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Some cool animal videos images:


warthog world
animal videos
Image by helen.2006
everyone gets a turn

Nice Animal Pics photos

A few nice animal pics images I found:




150mm+ Zoom
animal pics
Image by Johnwobert
These pics were all taken @150mm focal length or greater.

i seperated these fro mthe rest as i discovered them to be extremely soft especially when taken with the widest aperture available. Some pics taken at F/8 or greater are useable but still soft.

cos of these pics i have replaced my kit 50-200mm pentax lens with a tamron 28-300 which seems to be sharp all the way through the focal length ... gosh darn it ... i guess i have to go back to Chester Zoo :)))))

Cool Animal Cruelty images

Check out these animal cruelty images:


Hat
animal cruelty
Image by waldopepper
He's strangely OK wearing hats


killer hornets 2
animal cruelty
Image by YourLocalDave
The second shot I took close up. At first they REALLY didn't like my bothering them but they were too preoccupied. I was too excited to think about using a timer and I almost got stung but it came out decent.


Animal cruelty at FAO Schwartz. Exhibit A
animal cruelty
Image by Daveybot
Seriously. Doesn't the WWF or Greenpeace or anyone care? These poor, noble, normally solitary animals, packed together in unhealthily close proximity, given no food, and sold to children, of all people!

I actually took an awful lot of these pictures, but decided to only upload one in case people found the images too traumatic. Jody has more.

Cool Animal Rights images

A few nice animal rights images I found:




2007-02-05 - Animals & Women - 0025
animal rights
Image by smiteme

Nice Toy Animals photos

A few nice toy animals images I found:



Animaland Toys Display 004
toy animals
Image by Dexter Panganiban
Animaland is a place where you could make animal stuffed toys to look like human. Great for gifts this christmas Season - bit.ly/animaland

Cool Stuffed Toy Animals images

A few nice stuffed toy animals images I found:


Stuffed Animals, December, 2008
stuffed toy animals
Image by Maggie Osterberg


firefox stuffed animal
stuffed toy animals
Image by idealisms

Nice Animal Friends photos

Check out these animal friends images:




Gators & Friends, Shreveport, LA
animal friends
Image by Shreveport-Bossier: Louisiana's Other Side
Gators & Friends Alligator Park and Exotic Zoo in Greenwood, LA is located just a 15-minute drive from downtown Shreveport. Home to hundreds of alligators as well as a variety of animals ranging from camels to kangaroos, Gators & Friends is an exciting trip for visitors of all ages.

For hours of operation and more information, visit Gators & Friends on-line at www.gatorsandfriends.com

The washing of Missy Mad

Check out these video of animals images:


The washing of Missy Mad
video of animals
Image by Ben.Millett
You can watch a video about this here and here (links to vimeo).


The washing of Missy Mad
video of animals
Image by Ben.Millett
You can watch a video about this here and here (links to vimeo).


WESTERN SCREECH OWL SONG
video of animals
Image by Fool-On-The-Hill
I toke this video after I had called in some Screech Owls up City Creek Canyon, Wasatch mnts., Utah, by mimicking their call. I know of a likely nest site there. At one point I had 3 of them in the Oak brush calling and chasing each other around. I guess I had caused quite a stir. One of them even dove at me and practically touched my face with its wing feathers. I sometimes hear these owls in my back yard at night too.

Stirling StoneWorks of Utah New Work

Some cool animal control images:


Stirling StoneWorks of Utah New Work
animal control
Image by Stirling StoneWorks International

Nice Animal Friends photos

A few nice animal friends images I found:


St. Elmo's Fire the French Bulldog
animal friends
Image by Llima
For the record, I am not a little dog person. The bigger the better for me when it comes to dog. However, this little dog has completely captured my heart. Those little bat ears drive me crazy! I would definitely have one of these. Anyone want to give me one?

SOME FACTS:

The French Bulldog is a dog breed that originated from a group of English bulldog fanciers who were not interested in dog-fighting.

In the 1860's, French dog breeders imported some of these small bulldogs from Great Britain and bred them with French Terriers.

When the breed was eventually brought back to England, the English made a big scene about the name since the bulldog was originally an English breed and was the traditional symbol for English culture.

Foster puppies Sammi (the brown one) and Snickers (the brindle one)

A few nice animal puppy images I found:


Foster puppies Sammi (the brown one) and Snickers (the brindle one)
animal puppy
Image by jennandjon


Foster puppies Sammi (the brown one) and Snickers (the brindle one)
animal puppy
Image by jennandjon

Cool Endangered Animal Species images

Check out these endangered animal species images:


Picture 44.jpg
endangered animal species
Image by ellenm1

Cool Extinct Animals images

Some cool extinct animals images:


Saber-Toothed Cat
extinct animals
Image by Travis S.
This is the profile of a completely articulated saber-toothed cat. It's skull actually looks rather small for the rest of its body. I suppose it makes up for this with the size of its canines.


Puma in sepia
extinct animals
Image by Gabriela Ruellan
Striking a stately pose.
· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
En una pose majestuosa.

