Share Animal Pictures: For Animal Lovers

[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.

 

[Rive]

Serious dedication, surprisingly deep knowledge of vibro-compaction and composite materials...
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Also - cute

 

[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.

Correction: The "Great Southern Brood" (Brood XIX) emerges every 13 years, not 17.

And the nymph in the picture that I posted had apparently already "hatched". A couple of days later, it looked the same but was definitely an empty husk.

 

[DennisN]

Emperor penguin chicks jump off a 50-foot cliff in Antarctica NEVER-BEFORE-FILMED FOR TV | Nat Geo

 

[berkeman]

 

[berkeman]

 

[berkeman]

 

[dwarde]

The rabbit gets pushy about 24 seconds in.

 

[BillTre]

The big gulp:

 

[berkeman]

Daad! Lemme go!

 

[BillTre]

 

[berkeman]

 

[BillTre]

 

[symbolipoint]

I would take that name and guess that what we commonly see may be called "Green Scarab Beetle"? They appear the same except for color. I am only guessing about the name. (BillTre 's #2712 post)

 

[berkeman]

Oops...

 

[BillTre]

My daughter had a job for a while putting out camera traps looking at logs across streams to survey wildlife populations. However, never got one as cool as this.

 

[Ibix]

Oops...

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Yeah. The optical design software I trained with had a setting that would optimise for designs that were resistant to mis-alignment (it preferred wide peaks in the merit function when optimising, basically). The guy who taught the course described it as the "binoculars for squaddies" setting. I reckon "lion resistant cameras" might be a better phrase, though.

 

[Flyboy]

The Toad Council has decided that they do not like me…

 

[dwarde]

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

Here's a very detaled little internal piece of an animal, a large pyramidal cell from a cortical area:

These are involved in making things go behaviorally.

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

 

[BillTre]

 

[Swamp Thing]

 

[symbolipoint]

If that about the fish navigating is true, must we stop easting fish?

 

[BillTre]

 

[renormalize]

If that about the fish navigating is true, must we stop easting fish?

We should definitely skip fish who are navigating and only east those who are at west.

 

[symbolipoint]

We should definitely skip fish who are navigating and only east those who are at west.

These remarks I made about the goldfish learning to navigate are because they seem to be more intelligent than we may have given them credit for being, and that maybe such animals should not be eaten, because of ethics in how we should treat intelligent and sensitive animals.

 

[BillTre]

These remarks I made about the goldfish learning to navigate are because they seem to be more intelligent than we may have given them credit for being, and that maybe such animals should not be eaten, because of ethics in how we should treat intelligent and sensitive animals.

What about salmon? They navigate.
Navigation is a general animal ability. The goldfish is just doing it in an unlikely manner.

 

[fresh_42]

What about salmon? They navigate.
Navigation is a general animal ability. The goldfish is just doing it in an unlikely manner.

Two species occur on everybody's dinner card whether they navigate or not: fish and mice. If you're a fish or a mouse then you've drawn the *** card as we say here. (Probably because football referees usually have the red card that sends players off the pitch in their back pockets.)