Beautiful Animals

Size isn't all that crucial for movement thru dense underbrush. I've seen elk and moose with full racks go thru bush that is all but inpenetrable for humans.

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osso, Thanks for the greyhound pic. I know about prison programs where inmates work with dogs. Didn't know there was one for greyhounds. Like hearing about it. Thanks.

firefly, The inside of that baby bird's mouth looks almost like a face. Amazing and wonderful. The parent bird is a beauty. Hadn't heard of couas. Thanks for the pics and the intro.

HH, The cockles of my heart are warmed by that photo. Little red fox sound asleep. Thanks mucho.

I watched a nature show earlier this evening about wolverines. These animals fascinate me. It was called something like "Wolverine: The Phantom something or other." They hang out in such harsh and difficult areas that relatively little is known about them. But what I know I like.

Varanasi, India, 1999

These photos are by Pentii Sammallahti: Dewi Lewis Publishing, via The Guardian




Mt Etjo, Namibia (Flamingos), 2005




Princess Islands, Turkey (Seagulls), 2000




Cilento, Italy, 1999




Ristisaari, Finland (Frog), 1974




Houston, Texas, USA, 1998



More in next post.

These photographs: Pentti Sammallahti/Dewi Lewis Publishing:

Solovki, White Sea, Russia (Dog with Bag), 1992




Helsinki, Finland, 1964




Pyhäjärvi, Finland (Horse and Barn), 1981




Miskolc, Hungary, 1979

Zoo animals are now getting corporate sponsorships/endorsements? This guy apparently has a deal with Target.

Cute kitty time....

Fun to pick out the leader in that batch of kitties..


Bottle Bambi: A Kashmiri boy feeds an injured Hangul fawn that residents rescued from a pack of stray dogs in a Srinagar suburb. Hangul deer (a.k.a. Kashmiri stag) is an endangered species of red deer.
Photo: Rouf Bhat, AFP/Getty Images / SF




Next time, Canadian tourist Alexandre Casias will remember to lock his car. (Millers Point on the seaside near Cape Town, South Africa.)
Photo: Schalk Van Zuydam, Associated Press / SF

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echidna puggle

Amazing how much an echidna 'puppy' looks like a mini platypus. The Flying Spaghetti Monster had no imagination we he brought life to the world with his noodly appendage.

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Absolutely positively spectacular pics, folks. Osso, I'm overwhelmed. Barry, I'm recovering from yet another thud. Edgar, a double thud. Tsar, glad to see animals are in a halloweeny frame of mind.

Sorry I'm not being more specific. I'm pooped. I'm editing a 27-page chapter with 29 illustrations. Thud and a half.

Stork coming in for a landing:

Hey cat peeps,this is why a lick feels sooooo good....

Awesome image, Barry!

Just plain cute young ones...

A baby ostrich and its mom.


A baby baboon playing with an adult.


A three day old white lion cub taking a nap.


Two 3-month old female Cheetah cubs at the Nairobi Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya.


A newborn female Asiatic Elephant calf.

Grouse. Only managed to get a photo because it flew into one of our big windows and was temporarily stunned.

What a beauty, Tai.