Puma concolor
English: Puma, Cougar, Mountain Lion
Español (de Argentina): puma, león
Avañe'ẽ (guarani): jagua pytã
Qhichwa simi (quechua): puma
Mapudungun: trapial (♂), pangi (♀)
Qom l'aqtaqa (toba): sawaGayk
Wichi: p'uwalháh
Iyojwa'ja 'lij (chorote): k'iwajla

Location / Lugar: Jardín Zoológico de La Plata (La Plata Zoological Garden), La Plata, Buenos Aires province, Argentina
Distribution range / Área de distribución: From Canada to the Magellan Strait (in former times, covering an uninterrupted area). In Argentina it has disappeared from most of the mesopotamic region, Buenos Aires province and the central region, and from coastal Patagonia; it's near-extinct in Uruguay / Desde Canadá al Estrecho de Magallanes (antiguamente cubriendo un área ininterrumpida). En Argentina ha desaparecido de la mayor parte de la región mesopotámica, provincia de Buenos Aires y región central, y de la costa de la Patagonia; en Uruguay está casi extinguido

flaming faerie 2012

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flaming faerie 2012
animals that are extinct
Image by mardi grass 2011
Endangered Species: Psychedelic Water 26>

“Hippies are an endangered species here now,” the feral said through the knotty plaits of his beard.

“Not in Japan!” The slight sunbrowned man with a far neater beard and designer dreads laughed over the flames.

“No?”

“No – in Japan, many hippie!”

“We hear nothing about it out here, but in Japan there’s a hippie revolution right now,” Ram interrupted.

“That right.”

Ram turned to the Nipponese man. “It’s because that’s where the young people are – all over Asia. In the sixties and seventies the demographic balance was like this;” He steepled his fingers into a pyramid. “Old people…” He indicated the triangle’s pinnacle with a wave of his fingertips. “Young people…” he swept his wrists outward. Then he inverted the pyramid. “Now in the West, it’s like this. Very few young people, and all more tightly constrained.

“But not in Japan.”

“No,” agreed Zen. “In Japan many young people. Many hippie.”

Cameron conceded the point. “Well, there are a lot more Japanese in town this year, and they’re not all like the squeaky cleanskins that used to turn up, it’s true…” The shaman excused himself to water a nearby tree. When he returned Cameron was describing a strange small creature he’d seen nearby. “It’s only about the size of a rabbit – but it’s not a rabbit.”

“Not a rabbit?” The Japanese hippie couple repeated in unison.

“No – about the same size, but different.”

“Not a bandicoot?” Ram asked.

“No – wait – there it is now!” Cameron’s whisper morphed into a gasp. “You hear that?” A strange loud squeak filled the sudden silence.

“You’re right,” Ram whispered, squatting forward on his toes by the small cooking fire. “That’s no bandicoot.”

“Here it comes,” Cameron said as a squat shrub rustled only a few paces away and a small dark form emerged. He flicked on a blue-white LED flashlight and a diminutive rat-like creature was brightly illuminated for a flashing moment before it leapt and darted for the rainforest underbrush beside the creek. “Sorry – I probably shouldn’t have frightened it. But it’s here every night.”

Catalogues of photographs, drawings and paintings riffled through Ram’s mind; reams of images of native and imported animals studied during years of fauna surveying, or witnessed live and firsthand in plains, woodlands and deep forests throughout the eastern half of the great island continent. None of the remembered forms quite matched this tailless, two kilo marsupial with a surprisingly flattened and rounded face. “Another unknown,” he announced. “A little like a bettong, but not a bettong. Not a bandicoot. Not a potoroo. And definitely not a rabbit.”

“Not rabbit?” Zen echoed. The Japanese Wwoofa (a willing worker on organic farms, exchanging work for board as he travelled the country) still peered into the darkness in stupefaction. His beautiful mate Shi clung to his bare arm, patiently awaiting an explanation.

“No,” said Cameron. “Something very rare and unusual.”

“What is ‘bennon’?” Zen asked.

“Bettong.” Cameron corrected. “Like a bilby.” Zen and Shi regarded him with nonplussed expressions.

“A small kangaroo-like creature, only a foot tall – thirty centimetres,” Ram explained.

“Ah!”

“Oh! But that not one of them?” Shi’s voice is a gentle purr.

“I can’t work out what it is,” Ram admitted, listening to the creature rustling just out of sight in the darkness. “Around here,” he gestured at the massive tree-clad cliff facing them, “anything is possible. Up there above us is an escarpment - a great flat plateau full of rocky land, forest and caves. Anything could live up there…”

“And now that everything round here is regenerating so well, things’ll be coming down here, too,” Cameron continued.

“What that animal?” Zen enquired.

“Buggered if I know.” Cameron flashed his torch around for a few seconds. “It’s still there, somewhere.”

“You not know?” The young lovers peered into the dark.

“No idea,” Cameron confirmed, glancing at the shaman.

“Speaking from a view gleaned after years of fauna surveys and travelling and camping in remote bush,” he said, inwardly disapproving of the self-aggrandisement implied by his words, “that creature is a small marsupial that may be totally unknown to anyone but the Aborigines.”

