Beautiful Animals

dj, The bunnies never fail. Always cute. That is an especially fine otter pic. Beautiful lines, wonderful detail. Did you stop taking pictures? I hope not.

Baby black rhino eating its veggies:

nothing to exciting to photograph lately, but when there is you'll be the first to know

Well, you'll be the first to know. I don't mind waiting my turn.

Like okapis aren't rare enough. I was determined to find a picture of a baby okapi. Got one.

Cute!

Baby gibbon and mom. I am a gibbon fan (quel surprise). They are classified as lesser apes. But I don't see anything lesser about them, except for their size.



I've been posting pictures of babies in honor of the new year (babies have been a symbol of the new year). I'm done.

I think.

Maybe.

the daily B & O
in keeping with the baby theme, a video baby otter

Bison (very large; an adult male can weigh a ton or more):

Black-tailed prairie dogs:

More baby pictures...





March 03, 2010
Rare Bonobo Baby Born at Colombus Zoo & Aquarium
A baby Bonobo was born at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium monday afternoon as Zoo volunteers and staff who have been conducting around the clock observations since February 17 watched via surveillance camera. This is the eleventh bonobo born at the Columbus Zoo since the Zoo received its first bonobos in 1990 in conjunction with the Species Survival Plan (SSP) for this endangered ape.



October 31, 2010
Feisty Mongoose Pups Pop into Central Park
The Wildlife Conservation Society's Central Park Zoo welcomed four Banded Mongoose pups this month and they have just been moved to the Tropic Zone where the public can enjoy their playful antics. The rambunctious babies' rough-housing mimics the boldness adult mongooses are famous for. Banded Mongooses live in groups of up to 70 individuals and multiple females will often give birth to their litters on the exact same day.




December 30, 2010

Denver Zoo is thrilled to announce the birth of a male De Brazza's Monkey named Kanoa! He was born to mother, Marinda and father, Kisoro, on November 27. This is the second birth for Kisoro, who came to Denver Zoo after being rescued from a black market in the Congo. Like his sister Kanani, born December 19, 2009, Kanoa is described as very independent and precocious despite his mother's early attempts to be protective. This makes his name all the more appropriate. "Kanoa" is Hawaiian for "free one."

Action packed cell phone video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KImOLDkSQZM&feature=player_embedded

firefly and tsar, I'm overwhelmed. Get the smelling sal . . . . . . .

Thud.

'Action-packed', indeed

'Tis the year of the rabbit...I'm finding lots of photos

Zoo owner Manny Tangco holds up a rabbit and a tiger cub at the Malabon Zoo in the Philippines to illustrate the shift from the Year of the Tiger to the Year of the Rabbit. China and many other parts of Asia will celebrate the start of the Year of the Rabbit at Lunar New Year in early February 2011, in accordance with the Chinese calendar.
Picture: AFP/GETTY

Loved the otter video (of course I did!)

Do you recognize the music, djjd?

That last giraffe photo is soooo elegant.

The first mongoose photo - love that mongoose's coat.

A dog barks from a porthole on the side of a ship on the Yenisei River in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. The temperature dropped to minus 30 degrees Celsius
Picture: REUTERS

Crows sit on buffaloes at a dairy farm on the outskirts of Gauhati, India.
Picture: AP

Oh, my.

Be still, my heart:

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! Miss Roberta fainted from an overdose of cuteness!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love animals, I do, but I never forgot experience in the Orinoco, eastern Venezuela oil basin - the whole damn place is jungle lying over some kind of tar; not like Canadian tar sands, only sulphur-stinky tar, very hard to refine. It's full of cockroaches the size of rats and rats the size of sheep. Being told that the ratty monsters actually had a name didn't help. Windows without glass, without screens, without as much as a curtain - standard in the tropics, even in 5-star hotels - didn't help until I finally took to having the security detail check my room for half an hour before I got in and pour bottles of Lysol down all the bathroom drains as well as place mosquito nets drenched with ditto over all the windows and bedroom doors. Love your prairie ratties, I do, but as long as they stay in the prairies and we stay indoors they're fine. Sorry for this outburst - I know we got bedbugs in Manhattan, but our rats have the brains to stay in the sewers and bugs don't come in if nobody ever leaves a single crumb lying about outside the refrigerator. Sorry again, just came back from a long trip and doorman said a bug had been seen in the laundry room downstairs - doorman is from Somalia so if he says a bug he means no small thingie. Thanks for letting me post on your thread, and wishing a very Happy New Year 2011 to all