Beautiful Animals

Papuan Frogmouth


Javan frogmouth


bee eater

there's a lot of pretty birds here

Thanks for understanding, cowdoc. I understand how you feel, too. Sorry I hit a nerve.

caribou, Thanks for glorious pictures and the great link. Love dem boids.

bluethroated bee eater


bluetailed bee eater


chesnut headed bee eater

So many pretty birds. Must stop posting....

snowy browed flycatcher

The Bee Eaters are a beautiful group of birds.

Polar Bear Cub at Brookfield Zoo (Brookfield, Illinois)

Those bee eaters are spectacular. The flycatcher is gorgeous too. Thanks Caribou and Rosborne.

Wande, Now you've gone and done it. It happens once in a while. Someone posts a photo, and my first reaction is I WANT THAT! I'll control myself. Not much room in my apartment for a bear. Love the photo. Thanks.


Mountain lion (puma, cougar) cub:





Baby orangutans:

Oriental fire-bellied toad:





Bighorn sheep:

Thoroughbred horse:





English bulldog puppy:

Chameleon (Madagascar):




Beetle/Weevil (Madagascar):

Beluga Whale

(photo courtesy Shedd Aquarium)
http://www.pdza.org/page.php?id=359

Public premiere
Hippopotamus mother "Debby" is outside for the first time with her one-month old baby "Paul" on Friday in Berlin's zoo. (AFP/Getty photo by Michael Kappeler)/Chicago Tribune

Thanks for the smiling whale, TTh.

Osso, WAAAAAAH. I want Paul. I'll get a grip. Gimme a minute. Thanks for posting that, kiddo. Love it.


I'm still in Madagascar, pictorially speaking.


Red-ruffed lemur:





Hawksbill turtle:

Roberta
The smiling whale is one that was just brought to the zoo where I live. Hopefully
I can find the time to go to the zoo and take pictures of my own.
You are welcome btw


Macaroni Penguin

http://www.tnaqua.org/Animals/Meet_our_animals.asp
http://www.tnaqua.org/Newsroom/Photo_library.asp

Thanks for the macaroni, TTH. What, no cheese?

I spent a considerable amount of time looking for and finding two fairly exotic animals from far-off places. I posted them both. They turned up here as ads. This never happened before. What happened? Dunno.

I'm returning to old standbys.


Melibe (unique kind of sea slug):





Bird of paradise:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igMM5Pg5thc

Thanks for the link, Wilso. I don't get video all that well on my computer, but I did see a beautiful parrot in a very green lush tree moving around. Smiling.

Gazelles (really moving):





Basilisk (Jesus Christ) lizard running across the water:

Elephant swimming (an unusual view):





Bee eaters:

lemur avatar

Thanks, Reg. Love that wide-eyed look.

I don't know if this has been covered here already, because I haven't really looked in on this topic before, but I came upon something you might like, from a completely different direction. There's an orchestra in Thailand made up entirely of elephants, who play instruments made especially for them, which I found really moving. Someone described it as kind of a spacy gamelan. It's been called the first interspecies music.

Here's a link to a National Geographic special on Thai elephants and their precarious position in modern Thai culture. Click on the titles to hear mp3s of a couple of their songs

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0510/feature5/audio.html