“They know?” Shi’s eyes were glittering pools of firelight.

“Maybe,” said Cameron. “Probably.”

“You not see it before?”

“Not even in reference books,” Ram assured Zen. “All the images are spinning through my mind now. It’s not a bandicoot or a bettong… even if the tail’s been gnawed off by a dog. And those white splotches look like the markings on a juvenile koala, but its face is more like… a hamster…”

“But that definitely wasn’t a koala,” Cameron assured the visitors. Two flying foxes circled the Sally wattle they were seated beneath and the Japanese visitors looked up as the macrobats alighted in a nearby quandong tree, screeching and warbling in their complex semi-simian language.

Zen was amazed. “Wooah!”

“This animal unknown?” Shi’s eyes were wide, flickering in the firelight as she blinked up at the stars. It was only the third or fourth time that Ram had heard her shy, self-abnegating voice during the evening’s converse. “Not them –other little one,” she said.

“Well it’s unknown to us,” Cameron clarified. “But it could be completely unknown as well.”

“This country is recovering from a century and a half of logging and rampaging cows.” Ram gestured at the dark, hulking, lightless hills that surrounded them. “But it’s ringed by rugged country that no living white person has thoroughly explored. Between here and the mountains that run down the entire eastern side of the continent is a wild, wild country that’s almost totally uninhabited… by modern humans…”

“Like the Washpool and the upper catchments all along the coast and up on the mountains,” Cameron agreed. “Real wilderness, National Parks and reserves no-one lives in…”

“No human live there?” Zen was surprised.

Cameron bared his teeth in a grin. “Not for hundreds of square miles, in many places.”

The shaman shifted into a sitting position. “Last month all the Oz state governments in the east announced they’re declaring a wilderness sanctuary strip that will stretch from the far north tropics of the continent all the way to the far south, on the edge of the Southern Ocean. They’ve realized that you need at least that much land to preserve all the endangered creatures and forest types when you take climate catastrophe into account. And that last wild strip is the land they say they’re going to reserve.”

“Climate catastrophe?” Zen inquired.

“What they call ‘global warming’.”

“Really?” Cameron was incredulous. “When did this happen? I haven’t heard a thing about it!”

“It was front-page news for a day,” Ram replied. “Hardly anyone noticed, it seems.”

“Wow! Good news for a change! That’s incredible.”

“But true. We should really all be celebrating, but it seems most of the people who spent years getting arrested for saving those ecosystems don’t even know that we’ve won. Tell any feral forest fighters you see!”

“Don’t worry. I will.”

The shaman stared up at the brilliant star that still held Shi’s attention. “On the other hand, it is just an announcement by governments that may not be around for more than a year or two. But we can hope.”

“And there wild animal no-one know there as well?”

“You just reminded me,” Ram slapped his knee. “Less than a year ago eye saw an ‘extinct’ huge black quoll on the roadside… one of those mysterious big cats people occasionally report seeing…”

“The ‘black panthers’ you mean?” Cameron smirked.

“I can see why they’d think so.” The shaman returned his smirk. “If you hadn’t seen a quoll up close you’d have nothing better to mistake it for.”

“A koll?” Zen asked.

“Quoll,” Cameron corrected. “A native marsupial cat, called the spotted-tailed quoll.”

“Like koala?”

“About the same size, but you wouldn’t cuddle a quoll, mate, it’d tear you to pieces – unless you trained it from a kitten, and maybe not even then. You ever see a Tasmanian Devil?”

“You mean like on cartoon? Bugs Bunny?”

“That’s the one. Like that, but in real life. You don’t try to pat one.”

“You see one of them but black?”

“And big,” Ram agreed. “Almost as tall as the bonnet of the four wheel drive.”

“That big?”

“Aye – hai – completely black, like a panther, but with a couple of major differences, like a tail longer than it’s body, curved up over its back…” Ram swept his hand up into the firelight, “with a plumed, almost bulbous fringe on the end. A prehensile tail…”

“Just like a quoll,” Cameron suggested.

“And standing… well, almost on tip-toes, not like a cat at all – except for the curved arch of its spine when it turned to look at me. And the face was more squashed in than a cat’s – the face of a big sabre-toothed dasyurid marsupial quoll.”

“With pouch?” Zen suggested as Shi clung to his arm.

“With a pouch,” Ram confirmed. “Though it may face backward, not forward as in most other marsupials; some of the carnivores here are like that.”

“Ahh.”

“Should we tell anyone we see this animal?” Shi whispered.

“If you like,” Cameron said. “Just don’t tell any scientists.”

“Why not?”

“Because they come and catch it. Or kill it.” Cameron mimed the act with a chopping motion.

“No!” Shi was appalled. She looked to Zen for assurance that she’d understood the conversation correctly. Her beau translated for her in a rapid barrage of Japanese.

“Yes!” demurred Cameron. “They kill it, for research.”

“Really?” Zen was obviously confused and a little distraught. “If it so rare?”

“Because it’s so rare.” Cameron looked away and began rebuilding the fire.

