Beautiful Animals

the daily B & O

Thanku HH - I think I had my 18-70 and about maybe 10-12" away.


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shoot raw and compress conversion to jpg to make small. Have lost the card of the shots S-boy took - but it has to be here somewhere. Were both able to hold this and the other beautiful boids - up close and personal.





and... I'd like to introduce my new wannabe tripod... he's called DASHER!










yes... this little fella only has 3 legs... he broke one when he slipped on the ice and it had to be removed - he wanted to come home with us.. but they wanted to keep him Gawjuss fella followed us all day.









((Boida))

That last picture! Oh my, look at them BOTH smiling! Beautiful.

baby Galapagos tortoise

Wondrous pics, Iz.

MJ, Be still my heart. Look at that little guy. And think, in just 100 years or so, he'll be as big as his dad.

I hope you enjoy these baby pictures, Roberta (because if I let on that I saw a fawn and didn't have my camera you'll kill me...oops!)

the girl from the north on the intertubes

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Via the New York Aquarium, which writes:

Come meet Tazo, an orphaned northern sea otter found stranded last summer in Alaska, nursed to health at the aquarium, and now on exhibit at Sea Cliffs, where he’s clearly enjoying being the center of attention.

So many good photos recently. Izzie, you have gone above and beyond.. so great.
Tai, lovely..
Da bunnies and da otters, thumpers.

You're not on my hit list, Tai. Love the rural fields and fauna. Thanks mucho. Fawn shmawn.

dj, Another winning B&O. As cute as that bunny is, the otter is supoib. Did you see the way he dove into the water without making a splash? Smooth as silk. Thanks, kid.

Glad to see that the posts today are a family activity.

Another family post:

Morning New York....

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Heidi the cross-eyed opossum is pictured in her enclosure at the zoo in Leipzig, eastern Germany on June 9, 2011. Heidi moved to her new enclosure at the Gondwanaland tropical experience world, which will be inaugurated on July 1, 2011 and where Heidi will be presented to the public for the first time. Cross-eyed Heidi made the headlines in December 2010 and became an internet hit, winning more than 65,000 "friends" on social networking website Facebook.

Heidi is just adorable!

Miss Roberta, who knew animals sit for family portraints!

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A seven-month-old yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus) carries a Galagos, also known as a bushbaby, at the Animal Orphanage in the Kenya Wildlife Service headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. Defying nature, the baboon, which rescued in Maralal (northern Kenya) has adopted the Galagos, after meeting at the orphanage, giving it affection and protection as if it were her own offspring. Yellow baboons inhabits savannas and light forests in the eastern Africa while Galagos are small, nocturnal primates native to continental Africa.

Mac, an orphaned coatimundi, is hand-reared and prepared for life with his real family - with the help of a stuffed toy. Tiny Mac is having to be bottle-fed up by staff at Porfell Wildlife Park, near Liskeard, Cornwall, after being abandoned at birth by his mother. Mac is slowly being weaned off milk and within another six weeks could be living full-time with his other four family members at the park. In the meantime he is living with the next best thing, a toy coatimundi to help with his familiarisation. The coatimundi, native to South America and noted for its distinctive ring-tail, lives on the ground and in trees primarily eating fruit, invertebrates, other small animals and birds' eggs.

re the daily B:
why is the black rabbit plugged in to the electric socket on the wall?

Thanks, gang, for the wonderful pix. Too tired to mention them each, but I looked at them all and enjoyed.

Eastern lowland gorilla (the world's largest primate):

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dj. I'm sincerely liking this bunny's do. The otter pic is special. Not sure why. It just is. Thanks, kid.

Mustang paint (as the caption says). Wow (as I says):