Beautiful Animals

Give this guy a PBS Kids television show to host PRONTO!!

????? People wash windows ???

ha... not moi, Irish and lo !!!!!!

Heck, don't even clean my lenses... nasty spots all over them, leave alone the windy's

nem'mind - love dem boids!

Cute and meaningful

Whoa! That sure puts you in perspective about a giraffe's size!

Hingehead, Fine looking owl--with some 'tude.

Arella Mae, Giraffes are tall. No getting away from it.

Slow loris:

Oh I do love the little slow loris. I wonder why they call them slow? I guess I should look them up and see how fast they can move. Isn't he the most innocent looing little guy?

Lion cubs--tres cute:

They are not all cutie pie, I've read. (sorry, no link)

Osso, True, they can be a little strange looking. I wasn't in the mood for strange.

I remember reading yesterday or the day before that they were on a list of animals that seemed cute but could be dangerous to interact with..

I just OD'd on cutness! How absolutely precious those babies are!

Interacting with any wild animal can be risky. Even the little ones. Are you talking specifically about lorises?

I was in need of a little comfort. I decided to Google puppies and see what turned up. Now I've got spots before my eyes. It's always something.

Something happened to the picture I posted. Here's another one:

Remember efforts to design flying machines operating on the hummingbird and bumblebee aerodynamic principles, ie using viscosity of the air which only becomes important at these tiny scales? New discoveries in UAV testing now show that falcons got thermals right and glider pilots got them wrong.


http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26103/?ref=rss
Ref. graph: approach taught and practiced by glider pilots (which you have to learn in case you lose engine power and unwittingly become a glider pilot whether you wanted to or not) is the one on the left. Birds however use the vastly superior technique on the right. Newfound sense of humility here

I thought the meerkats were real at first...I LOL'd!

A great tit perches on a pair of ornamental stone meerkats in the snow in Dollar, Clackmanshire, Scotland.
Picture: Central Scotland News Agency/Jan Van Der Merwe

Yes, so I'll go look it up.

Researchers dressed in panda costumes check the body temperature of a panda cub during its physical examination at the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Centre for the Giant Panda in Wolong National Nature Reserve, Sichuan province, China. The four-month old cub is the first in the centre to be trained for reintroduction into the wild. Researchers performing physical examinations on the cub wear panda costumes to ensure that the cub's environment is devoid of human influence...
Picture: REUTERS

...A researcher wearing a panda costume puts the four-month-old panda cub into a box for a physical exam at Wolong Giant Panda Reserve Centre in Wolong, China. The cub is the world's first panda born to a captive panda returned to the wild. All researchers were dressed up to ensure that the cub would not see a human being during the process.
Picture: EPA