“There used to be another species of quoll, all through this country,” Ram told them. “A smaller quoll with a more rat-like tail…”

“Not the spotted-tailed quoll, like the one we’ve been talking about,” Cameron explained as he built the pyre higher.

“No, a smaller quoll that became officially extinct a couple of decades ago. It’s not completely extinct – eye’ve seen one on the Carrai Plateau, a few hundred kilometres south of here, in that new wilderness reserve we were talking about.” More bats joined the small family at the nearby quandong tree. A dog began to bark in the far distance while Cameron filled a blackened stainless steel kettle from a large polycarbonate water container. The attention of the Japanese guests was riveted to the spectacle of the broad-winged fruit bats soaring a few metres over their heads.

“So this quoll not extinct?”

“Well… it’s debatable whether there are enough contiguous family groups to allow the species to survive long-term – enough of them to make it - but no-one really knows. You can’t count them by satellite - they usually live in surprisingly remote areas away from imported carnivores like dogs and cats, and the only people who work out there – the loggers – hardly know the place at all. They spend almost all their time in air-conditioned machines and don’t have the time or inclination to go exploring – and they’re not likely to tell anyone if they see any endangered species.”

“They have to pay for their mortgages,” Cameron explained.

“And the double-mortgages on their trucks,” Ram conceded. “Most of the areas we saved from logging in the past decades had never been surveyed before they started cutting them down. That’s why it was so easy for us to save many places. All we had to do was conduct flora and fauna – plant and animal – surveys, and in most of those untouched or barely touched areas we’d find rare and endangered species…”

“…That were about to become a whole lot more endangered,” Cameron filled in as he began rummaging around in the shadows to explore beverage options.

“Exactly. So we had legal grounds to stop the destruction because the workers and surveyors working for the government supposedly never saw a thing – but the first time anyone else looked, there were rare and unique animals there. I’ve seen four higher-order animals - marsupials - that aren’t described in any book. Five if you count whatever this is in the bushes… but we need a closer look to be certain.”

“Well hang around – it’ll be back,” Cameron assured him. “It’s here every night. Tea? Mint tea? Maté tea? Hot chocolate?” Shi climbed daintily to her feet and helped fill the small table with containers of milk, soymilk and honey.

“But back to the eastern quoll,” Ram continued. “When the authorities realized there were hardly any left, the museum in the Emerald City sent a surveyor out to find some. He came back with over sixty pelts…”

“Pelt?”

“Skins,” Cameron translated.

“…and the pelts were all female.”

“What?” Cameron laughed in shock. “Females?”

“They’re still in the drawer in the museum. You can see them there. They may have been the last sixty females – but as far as the museum knew, they were definitely from the last site where they were known to exist…”

“And they kill them?” Zen and Shi were dumbfounded.

“Of course,” Cameron said. “To prove they exist.”

“So… we not tell anyone then,” Zen decided. Shi nodded enthusiastically and reached for the honeypot. The flying foxes screeched and wheeled, inhabiting their own reality between the starry sky and the domesticated primates who huddled round the flickering fire below.


A true story
By R. Ayana

Continues @ centraxis.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/endangered-species-psyc... BE AWARE - THIS LINK LEADS TO IMPLICATE & XPLICIT CONCEPTS & IMAGES!



Cop photo op
animals that are extinct
Image by mardi grass 2011
Endangered Species: Psychedelic Water 26>

“Hippies are an endangered species here now,” the feral said through the knotty plaits of his beard.

“Not in Japan!” The slight sunbrowned man with a far neater beard and designer dreads laughed over the flames.

“No?”

“No – in Japan, many hippie!”

“We hear nothing about it out here, but in Japan there’s a hippie revolution right now,” Ram interrupted.

“That right.”

Ram turned to the Nipponese man. “It’s because that’s where the young people are – all over Asia. In the sixties and seventies the demographic balance was like this;” He steepled his fingers into a pyramid. “Old people…” He indicated the triangle’s pinnacle with a wave of his fingertips. “Young people…” he swept his wrists outward. Then he inverted the pyramid. “Now in the West, it’s like this. Very few young people, and all more tightly constrained.

“But not in Japan.”

“No,” agreed Zen. “In Japan many young people. Many hippie.”

Cameron conceded the point. “Well, there are a lot more Japanese in town this year, and they’re not all like the squeaky cleanskins that used to turn up, it’s true…” The shaman excused himself to water a nearby tree. When he returned Cameron was describing a strange small creature he’d seen nearby. “It’s only about the size of a rabbit – but it’s not a rabbit.”

“Not a rabbit?” The Japanese hippie couple repeated in unison.

“No – about the same size, but different.”

“Not a bandicoot?” Ram asked.

“No – wait – there it is now!” Cameron’s whisper morphed into a gasp. “You hear that?” A strange loud squeak filled the sudden silence.

“You’re right,” Ram whispered, squatting forward on his toes by the small cooking fire. “That’s no bandicoot.”

“Here it comes,” Cameron said as a squat shrub rustled only a few paces away and a small dark form emerged. He flicked on a blue-white LED flashlight and a diminutive rat-like creature was brightly illuminated for a flashing moment before it leapt and darted for the rainforest underbrush beside the creek. “Sorry – I probably shouldn’t have frightened it. But it’s here every night.”

