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Arella Mae, I forgot to mention that some baboon troops live in urban areas--in India, I believe. They break into apartments, raid street vendors, and steal from stores. They've got the whole human thing down.

Muskox and calf:

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@Roberta,

Roberta wrote:

Arella Mae, I forgot to mention that some baboon troops live in urban areas--in India, I believe. They break into apartments, raid street vendors, and steal from stores. They've got the whole human thing down.

Arella Mae, Oops. Embarrassed

I'm now having doubts that the monkeys I was thinking about are baboons.

They're not. They're langurs. Urban dwellers:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T45LUMHA9jo/Sc4S7goHisI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/MwhleSPNIlg/S660/angeli+008.jpg

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@Roberta,

Roberta wrote:

Look at that body language! Wow! That muskox is beautiful and I love dem monkeys no matter what kind.

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@tsarstepan,

I think the snow leopard is in a zoo, Tsar.

Here's a group of photos (was going to post only the one), but since they tell a story...

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/01/06/article-0-0CA9D9B6000005DC-633_634x417.jpg

The Koehler family had been driving around the Georgia wildlife park when they spotted the zebra and rolled down a window to say hello take a snapshot

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/01/06/article-0-0CA9DA1A000005DC-358_634x414.jpg

As the family greeted the animal he leaned into the car with his whole head

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/01/06/article-0-0CA9DA43000005DC-193_634x460.jpg

Fancy a kiss? Irina's husband didn't, and leaned as far away from the toothy zebra as possible when the animal gave a toothy grin for the photo.

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What???

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Wary: Lion cub Mohlatsi and tiger cub Tigger have taken to herding the flock of sheep at the Ranch Hotel, in the Limpopo Province in South Africa.

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Kings of the jungle: However, the two young big cats are as scared of the sheep as the sheep are of them.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/01/07/article-1345070-0CACF46D000005DC-583_634x411.jpg

The cute cubs have taken to chasing after the sheep on their ranch and rounding them up in a style akin to One Man and his Dog.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/01/07/article-1345070-0CACF498000005DC-855_634x528.jpg

The white lion, a four-month-old named Mohlatsi, lives at the Ranch Hotel, in the Limpopo Province in South Africa.

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@Irishk,

Irish, The zebra sequence is priceless. And I can hear it now at the 2011 Westminster Dog Show: "And in the herding group, we've got the Old English Sheepdog, the German Shepherd, and a Lion. A lion? That can't be right." Great to see those two little felines working the herd. Thanks, kid.

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the daily B & O

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bad hare day

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please sir, can i have some more

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doves on the deck

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early morning birds in the bushes

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The San Diego Zoo's first baby of the year, a satanic leaf-tailed gecko born on January 1, crawls on a keeper's finger.

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@Irishk,

Irishk wrote:

a satanic leaf-tailed gecko

he is a cute little devil Wink

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The cute little creature in the picture above is an ermine, also known as a stoat and the short tailed weasel. The beautiful coloring of this relative of otters, mink and wolverines is the ermine’s summer coat. The ermine’s coat changes to a thick warm all white coat in the winter. The only part of the ermine’s coat to not change color is the very tip of its tail, which remains black.

http://bolt.lakeheadu.ca/~borfor/zoo/ermine.jpg

http://allthecreatures.org/wp-content/uploads/ermine_in_winter.jpg

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@firefly,

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We have a local Seahorse farm where this picture was taken.

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Pepe the spider monkey. The black spider monkey was orphaned at three days old when its mother was killed by poachers who hunt the species as their meat is considered a delicacy. Pictured at an animal sanctuary in the heart of the Amazon basin in Bolivia. Photograph: Roy Mangersnes/Rex Features

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@Irishk,

He is singing............Ooooooooooooooooklahoma, where the wind goes sweeping down the plains!

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@Arella Mae,

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http://blogs.discovery.com/.a/6a00d8341bf67c53ef0147e184dc71970b-800wi

It turns out that the bright white plumage of snowy owls is not just for show. In fact, it is a warning signal that tells rival birds to back off, according to recent findings in the International Journal of Avian Science.

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http://blogs.discovery.com/.a/6a00d8341bf67c53ef0147e184dde7970b-800wi

Over 10 winters, researchers from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and the Museum of Natural Sciences in Spain watched the behavior of snowy owls and learned that owls with the whitest feathers reflected the brightest signals over long distances to protect their territories.

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http://blogs.discovery.com/.a/6a00d8341bf67c53ef0148c78e4253970c-800wi

Researchers observed owls rotating their bodies to face the sun from their perches. Whiter birds maximized their signals from the snow-covered ground, while spotted white owls kept a higher perch.

“The birds constantly shift throughout the day and even change the height of their perch depending on the sun,” explained lead researcher Gary Bortolotti.
Photo Credits: Alan Carey/Corbis | Barrett & MacKay/All Canada Photos/Corbis | iStockphoto/Thinkstock |

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http://blogs.discovery.com/.a/6a00d8341bf67c53ef0148c7853e02970c-800wi

One of the largest and most powerful predatory birds in the Americas has returned to Belize for the first time in over 60 years. Scientists recently confirmed the sighting of a Harpy eagle nest in the Maya Mountains with as many as five birds, in an area where the birds had become extinct due to human activity. Photo Credit: Gary Vestal/Getty Images

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