A few nice all about animals images I found:
mumbles such are promises
Image by Kalense Kid
The White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum) is the second largest land mammal, weighing two tons or more as an adult. Pathetic by comparison with the big dinosaurs, or even the megafauna that early man got rid of, but still pretty impressive.
The southern white rhino, of which this is a specimen, was driven to the brink of extinction at the end of the 19th century by hunters, farmers, and poachers. People say that only around 100-150 survived. Since then, it’s been quite effectively protected, and they think there are more than 10 000 alive now.
Its problem is still its horn, which although made only of keratin – the same substance that makes your hair and nails – it is worth more than its weight in gold as medicine in the Far East and dagger handles in the Middle East. How would you like walking around the streets with 10kg of gold attached to your face?
It’s blue, so why is it called a White Rhinoceros? Because the English who heard the Afrikaaners talking about the wide (weit)-mouth rhino thought that they were saying "weit". Which is quite a different kettle of fish, because it means white.
It’s sometimes called the square-lipped rhinoceros, in contrast with the “black” rhino, whose upper lip has a George-Bush-like prehensile hook.
I liked this one's beady eye. We came across each other after I'd been in the Pilanesburg nature reserve for all of 15 minutes. He was less impressed by me than I was by him.
20110925 - cats vs. frog - 1 - the introduction - MVI_3627 (3m35s) -- CUT OFF ON FLICKR!!
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Don't eat him!
Carolyn, Clint.
jumping, pawing, purring.
Lemonjello the cat, Oranjello the cat, Oscar the frog, water bottle.
bathroom, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
September 25, 2011.
BACKSTORY: After the Descendents concert, we were hanging out in the parking lot waiting for it to clear out a bit before heading to the next venue for the ALL concert. Some poor girl asked us if we had jumper cables, and of course we did. She was very grateful and said, "You are like the 50th person we asked!" (What's with people not carrying jumper cables anymore? You sad, unprepared fucks!)
Anyway, while Clint was helping them, he found a frog in the parking lot. Ok, actually a toad, but still. ALL has a song called Frog, and they talk about catching a frog, and the difficulties of trying to sell it. And now we had a frog! What are the odds. Clint tried to sell the frog, but nobody wanted to buy it, as predicted by the song. The frog in the song is named Oscar, so naturally, this frog's name is now Oscar.
Oscar had an eventful evening that night. He went from the parking lot at the Festival Pier in Philadelphia to a parking garage at the next venue, spent a night in New Jersey, came back to Virginia, met our kitties, and now lives in our back yard where he has a lot of space and a creek... And no parking lots or boats mosh pits.
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