Catalogues of photographs, drawings and paintings riffled through Ram’s mind; reams of images of native and imported animals studied during years of fauna surveying, or witnessed live and firsthand in plains, woodlands and deep forests throughout the eastern half of the great island continent. None of the remembered forms quite matched this tailless, two kilo marsupial with a surprisingly flattened and rounded face. “Another unknown,” he announced. “A little like a bettong, but not a bettong. Not a bandicoot. Not a potoroo. And definitely not a rabbit.”

“Not rabbit?” Zen echoed. The Japanese Wwoofa (a willing worker on organic farms, exchanging work for board as he travelled the country) still peered into the darkness in stupefaction. His beautiful mate Shi clung to his bare arm, patiently awaiting an explanation.

“No,” said Cameron. “Something very rare and unusual.”

“What is ‘bennon’?” Zen asked.

“Bettong.” Cameron corrected. “Like a bilby.” Zen and Shi regarded him with nonplussed expressions.

“A small kangaroo-like creature, only a foot tall – thirty centimetres,” Ram explained.

“Ah!”

“Oh! But that not one of them?” Shi’s voice is a gentle purr.

“I can’t work out what it is,” Ram admitted, listening to the creature rustling just out of sight in the darkness. “Around here,” he gestured at the massive tree-clad cliff facing them, “anything is possible. Up there above us is an escarpment - a great flat plateau full of rocky land, forest and caves. Anything could live up there…”

“And now that everything round here is regenerating so well, things’ll be coming down here, too,” Cameron continued.

“What that animal?” Zen enquired.

“Buggered if I know.” Cameron flashed his torch around for a few seconds. “It’s still there, somewhere.”

“You not know?” The young lovers peered into the dark.

“No idea,” Cameron confirmed, glancing at the shaman.

“Speaking from a view gleaned after years of fauna surveys and travelling and camping in remote bush,” he said, inwardly disapproving of the self-aggrandisement implied by his words, “that creature is a small marsupial that may be totally unknown to anyone but the Aborigines.”

“They know?” Shi’s eyes were glittering pools of firelight.

“Maybe,” said Cameron. “Probably.”

“You not see it before?”

“Not even in reference books,” Ram assured Zen. “All the images are spinning through my mind now. It’s not a bandicoot or a bettong… even if the tail’s been gnawed off by a dog. And those white splotches look like the markings on a juvenile koala, but its face is more like… a hamster…”

“But that definitely wasn’t a koala,” Cameron assured the visitors. Two flying foxes circled the Sally wattle they were seated beneath and the Japanese visitors looked up as the macrobats alighted in a nearby quandong tree, screeching and warbling in their complex semi-simian language.

Zen was amazed. “Wooah!”

“This animal unknown?” Shi’s eyes were wide, flickering in the firelight as she blinked up at the stars. It was only the third or fourth time that Ram had heard her shy, self-abnegating voice during the evening’s converse. “Not them –other little one,” she said.

“Well it’s unknown to us,” Cameron clarified. “But it could be completely unknown as well.”

“This country is recovering from a century and a half of logging and rampaging cows.” Ram gestured at the dark, hulking, lightless hills that surrounded them. “But it’s ringed by rugged country that no living white person has thoroughly explored. Between here and the mountains that run down the entire eastern side of the continent is a wild, wild country that’s almost totally uninhabited… by modern humans…”

“Like the Washpool and the upper catchments all along the coast and up on the mountains,” Cameron agreed. “Real wilderness, National Parks and reserves no-one lives in…”

“No human live there?” Zen was surprised.

Cameron bared his teeth in a grin. “Not for hundreds of square miles, in many places.”

The shaman shifted into a sitting position. “Last month all the Oz state governments in the east announced they’re declaring a wilderness sanctuary strip that will stretch from the far north tropics of the continent all the way to the far south, on the edge of the Southern Ocean. They’ve realized that you need at least that much land to preserve all the endangered creatures and forest types when you take climate catastrophe into account. And that last wild strip is the land they say they’re going to reserve.”

“Climate catastrophe?” Zen inquired.

“What they call ‘global warming’.”

“Really?” Cameron was incredulous. “When did this happen? I haven’t heard a thing about it!”

“It was front-page news for a day,” Ram replied. “Hardly anyone noticed, it seems.”

“Wow! Good news for a change! That’s incredible.”

“But true. We should really all be celebrating, but it seems most of the people who spent years getting arrested for saving those ecosystems don’t even know that we’ve won. Tell any feral forest fighters you see!”

“Don’t worry. I will.”

The shaman stared up at the brilliant star that still held Shi’s attention. “On the other hand, it is just an announcement by governments that may not be around for more than a year or two. But we can hope.”

“And there wild animal no-one know there as well?”

“You just reminded me,” Ram slapped his knee. “Less than a year ago eye saw an ‘extinct’ huge black quoll on the roadside… one of those mysterious big cats people occasionally report seeing…”

“The ‘black panthers’ you mean?” Cameron smirked.

