Post Amazing Animal pictures

[KilljoyKlown]

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[Buddha12]

Camouflaged critters

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Amazing Animals Friendship


Cool Leaping Frog


Nice Eyes

[KilljoyKlown]

I saw your post before you deleted it. At the time I posted it I didn't consider that it might be Photoshopped. But to tell you the truth, I really can't imagine any situation where a mouse would take a ride on a frog. But I have seen some pretty amazing animal pair ups and that photo looked good enough to get the benefit of the doubt.

[scheherazade]

One of the best barrel racing photos I have seen. The horse is happy and relaxed, attentive to his rider and he is really getting down into the turn for this barrel! Note the angle that his rider has to lean out to counter balance his effort. The rider has his inside toe pointed forward and down to allow the horse to come as close to the barrel as possible and he is clutching that saddle horn because when the horse completes this turn he is going to push off his hind end and explode into the home run. (By the distance from the wall, this is the third and final barrel.)

[KilljoyKlown]

One of the best barrel racing photos I have seen. The horse is happy and relaxed, attentive to his rider and he is really getting down into the turn for this barrel! Note the angle that his rider has to lean out to counter balance his effort. The rider has his inside toe pointed forward and down to allow the horse to come as close to the barrel as possible and he is clutching that saddle horn because when the horse completes this turn he is going to push off his hind end and explode into the home run. (By the distance from the wall, this is the third and final barrel.)

I actually watched one of these contests on TV many years ago. It's very hard to make a tight circle around the barrel for the best time.

[KilljoyKlown]

I love watching a great horse rear up on it's hind feet.

[Fraggle Rocker]

[Bird fluttering in front of human tongue]

People often find orphan birds that have fallen out of their nests, take them in and raise them. [This requires specialized expertise. A layman could not figure it out without guidance from an experienced aviculturist and it varies from one species to the next. It's also an incredible amount of work: the younger they are, the more frequently they need to be fed, 24/7.] Once a baby bird has been raised this way, it imprints on humans, and regards us as its own species. A bird that was raised this way could easily perform the behavior in the photo: asking his "mommy" to please regurgitate some food for him.

[Dogs and wolves: Evolution or human interference?]

Both. Evolution is, after all, a response to environmental conditions, whether natural or not. A small population of wolves in the Middle East self-domesticated at the time of the Agricultural Revolution. Humans began living in permanent settlements, creating huge middens (trash dumps) that a canine could smell from miles away. Although wolves, unlike other canids such as coyotes and jackals, prefer hunting and usually scavenge only out of desperation, this new phenomenon of perfectly good food lying around must have tempted a few of the lazier wolves to take up the easy life of scavenging. When they learned that the foolish humans actually appreciated their cleanup efforts, it was an arrangement made in heaven. As long as they played with our babies instead of eating them, they were welcome to stick around and use their night vision to keep the village safe, and to lend their special talents to our hunting parties. They still perform both roles.

Certain traits evolved naturally: their brains grew smaller to subsist on a scavenger's lower-protein diet and their teeth became better shaped for chewing carrots than ripping apart a bison. But other traits, particularly psychological ones, were a combination of nature and "unnatural selection." Dogs with the behaviors that endear them to humans stayed and reproduced while the others were killed for food or simply emigrated back to the forest. Most of these fall into the category of neoteny, the retention of baby behaviors into adulthood: Wolf pups are highly gregarious and playful, have a weak alpha instinct, wag their tails, and communicate by barking. Adult wolves lose these behaviors, but modern adult dogs do all of these things until the day they die.

As for appearance, dogs have more chromosomes than humans so they have more room for variance. Nonetheless, since every dog is descended from a single pack of a dozen or two Mesopotamian wolves, a St. Bernard and a Chihuahua are more closely related to wolves than a human from Norway is to a human from Borneo.

I really can't imagine any situation where a mouse would take a ride on a frog. But I have seen some pretty amazing animal pair ups and that photo looked good enough to get the benefit of the doubt.

There are zillions of docile, domesticated pet mice. This could simply have been staged.

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[Mazulu]

Those are amazing pictures. The bird piggybacking on the bird looks photo-shopped (but it's a cool picture). The mouse on frog looks real to me.

[KilljoyKlown]

Those are amazing pictures. The bird piggybacking on the bird looks photo-shopped (but it's a cool picture). The mouse on frog looks real to me.

If it is photoshopped it will take more of an expert than myself to tell. But I do find it hard to believe a crow would piggy back an eagle.

[KilljoyKlown]

Those are amazing pictures. The bird piggybacking on the bird looks photo-shopped (but it's a cool picture). The mouse on frog looks real to me.

I'm surprised no one said anything about the elephant in the tree, but I guess there is no doubt about that one, even if it was well done.

[Mazulu]

I'm surprised no one said anything about the elephant in the tree, but I guess there is no doubt about that one, even if it was well done.

If the elephant's ears were hanging down, it would add to the illusion.

I really liked the picture of the fox getting grabbed by the bird. The picture deserves a good caption. Like, "What else could go wrong?"

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[Mazulu]

On the camouflaged critters, I just now saw the bug on the leaf. How does it do that?

[scheherazade]

Not an uncommon animal, yet an albino squirrel is quite a rare find. Despite living near to a pair of nesting Red Tailed hawks and numerous Barred Owls, this squirrels has been spotted for the last four years in the same general area in West Columbia.