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@djjd62,

Bob Crane stopped in for a visit today.

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@jcboy,

was Klink driving?

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@Rockhead,

Flying

This bird stops in every now and then looking to eat our lizards, he's not afraid of us at all!

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@jcboy,

Great pic, jc. That bird looks very matter-of-fact. I like that.

Gibbon:

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the yesterdaily B & O

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@djjd62,

the daily B & O

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@djjd62,

Happy Chinese New Year! It's the year of the Dragon. And (while I know our hostess may think it a stretch) your little Bunnies do better than other animals

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@djjd62,

For some reason there are no otters in the Chinese horoscope - they had river otters at some point, they must have killed them all off. Which brings to mind another tragedy, yesterday in Hawaii, a white owl wandered over the airport, having flown down all the way from Alaska, and somebody shot it. Savages!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/science/earth/spike-in-snowy-owl-sightings-stirs-speculation-among-bird-watchers.html

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@jcboy,

Didn't that turn out to be a great egret or am I thinking of another bird? Anyway, this one is very composed.. cute photo.

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@djjd62,

Wish I could have a bunny as a pet. I'm ferociously allergic to them.

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@High Seas,

That hurts just to read about.

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Adelie penguins leap into the water from a blue iceberg on Paulet Island, Antarctica
Picture: Steve Bloom Images / Barcroft Media

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Tiny Adelie penguins burst out of the freezing ocean, clearing heights of up to two metres. The two-foot flightless birds build up speed underwater before propelling themselves onto the ice.
Picture: Steve Bloom Images / Barcroft Media

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Saw a link on boingboing to a video of whales and dolphins seemingly playing with each other--whale with a dolphin lieing on its nose lifts the dolphin out of the water slowly and then the dolphin slides down its nose back into the water, and the whale repeats--not fast, no aggression, the ethologists think it's most likely a form of playing, and ended up at this video--some lovely shots of dolphins and small whales swimming and breaching in unison:

the whale and dolphin playing are one of the links in the also watch section at the end.

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@MontereyJack,

dj, Thanks, as always, for the B&Os. That's one helluva close-up of the B. It's coat looks rough. Not your typical B.

High Seas, Glad to see that bunnies do well for the economy.

Irish, What great penguin pics. For birds that can't fly, they manage to get airborne well enough.

MJ, Thanks for the aquatic mammal video. I've always wondered how dolphins breach in unison. I looks great.

Here's a shot of dolphins playing:

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@MontereyJack,

That was a great video, thanks. Orcas aren't whales, they're dolphins. Their ancestors and ours left the oceans and lived on dry land for millions of years, then they decided to go back to the sea. I don't know why. But even though they and whales look very different from us we're still more closely related with them than we are with most land animals. Will look for a link >
Edit > Found it! The relatives on land took to the waters because the water warmed up (smarter than we are, probably!)

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.....Sea surface temperatures rose between 9 and 14 degrees Fahrenheit (5 and 8 degrees Celsius) over a period of a few thousand years, killing off numerous single-celled marine organisms called foraminifera, along with some other invertebrates. .............

Fish filled in the oceans, food to fuel sharks, which were fast ruling the waters in the absence of the giant mosasaurs and plesiosaurs of the Cretaceous. .......

First Whales

But the biggest development in the seas was the appearance of whales in the mid- to late Paleogene. The huge animals evolved from land mammals that took to the seas.

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/prehistoric-world/paleogene/

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Yup, orcas are dolphins. And whales are whales. Fascinating animals.

You know me. Always on the lookout for a good dog face:

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@Roberta,

That dog needs a hug now.

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A pink flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber), born in captivity ten days ago, is seen at the zoo in Cali January 21, 2012.
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A spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), born in captivity four months ago, is seen with its mother at the zoo in Cali January 21, 2012.

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He really is just the cutest thing!

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A pair of Boreal lynx groom each other on a rocky hilltop at the Cabarceno wildlife park in Villaescusa, Spain...
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@Roberta,

Roberta wrote:

Yup, orcas are dolphins. And whales are whales. Fascinating animals.

Orcas have the most hydrodynamically efficient design. None of our computer models can hope to compete with such perfection. Humbling - and magical:

http://marinebio.org/upload/Orcinus-orca/9.jpg

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