Share Animal Pictures: For Animal Lovers

[berkeman]

I came across this Facebook group today -- some pretty amazing pictures of these majestic birds...

 

[OCR]

Neat Flying...!

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[fresh_42]

 

[Bystander]

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

 

[fresh_42]

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

Yes, I realized that a bit later. The claws are awful.

 

[Bystander]

I came across this Facebook group today -- some pretty amazing pictures of these majestic birds...

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Yes, I realized that a bit later. The claws are awful.

Much better than the "eagle in the snow" ... ghastly.

 

[pinball1970]

 

[DennisN]

Superb photo opportunities there with such calm and unafraid birds!

 

[berkeman]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/28/trav...r-of-year-peoples-choice-scli-intl/index.html

 

[fresh_42]

 

[berkeman]

Beautiful. From Facebook today...

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090277896034

 

[BillTre]

An axolotl, originally from the Mexico city area, were they are almost extinct due to extreme changes in their environment.
They make nice little pets and can be bred in aquariums.

 

[morrobay]

 

[fresh_42]

 

[fresh_42]

Neozoon

 

[Rive]

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Reminds me of this one

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Sorry to ask, but is that not an AI generated one?

 

[fresh_42]

Reminds me of this one

Nice.

Sorry to ask, but is that not an AI generated one?

I don't know. It's cute anyway.

 

[dextercioby]

 

[fresh_42]

 

[Bystander]

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What is it? You cross bred a squirrel with a panda?

 

[fresh_42]

What is it? You cross bred a squirrel with a panda?

Leucism.

 

[fresh_42]

 

[berkeman]

From Facebook today -- Um, that's not a kitty-cat...

 

[dextercioby]

Pic is fake. The original has a cow.

 

[berkeman]

Oh, that's dissapointing. I could just hear the Roll Call Sergeant now, reminding the officers to check their vehicles before leaving for shift...

 

[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!