Beautiful Animals

I must say I'm inclined to agree with you!

Milkweed Tussock moth caterpillar

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This is a pic I took.

tsar, The happiest moments in animal history made me, well, happy. Thanks mucho. Tres interesting re how animals see the world. There is something to be said for color vision.

RH, I've always had a soft spot for kids.

vonny, That is a gorgeous serpent. I'm guessing that it's one of those designer snakes--not found in the wild but sold as pets. A real beauty. The caterpillar is not so much a beauty as a doozy. Well, maybe both.

t2l, That is a stunner of a dog. Thanks for the pic. (I love shepherds.)

I may have gotten my scrolling ability back.

Starry skate:

Me too. Baby lambs are right on the heels of being in first place, though.

That doggie looks somewhat like my departed dog, Katy.
Not to get morbid, but I finally washed her collar and tags and hung them up where I can see them, in my main little hallway that is near smothered in photos and memorabilia. (The hallway needs that accumulation, otherwise a stupid short ceilinged pit of despond.) It's sort of a comfort walk, from the kitchen to the computer (et al) room in back.

Now for more animal pics from the G'dian Week in Wildlife series. There are nine of them (more if you look at the link), and I get cranky posting nine at once, besides making mistakes. So, two posts coming up in a bit.

A salmon leaps out of the Sea of Okhotsk (Japan) while on its way to its home river.
Photograph: The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images



A crimson speckled moth. Increasing numbers of rare migrant species are believed to have arrived in the UK due to the hot summer and warm autumn.
Photograph: Robert Thompson/Butterfly Conservation


It looks like an optical illusion, in fact it's thousands of wader birds at the RSPB's Snettisham reserve in Norfolk. During the 'Snettisham spectacular', the huge flock creates amazing ripples and patterns as the birds huddle together.
Photograph: Tom Mason/Rex Features


Orangutans wrap their hands around a tree in Tanjung Puting national park in Borneo, Indonesia.
Photograph: Barbara Walton/EPA


A common loon incubating her eggs at dusk, photographed by Connor Stefanison, one of the speakers at this weekend's WildPhotos 2013 in London.
Photograph: Connor Stefanison/WildPhotos 2013

more from that series -
first, elefante.. or whatever the italian plural is -

Elephants greet each other at dawn in the Amboseli national park in southern Kenya. This week a census began of elephants and other large mammals in the Amboseli-West Kilimanjaro and Natron-Magadi landscape.
Photograph: Dai Kurokawa/EPA


Gulls gather above the promenade at Morecambe, Lancashire
Photograph: David Billinge/Corbis


A royal red deer stag in the Grafenberg forest in Duesseldorf, Germany. The rut or mating season of the red deer is triggered by the shorter daytimes of autumn.
Photograph: Federico Gambarini/EPA


Cape fur seals play in giant waves off the Skeleton Coast, Namibia
Photograph: Ph.MOES/BirdLife South Africa Oceans of Life photo competition 2013


If there is white space below, it is from a revisitaton of my computer whining.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/glade/21-animals-that-will-make-you-squeal-with-joy?b=1

Gee, that is just plain darling (my mother's word for such), Tsar.

Oh, on the culprit re the white space, I'd had some window open, but pushed quite to the side for a day, and forgotten about it. Too many windows open too long - and I sometimes have many - make baby Mac burp, and cursor shimmy.

Awee such lovely photos ...

How tiny is a baby Panda , made me want to go and look up some photos

Poor pussy has a bad tooth (lower jaw,screen right).

Lovely clouded leopard RP.

Thank you for this thread. I enjoy looking at the pics

ossobuco right now I have my fill of dogs.