Animals

As ever, random selections finished with a tiger.

desk weasel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2CTVqt2wxU

http://www.worldrhinoday.org/

pet racoon

not mine !

http://www.boredpanda.com/rescued-raccoon-orphan-dog-pumpkin-laura-young/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=BPFacebook

Albatrosses are awesome.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/30/worlds-oldest-tracked-bird-wisdom-laysan-albatross-midway-atoll

64 years of sailing the skies above the seas ...

a baby quoll ?

and a bigger ones

never heard of them before

First day of Spring and I find this sitting outside my shed.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/13/bird-brained-and-proud-densely-packed-neurons-give-birds-intellectual-edge

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-fire-brigade-reveal-most-bizarre-animalrelated-callouts-a3307796.html

In case you were wondering

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It does fill you with some hope when people do research like this into animal minds:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/jul/03/research.science

At a dolphinarium, a person standing by the pool’s window noticed that a dolphin calf was watching him. When he released a puff of smoke from his cigarette, the dolphin immediately swam off to her mother, returned and released a mouthful of milk, causing a similar effect to the cigarette smoke.

Whether any of that will stop people abusing animals I don't know, but you can always hope.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jan/22/pioneering-female-becomes-first-wolf-in-belgium-in-a-century?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet

https://blog.artfido.com/photographer-takes-pictures-of-ingo-the-dog-and-his-owl-friends-and-theyre-amazing/

There are just two foxes around the garden now. It's mating season and yesterday morning I caught them in a 'copulatory tie'. They were still stuck together when I left for work 15 minutes later.

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Please don't post porn on here without at least flagging it nsfw.

The vixen doesn't look very impressed with having her picture taken mid copulation.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/26/beware-the-long-face-horses-remember-your-mood

backyard animals even in a small london terrace are great
this year i'm mostly squirrel wrangling , have 4 in the back garden and have been feeding them peanuts and sunflower seeds on the back patio, have almost got one to feed out of my hand, it brushed a finger but didn't take a nut, soon though,

two females look ready to pop so there might be the patter of tiny claws in the coming months

and through the winter / spring my population of blue tits has rocketed, some successful feeding through winter and a good incubation and there are lots of excitable young blue tits squawking and chirping round the bird feeder each day