Full Version: thread for great animals
Patagonian Cavy (Dolichotis patagonum)
Rock Hyrax (Procavia capensis)
the echidna
Sand Cat (Felis margarita)
Eastern screech owl.
Sand cat is great.
Star nosed mole (Condylura cristata)
The Red Panda or Bear Fox, genus Sausagus Undercookedus.
The Honey Badger. This thing is ridiculous. Check out 3:07, especially. It's almost comical how badass it is.
Albino Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
The pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis).
look how cute!
look how cute!
The whale shark - dunno why, but enormous marine life always makes me happy.
Not at all exotic but the labradoodle
they are adorable
they are adorable
QUOTE (Vivian Darkbloom @ Mar 13 2010, 12:51 PM) 
The Red Panda or Bear Fox, genus Sausagus Undercookedus.
classic.
Andora Rabbit
QUOTE (Ogawa @ Mar 13 2010, 11:55 AM)
The Honey Badger. This thing is ridiculous. Check out 3:07, especially. It's almost comical how badass it is.
More nature films should use breakbeats like this.
jumping spiders! arachnid puppies.
QUOTE (stephen thomas erlewine @ Mar 14 2010, 03:40 AM)
the echidna
Echidnas look unfriendly but they are seriously adorable. Very shy creatures though.
Platypus:
the Golden Eagle
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Flying squirrel. Nomad of the sky.
this thread totally rules.
i submit the grizzly bear (ursus arctos horribilis)
i submit the grizzly bear (ursus arctos horribilis)
also, be the grizzly.
Sun Bear
Tazmanian Devil
Capybara
Snow Leopard
Oryx
Tazmanian Devil
Capybara
Snow Leopard
Oryx
sad that snow leopards will probably be extinct in the wild in the next 5-10 years
These fucking guys...
QUOTE (Damo Suzuki @ Mar 14 2010, 06:16 PM)
These fucking guys...
happen to see this? was makin the rounds a few weeks ago:
photo by andrew evans, national geographic
Of Bees.
BUT AMONG THEM ALL, Bees are principall, and by good right deserve especiall admiration, as being the onely Insects ordained by Nature for mans use. They gather honie, a most sweet, pleasant, fine, and wholesome liquor. They frame the honie combes, and worke the waxe, which serve for a thousand turnes in this life. They endure paines continually, and dispatch their worke and businesse. They have a policie and Commonwealth among themselves. They hold their severall counsels: and there is not a swarme or cast that they have, without a king and captaine of their own: and that which is most admirable of all, there be civile fashions and customes among them. Moreover, being as they are, neither tame and gentle, nor yet to be counted wild and savage, yet (see the wonderous worke of Nature!) by the means of so little a creature, nay, a shaddow rather (to say a truth) of the least creature, shee hath effected a thing incomparable. What strength of sinewes, what force and puissance is able to countervaile this so great industrie and effectuall power of theirs? what wit and policie of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course? Beleeve me, they passe them all, & in this one point surpasse, That all things are common among them, and nothing know they private and severall. What should we debate and make question any more as touching their breath? Why should we dispute of their bloud, which cannot chuse but bee very little in such small bodies? Let us rather consider hence-forth their wit, and the gifts of their mind.
-Pliny, Naturalis Historia
Lol ^
This is also quite funny:
This is also quite funny:
Awesome animal:
Suck a honey badger's ass!!
edit: woops. I am a redundant man... and somewhat disappointed in myself for missing this the first time around. oh well. I'll look for something funny to excuse unnecessary thread bumps.
Suck a honey badger's ass!!
edit: woops. I am a redundant man... and somewhat disappointed in myself for missing this the first time around. oh well. I'll look for something funny to excuse unnecessary thread bumps.
I don't know if what the hyena does here makes him great, exactly. But it certainly leaves an impression.
ZOMBIE ANTS!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/02/z...f=fb&src=sp
Axolotl salamander, otherwise known as the Mexican walking fish or Mexican water monster.
http://mommyfootprint.com/the-latest-and-c...ed-animal-ever/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/02/z...f=fb&src=sp
Axolotl salamander, otherwise known as the Mexican walking fish or Mexican water monster.
http://mommyfootprint.com/the-latest-and-c...ed-animal-ever/
The coastal tailed frog- "is that a tail, or are you just really happy to see me?"
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Sheepish scientists refer to it as a tail, but the appendage dragging behind the male frog recently discovered in Mendocino County is no tail.
The little amphibian, known as a coastal tailed frog, is unique among frog and toad species for its comparatively magnificent, let's call it, copulatory organ.
The unusual species was found recently for the first time in the 23,780-acre Garcia River Forest, farther south than it has ever been known to exist. Biologists say the 1- to 2-inch-long amphibian has a lot going for it, most notably its genitalia, which can get up to a quarter of the length of its body.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...L#ixzz1Fx8B6hZR
The little amphibian, known as a coastal tailed frog, is unique among frog and toad species for its comparatively magnificent, let's call it, copulatory organ.
The unusual species was found recently for the first time in the 23,780-acre Garcia River Forest, farther south than it has ever been known to exist. Biologists say the 1- to 2-inch-long amphibian has a lot going for it, most notably its genitalia, which can get up to a quarter of the length of its body.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...L#ixzz1Fx8B6hZR
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