Entries tagged with zoos

Current Mood: ehh whatever
Current Music: tweety birds

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Father's Day

Wolf and fox fathers protect, feed, teach, and play with their children.

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Red fox kit gets a good licking from his father, Lansing, New York, USA
Photo by Melissa Groo
Wildlife in suburbia: Photographer watches fox kits grow up (story and more pics)

( four more pics, all child/work-safe )

Current Mood: depressed

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For the love of cats

Semi-tame cheetah Mtombi with photographer Chris du Plessis, Tshukudu Game Lodge, Hoedspruit, South Africa
Photo (taken remotely) by Chris du Plessis
Amazing moment a cheetah lies down next to a photographer and even lets him stroke her head (story and more pics)

( fourteen more pics, all child/work-safe )

Current Mood: serene
Current Location: in a purple haze
Current Music: Forensic Files

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Little handfuls

Two-year-old sugar glider Hazel
See the entire photo series, “Hazel with Fruit,” at Imgur

( nineteen more pics, all child/work-safe; spider and snake included )

Current Mood: dazed

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Penguins are cool

Yellow-eyed penguin, Oamaru, New Zealand
Photo by Richard Giddins

( fourteen more pics, three GIFs, and one embedded video, all child/work-safe )

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: ticking Audubon bird clock

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World Otter Day was Wednesday

Oriental small-clawed otter Lara, Misaki Park, Misaki, Japan
Beginners Blog Otter

( thirteen more pics, two GIFs and three embedded videos, all child/work-safe )

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: tick tock of the clock

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Night owls

Brown Wood Owl, Toni’s Zoo, Rothenburg, Switzerland
Photo by Emmanuel Keller (Tambako the Jaguar at Flickr)

( nine more pics, all child/work-safe )

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Location: in a comfortable holding pattern
Current Music: the wind whooshing through the trees

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Kitty-palooza!

Eight-month-old snow leopard sisters Okara and Orya, Zürich Zoologischer Garten, Zürich, Switzerland
Photo by Peter Bolliger
Let It Snow! (story, more photos and a video)

( eleven more pics, two GIFs and two embedded videos; all child/work-safe like whoa )

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: house finches in song

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Cuteness mix

Raccoon, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Photo by Bill Taylor
Wildlife vs. the city: Can’t we get along?

( eleven more pics and three GIFs, all child/work-safe )

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Law & Order on Sundance Channel

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You’re not a train

Reddit; bonus exhaustive logic discussion

( nine more pics, all child/work-safe )

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: wind in the trees

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Mother love

Rebecca and Martin Hill’s cat Sugar, looking after her litter of several kittens and one adopted baby squirrel, Chestnut
Photo by Nils Jorgenson
Orphaned Animals Who Were Adopted By A Different Species

( fourteen more pics, all child/work-safe; includes a caiman and a scorpion (because they have mothers too) )

Current Mood: creative
Current Music: Law & Order: Criminal Intent

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Dogs are beautiful

Jaska, a border collie
Photo by Arno Peil

( nineteen more pics, all child/work-safe )

Current Mood: silly
Current Music: chirpy birdies

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They were supposed to be smiley faces

Cherokee Park, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Life, Birding, Photos and Everything

( nine more pics, all child/work-safe )

Current Mood: optimistic

Wildlife refuge

Giraffe
Photo by Ruben Schmalenberg

( thirteen more pics and four GIFs, all child/work-safe; includes a bug, spider and snake (oh my) )

Current Mood: busy

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Did you have a happy Easter?

( ten more pics and an embedded video, all child/work-safe like whoa. Spider, snake and lizard included. )

Current Mood: enthralled

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Sea-ing otters

Mother sea otter and her pup sharing a meal, Point Lobos State Natural Reserve, Carmel-By-The-Sea, California, USA
Photo by Ming Wang

( six more pics, one GIF and three embedded videos; all are child/work-safe )

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Location: somewhere I can't see the dirty laundry
Current Music: ticking Audubon bird clock

Little green critters

Alcadia viridis, a nerite snail, Macaya National Park, southwestern Haiti, Hispaniola
Photo by Eladio M. Fernandez
The Silent Sliders (many more photos of various snails and similar animals)

( nine more pics, all child/work-safe; a snake, some bugs and a spider, but they’re cute as hell, I promise )

Current Mood: peaceful
Current Music: microwaving dinner

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Heart to heart

Lily and Lochie
Beagles UK

( five more pics, all child/work-safe )

Current Mood: silly
Current Location: in my happy place
Current Music: mourning dove

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Penguin Awareness Day…

…was on the 20th. (oops) But here’s your penguin-palooza.

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Humboldt penguin chicks, only a few days old, hatched at Chester Zoo in Chester, England
Chester Zoo’s Penguin Chicks Named After TV Icons (more pics)

( fourteen more pics, three GIFs and three embedded videos, all child/work-safe )

Current Mood: festive
Current Location: in a house full of love

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Have Yourself a Meowry Little Catsmas

Photo by Trevor Allen

( eleven more pics, two GIFs and one embedded video )

Current Mood: silly
Current Location: in a daze
Current Music: Quiet. TOO quiet. (What the hell are those cats doing now?)

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It's raining Brussels sprouts

Response to posted GIF at Reddit

( fifteen more pics, all child/work-safe )