Beautiful Animals

Ok, gird your loins, something cute is this way coming:


He comes in peace: a panda cub at the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda at the Wolong nature reserve in Sichuan, China
Photograph: Katherine Feng/Minden/Solent/via Guardian

Thanks for the warning, osso. I'm trying to keep my thudding to a minimum. Dat's one cute kid.

Baby gorilla:

fuzzyfuzzyfuzzyfuzzyfuzzy!!!!!!

I adore red pandas, and have been able to see them up close at Central Park and Bronx Zoos. Yeah, I know, politically incorrect, but go change seven decades of hard wiring.
My favorite b&w panda experience was vicarious. Gabe Pressman, hard-bitten, tough, crusty, New York newsman on NBC was at the Bronx Zoo to report on the visiting panda. He started out in his usual gruff mode ..and then.. (Here I'm paraphrasing after 40 or more years)...Gabe Pressman excitedly cried out..".OOH! It's rubbing the apple on its round furry head. It's SO CUTE!!"

<laughing>

I slightly remember the Bronx Zoo when I was a kid there for a year.
I sort sort of semi avoid posting zoo photos, in that even the very best constrict the animals - but I also appreciate at least a few zoos, the main one being the San Diego zoo. A small firm I was a part of did some zoo design, and we were let go in favor of the Disney people (don't get me going on that). I wasn't a designer on that or I'd be even more bent out of shape, but, heh, a presence at meetings.

Beautiful animals Not acting so beautiful:
No Fists, Gentlemen, Just Necks. The Ali & Frazier Of The Giraffe World
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/01/17/169642675/no-fists-gentlemen-just-necks-the-ali-frazier-of-the-giraffe-world

I would have never thought that giraffes' necks would be THAT flexible.

Nextone, Seeing the red pandas at the Central Park Zoo made me a believer. Remember old Gabe Pressman well. Wish I'd seen him report on the panda.

Osso, I try to avoid zoo pics, too. But the fact is that if it weren't for some zoos, some animals would be pretty much gone.

You knew this was coming. Here's a baby chimp. Maybe its first steps:



That's it for the apes.

Thanks for the necking pic, tsar. Can't see the video, but I've seen films of male giraffes necking it out. Amazing.

Very true, Roberta.

I went to a few baddy zoos as a child or teen, so I don't think of them all as saintly - but I strongly appreciate the efforts of the good ones.We're probably on the same page..

Thank you for the lovely baby chimp.

And now for something equally cute (at least to me):

Tsar, until I can connect with my now hard to find computer guru, I can't see youtube videos except once in a while. Give me a hint of what is equally cute, pleeeese.

Apparently a lost deer has been adopted by a flock of sheep somewhere in England.

Ok, then - I'll be quiet re checking you tube for a few days and then come back to this, I know I'd enjoy that (I apparently can sneak in on occasion). This is all to do with adobe flash and whether or not I can upgrade and things falling apart from there, including that I now somehow don't know my computer password, that I remember well, and, having given the guru phone number to a pal, somehow lost that piece of paper and so did the pal. It's like peas hidden in fat pickles.

"like peas hidden in fat pickles" This is a new one to me. Is it original or from someone, somewhere else?

It's from my vegetable brain.
I often make up words or phrases or riff on known phrasing. I remember a couple of a2kers "yelling" at me for getting wording wrong on those occasions.
I'm a brat, you know.

Besides, I've been making refrigerator pickles lately. Geez, where have they been all my life, so delicious.

edgar, Amazing picture. Wonderful. Thanks.

The biggest of the "big four" PCs. The Siberian tiger:



(Photo by Sandra Bronstein)

The second biggest of the "big four" in the PC department, the African lion. Not only are these animals big, but they're fast--50 mph.

The jaguar is a true jungle cat. It lives in the forests of South America. The other jungle cat of the biggies is the Bengal tiger:

The smallest of the so-called big four. The leopard, largely a tree-dweller. Tremendously strong:

Fascinating. One trick ponies, but it's a really good trick.

At one time, I knew a zookeeper. The giraffes had a second story window in the barn, which he had to close at night. He got the giraffes all the way inside by swinging at their heads. He said it was impossible to hit a giraffe in the head.