OH MY GOD BABY WEASELS
THEYRE SO CUTE AND TINY WHAT THE HECK
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here are some of the photos I took at the San Diego zoo, of a male harpy eagle. I love harpy eagles O_O Feel free to use as reference for drawing or anything, I know I will be eventually.
man, some birds are just so damn gorgeous it hurts places!
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my dashboard is 90% depressive posts but it should be 100% baby squid posts let get this squid party moving along
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Onward, my plaid steed…
Real men wear kilts and carry kitten in their kilt pouch thingies.
If you’re not reblogging a kitten in a sporran, there’s something wrong with you.
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A newly-born lamb snuggles up to a boy. UK, 1940 © Williams Fox
IT’S SMILING OH MY GOD lil baby lambs are the sweetest
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Remi and Oliver trying to get comfortable…the saga.
I took them out on campus today so we can enjoy the nice weather while I was studying :) Also got to meet compassionjunkie finally which was awesome!
Remi and Oliver refused to explore outside and instead did this. It doesn’t seem very comfy guys.Goofy fluffballs. I would like to say that my girls carry themselves with much more dignity than this.
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I would like to say that, but it would be a massive lie.
FAT…….
Babies
Morphs of Tiger (Panthera tigris)
- A snow, normal, golden tabby or strawberry, and white tiger lined up for a good comparison of the range of color. [x]
- A wild abundistic or pseudo melanistic tiger, with thicker and denser stripes than average. [x]
- A very strange and frankly exciting animal to me, a white abundistic tiger. The narrow stripes become very dense on it’s forehead and back half of it’s body, looking nearly solid in places, especially along it’s back and tail. Here is an article with a picture of this animal when it was a cub. [x]
- This beautiful golden tabby has dark orange stripes rather than black ones, and this color morph is associated with a softer coat.
- Not as extreme, this female golden tabby does retain dark stripes on her head and legs. Though probably due to the camera quality, she does seem to have a duller tan base color. [x]
- At first glance this white tiger appears to simply be dirty, and while it is a little scruffy, the areas with the light tan does look to be in the areas it would be in most “normal” tigers.[x]
- A white tiger, with orange remaining between it’s eyes. [x]
- This snow white tiger has stripes that are mostly light, the darkest on the head and limbs, the rest faintly visible. [x]
- A grumpy snow, it seems to have a bit more color in it’s coat, with pinkish tan stripes and muzzle. Here is the same cat.[x]
- Because of the high amount of inbreeding it takes to make white tigers, animals like Kenny are sometimes produced, but rarely displayed. His face is pug nosed, with misshapened teeth. Most don’t appear this extreme, but many do have serious underlying health issues, with cross eyes seeming to be the most common ailment. Reputable zoos or breeding programs interested in conservation will not intentionally produce tigers of any morph, and instead focus on breeding and maintaining subspecies purity. [x]
Part two on subspecies here.
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The raven is sometimes known as “the wolf-bird.” Ravens, like many other animals, scavenge at wolf kills, but there’s more to it than that. Both wolves and ravens have the ability to form social attachments and they seem to have evolved over many years to form these attachments with each other, to both species’ benefit.
There are a couple of theories as to why wolves and ravens end up at the same carcasses. One is that because ravens can fly, they are better at finding carcasses than wolves are. But they can’t get to the food once they get there, because they can’t open up the carcass. So they’ll make a lot of noise, and then wolves will come and use their sharp teeth and strong jaws to make the food accessible not just to themselves, but also to the ravens.
Ravens have also been observed circling a sick elk or moose and calling out, possibly alerting wolves to an easy kill. The other theory is that ravens respond to the howls of wolves preparing to hunt (and, for that matter, to human hunters shooting guns). They find out where the wolves are going and following. Both theories may be correct.
Wolves and ravens also play. A raven will sneak up behind a wolf and yank its tail and the wolf will play back. Ravens sometimes respond to wolf howls with calls of their own, resulting in a concert of howls and calls.
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THIS IS THE HAPPIEST GOAT I HAVE EVER SEEN OMFG JUST LOOK AT ITS FACE
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Isn’t he precious!??! He’s a Soay lamb from Scotland!
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