Beautiful Animals

the daily B & O (aka bunny on a leash and a lotta otta's)

Where was this picture taken from? Is there another cliff above this one?

NYT Magazine says it's Pulpit Rock in Norway. Scary, huh? I'd enjoy the view from the middle...staying away from the edge.

Meanwhile in Colombia...

A surrogate cat mother carries a Colombian Tigrillo or Margay (Leopardus wiedii) cub of about nine days old, found in a rural area south of Medellín and taken to the Animal Welfare Foundation, in Medellin, Antionquia department, Colombia. The Margay, similar to an ocelot, is a spotted cat native to Central and South America.
Picture: RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP/Getty Images

Song going through my head?

"There's no egrets, no tears goodbye"

In my mind no animals were harmed - but there was no additional info on this shot.

Fabulous shots! I have it on good authority that birds have awesome air brakes!

Oh!!

Plop..

Great to see, Walter. I don't think I've ever seen a stork. Maybe at a zoo, but I don't remember it if so, and I've been to one very good zoo (and some I might take to task) so maybe it isn't the zoos' fault but my memory.

Wonderful photo.

second reply - did you take that photo, Walter? I'm wondering what you think when you see storks. They strike me a bit as 'funny', in a nice way, sort of gawky.
The bigger birds I've seen around and about are various types of herons and egrets. My first thoughts about them have something to do with the word 'beauty', although night herons when they're not all stretched out might more fit the word 'stolid'.

Oh, and pelicans and cormorants - I don't remember what I used to think about them past saying to myself, 'pelicans!' (or, 'cormorants!') happily.

I almost have vertigo looking at the photo. Thanks for posting that, HS and Didge - I avoid clicking on the NYT to keep my clicks down to 20 a month.

Vertigo is probably an interesting subject, which I'll make myself avoid tangenting on about in this thread.

dj, Good to know that there are some wild turkeys out there. Thanks for the pics. You're a prince. And you continue your princely ways with today's B&O. That bunny is adorable. And a multitude of otters.

High Seas, Remembering the dramatic, spectacular scenery in Norway. My camera went off by accident, and I got a good picture. Don't get me started on Norway. Or meshuginas picnicking on cliffs.

Arella Mae, I love gibbons. It breaks my heart (the one with the cockles) to know how few are left. Wonderul faces, wonderful pics. Thanks, kid. I appreciate the thud alert. Definitely a thud-worthy baby bear. You'd think by now I'd have built up my anti-thudding abilities. Some kinda immunity. But no.

Walter, That's a great pic of them big birds. And if they like wet, tell 'em to fly over here. All we've got is wet.

Irish, Glad the baby found someone to care for it. Two cuties for the price of one. Hey, it's free.

hingie, I have a request. If it's possible (and I know that a lot of the time it isn't possible), would you let us know what kind of animal we're looking at? I'd be grateful

OK, I recognize the crocodile, and you mentioned an egret. That's a helluva picture. In a woid, wow. I wonder how long the photographer had to sit around and wait for that to happen. I very much line the looks of that lizared. What is it? Okay, so I know it's a blue bird, but is it a bluebird? Don't think so. Love the punkey hairdo. Llama or alpaca? Gorgeous picture. Takes my breath away, and I don't have that much in the way of breath.

Oiban boids. The birds I see have adapted to the harsh environment of the city. They've figured out traffic. Where good places are to get food. They've found places to live that aren't trees. I remember the first time I saw a pigeon in a tree. It looked wrong. Lots of people don't like pigeons. I ain't one of them:



I don't see sparrows nearly as often as I hear them--choiping loud enough to be heard above the traffic noise:

Hi Boida

I actually found these pics last week and rather than flood the boards with them I had them all opened as images in new tabs, without the explanations (not that most them had explanations) but the lizard did but I forgot what it was! Will try and find it again. The site gets literally hundreds of new photos every day and going back through them is nigh impossible.

Hi Boida

Well that bought out the librarian in me - the site where I found it had 160+ photos tagged with Lizard, most of them brilliant but none of them that lizard. So I went to the site the photographer watermarked into the picture: http://www.thegardensofeden.org/ well worth a look, he does some amazing stuff.

Anyway hiding in his 71 lizard shots was the answer!

Corucia zebrata - Solomon Island Prehensile Tailed Skink (Monkey Tail Skink)

hinge, Thanks for your determination. That's a skink? I've seen skinks. I don't remember them looking like that.

I will check out the site.

They are skinks apparently
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Islands_skink

Can get t0 32 inches long (yikes) are herbivorous and are one of the few reptiles to work in social groups.

Looks like skinks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scincidae) are a pretty broad church and our friend is the only species in his/her genus.