The art of seduction

This year Sir David Attenborough celebrates 60 years making fantastic documentaries. He rated the following segment as one of his favourite moments:

Clever little guy

We like parrots...

The allure of meerkats

Pirate and Pirouette are great fans of the meerkats! The photos were taken three years apart, almost to the day. [Can you see Peter's birthday cards in Pirate's photo? Pirouette's photo was taken the day before Peter's birthday this year, no cards yet...]

Lovely creatures

View_From_Here sent me a large collection of photos of various animals. As there were too many pictures for a single post, I made a slideshow, adding some Latin music especially for View. Enjoy!



Thank you, View.

Feathered beauty

View_From_Here sent me some spectacular photos of birds a few days ago, but most of the pictures didn't download, so I tried to find them elsewhere on the internet, to no avail. Yesterday, Mrsgunka sent me the same photos, saying: "For View.... Our beautiful feathered friends!"

I thought it was wonderful, Mrsgunka unwittingly coming to the rescue and dedicating the photos to View.

A big thank you to both of them.

[As there are too many pictures, please click on one of them to see all of them larger in the lightbox.]

Extravagant males...

Unique experience

Mrsgunka sent me this great video. Thank you, MrsG.

Real life animals are cuter than animated cartoons

Hunnybee sent me these charming photos of a real life Bambi with his friend Thumper. I did a bit of research about the photographer, wildlife Czech photographer Tanja Askani. There are more wonderful photos of other species on her website.

Tanja wrote on her website:

Walt Disney Studios produced the well-known children’s movie “Bambi” in 1942. It was based on the 1923 book, “Bambi, A Life in the Woods” by Felix Salten. In the book, Bambi was a European roe fawn. As part of the American book translation and the Disney movie version, Bambi turned into a North American whitetail deer.

As this picture series shows, fairytales and reality are often very closely related. There truly are animal friendships across species boundaries.

She also posted this video:



Thank you, Hunnybee, they're lovely!

Funny penguins

You may have seen this before because it's going viral, but it's irresistible...