all creatures [great and small]

inothernews:

It’s incredible to think that this this polar bear, named Mercedes, is experiencing “deep snow for the first time since leaving Canada 26 years ago,” according to the Telegraph.  She is at Highland Wildlife Park in Kincraig, Scotland, and seems to be having fun.  :-)

(Photo of Mercedes the  Polar Bear doing her best “Bo” impression via the Telegraph)

Mercedes, Britain’s only polar bear.

mabelmoments:

By floridapfe

virch:

fuckyeahcuterodents:

guineapiggies:

Christmas Card Photo 2006-Lucy’s Shot (via piscesblue81)

A polar bear enjoys the snow in Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Picture: EPA. via telegraph uk

The Obama’s Bo in the snow. via telegraph uk

Tantan, a one-month-old male Francois’ leaf monkey, is cared for by his parents at Zoorasia in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Picture: AP. via telegraph uk

A woodpecker has been photographed repeatedly attacking a 10ft snake which invaded its nest in the Amazon. The crimson crested woodpecker made repeated attempts to drive the snake out of the tree and was bitten by the snake five times. Picture: ASSAF ADMONI / BARCROFT MEDIA. via telegraph uk

Video here

jhnbrssndn:

Frozen Semen Test Tube Pandas

My tip for Best New Band of 2010

hbakes:

(via midnightlunacy)

youwontfindhiminchina:

I want a life of adventure.

via national geographic

nightwing890:

21andinvincible:caseyandhearts:tightlippedprocrastination:kkruger-:(via laceyreynolds)

mabelmoments:

Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP / Getty via TIME

youwontfindhiminchina:

Some people just don’t *get* banana slugs. Let me explain to you. Banana slugs are pretty much the raddest creatures alive. you can kiss them. there exists a band called the “Banana Slug String Band” because they are THAT amazing. people are like whhhhaaat are they even real. Let me tell you people BANANA SLUGS ARE REAL, AND AMAZING. you see them in the forrest and are like whhhaaa that is a freaking banana slug. and god/higher power/great spirit/etc is like f yeah thats a banana slug.

And then there are the idiots who feel that a banana slug is a lame mascot for UCSC. let me tell you something. If you feel banana slugs are a lame mascot, you have never experienced a banana slug. they are like narwals and platypus, so magical they almost can’t be real. Freaking jealous of their mascot. you know what’s a lame mascot. the generic ones. like hawks, or falcons, or bears, or mustangs. yeah I said it, my school has a lame mascot. I’m jealous of the banana slug school .

crowth:

People sometimes wonder why other apes and monkeys, though having lived alongside us for millions of years, haven’t evolved at the same pace as we humans. But it seems, contrary to our self-regarding arrogance, that it is they who have beaten us to evolutionary perfection.

(Thanks, Maria)

jhulyjohns:

Beware of the naughty dog (via Fifi Patchouli)