Share Animal Pictures: For Animal Lovers

[BillTre]

Is that a dog-kitten or a kit-dogen?

 

[Flyboy]

Best way to make my girlfriend lose the ability to speak: find ducklings. She can’t process when she gets into cuteness overload.

 

[jtbell]

Following up on my cicada a few posts back, here's a cicada nymph that has emerged from its 17 years underground and is apparently preparing to "hatch" into a mature cicada.

I've also seen empty split-open nymph husks, but I don't think this is one of those. It looks intact. I should have gone around to look from the other side, too.

 

[berkeman]

 

[Flyboy]

Following up on my cicada a few posts back, here's a cicada nymph that has emerged from its 17 years underground and is apparently preparing to "hatch" into a mature cicada.

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I've also seen empty split-open nymph husks, but I don't think this is one of those. It looks intact. I should have gone around to look from the other side, too.

So it begins. The Screams of Summer arrive.

 

[Rive]

Serious dedication, surprisingly deep knowledge of vibro-compaction and composite materials...
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Also - cute

 

[jtbell]

Following up on my cicada a few posts back, here's a cicada nymph that has emerged from its 17 years underground and is apparently preparing to "hatch" into a mature cicada.

Correction: The "Great Southern Brood" (Brood XIX) emerges every 13 years, not 17.

And the nymph in the picture that I posted had apparently already "hatched". A couple of days later, it looked the same but was definitely an empty husk.

 

[DennisN]

Emperor penguin chicks jump off a 50-foot cliff in Antarctica NEVER-BEFORE-FILMED FOR TV | Nat Geo

 

[berkeman]

 

[berkeman]