and this page is just full of em:
heres a sample pic, click the link above to see em all
10 day old Flory plays with his mom, takes a bath and has his meal in Blijdorp, Netherlands.
These pictures were taken in September.
Posts Tagged cool
Simba?
Feb 27
awesome set of pictures of a snail crossing over a seemingly unsurpassable gap:
if you know me at all, you know i fucking love hippos…well this website only has 20 pics, but im in love with pretty much every one of them
i mean seriously, how cute is this:
The orangutan and the hound
Feb 20
awesome video of how an orangutan becomes best friends with a hound dog…from nat geo
Surinam toad giving “birth”
Feb 19
babies emerging from the back of a surinam toad:
another, more professional video here:
this dude from sweden takes dead flies he finds in his house, uses tweezers to put them in funny positions, and then draws little scenes around the carcasses for some funky, but unique, artwork…unfortunately telegraph has disabled embedding the gallery so click here to see them
this hydrozoan has found a way to cycle back and forth between polyp and medusa stages, seemingly staying immortal
The only immortal animal on Earth
A octopus has caused havoc in his aquarium by performing juggling tricks using his fellow occupants, smashing rocks against the glass and turning off the power by shortcircuiting a lamp:
Otto the octopus wreaks havoc
basically, when the whales numbers were low back in the 60s, whales had to switch to a higher frequency in order to attract mates…but now that the numbers are rebounding and there are more blue whales, they have switched back to a lower frequency
Blue Whales Croon A New Tune
In other words, the guys had to shout to be heard. But now that blue whales are more numerous, Hildebrand thinks the males have gone back to singing bass because it makes them sound bigger and more attractive to females. He says males of many species use lower tones to attract mates.