Beautiful Animals

Love the bear and cat..


It smells like a pig sty here! Good thing we wore our gas masks. (Binti the Red River Hog and her piglets at the Kansas City Zoo.)
Photo: Keith Myers / Associated Press / via sfgate

Oops, hadn't seen Seal and Penguin!

Dem piglets is mighty cute, osso. Thanks for the pic.

Missing our B&O. Threw in a D just for the hell of it.

Another gorgeous sea slug:

I can't see the "lonesome" picture but love dem otter babies.

I loved this photo of many baby bears (quadruplets!) with their very large mama:

Love these faces.

soz, I deleted the post with the lonesome picture. You can't take pictures from flickr. Went back for another pic. Then I got fed up. Not lonesome now anyway.

Dat's on big mama bear. And she's got her paws full with four babies, who are mighty cute. Muchas gracias.

firefly, What's not to love. Wonderful pic. Thanks.

Carly M745, 332nd Expeditionary Security Forces Group K-9 waits in the animal clinic during a canine blood drive at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. Just like humans, this life saving contribution can be used for another K-9 of the same blood type when needed. Military working dogs at JBB have their blood tested prior to being used as a donor to ensure they are ideal donors and for blood typing. Carly and his handler, Security Forces Senior Airman Michael McCabe are deployed to JBB from the 87th Security Forces Squadron at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., and have been working with each other since June 2009.


G'night....

Too cute!

A gosling hunts for something edible during a rain shower at Fancher-Davidge Park in Middletown, N.Y.
Photo: Tom Bushey / Associated Press / via sfgate

Barry, I gotta tell ya, kid, dem military dawgs is either gawgeous or cute. I love 'em. Thanks for the pics. And the info. Never thought about canine transfusions.

osso, The gosling looks just a tad overeager. Very very cute and fuzzy. Thanks, kid.

Coconut octopus:

Soze, love the bear family portrait!

Osso, the gosling is truly a lonely hunter! Too cute!


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tsar, That's one cutie-pie pig. Thanks, kid.

Calf:

Royal antelope in a photo dated 5-10-12.(Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Zoo)


Buff-cheeked gibbon mom and baby in a photo dated 5-1-12.(Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Zoo)


Yellow-footed rock wallaby & joey in a photo dated 9-11-10.(Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Zoo)

firefly, Wonderful, wonderful, and wonderful. Such beauties. Such cuteness. All thud-worthy. Thanks, mucho.

Deep sea jellyfish:

Oh, hi. We were just, uh ... hugging: A quarantined black bear cub bites the throat of plays with his plush otter at the Oregon Zoo in Portland.
Photo: Carli Davidson / Associated Press / via sfgate




Please don't lock us up with bears! News of the Oregon Zoo's unusual bear-otter quarantine spreads to Prospect Park Zoo in New York.
Photo: Julie Larsen Maher / Associated Press / sfgate

Love that playful black bear cub, osso!

These 3 made me laugh.
So serious!


Four-week-old Florida burrowing owlets stand in their nest at a park in Miami, Florida.
Photograph: Rhona Wise/Reuters

Has anyone noticed how many of these beautiful wild animals are in zoos. Soooooo sad.

Yes, it is sad.
I'm not crazy about zoos, either.
I'd much prefer watching a David Attenborough documentary, than seeing wild animals in a zoo.
But unfortunately, the reality for quite a number of endangered species, zoos in some countries appear to be the safest place for them ... for a variety of reasons including vanishing habitat, or predatory human activities, like hunting & killing elephants for ivory ....
This friendly looking critter ( ), the Tasmanian Devil, is close to extinction due to a mysterious form of cancer, which scientists have been trying identify & treat. So far with no success.
Unfortunately most of the very few remaining Tasmanian Devils seem to be safest bred in captivity.


A 14-month-old tasmanian devil bares its teeth at Devil Ark in the Barrington Tops area of Australia's New South Wales state. At Devil Ark situated deep in eastern Australia's cattle and thoroughbred country, a group of endangered tasmanian devils are being taught to forage in the wild as researchers race a contagious cancer threatening the species with extinction.
Photograph: Greg Wood/AFP/Getty Images