Beautiful Animals

@snood,

snood, Giant anteaters are spectacular looking animals. Thanks for the great pic.

Jacob sheep. A rare and ancient breed. These sheep can have from two to six horns. Four are most common. In addition to wool and meat, these sheep are used as protection animals and as pets.

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/40907331.jpg

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A pair of weaver birds flutter near their nests in Kathmandu, Nepal. Weavers are related to finches, and are one of the 868 species of bird found in Nepal. The country's diverse topography and climate is home to more than 10% of the world's bird species.
Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images

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@msolga,

Spectacular picture, olga. Love dem weaver boids.

Red river hogs, sow and piglets:

http://blogs.ublabs.org/crittercorner/files/2010/05/Red-River-Hogs_Stew.jpg

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@snood,

That anteater is beautiful!

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http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/182306_10151627565189237_743735051_n.jpg

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Speaking of prehistoric a page back, I saw one of these the other day.

http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://www.answersingenesis.org/assets/images/articles/zoo/armadillo.jpg&sa=X&ei=kkLqT8nHOYjf0QH8u-i1AQ&ved=0CAsQ8wc4YA&usg=AFQjCNGsrYWuTXRZN0Q0XLt2WceWA32wFA

I was in Round Rock, which is North of Austin, and this fellow was in the middle of a really nice housing development, going from bush to bush, rooting around.

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@chai2,

Phoenix, Too cute. Can I have one of those cakes? Please.

Chai, An armadillo. Definitely prehistoric looking. I petted an armadillo once at a Bronx Zoo membership meeting. It was smooth and waxy. This was the same night I petted a boa contrictor. Smooth and cool. Not waxy. It looked kinda like this:

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@chai2,

I have seen numerous armadillos in the woods. They are about the dumbest animals around. I was practically on top of one of them, and he just kept rooting, totally oblivious to my presence.

I am surprised that they are not preyed upon until extinction, blithely unaware that their lives are at stake.

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@Phoenix32890,

Phoenix, according to Wikipedia, armadillos in the US of A have few natural predators. Maybe the one you saw didn't view you as a threat.

Pink fairy armadillo. The caption for this said, "Half hamster, half brontosaur." This particular species is very rare, quite small, and found only in Argentina. Very little is known about them.

http://www.listoid.com/image/18/list_2_18_20101105_074238_109.jpg

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The Mexican axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanus) albino, which is critically endangered according to the IUCN red list.
Photograph: Stephen Dalton/NPL/Pestival

Axolotls:
http://www.axolotl.org/

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Roberta, if I can't get reincarnated as an otter, a dog, or a cat then I would love to come back as a pink fairy armadillo! Thanks very much for the introduction! Very Happy

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http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/content/csm-photo-galleries-images/in-pictures-images/2012/06/lonesome-george/01/12946144-1-eng-US/01_full_600x400.jpg

Quote:

Lonesome George, the last remaining tortoise of his kind and a conservation icon, died Sunday of unknown causes. He lived at the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador. He is estimated to be about 100 years old.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Lonesome-George-iconic-Galapagos-tortoise-dies

George, I hardly knew ye. Wish I knew of you before your passing away.

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@tsarstepan,

olga, I've seen pictures of this animal before. Amazing. Thanks, kid.

tsar, I couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw that pink fairy armadillo. Astonishing and bizarre.

I'm sorry about the passing of Lonesome George. The last of a species. Sad.

A bryozoan called Lophopodella carteri

http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/animal_images/bry1.jpg

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Colony of bacteria (sorry, I don't know what kind):

http://seedmagazine.com/images/uploads/Porfolio_Colonial_HS.jpg

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Piglet:

http://img.izismile.com/img/img5/20120118/640/cute_animals_640_01.jpg

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http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/content/csm-photo-galleries-images/photos-of-the-day-images/2012/0627/05/12983420-1-eng-US/05_full_600x400.jpg

http://www.csmonitor.com/Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2012/Photos-of-the-day-06-27/%28photo%29/513416

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A penguin named Mr. Munro leaves its footprints on a white canvas at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. Keepers at the zoo have been collecting the footprints of almost 4,000 animals to pledge their support for wildlife.

Daniel Munoz/Reuters

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http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/6/22/1340369162862/Korean-paradise-flycatche-029.jpg

A Korean paradise flycatcher in South Korea's eastern port city of Gangneung. The bird has been put on the red list of threatened species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The migrant bird typically inhabits Korea's southern parts in the summer, but has been found further north in recent years apparently due to global warming.
Photograph: YONHAPNEWS/EPA

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@msolga,

MsOlga, what blue eyes that bird has!
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http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/content/01add0622/12938046-1-eng-US/01add0622_full_600x400.jpg

http://www.csmonitor.com/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Animal-of-the-day/%28photo%29/510782

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An albino baby Bennett's wallaby is carried by his mother in their enclosure at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany, June 22.

Ina Fassbender/Reuters

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@tsarstepan,

tsar, I'm glad that Mr. Munroe is making his contribution to posterity. That joey looks big. And white. Thanks for the pics.

Olga, Stunner of a bird. I'm amazed it can get off the ground with a tail that size.

Inch worm inching:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bzfAJEKj9jE/SgopG5boLNI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/NGVQqgmjSWw/s320/inchworm-741207.jpg

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Some boids...

Plumed Whistling Ducks

http://www.ltanimalpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Greater-Curassow-300x262.jpg

Great Curassow

Harpy Eagle

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@firefly,

Some gawgeous boids, firefly.

I've never seen plumed whistling ducks. Great looking. I'm familiar with the other two. Also great to see. I believe that the harpy eagle is the largest in the world. I saw a film about harpy eagles. Amazing to see them soaring above, around, and through the canopy of the South American rain forest.

PS: I saw the duck before the picture disappeared.

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