for the kids.
Just remind her that there's 3000 of them ...............

G'night.

You post the most wonderful pictures. This one of the koala is just too precious.

Barry, You've outdone yourself, especially in the G'night department. Do you know what kind of snake the gold colored reptile is? Its a beauty.

Giraffe (running):

Hah, I was just going to post that..

Here's what the SF Chronicle had to say in its caption -
"The Abominable Snow Crab: Census of Marine Life explorers have discovered a new, furry crab species south of Easter Island. Kiwa hirsuta was deemed so unusual that it warranted a whole new family designation, Kiwidae."
Photo: Census of Marine Life / AFP / Getty Images

The sleeping koala is a heart tugger...

I'll check back in my records.
What that really means is I'll try to find the scrap of paper with the details on amoungst the hundreds of other bits of paper on my desk.
Meanwhile,The Fredster asked me to post this....

Ocelot, San Diego Zoo, California
Photograph by Joel Sartore
Wild ocelots are gone from all U.S. states except Texas, driven out by human development. The elusive cats still roam the wilds of Central and South America, but there's little reliable data on their true numbers.

Another tasty snack for Mr Cormorant.

Roberta,the yellow snake is an Eylash Viper indigenous to Central and South America and come in a variety of colors, including shocking yellow.

Found it, Barry. It's an eyelash viper from South America.

You beat me to the edit .

Dead to the world....

G'night.

Barry, The ocelot is a rare beauty. The cormorant photo is spectacular. (They are amazing birds). The g'night pic makes me smile. As usual. I'm really really glad you showed up here.

Tibetan fox:

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ~ Abraham Lincoln

An Emperor penguin chick looks out from beneath its parent's legs on Snow Hill Island, in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica.

Two wonderful pics, Irish. The lion cubs are, well, babies. And the penguin is a spectaular shot. Perfect symmetry of the mama. Very cute baby.

Speaking of black and white mamas and babies--

Here's 2 pictures from the National Georgraphic email I get every week.

This foist one is called "fortune teller"




What a gentle face...

omg, this fish has a transparent head.



February 23, 2009--With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes--topped by green, orblike lenses--in a picture released today but taken in 2004.

The fish, discovered alive in the deep water off California's central coast by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), is the first specimen of its kind to be found with its soft transparent dome intact.

The 6-inch (15-centimeter) barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) had been known since 1939--but only from mangled specimens dragged to the surface by nets.

interesting, that barreleye fish..

Cormorant photo, just gorgeous, a keeper.

I'm glad Barry the Mod is around too..



More pandas, this time twin bambini in Madrid -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/oct/07/baby-panda-twins-madrid-zoo-video

Here is another pretty spotted pony. This one is a rescue that is at a Mississippi shelter.



Here is another beauty: