Beautiful Animals

Good camouflage! Took me a few seconds to see it!

That's why I don't go lion hunting!!!!!!!

I cannot see or think of hedgehogs without thinking of CD (CannyDiva) and her cat Mabel from Abuzztime.

I'm blanking on that name - but I wasn't there all that long.
Though it seemed longer.

Lionesses and cubs -

osso, I gotta pick a favorite? I liked the cat and the whippet.

vonny, Whaddya mean it never occurred to you that some people might not have hedgehogs? I live in an apartment in a brick building on a concrete street. I don't got no steenkin' hedgehogs. OK, maybe there are a few in Central Park. Vonny, thanks for the noncamouflaged leonine family photo.

Hey, Bill, Nice to see you here. Love spiders. The one in the pic is a furry doozy. It took me a while to figure out what I was looking at in the second picture. A leopard? In the movie Ghost and the Darkness, one of the characters said that lions are the color of Africa. True, at least in the photo you posted. There's a lion in there somewhere. I think. Thanks for them all.

I was watching in Nat Geo program about snakebites in India (big problem). I saw this snake. Gawgeous, IMO. A saw-scaled viper:

Roberta - you've done it again! Made me cry - with laughter! Duh - no, I didn't expect everyone to have a prickly little pet hedgehog - but the are so common here in the gardens, parks and countryside everywhere, that I hadn't stopped to think that might not the same in other countries! They are lovely creatures though. Here are a couple of pictures of them - the second one is the hedgehog 'closing', when it curls up into a defensive little ball to protect itself.

vonny, Just because I don't have hedgehogs wandering around my neighborhood doesn't mean that I don't know what they look like. I do. And they are very cute, especially the babies.

Hey New York.Bumped into an "old" Abuzz friend of yours the other day.She said that she'll drop you a line :-)
Meanwhile,a rare breed of goat - The Golden Guernsey....

Mom and kid....


and Dad....

Hey, London. Haven't received a line. Curious to know who it was. The goats are gorgeous. Such a rich color. Thanks mucho.

Royal walnut moth (aka regal moth):

Pink tarantula -

On Abuzz she was known as Seattle Friend and said that you had met face to face in NY.If you don't hear within a few days,PM me with a message for her and I'll paste it on her Facebook page.

Lioness to rest of the pride: "Do I have anything stuck in my teeth? Does anybody have any floss?"

A Pompeii worm--a species of deep-sea polychaete worm (commonly referred to as "bristle worms"). It is an extremophile found only at hydrothermal vents in the Pacific Ocean...
They can reach up to 5 inches in length and are pale gray, with red tentacle-like gills on their heads. Perhaps most fascinating, their tail ends are often resting in temperatures as high as 176°F (80°C), while their feather-like heads stick out of the tubes into water that is a much cooler, 72°F (22°C)...the worms have been found to thrive at temperatures of up to 80°C (176°F), making the Pompeii worm the most heat-tolerant complex animal known to science after the tardigrades (or water bears), which are able to survive temperatures over 150°C.

Love the snake, it looks like a eastern diamondback rattler with no rattles:



The camo lion is just a small ways north of the center of the page at between 12 and stretching to 1 o'clock.

Polar bear and cub -

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I just lost a long response.

I'm gonna say a bunch of dirty words. Then I'll be back.