Beautiful Animals

Blue boxfish:

Golden breasted starling:

Scorpion fish:

Baby Rinotcherwurst

Edgar, LOVE dem baby rhinos. This one is frisky--and tres cute. Thanks mucho.

Baby spider monkey:

That golden breasted starling is an absolute gem Roberta.
and that frolicking baby rhino is pretty dang adorable Sir Edgar!
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tsar, The Internet loves cute. Apparently people on the Net don't have thudding issues to be concerned about.

Baby pygmy hippo:

Leaf-tailed gecko:

For those that still haven't had that horrid white stuff....

The Fredster must have been this size a few years ago....


G'night New York.

Barry, It's rare that I thud over shear beauty. This dog made me thud. I WANT THAT DOG. I love that dog. Gimme that dog. As for snow, I've always been a fan of snow. When I was young and spry, I would go out and play or just walk. These days, it's hard for me to get around in snow, but I still like to look at it.

The kittens are wonderful. Yes, the Fredster was once a teeny kitten.

Gimme that dog. NOW!

I was watching a David Attenborough show. According to David, a photographer sat in a wooden box on the side of a snow covered mountain for two weeks to get a picture of a snow leopard. This is probably not the shot he got, but here's a snow leopard:

More cats....

A deer runs in a snow covered field in a forest in Nalibokskaya forest reserve. Forestry staff feed wild animals every three days because of cold weather and heavy snow in Belarus.
Photograph: Sergei Grits/AP




Two Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis) in Komodo national park, Komodo Island, Flores, Indonesia. The Komodo dragon is a large species of lizard which can grow to 10 ft long.
Photograph: Yuli Seperi/Corbis




The caterpillar of an atlas moth (Attacus atlas), considered to be among the largest in the world, is pictured in the botanical gardens in Bern. The atlas moth wingspan may reach more than 10 inches. British moths are in calamitous decline – population in southern UK is down 40% in 40 years and three native species have become extinct since 2000.
Photograph: Pascal Lauener/Reuters
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Janis Ian posted this pic of her own dog on facebook today.

Quite cute! Is the pooch a Portuguese water pup/mix?

I forgot to notice.

There are dozens of photos of this dog on her facebook photos, but I didn't see where it tells the breed.

The Janis Ian of "Seventeen" and "Society's Child", Ed?

That's her.

Barry, Magnificent felines. Thanks mucho.

osso, The deer in the snow is a beauty. Komodo dragons are daunting. And the caterpillar is a doozy. Thanks for them all.

Loving the dog pics, edgar. I wouldn't be surprised if that's a Belgian water dog. BTW, please tell Janis I say hi.

Groundhog: