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Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on November 5, 2010 at 12:36pm

I'm sure it's just a form of protection from predators.

Permalink Reply by Sydni Moser on November 10, 2010 at 10:08am

A coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a female yellow fever mosquito. A new book shows in intricate detail the mini-beasts that inhabit our homes, clothes and even our bodies. Micro Monsters features over 80 of the world's most horrible insects and microscopic beasts with full-colour annotated photographs, lively accompanying texts and facts and figures...

A coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a female Lucilia blowfly laying her eggs. Author and trained zoologist, Tom Jackson spent three months compiling the 3D pictures. Using scanning electron microscopy, he coated them in gold and deep froze them in liquid nitrogen before firing a beam of electrons at the subjects. Micro Monsters is shortly to be launched in the UK by Amber Books

Permalink Reply by Sydni Moser on November 10, 2010 at 10:20am

A gull is seen at a beach in Half Moon Bay, California, with a beer can around its neck. Three seagulls with jagged beer-can collars slipped around their necks have been discovered in the San Francisco area. WildRescue, a local animal rescue organisation, said it doesn't believe this is an accident or a case of a bird getting into litter, but that someone is catching the birds and putting the cans on their necks

A three-ton battle-scarred elephant seal is inspected by a fearless 300 gram tussac bird on the Falkland Islands. Marine biologist Wetjens Dimmlich has spent years capturing the beauty and wildness of the islands. Wetjens, 43, said living on the islands was like living in a wildlife documentary because of the sheer amount of wildlife he has seen

This little duckling that strayed too far from its family got a short sharp lesson in tough love when the mother mallard repeatly ducked the little chick to teach it a lesson. Photographer Arman Worth captured display at a park in Beaverton, Oregon

Menacingly circling just feet away from divers using only a tiny wooden stick for protection, these great white sharks are known as the most curious in the world. The animals, off Guadalupe Island near Mexico, are said to be unusually relaxed and offer divers like two-time BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Amos Nachoum a rare chance to get up close and personal with the gigantic predators

A keeper brushes a hippo's teeth at the Shanghai Zoo. The hippopotamus has its teeth cleaned three times a week to reduce the chance of mouth diseases. [We can't resist pointing out she's missed a bit of carrot]

A duck appears to sport a Marilyn Monroe style hairdo, with her head feathers perfectly preened into a fetching bouffant. Amateur photographer Rainey Shuler snapped the crested duck at the Willow Springs Pond in Soulsbyville, Northern California. She said the bird was known locally as the George Washington Duck as it bears a resemblance to the former American President

An owl seems to wink at the camera. Wildlife photographer Mark Hancox captured the wink after waiting for four days in a specially built hide just yards from a rusty metal pole the owl used as a perch on a private farm near his home in Worcestershire

A tricoloured heron walks in shallow water in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Titusville, Florida

Permalink Reply by Sydni Moser on November 10, 2010 at 12:17pm

Super Cool Doone!

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Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on December 1, 2010 at 10:35am

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Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on December 11, 2010 at 7:27pm

Must be some kind of vulture.

 

Permalink Reply by Hope on January 26, 2011 at 4:36pm

Permalink Reply by Hope on January 26, 2011 at 5:00pm

Arabian Oryx

Camels

Permalink Reply by Aim on February 25, 2011 at 11:40am

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