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Photo by Pachinger

( twenty-nine more pics of house tigers )

Current Mood: thankful
Current Music: Youtube

Elephants at sunrise, Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya
Photo by Jim Zuckerman

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

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: car that needs a new muffler

Hoopoe, Israel
Photo by Yaki Zander

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

Current Mood: rushed
Current Location: on the hot seat
Current Music: Rio Olympics

Twelve-year-old kakapo Sinbad, Codfish Island, New Zealand
Photo by Shane McInnes
Kakapo snap wins rare birds photo competition

From the linked article: Sinbad is the son of veteran kakapo Richard Henry, who was found as an adult in Fiordland in 1975 when his species was believed to be extinct.

There are only 125 known kakapo left. Each has been given a name (list at Wikipedia) by the Kakapo Recovery Programme.

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

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Location: in a comfortable holding pattern
Current Music: Dr. G: America's Most Shocking Stories

Alice Holt Forest, England
Photo by Eddie Keogh

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

Current Mood: hot
Current Location: on the hot seat
Current Music: whirring fans

Sloth bear cub, Brookfield Zoo, Brookfield, Illinois
Photo by Scott Olson

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

Current Mood: hot
Current Location: on the hot seat
Current Music: Law & Order reruns

It’s not as hot here as it was the last couple of weeks, but the afternoon is still a good time for catching a few ZZZZZZ.

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Orangutan mother and child, Lowery Park Zoo, Tampa, Florida, USA
Photo by Tom and Pat Leeson

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

Current Mood: anxious

Ring-tailed lemurs Rosie and Jim checking out the bubbles from a new machine, Newquay Zoo, Newquay, England
It’s a bubble bath at the zoo! (story and more pics)

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

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: morning birdsong

How to make an AT-AT Imperial Walker Snow Sculpture

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

Current Mood: grumpy
Current Music: ticking Audubon bird clock

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: ehh whatever
Current Music: tweety birds

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: depressed

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

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: dazed

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: tired
Current Music: ticking Audubon bird clock

After some of the news this week, I really needed this. Maybe it'll help somebody else's mood as well; who knows?

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Sara Steele and Liz Shellenbarger with wet, but safe, mountain lion cubs, Bitterroot National Forest, Montana, USA
Firefighters rescue mountain lion cubs from Montana blaze

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

Current Mood: grateful
Current Location: in a daze
Current Music: Headline News

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: sleepy
Current Music: wind in the trees

Western bluebird feeding his fledging, Vista, California, USA
Western Bluebirds nesting in our yard – May 14

( fifteen more pics, all child/work-safe; includes a beautiful and adorable spider )

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: The Blue Planet, on BBCA

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Fabulous felines
Nature is the best artist
Gone birding (second of two)
Parrot-palooza!
Light, water and shadow
Ice is nice!
Siesta
Ten adorables
Too hot to sleep
Father's Day
For the love of cats
Little handfuls
Penguins are cool
World Otter Day was Wednesday
Faith in humans restored, again
Mother love
Happy belated Earth Day

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Entries tagged with africa

Fabulous felines

Nature is the best artist

Gone birding (second of two)

Parrot-palooza!

Light, water and shadow

Ice is nice!

Siesta

Ten adorables

Too hot to sleep

Father's Day

For the love of cats

Little handfuls

Penguins are cool

World Otter Day was Wednesday

Faith in humans restored, again

Mother love

Happy belated Earth Day