mesquite, I LOVE Leo! Love him. Ok, I'll try to control myself. Thanks for posting those photos, kid. (Love dem boids.)
osso, Bonobos, the kinder gentler chimp. Wonderful (if somewhat overly horny) animals. Feeling all maternal toward those babies. Wonderful, touching faces. Thanks to you, kid, too, for posting.
A dear friend sent me two gorgeous bird books for my birthday (not today), so I'll be posting even more than the usual number of bird pictures. Fair warning.
Diamond firetail finches:
Spotted bush snake:
osso, For some unfathomable reason, the link froze my computer. Had to control/alt/delete offline to escape. I take your word for it that the bears are beautiful. Not a great leap of faith. Thanks for posting.
Was guessing it would work for you. Who knows, it worked for me then but might not now.
Carry on, Nurse.
Carrying on, kid. From my new book of songbirds--
Western meadowlark (singing his little heart out):
And the green magpie:
Sekhukhune flat lizard (Africa):
Spiral tube worm:
Another songbird--blue tit:
African praying mantis:
Male sitana (India)
Rat snake (Asia)
Gray-headed flying fox (Australia):
Iriomote cat
("a wild cat about the size of a domestic cat that lives exclusively on the Japanese island of Iriomote"..wikipedia)
It is very rare.
european HEDGEHOG family (IGEL in german)
HEDGEHOGS IN INFLATABLE BOAT
hedgehog 1 : "i can't stand anymore"
hedgehog 2 : "under NO circumstances will you sit down ! and you at the back : stop making those noises ! "
hedgehog 3 : "PFFFF !"
satt, Thanks for the stunning cat. Never heard of this one. Thought I had at least encountered all the cats on the planet. I wonder what other surprises there are.
hamburger, Thanks for the hedgehogs. They are cute and definitely should be sitting in inflatable boats.
Doves, I trust, in a photo of Matisse by Henri Cartier-Bresson, from website of
www.carolsutton.net (I love this one...)
Another by Bresson - you can tell I'm off exploring. This is from google images via
www.macobo.com
from Peter Fetterman gallery, Laszlo Layton (pictorial zoology series)
Roberta wrote:satt, Thanks for the stunning cat. Never heard of this one. Thought I had at least encountered all the cats on the planet. I wonder what other surprises there are.
hamburger, Thanks for the hedgehogs. They are cute and definitely should be sitting in inflatable boats.
Oops. Add a "not" after "should."
Osso, wonderful photos. Love the doves. Thanks for your exploring.
Another songbird:
Hooded warbler (North America):
Cobra (India):
Limbless lizard (Malaysia):
I'm having a VERY bad day and want to look at pictures of creatures that are benignly beautiful.
Scarlet-headed blackbird (South America):
Impala (not easy finding a pic of an impala that doesn't have wheels):
Fawn:
