Gorgeous horses..
I've a few days' worth of SFGate photos to add - bear with me.
"Sometimes you have to bite the end before you can peel it. (Macaque, Kam Shan and Lion Rock Country Parks in Hong Kong.)"
Photo: Antony Dickson / AFP / Getty Images
"It's always a little sad in January when the Christmas tree comes down and is torn to pieces by lions. (Animal enrichment program, Chicago's Brookfield Zoo.)"
Photo: Jim Schulz / Chicago Zoological Society
Here's the one -
"Yet she can stare at a tennis balls for hours: Chaser, a border collie owned by retired experimental psychology professor John Pilley in Spartanburg, S.C., might be the smartest dog in the world. Over the last three years, Pilley has taught her proper names for 1,022 objects, all of which she remembers. Human researchers testing her couldn't match her memory skills and had to label the items in order to recall the names."
Photo: Mark Olenki / AFP/Getty Images
More in a bit.