Share Animal Pictures: For Animal Lovers

[DennisN]

 

[Ibix]

Feral cat on the windowsill of my in-laws' place, unimpressed with the rain.

Feral cat on the windowsill of my in-laws' place, unimpressed with me sneaking up and photographing it.

I backed away slowly so it didn't feel the need to go out into the rain.

 

[Ibix]

Apparently the marmalade one abandoned its post. Same day, same weather, same windowsill, different cat.

 

[jtbell]

Lurking in the shrubbery...

 

[Haborix]

All you cat lovers need to head over to the Quantum Physics section. Ol' Schrodinger's cat has really been making a showing lately.

 

[fresh_42]

 

[berkeman]

Snacktime...

 

[fresh_42]

I'd say it was predictable.

 

[berkeman]

I'd say it was predictable.

Yeah, she may be a sincere animal lover with good intentions, but you don't release a prey animal in the middle of an open field...

 

[fresh_42]

Yeah, she may be a sincere animal lover with good intentions, but you don't release a prey animal in the middle of an open field...

Sure. It revealed a lack of biological understanding. My thought was simply that the magpie wants to survive, too. If you're a mouse or a fish then you have drawn the a** card as we say here. (It is assumed that it refers to the red card that a football (sorry, soccer) referee uses to send off players and which is usually placed in the back pocket of his shorts. But that's a hypothesis. Everybody uses "drawn the a** card" for miserable situations but nobody actually knows were it came from.)

 

[BillTre]

 

[berkeman]

I posted about the Short List of photos for Wildlife Photographer of the Year back in November (it was the polar bear sleeping on an iceberg), but this one from the winners list is utterly amazing. It had to exist for only half a second or so, and this photographer happened to capture it. Amazing!

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/07/travel/wildlife-photographer-peoples-choice-intl-scli-scn/index.html

 

[BillTre]

So weird!

 

[fresh_42]

 

[Borg]

I think that the cat is trying to protect the mouse from that insane woman's laugh.

 

[Drakkith]

Nala Billz. Living her best life.

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

 

[fresh_42]

I have seen an experiment that showed that they teach their offspring even without an existing example. A biologist showed up in yellow oilskin and annoyed the crows repeatedly. Then they showed up again to the new generation of crows without ever doing anything to them. However, the next generation of crows recognized the biologist as a danger.

They also tested their favorite fast foods in a park in Paris. The crows preferred McDonald's and left other brands untouched. Maybe because there were usually more leftovers, those forgotten fries, who knows?

 

[DennisN]

Very cool!
One of my cats was heavily into renovation (he was a very curious cat).

He renovated my living room by tearing away floor moldings.
And once he kept my mother awake at night when he was trying to remove the cover to a floor drain in her bathroom. He didn't give up until he succeeded.

 

[fresh_42]

Not sure what's the strangest thing here.

 

[fresh_42]

 

[fresh_42]

I'm normally not doing this since it is only clickbait to bring ads to your attention, so consider yourselves being warned. For those of you who do not care, be prepared to have a good laugh:

https://timelesslife.info/a-man-rep...ntal-quality-with-the-perfect-note-of-his-own

(Brooks Ferebee once responded to a similar story: "I don't think it's true, but its charm is that it could be true.")

 

[DennisN]

Not a picture, but a clip, with sound... unusual sound... and funny.
Have you ever wondered what caterpillars sound like when they feast on leaves?

Find out here (nom nom nom! ):
(recorded with a contact mic)

 

[BillTre]

When I was a kid, I saw a mockingbird do this to a cat.
This mockingbird was known in the neighborhood for aggressively defending areas around it nest.
When it suck up on a cat like this, the cat was so startled it did a back flip!

 

[fresh_42]

When I was a kid, I saw a mockingbird do this to a cat.
This mockingbird was known in the neighborhood for aggressively defending areas around it nest.
When it suck up on a cat like this, the cat was so startled it did a back flip!

I saw this Japanese crow that learned to read the traffic lights for pedestrians to crack its nuts through cars and harvest them on a green light for pedestrians. I already knew that they understood the concept of lying which requires empathy. Ever since, they cannot surprise me anymore.

 

[BillTre]

Crow story:
Once I was biking home from the university.
Close to home there are a lot of walnut trees which the birds and squirrels like.
They usually wait for car to crush them in the road, but not always.
While I was slowly going down this block, I saw two crows.
One would pick up a walnut and drop it from maybe 30 or 40 feet onto the road to break it.
However, the second crow was trying to get to the broken nut before the one that dropped it.
Therefore the dropper was flying around and scheming in a way that it could get to the nut first in the event that the nut broke.
The walnut was not breaking so they repeated this several times.

 

[fresh_42]

Crow story:
Once I was biking home from the university.
Close to home there are a lot of walnut trees which the birds and squirrels like.
They usually wait for car to crush them in the road, but not always.
While I was slowly going down this block, I saw two crows.
One would pick up a walnut and drop it from maybe 30 or 40 feet onto the road to break it.
However, the second crow was trying to get to the broken nut before the one that dropped it.
Therefore the dropper was flying around and scheming in a way that it could get to the nut first in the event that the nut broke.
The walnut was not breaking so they repeated this several times.

 

[BillTre]

 

[berkeman]

 

[berkeman]

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

The all black stage of coloration is transient. The black breaks up into silver and black stripes.

 

[256bits]

Decent, not great, but, decent photo-shop/chop.

The 'thing' has what looks to 5 legs.
AI generated pictures are cropping up here too often.
Nature has its own beauty.

 

[berkeman]

Not exactly an animal picture (except for the little kit down in the corner of the video), but very nice care by the folks taking care of this little fox...

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/nat...p-as-fox-to-care-for-an-orphaned-kit/3480475/