OT - The great mammal thread!
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OT - The great mammal thread!
I thought it would be fun to start a mammal thread, post ONE of your favorite mammal photos! If you have more than one that you like, post it tomorrow! One post per day per person! Here is my contribution:
Bison with a coyote attempting to feed on a bison carcass. The bison later circled and chased off the coyote and guarded the carcass. Really cool event to witness.
Josh
Bison with a coyote attempting to feed on a bison carcass. The bison later circled and chased off the coyote and guarded the carcass. Really cool event to witness.
Josh
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Not a great picture, but then it's not everyday that you have a Blue Whale fluke in front of you.
Blue Whale by J. Maughn, on Flickr
Blue Whale by J. Maughn, on Flickr
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These guys are cool =) This one is from Peru.
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Pretty-faced wallaby (aka whiptail wallaby), Macropus parryi, photographed in Queensland a few years ago.
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Great photo!
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Just to mix up the diversity:
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Not exactly the tiger I was looking for, but...
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Pongo pygmaeus, Matang Wildlife Rehab Center, Sarawak.
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Macaca fascicularis, Indonesia
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Owen, that seal is too good to be true. I kept thinking about an advertising for which to use it
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Scrub-living Florida Black Bears (Ursus americanus floridanus)
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Hans Breuer (twoton) wrote:Owen, that seal is too good to be true. I kept thinking about an advertising for which to use it
SEALy Posturepedic Beds of course
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The very best way to see a Griz with cubs when you are fishing.
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Homo sapien fieldherpum
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Obviously aberrant specimens!Homo sapien fieldherpum
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If you look really close at the one in the back, you can see it's standing on a hill.
Tim
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A big male coati in Alajuela province, Costa Rica, giving me the evil eye dare I steal his hard-won banana!
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Do marsupials count?
(Okay, so this definitely isn't my favorite, I just can't seem to find any other photos of furry creatures at the moment.)
(Okay, so this definitely isn't my favorite, I just can't seem to find any other photos of furry creatures at the moment.)
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Great topic.
A Transient Killer Whale off Monterey Bay, California.
A Transient Killer Whale off Monterey Bay, California.
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I suppose I will contribute something real here too. It's not an uncommon site, but I like to watch the babies wrestle in the spring and roll off the lodges.
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Tempe Coeds by reptilist, on Flickr
Oh, you mean naked mammals... I have so many, but here's one:
Pronghorn Herd by reptilist, on Flickr
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It's "The great mammal thread".....not "mammary thread".Oh, you mean naked mammals...
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keeping with the pinniped theme
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Great thread topic. Especially for winter, when all many of us are seeing are mammals (and birds).
I have a few interesting shots, but I will start off today with a Least Weasel, and it's mate which ran off before I could photo it. I was looking for snakes and found a weasel nest. Using a stick, I touched this weasel on it's butt to make it get out of the crack for a picture and it just growled/chirped at me. I looked at my friend, shrugged, reached down and using my index finger, scratched the animals hind-end. Pretty cool to pet a wild weasel, although not something I would recommend.
Andy
I have a few interesting shots, but I will start off today with a Least Weasel, and it's mate which ran off before I could photo it. I was looking for snakes and found a weasel nest. Using a stick, I touched this weasel on it's butt to make it get out of the crack for a picture and it just growled/chirped at me. I looked at my friend, shrugged, reached down and using my index finger, scratched the animals hind-end. Pretty cool to pet a wild weasel, although not something I would recommend.
Andy
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Tim, I don't get it, but I want too. There appears to be a ghost cow in the picture, a cow mounting another cow and one cow further away in the background...Tim Borski wrote:If you look really close at the one in the back, you can see it's standing on a hill.
Tim
Dave, you just put that picture in to taunt me. Still can't believe we missed on Coati last June.Dr. Dark wrote:A big male coati in Alajuela province, Costa Rica, giving me the evil eye dare I steal his hard-won banana!
