Beautiful Animals

Galapagos sharks

Foxes are so corgi-looking. 'Course, I love them for themselves.

vonny, Thanks for the foxy fox and the amazing pic of the sharks. Wow. The monkey in the water appears to have reached nirvana.

As long as you've got an opposable thumb, why not make the most of it?

This image won the national photographer of the year award. It's a doozy. It was taken by Greg du Toit.

Grizzly in Canada's Yukon

Japanese Snow Monkeys enjoying a hot spring

Ducks crossing a road in China

Russian Mother Takes Magical Portraits of Her Two Boys and their Animal Friends

Full story more pics at http://petapixel.com/2014/01/18/russian-mother-takes-magical-portraits-two-boys-animal-friends/

Not often humans get a run on this thread

Really beautiful, the boys and the animals. Shumilova is a fantastic photographer.

So I've been dawdling around Guardian Witness: here are some animals near people -

Horse on Dartmoor
Again, I may be cheating a little, as this isn't exactly my doorstep, rather just outside where I was camping along the Two Moors Way in Dartmoor.
scratchvideo



No, I'm not a fading blossom!
Just about to pull a browned bloom from a gardenia in the dark when I realised it wasn't! It was a "Whistling Tree Frog" - Litoria ewingii
RodHagen



Redwing
During November and early December I'll hear the odd redwing calling as it passes over at night. But when it gets to midwinter they start appearing in our garden and feasting on cotoneaster berries.
JonnySunshine


House finch - not flinching a bit at the weather
ggopal


Swans on the River Rhine / Winter
Shot with iPhone. Rhine flows through our town.
basuportal

Deer escaping a wildfire

The dog and the water buffalo

A ranger inspects a ten day old baby elephant in a Sumatran conservation centre.

Very nice!!



edit - so is the elephant and ranger.

Truly great pics, you guys. Thanks for them all.