Share Animal Pictures: For Animal Lovers

[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/

 

[berkeman]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/trav...graphy-award-2024-scn-c2e-spc-intl/index.html

 

[docnet]

Serval cats are so cool :) The little dog, not so much.

 

[docnet]

Cat with a deep voice.

 

[BillTre]

There has been a lot of breeding of clown fish since they were frist bred in captivity in the 1970's:

 

[Rive]

Birds do fly. (Well, most of them, anyway.)
This one, though, apparently do it differently

 

[berkeman]

 

[BillTre]

 

[docnet]

The first video is of a North American opossum (also called Virginia opossum) and the second video is of an Australian possum (without the o). They are awfully shy creatures.

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

Its a kind of stork, from Africa.

 

[DennisN]

Three funny and cute clips:

Raven feeds the dog


Crow stacking some cups


A squirrel friend

 

[difalcojr]

another squirrel

neighbor's female, Maine coon cat, about 20 lb (9 kg), very sweet disposition

 

[berkeman]

 

[jtbell]

How quiet is it in my town? It's so quiet you see cats loafing in the streets.

 

[docnet]

It was surprising that LA has a human introduced peacock population. They sound a bit like monkeys when they sing from the trees. I read they can be territorially violent but I never saw one attacking a human. They are bigger than the chickens.

A YouTube video about a funny sloth:

 

[BillTre]

It was surprising that LA has a human introduced peacock population. They sound a bit like monkeys when they sing from the trees. I read they can be territorially violent but I never saw one attacking a human. They are bigger than the chickens.

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A YouTube video about a funny sloth:

There are a lot them in Pasadena and nearby towns. I have seen them a lot on top of houses making a lot of noise.

 

[Rive]

It was surprising that LA has a human introduced peacock population. They sound a bit like monkeys when they sing from the trees.

Sing??
We had an infestation of them too, due a tradition-preserving movement here, but nobody kept them for more than one year.
Some quit faster.
Lot faster.

That 'sing' was apparently entirely omitted from the manual...

 

[docnet]

There are a lot them in Pasadena and nearby towns. I have seen them a lot on top of houses making a lot of noise.

wow.. I thought they were only in Palos Verdes and Santa Catalina Island. Never saw them when I was in Pasadena, but now I want to visit again.

 

[docnet]

Sing??
We had an infestation of them too, due a tradition-preserving movement here, but nobody kept them for more than one year.
Some quit faster.
Lot faster.

That 'sing' was apparently entirely omitted from the manual...

I just searched peacocks in Pasadena and saw that some people want to ban them because they're too loud. I can understand that. ravens can be very loud too

 

[BillTre]

The Huntington Arboretum and the LA Arboretum both have man peacocks.
LA Arboretum info

 

[symbolipoint]

Serval cats are so cool :) The little dog, not so much.
(I removed the media from the quote).

from post #2662


Was interesting, serval meowing, min-pin was not at any time growling but appeared excited. I do not know exactly what to think, but interesting.

EDIT: A few of the comments on the YouTube video give some better understanding.
(( in post #2662 video, right-click, Copy video address, open new brows tab, right-click, choose paste_and_go))
EDIT: I just found that what I described to do in the earlier edit did not actually work. FIRST click on the video in the post to begin its play; AND THEN start the right-click, etc. what then follows.

 

[BillTre]

 

[berkeman]

 

[Swamp Thing]

 

[BillTre]

 

[Ibix]

Someone on another forum I frequent has the username OhTheHugeManatee, which always makes me smile...

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

New photographic technique:

My dog is mostly dark colors. Don't think it will work too well with her.

 

[berkeman]

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

 

[berkeman]

 

[jtbell]

Who's seeing cicadas this spring?

This is the first one I've seen here. In the next county, they're so loud that the police have gotten calls about them.

 

[Drakkith]

Our cat, Nala.

 

[berkeman]

 

[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.