“I can see why they’d think so.” The shaman returned his smirk. “If you hadn’t seen a quoll up close you’d have nothing better to mistake it for.”

“A koll?” Zen asked.

“Quoll,” Cameron corrected. “A native marsupial cat, called the spotted-tailed quoll.”

“Like koala?”

“About the same size, but you wouldn’t cuddle a quoll, mate, it’d tear you to pieces – unless you trained it from a kitten, and maybe not even then. You ever see a Tasmanian Devil?”

“You mean like on cartoon? Bugs Bunny?”

“That’s the one. Like that, but in real life. You don’t try to pat one.”

“You see one of them but black?”

“And big,” Ram agreed. “Almost as tall as the bonnet of the four wheel drive.”

“That big?”

“Aye – hai – completely black, like a panther, but with a couple of major differences, like a tail longer than it’s body, curved up over its back…” Ram swept his hand up into the firelight, “with a plumed, almost bulbous fringe on the end. A prehensile tail…”

“Just like a quoll,” Cameron suggested.

“And standing… well, almost on tip-toes, not like a cat at all – except for the curved arch of its spine when it turned to look at me. And the face was more squashed in than a cat’s – the face of a big sabre-toothed dasyurid marsupial quoll.”

“With pouch?” Zen suggested as Shi clung to his arm.

“With a pouch,” Ram confirmed. “Though it may face backward, not forward as in most other marsupials; some of the carnivores here are like that.”

“Ahh.”

“Should we tell anyone we see this animal?” Shi whispered.

“If you like,” Cameron said. “Just don’t tell any scientists.”

“Why not?”

“Because they come and catch it. Or kill it.” Cameron mimed the act with a chopping motion.

“No!” Shi was appalled. She looked to Zen for assurance that she’d understood the conversation correctly. Her beau translated for her in a rapid barrage of Japanese.

“Yes!” demurred Cameron. “They kill it, for research.”

“Really?” Zen was obviously confused and a little distraught. “If it so rare?”

“Because it’s so rare.” Cameron looked away and began rebuilding the fire.

“There used to be another species of quoll, all through this country,” Ram told them. “A smaller quoll with a more rat-like tail…”

“Not the spotted-tailed quoll, like the one we’ve been talking about,” Cameron explained as he built the pyre higher.

“No, a smaller quoll that became officially extinct a couple of decades ago. It’s not completely extinct – eye’ve seen one on the Carrai Plateau, a few hundred kilometres south of here, in that new wilderness reserve we were talking about.” More bats joined the small family at the nearby quandong tree. A dog began to bark in the far distance while Cameron filled a blackened stainless steel kettle from a large polycarbonate water container. The attention of the Japanese guests was riveted to the spectacle of the broad-winged fruit bats soaring a few metres over their heads.

“So this quoll not extinct?”

“Well… it’s debatable whether there are enough contiguous family groups to allow the species to survive long-term – enough of them to make it - but no-one really knows. You can’t count them by satellite - they usually live in surprisingly remote areas away from imported carnivores like dogs and cats, and the only people who work out there – the loggers – hardly know the place at all. They spend almost all their time in air-conditioned machines and don’t have the time or inclination to go exploring – and they’re not likely to tell anyone if they see any endangered species.”

“They have to pay for their mortgages,” Cameron explained.

“And the double-mortgages on their trucks,” Ram conceded. “Most of the areas we saved from logging in the past decades had never been surveyed before they started cutting them down. That’s why it was so easy for us to save many places. All we had to do was conduct flora and fauna – plant and animal – surveys, and in most of those untouched or barely touched areas we’d find rare and endangered species…”

“…That were about to become a whole lot more endangered,” Cameron filled in as he began rummaging around in the shadows to explore beverage options.

“Exactly. So we had legal grounds to stop the destruction because the workers and surveyors working for the government supposedly never saw a thing – but the first time anyone else looked, there were rare and unique animals there. I’ve seen four higher-order animals - marsupials - that aren’t described in any book. Five if you count whatever this is in the bushes… but we need a closer look to be certain.”

“Well hang around – it’ll be back,” Cameron assured him. “It’s here every night. Tea? Mint tea? Maté tea? Hot chocolate?” Shi climbed daintily to her feet and helped fill the small table with containers of milk, soymilk and honey.

“But back to the eastern quoll,” Ram continued. “When the authorities realized there were hardly any left, the museum in the Emerald City sent a surveyor out to find some. He came back with over sixty pelts…”

“Pelt?”

“Skins,” Cameron translated.

“…and the pelts were all female.”

“What?” Cameron laughed in shock. “Females?”

“They’re still in the drawer in the museum. You can see them there. They may have been the last sixty females – but as far as the museum knew, they were definitely from the last site where they were known to exist…”

“And they kill them?” Zen and Shi were dumbfounded.

“Of course,” Cameron said. “To prove they exist.”

“So… we not tell anyone then,” Zen decided. Shi nodded enthusiastically and reached for the honeypot. The flying foxes screeched and wheeled, inhabiting their own reality between the starry sky and the domesticated primates who huddled round the flickering fire below.


