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Beautiful Animals

 
 
Roberta
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 01:16 pm
Izzie, The eagle is a doozy pic. And thanks for the link. Love the lions at the water hole.

Francis, Truly beautiful horse. Thanks, kid.

Irish, Where do you find this stuff? Love those adolescent bears. A fight and a hug. Wonderful shot.

ossobuco
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 04:09 pm
"Not quite long enough: A mara tries to lick off the snow on its nose at the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg. The mara is a cousin of the guinea pig."
Photo: Malte Christians / AFP / Getty Images, via San Francisco Chronicle

http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2010/12/03/ba-GERMANY-WEATH_0502652817.jpg


another -
"Snow ponies: Konik horses nip at each other as they romp in Holland's Oostvaardersplassen nature reserve in Lelystad."
Photo: Sander Koning / AFP / Getty Images

http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2010/12/03/ba-NETHERLANDS-A_0502648326.jpg
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littlek
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 05:04 pm
@Roberta,
I think (rechecking) that the bird is an osprey.
High Seas
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 06:15 pm
@Izzie,
Izzie wrote:

How does a photographer shoot this...

That photographer spent 8 months, from dawn to dusk, semisubmerged in a drinking hole with only his face and his camera above the waterline. But then one day, just before sundown, a lioness arrived, very thirsty, looked at the camera suspiciously, decided to ignore it - and him - and started lapping:
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/500x_ftf_lion.jpg
High Seas
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 06:21 pm
@High Seas,
Another very great photographer, Robert Clark, needed 3 days to convince those 2 to stand close together and look at the camera so he could take the cover photo for the classic National Geographic article "From Wolf to Woof: 14,000 Years of Evolution". The wolfie, Koda, is very friendly - but it seems the Maltese took some convincing: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2002/01/01/html/pv_20020101.1.html
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2002/01/01/point_of_view/images/pv_main_20020101.1.jpg
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 06:33 pm
@High Seas,
It sounds like the wolf was made anxious by that sinister and potentially monstrous Maltese! I can't blame him! Look at the evil emanating from the Maltese's eyes! Twisted Evil
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Roberta
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 06:36 pm
osso, Those are glorious pictures, wonderful faces. Thanks, kid.

littlek, You could be right. I looked at the whadya call it--the thing you copy to post a picture. It says eagle. But those things are not always reliable. I'll take your word for it.

High Seas, Amazing photos. I've said it before on this thread, but it bears repeating, those wildlife photographers are nuts. But I'm grateful to them. Not surprised that the little dog was reluctant. I'm enamored of that wolf.

Rattlesnakes mating:

http://www.wildlifemanagementpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/rattlesnakes-breeding-04.jpg
High Seas
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 06:45 pm
@Roberta,
For the record, the lioness picture came from Izzie's link to which I was responding. This is another stunner from the same link (photos, Greg du Toit):
http://cache-05.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/500x_lionsgreg.jpg
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Izzie
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 06:46 pm
@littlek,
thru the window <scuse the reflections>

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Izzie
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 06:47 pm
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Izzie
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 06:47 pm
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Izzie
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 06:48 pm
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can yer tell I was thinking about yer Boida Wink x
ossobuco
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 07:12 pm
Loved that dotty bird - don't know what it is. Well, I liked every bird photo..
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 07:14 pm
@Izzie,
You run a very successful bird seed themed restaurant there Izzie. I hope your customers tip well. Very Happy

All great shots! Very Happy
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Izzie
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 07:26 pm
@ossobuco,
Hey Osso...

Sturnus Vulgaris Shocked

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/s/starling/index.aspx

I think he was rather lovely too - unusual for them to land on feeders, they're pretty big, I think it's been so cold they will eat anything right now - he's still moulting, eventually he will look like this...

http://www.rspb.org.uk/images/cache/fstar180_tcm9-225085_v1.jpg



Hey Tsar... yep, tip's are priceless... peace for a couple hours whilst I just look thru a lens... don't hear a sound. Priceless. Thanku.

Would be a lot clearer if I wasn't shooting thru murky windows... but hey ho, them's the choices right now Very Happy
Roberta
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 11:03 pm
Omigod. I'm ODing on BBs (beautiful boids). How lucky you are, Izzie, to have these animals on your property. How lucky we are that you take such wonderful pics and are kind enough to share them with us.

I'm aswoon.
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Roberta
 
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Reply Sun 5 Dec, 2010 05:35 am
Bespectacled bear:

http://sites.google.com/site/savebearsnow/large-Spectacled-bear-male.jpg
Arella Mae
 
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Reply Sun 5 Dec, 2010 12:33 pm
@Roberta,
I doubt it was a fullbred wolf. I'm thinking it was a white german shepherd/wolf. I do know there are people around here that have some. It's a beautiful animal.
High Seas
 
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Reply Sun 5 Dec, 2010 01:05 pm
@Arella Mae,
It's a wolf all right. My family and I have kept Siberian Huskies since my grandfather was a young man - and I've seen lots of wolves, the closest relatives to Siberians. That's an Arctic wolf and not a hybrid - and I've seen lots of hybrids as well, being terminally opposed to such "creations" ruining breeds.
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Irishk
 
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Reply Sun 5 Dec, 2010 01:26 pm
@Izzie,
Love the bird photos!! Wouldn't have known they were taken through a window...unlike me, you obviously wash yours lol.
 

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