I realize this thread is supposed to deal with "beautiful animals", but I encountered an animal so bizarre-looking today, so grotesquely hideous, that, in its own way it displayed a certain degree of beauty.
I sat on the park bench and studied this creature for a great length of time as I sipped my coffee.
Occasionally I would be distracted by the sound of the passing traffic or a squirrel or duck chattering or honking away, pleading for a tidbit from the popcorn bag which sat by my side.
During these moments I would ignore, or temporarily forget about the hideous, marauding creature, which was busy nosing around in a rotted tree, and I would attend to the animals at my feet.
Only after the squirrel and duck had been sated did I return my gaze to the hideous apparition from the animal kingdom and begin my study anew.
At one point the animal stared at me and our eyes locked for a moment. I could detect confusion in the creature's eyes. It seemed to be trying to grasp its reason for existence, then the light faded from its now-vacant eyes and it went back to nosing around in the rotted log.
I took a quick snapshot with my camera of the beast before it went back to its foraging....
It was fortunate I had film in my camera and was able to offer you people the evidence.
Otherwise, who would have believed such a creature walked among us?
This should have been addressed to littlek. Sorry.