A true story
By R. Ayana

Continues @ centraxis.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/endangered-species-psyc... BE AWARE - THIS LINK LEADS TO IMPLICATE & XPLICIT CONCEPTS & IMAGES!

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Animal Shelter Painting Event
animal shelter
Image by wabisabi2015

Tusks removed from a poached elephant

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Tusks removed from a poached elephant
animal cruelty
Image by Sokwanele - Zimbabwe

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marine animals
Image by BioDivLibrary
Oceanic ichthyology. v.22 atlas.
Cambridge, U.S.A. :Printed for the Museum,1896.
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4330911


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marine animals
Image by BioDivLibrary
Oceanic ichthyology. v.22 atlas.
Cambridge, U.S.A. :Printed for the Museum,1896.
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4330768

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animal health
Image by Pierce Farm Watch
goat with caseous lymphadenitis abscess


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animal health
Image by Pierce Farm Watch
goat with caseous lymphadenitis abscess

Nice Endangered Species Animals photos

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Orang Utang
endangered species animals
Image by Marcel_Ekkel

World of Birds

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World of Birds
animal world
Image by féileacán
World of Birds

World of Birds is the largest bird park in Africa and one of the few large bird parks in the World. Over 3 000 birds (and small animals) of 400 different species are uniquely presented in more than 100 spacious landscaped walk through aviaries, allowing you the most intimate closeness with nature.

A tropical garden setting in the Hout Bay Valley is the environment in which the aviaries are spaced over 4 ha of land, framed by the back of Table Mountain, the Twelve Apostles, Constantiaberg, Chapman’s Peak and Little Lion’s Head. A paradise for nature lovers and photographers, the World of Birds is one of Cape Town’s premier tourist attractions which no visitor should miss.

100 000 visitors annually enjoy the outing to the World of Birds. The Hout Bay Fishing Village and Fishing Harbour just 10 km outside Cape Town can be reached either along the scenic routes of the Coastal Drive via Camps Bay and Llandudno or via Kirstenbosch and Constantia, or on the way to and from Cape Point Nature Reserve via the spectacular Chapman’s Peak Drive.

www.worldofbirds.org.za/


World of Birds
animal world
Image by féileacán
World of Birds

World of Birds is the largest bird park in Africa and one of the few large bird parks in the World. Over 3 000 birds (and small animals) of 400 different species are uniquely presented in more than 100 spacious landscaped walk through aviaries, allowing you the most intimate closeness with nature.

A tropical garden setting in the Hout Bay Valley is the environment in which the aviaries are spaced over 4 ha of land, framed by the back of Table Mountain, the Twelve Apostles, Constantiaberg, Chapman’s Peak and Little Lion’s Head. A paradise for nature lovers and photographers, the World of Birds is one of Cape Town’s premier tourist attractions which no visitor should miss.

100 000 visitors annually enjoy the outing to the World of Birds. The Hout Bay Fishing Village and Fishing Harbour just 10 km outside Cape Town can be reached either along the scenic routes of the Coastal Drive via Camps Bay and Llandudno or via Kirstenbosch and Constantia, or on the way to and from Cape Point Nature Reserve via the spectacular Chapman’s Peak Drive.

www.worldofbirds.org.za/


World of Birds
animal world
Image by féileacán
World of Birds

World of Birds is the largest bird park in Africa and one of the few large bird parks in the World. Over 3 000 birds (and small animals) of 400 different species are uniquely presented in more than 100 spacious landscaped walk through aviaries, allowing you the most intimate closeness with nature.

A tropical garden setting in the Hout Bay Valley is the environment in which the aviaries are spaced over 4 ha of land, framed by the back of Table Mountain, the Twelve Apostles, Constantiaberg, Chapman’s Peak and Little Lion’s Head. A paradise for nature lovers and photographers, the World of Birds is one of Cape Town’s premier tourist attractions which no visitor should miss.

100 000 visitors annually enjoy the outing to the World of Birds. The Hout Bay Fishing Village and Fishing Harbour just 10 km outside Cape Town can be reached either along the scenic routes of the Coastal Drive via Camps Bay and Llandudno or via Kirstenbosch and Constantia, or on the way to and from Cape Point Nature Reserve via the spectacular Chapman’s Peak Drive.

www.worldofbirds.org.za/

Nice Wildlife Animals photos

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wildlife animals
Image by Peter Burnage
Taken at the British Wildlife Centre, Lingfield, Surrey UK

Nice Animal Protection photos

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27/2/2009 8:22 PM - Chatter
animal protection
Image by Barbara.Doduk
www.rapsociety.com/catsanctuary

Cool All About Animals images

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Love
all about animals
Image by Bruce McKay Yellow Snow Photography
Zipp (the river rescued one) giving and recieving some love. Zipp has been doing really well since his river rescue and was being watch while I had students dogsledding. It is all about education and empathy training...

I am off to Whitehorse, Yukon for meetings and I am taking Flickr to vet so she won't have pups. Hopefully she won't be too traumatized by the experience. I have to buy 3 more dog kenells (cages) for my growing family for their night time bedsin the basement.

