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http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2HfmfQ/knf8BIHZ:l26p_fqj/www.whattodowhenbored.ca/2014/05/23-mind-blowing-animal-pictures.html
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Suich
(10,642 posts)Thanks for posting!
station001
(50 posts)calimary
(81,500 posts)Glad you're here! That crab is stunning! So tiny and yet so intricate. DANG. Just astonishing. Nature's pretty damn wonderful!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)about being dunked in the moat.
calimary
(81,500 posts)AMAZING! Just spectacular images!!! The blood pheasant! The tadpoles! DANG!!!
murielm99
(30,764 posts)but I liked the tadpoles. The picture is beautiful.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Stuart G
(38,448 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)ursus arctos horriblis
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)I hate seeing wild animals made to perform for the public.
What right have we to pluck them from their natural habitat? Of course, they may well be safer in captivity, knowing how their numbers are plummeting in the wild (again, due to man)
But still... like the desecration of Mount Everest, it bums me out completely.
Otherwise, I enjoyed the photos-- thanks!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,858 posts)They want to be sure they can swim before allowing them near the pond in the enclosure - there's no performing involved. Unfortunately tigers are highly endangered and the only way they might survive in the long term is by breeding them in zoos.
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)though I wish things were different. Like the Carolina Parakeet. Before I started birding, I had no idea we had our very own American parakeet once upon a time-- it's extinct now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_parakeet
Uh oh-- this thread may get locked because I veered from the original subject! Mea culpa