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Beautiful Animals

 
 
Roberta
 
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Reply Mon 15 Feb, 2016 10:21 pm
An old and dear friend sent me a bunch of photos of animals parenting in the wild. Here's another:

http://atchuup.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/pwild10-610x834.jpg
Roberta
 
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Reply Tue 16 Feb, 2016 04:59 am
Pangolin mother and baby:

http://atchuup.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/pwild24-610x381.jpg
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 16 Feb, 2016 02:09 pm
Giraffe Patterns
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlp1/v/t1.0-9/12717549_10153966466139700_5658726007676677347_n.jpg?oh=922edb57cf7ab3689ed681a8291007e7&oe=5761ABD1
Roberta
 
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Reply Tue 16 Feb, 2016 02:34 pm
@edgarblythe,
Wonderful, edgar. Thanks.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Tue 16 Feb, 2016 02:40 pm
@Roberta,
Oh, gee.

My mother use to tell me stories. What age, I can't pinpoint, early though. She worked up a scenario of kittens being carried by their mother to somewhere for some reason, but I remember the scruff of the neck thing. Barely remember her voice, very Boston but there would have been some california-ese in there. We had taped voices, decades later on an early tape deck but then there was a garage robbery. Sigh.

Anyway, great photo.
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Roberta
 
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Reply Tue 16 Feb, 2016 04:55 pm
http://atchuup.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/pwild2-610x440.jpg

http://atchuup.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/pwild14-610x610.jpg

This gorgeous bird is a pink-necked green pigeon.
snood
 
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Reply Tue 16 Feb, 2016 04:59 pm
@Roberta,
Is that a Fox pup?
hingehead
 
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Reply Tue 16 Feb, 2016 05:23 pm
@snood,
<Pedant Alert>
Fox KIT
</Pedant Alert>
Roberta
 
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Reply Tue 16 Feb, 2016 06:15 pm
@hingehead,
pedant, shmedant. We don't care about stuff like that. We just wanna know if the pup is a fox. I didn't say cuz I wasn't sure--fox? wolf? Some other canine?

Thanks, ped.
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snood
 
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Reply Tue 16 Feb, 2016 06:17 pm
@hingehead,
hingehead wrote:

<Pedant Alert>
Fox KIT
</Pedant Alert>


Actually kit, cub, and pup are all acceptable. And I thought about it before I used 'pup'. If you have to be a pedant, you should probably be correct when making corrections.

http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/baby-animal-names.html
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/animals/Animalbabies.shtml
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/05/baby-animal-names/
hingehead
 
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Reply Tue 16 Feb, 2016 09:34 pm
@snood,
Acceptable to who?

If you're going to generalise you should probably.
snood
 
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Reply Tue 16 Feb, 2016 10:37 pm
@hingehead,
Great comeback. Much better than something so pedestrian as admitting you stepped in it. Bravo.
hingehead
 
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Reply Wed 17 Feb, 2016 12:45 am
@snood,
Good lord Snood - what is your problem?

The reason I did the pedant tags was because I knew it was ridiculous. Then I post a ridiculous response. And you are still whingeing.

Stop reinforcing my preconceptions that Americans are irony challenged.

Oh and I did make another mistake

I left out a comma.

You should, probably.

Sigh.
Roberta
 
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Reply Wed 17 Feb, 2016 12:50 am
@hingehead,
Hey, I know irony when I see it.

Hoping for peace on my favorite thread. My safe haven in a sea of debate.

Cup, pup, kit. It's a steenkin' baby fox. Hey, baby fox! Stop biting the tail that feeds you. Sigh.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 17 Feb, 2016 03:07 am
@hingehead,
hingehead wrote:

Acceptable to who?




Did you mean "Acceptable to whom"?

Bet I got where the question mark is wrong. BOOOOIIIIIIDDDDAAAAAA?
Builder
 
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Reply Wed 17 Feb, 2016 03:44 am
Tasmanian Bettong and Joey/Pup/Kit/Cub/little'un. :-)

http://cdn2.arkive.org/media/91/911F12EE-F4FD-43C0-A588-46D08631ACD7/Presentation.Large/Tasmanian-bettong-female-foraging-with-joey.jpg
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Roberta
 
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Reply Wed 17 Feb, 2016 05:16 am
@dlowan,
You calling me, bunny? I'm completely fuhblungit here. What question mark?

Hey, speaking of beautiful animals, here's the winner of this year's Westminster Dog Show. A German short-haired pointer:

http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.11479915.1455682788!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 17 Feb, 2016 05:26 am
@Roberta,
I just seen that dog on the telebision.
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snood
 
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Reply Wed 17 Feb, 2016 07:01 am
It's one of my favorite threads, so in honor of it, I will withhold any further comments to the ironic pedant.
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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Wed 17 Feb, 2016 07:58 am
@Roberta,
Roberta wrote:

You calling me, bunny? I'm completely fuhblungit here. What question mark?

Hey, speaking of beautiful animals, here's the winner of this year's Westminster Dog Show. A German short-haired pointer:

http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.11479915.1455682788!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg

German short haired pointers are so goofy. Love them. They don't know their own size to and that they don't really fit on people's laps.
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