Cool Animals Endangered images

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animals endangered
Image by Bakudai

Nice Animal Shelters photos

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Animal Shelter Painting Event
animal shelters
Image by wabisabi2015

Arizona Goldens Pup in Training

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Arizona Goldens Pup in Training
images of animals
Image by cobalt123
At the VRATE Expo in Glendale, Arizona, this puppy in training patiently participated in a vendor booth featuring service animals. He is featured in the next photo which shows off his bandanna with the logo of the trainers. The organization is Arizona Goldens, LLC, from their website:
azgoldensllc.com/

"Arizona Goldens LLC is a company that raises, trains, and places highly trained service dogs with adults and children with disabilities. We specialize in training dogs for mobility, vision, hearing, as well as therapy work."

VRATE is held annually to benefit community members showcasing an expo for vision rehabilitation and technology.


"That Will Be a .00 Entrance Fee, Please" (Or I could just eat you!)
images of animals
Image by Puzzler4879
Postcard image of a begging bear in Yellowstone National Park, ca. early 1930's. It's a wonder that this dangerous behavior was condoned, and even encouraged back then, and that we didn't lose half of our visitors! This card was mailed in 1950, but the image is obviously older. **Thanks to Beautiful Sunshine's hubby for identifying the cars for me. The car with the bear is a 1928 Model A Ford, and the rear car is a 1929 Cadillac.

You can visit Yellowstone today at www.nps.gov/yell.

View On Black


Cranefly
images of animals
Image by nebarnix
178 image stack of a live cranefly under the 4X lomo objective at prime focus. 10um depth per frame. The images were shot through the top glass of a pyrex petri dish.

Off camera flash from the left shot through a square of tissue paper hung from the side of the microscope.

Used in this way, the 4X objective produces 5:1 magnification.

Zoorasia!

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Zoorasia!
endangered animal species
Image by yis2r


Zoorasia!
endangered animal species
Image by yis2r

The Long Tail

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The Long Tail
animals that are extinct
Image by EJP Photo
I don't know what it is about the skeletons that cause them to look like that under a camera flash... hence I tried not to use it too much, difficult as that is with so little ambient light to work with.



Red Wolf Pack (Canis rufus)
animals that are extinct
Image by warriorwoman531
The Red Wolf (Canis rufus) is a North American canid that became became extinct in the wild by 1980. In 1987, there was a reintroduction in northeastern North Carolina through a captive breeding program and the animals are considered to be successfully breeding in the wild. The Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, IL is one of only a few zoos in North America with successful breeding red wolves with litters twice in the past two years. There are now approximately 110 - 130 red wolves in the wild in North Carolina. Litters from the zoo are eventually released into the wild.

The Red Wolf has a coat that is long and coarse; mostly brown and buff colored on the upper part of the body with some black along the backs. Muzzle long; nose pad wide and black; ears rufous; legs long; tail long, bushy, black tipped. Body is intermediate in size between the gray wolf and the coyote.

Photographed at the Miller Park Zoo

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Dandelion
service animal
Image by stephskardal
Dandelion is available for adoption. Call Salt Lake County Animal Services (801) 559-1100 and ask for animal ID #A338575.

San Clemente Island Goat male

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San Clemente Island Goat male
types of animals
Image by warriorwoman531
The San Clemente Island goat is a type of domestic goat derived from feral goats isolated on San Clemente Island, one of the Channel Islands off the coast of California. San Clemente Island goats are small, fine-boned, and deer-like. The males sport outwardly-twisting, Spanish-type horns. Though not a breed in the strictest sense, San Clemente Island goats are listed as a critically endangered heritage breed by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy. In 2009, their global population was about 450. They live on the mainland U.S.A. and in western Canada.

Miller Park Zoo had multiple births of their San Clemente Island goats this year and are helping to increase the population.

Photographed at the Miller Park Zoo


Peek-a-Boo
types of animals
Image by Furryscaly
Critter's so cute : ) He's a Scolopendra polymorpha, a type of centipede.

This photo is also seen on Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopendra_polymorpha

Check out my group for centipedes and millipedes, Myriapoda :)


Look how cool my jacket is!
types of animals
Image by tanakawho
This type of jacket with gorgeous embroidery is called "Suka-jan" in Japan. "Suka-jan" means Yokosuka jumper(bomber jacket like jacket) which was originally made in the city of Yokosuka. These were very popular souvenirs among G.I.s after the WWII. The parachute material used to be recycled into a jacket with various Oriental taste embroidery .

Nice Service Animal photos

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Marcy
service animal
Image by stephskardal
Marcy is available for adoption. Call Salt Lake County Animal Services (801) 559-1100 and ask for animal ID #A337755.


Pepper
service animal
Image by stephskardal
Pepper is available for adoption. Call Salt Lake County Animal Services (801) 559-1100 and ask for animal ID #A339066.


Angus
service animal
Image by stephskardal
Angus is available for adoption. Call Salt Lake County Animal Services (801) 559-1100 and ask for animal ID #A338682.

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