Beautiful Animals

Trapped heron saved from flooding

seagull fell in vat of curry

White American Pelican

Under a starry night sky in Zimanga Private Game Reserve in South Africa, a group of buffalo find a cool drink

You guys are outdoing yourselves picturewise. You get a wow and a half from me.

Thanks.

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Pronghorn. This is not an antelope, not a goat, not a sheep. It's one of a kind, distantly related to giraffes and okapis. The pronghorn is the fastest land mammal in the western hemisphere. It can reach about 55 miles an hour. Not as fast as a cheetah, but it can sustain high speeds longer than cheetahs are able to.

There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written

guineafowl from South Africa

A seven-gill shark in the kelp forests off the coast of Simon’s Town, South Africa, not far from Cape Town.

A pheasant-tailed jacana photographed by Koushik Kundu. Jacanas have wide feet which enable them to walk on floating vegetation in shallow lakes, their preferred habitat. The females are more colorful than the males.

A herd of elephants makes its way through Botswana’s Okavango Delta, leaving behind water channels as they go.

Kidnapped Mother And Baby Pangolin Found Clinging To Each Other

From our association with a friend of ours from Vietnam, that a few years after his getting to the US, went back to his family roots, Chinese. We stayed at his house once, and he offered my husband some of his concoction (I forget what it was called, but it was to help us have a good bedtime session). Oy. Anyway, I take it that a lot of this potion stuff is from long time superstitions, which are hard to get rid of, for many humans. I suspect they are costly for the buyer as well as the animals, part of why this stuff keeps happening.

A fruit bat resting in a tree during a rain shower in Melbourne, Australia, its wings wrapped around its body for warmth.

Basiliscus male (also known as the Jesus lizard for its ability to run on the surface of water) from Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica, by Cesar Barrio Amorós.

Scaley-breasted Lorikeets.
We have one of these as a rescue bird. Saved it from the Butcher birds.

Tiger shark pup.

boat-billed heron