Beautiful Animals

What a sweetie!

Oh, look! He sliced that drive!

A chocoholic! I can relate...

This is a giant gourami that staff at Sea Life London Aquarium have weaned off chocolate. Staff at the aquarium were baffled by the 8.8lb (4kg) fish's refusal to feed, until they learned the gourami, named Gary, 15.7in (40cm) long, had been brought up on chocolate. So the team stuffed crushed Kit Kat pieces inside grapes to get Gary to 'take a break' from his daily fix.
Picture: Sea Life London Aquarium/PA

A sea lion winks at Sunshine Aquarium in Tokyo during a press preview. The newly refurbished aquarium will reopen on Thursday.
Picture: AP

A stag stands in a neck-high field of canola north of Cremona, Alberta, Canada.
Picture: AP

Is that what we call a "peek a boo?"

love that stag pic

the daily B & O (actually the B looks more nightly)

awesome O.

that tube looks mighty comfortable

At first glance I thought he was getting an MRI LOL!

tsar, I was looking at pictures of baby giraffes yesterday. Cute, cute. I was watching them try to stand up for the first time. Not easy. Some time back, I saw a film of a giragge being born. The mother gives birth standing up. That's a helluva long way down for a new kid.

olga, That squirrel has the best view. A for free.

Irish, A gourami with a sweet tooth. Go figure. Some people might think that sea lion is winking. I say it's got something in its eye. The deer in the field is an amazing shot. The head/face looks a little goofy to me (the eyes). Maybe he was just surprised at the photographer being there.

dj, Is that a bunny? Hard to see. Love the otter in the tube. Talk about relaxed.

Ok, the otter is hilarious and wonderful just being him or herself.

Not to bring up Ring of Bright Water yet again, but I don't think I can take proper care of an otter here in sandland. Tempting though.

Red-shafted northern flicker:

That flicker is gorgeous.

Nayana, a 5-week-old Sri Lankan leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya) cub, looks out of a pail as she is being weighed during a medical examination by veterinary surgeons at Bratislava Zoo July 28, 2011. Nanyana and her sister Nimali were presented to the media for the first time on Thursday.
Reuters Pictures

In this Thursday, July 28, 2011 picture provided the the Virginia Zoo, a worker holds a newly-born giraffe as it is weighed for the first time at the zoo in Norfolk, Va. Zoo officials say a baby giraffe can be as much as 6 feet tall and weigh about 150 pounds. They also can walk within an hour of birth and will begin eating leaves at about 4 months.
AP Photo

Ruff (Philomachus pugnax) male in breeding plumage at lek, Norway.
Photo: Werner Bollmann/Oxford Scientific (OSF)

Orphaned orangutans at Sepilok Reserve, Borneo
Photo: Frans Lanting/Corbis

cool, Bucket O' Leopard, where can i get some