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That's a KILLER whale shot... The Orca.
Here's a Mule Deer crossing a barbed wire fence.
Mule deer on the fly by reptilist, on Flickr
Here's a Mule Deer crossing a barbed wire fence.
Mule deer on the fly by reptilist, on Flickr
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I'm wondering if Tim was alluding to the old story about Father Bull and Son Bull standing on the hill....Andy Avram wrote:Tim, I don't get it, but I want too.Tim Borski wrote:If you look really close at the one in the back, you can see it's standing on a hill.
Tim
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Nice job on the Least Weasel, Andy. You don't see those often.
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Speaking of seeing a grizzlies hind end... I just read somewhere that in the early days of spanish settlement over here, there are four recorded instances of putting a grizzly in an arena with a bull (american bison). All four records indicate it was no contest. The buffalo charged the grizz...and the grizz broke the buffalo's neck with one swipe. Wow.
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A cow mounting another cow!!!! bovine lesbians
Tim, I am saddened by your use of pornography. The worst part is your subtle re-direction by focusing on the hillside cow, all the while depravity is occurring in the main herd.
Tim, I am saddened by your use of pornography. The worst part is your subtle re-direction by focusing on the hillside cow, all the while depravity is occurring in the main herd.
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Tim Borski wrote:
If you look really close at the one in the back, you can see it's standing on a hill.
Tim
C’mon guys you don’t see the magic in this image?! It’s got it all…paranormal cow stuff, Holstein lesbianism, even a fence post. The lone cow on a hill is just gravy.
My job is done.
Tim
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More coeds please...
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Hawaiian Monk Seal nursing young
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Another weasel just because they are fun
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More coeds please...
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I was trying to decide what pic to SQUIRREL!!
Chris
Chris
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He's not dik dik-ing around.
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Jaguar tracks in the Amazon.
Panthera onca. From my old crappy point and shoot. But still......it's a freaking Jaguar.
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Panthera onca. From my old crappy point and shoot. But still......it's a freaking Jaguar.
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Young Cheetahs at play in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa.
Nice mammal ALT.
Nice mammal ALT.
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Mona: or Communes with Coyotes - the story is that this little one sort or gets along with the coyotes.
communes with coyotes - Mona by Pixel Peasant, on Flickr
Creek Side, Young Buck, fed on by coyotes
dead by Pixel Peasant, on Flickr
Musk Rat
Muskrat by Pixel Peasant, on Flickr
Communes with Coyotes, Mona.
fungi & background commuter by Pixel Peasant, on Flickr
communes with coyotes - Mona by Pixel Peasant, on Flickr
Creek Side, Young Buck, fed on by coyotes
dead by Pixel Peasant, on Flickr
Musk Rat
Muskrat by Pixel Peasant, on Flickr
Communes with Coyotes, Mona.
fungi & background commuter by Pixel Peasant, on Flickr
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It's a freakin' Jaguar!
That wins.
Now I have to make it my mission to photograph a jaguar in SE AZ.
That wins.
Now I have to make it my mission to photograph a jaguar in SE AZ.
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I have 20 pictures I want to post (gibbon, pronghorn, pika, malayan porcupine, bighorn sheep, elephant seal, river otter, etc.), but I will bite the bullet and post just one:
American Badger in Kern County
Okay, this doesn't count because it's a video. Long-tailed Weasel swimming in the Santa Monica Mountains - from last week.
American Badger in Kern County
Okay, this doesn't count because it's a video. Long-tailed Weasel swimming in the Santa Monica Mountains - from last week.
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I think where this is all going is...
Mammal Forum!
Betcha 99% of the people viewing don't know what this is:
kudos to the first correct guess.
Mammal Forum!
Betcha 99% of the people viewing don't know what this is:
kudos to the first correct guess.
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One of those weird South American rodents? Starts with a "p"?
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The first sentence is correct. The second is not This species actually has a a fairly standardized common name.
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Patagonian cavy