Beautiful Animals

Beautiful

Two Huge Whales Just Wanted To Hang With This Dude While He Paddleboarded

These are from the Guardian's This Week in Wildlife -

A herd of wild Przhevalski horses in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Photograph: Tatyana Deryabina/University of Porthmouth




A monarch butterfly lands on a confetti lantana plant, in San Antonio, Texas. Monarchs begin passing through in late September en route to their wintering areas in Mexico. Photograph: Eric Gay/AP




A golden mantled rosella at the World of Birds wildlife sanctuary in Cape Town, South Africa. The largest bird park in Africa has over 3,000 birds, plus monkeys and small animals in walk through enclosures that attract tens of thousands of visitors each year.
Photograph: Nic Bothma/EPA




Philippine leaf bird in a forested area in Bislig, southern Philippines. Patches of tropical rainforest in the area harbour some of the world’s rarest birds.
Photograph: Alain Del B Pascua/AFP/Getty Images

Wow, and wow, wow, wow.

There's more to come, but I flag on posting too many at once as I can get confusuled and put the wrong description with a photo.

Here's the link, there are a bunch of swell photos left (especially the jackal):
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2015/oct/09/the-week-in-wildlife-in-pictures

Cedar waxwings:

Psychedelic frogfish:

Extremely Venomous Yellow-Bellied Sea Snake

What was evolution ON when that frog fish happened!!!

curlique pills, I think

In British Columbia, a coastal wolf is well camouflaged in cedar boughs at the forest’s edge.

I can see her just fine.

She needs more green.

She's tricked you all - that's a wooden decoy, she's over on the far left.

Oriental dwarf kingfisher:

No manspreading on this train!

Shiba inu (a wonderful breed of dog):

Indonesian Forest Fires

That's mighty confusing HH. I thought they were orangutans. Who thought these primates were called forest fires?

I understand your confusion - this picture of a tsunami looks remarkably like people.