Beautiful Animals

Speaking of big cat facial expressions:

Putting on my best Yoda voice - "A name,as good as any,I would think."

Irishk - cracking picture.Saw the whole story with more pics in yesterdays newspaper.
Roberta - If I had two ladies wanting my "attention",the expression on my face would be the same .
Nice bird dipping it's beak in the water.

Love this face....

Emu.

Going cute....

Kiwi standing on an ostritch egg.

G'night.

Don't mess up with me, ok?

^
Nice Pussy! But no claws!

back later with some boids and a snail

Yes, otter than that, they are clawless...

BOO!

http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2010/Photos-of-the-Day-10-07/(photo)/10

All the pictures are so beautiful. I love these little red pandas though. They look like little stuffed animals.

Warm on a blankie was a lonely panda bear, lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo! The baby panda from yesterday's (SFGate) DIP is awake! And has apparently learned how to yodel. (Madrid Zoo.)
Photo: Dominique Faget / AFP / Getty Images



More red panda -

I am NOT a red panda. I am a beaver: A red panda cub attacks a conifer at the Calgary Zoo.
Photo: Jeff McIntosh / The Canadian Press



The hazards of ornithological photography: Some birds just won't sit still for their portrait - Lenni the Harris hawk, for example. (Mayrhofen, Austrian province of Tyrol.)
Photo: Kerstin Joensson / AP

out by the lake yesterday, saw some ducks on the water


and a snail on a vine on the path

I just read an article on Slate about Secretariat. Then I watched the famous Belmont Race, which I'd seen on tv when it was run in 1973. I've turned somewhat against horseracing these days (pros and cons, a lot of cons), but still, I found myself sobbing happily during the videotape.

http://www.slate.com/id/2270437/pagenum/all/#p2

I liked the article.
The video -

I think that bird is trying to steal the guy's camera.

tsar and osso, Smiling from dem pics. Baby pandas--giant and red. You can't beat that.

I agree with tsar. The boid is after the camera.

osso, I too tear up from Secretariat. That race still moves and excites me. Thanks, kid.

dj: The duck photos are wonderful. So is that snail. Thanks. And Happy Thanksgiving.

Giant anteater: