all creatures [great and small]

A common grackle attacks its reflection in car mirror thinking...

hikergirl — Mon, 20 May 2013 06:00:23 +0800

A common grackle attacks its reflection in car mirror thinking it is a rival bird in St Lucia

Picture: Tim Withall/Rex Features (via Animal photos of the week: 11 May 2013 - Telegraph)

Photograph: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters (via 24 hours in pictures |...

hikergirl — Mon, 20 May 2013 03:00:23 +0800

Photograph: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters (via 24 hours in pictures | News | guardian.co.uk)

If you haven't been to our main page in a while (or if it's your first time there)

hikergirl — Mon, 20 May 2013 02:27:00 +0800

Go have a look at our nifty new theme designed and coded by TJPytheas!

P.S. The banner photos are courtesy of our own mabelmoments.

Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images (via 24 hours in...

hikergirl — Mon, 20 May 2013 00:26:37 +0800

Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images (via 24 hours in pictures | News | guardian.co.uk)

Picture: CATERS (via Animal photos of the week: 11 May 2013 -...

hikergirl — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:00:07 +0800

Picture: CATERS (via Animal photos of the week: 11 May 2013 - Telegraph)

Picture: SOLENT (via Pictures of the day: 17 May 2013 -...

hikergirl — Sun, 19 May 2013 03:00:14 +0800

Picture: SOLENT (via Pictures of the day: 17 May 2013 - Telegraph)

An Asian elephant is measured by zookeepers during a baby...

hikergirl — Sat, 18 May 2013 21:00:14 +0800

An Asian elephant is measured by zookeepers during a baby animals inventory at Hagenbeck zoo

Picture: Getty Images (via Animal photos of the week: 17 May 2013 - Telegraph)

Photographer Linden Gledhill used a home-made contraption to...

hikergirl — Sat, 18 May 2013 09:00:09 +0800

Photographer Linden Gledhill used a home-made contraption to photograph this ladybird in flight in his garden in Pennsylvania

Picture: LINDEN GLEDHILL / CATERS (via Pictures of the day: 14 May 2013 - Telegraph)

Brown capuchin monkey Picture: HotSpot Media (via Pictures of...

hikergirl — Sat, 18 May 2013 06:00:01 +0800

Brown capuchin monkey

Picture: HotSpot Media (via Pictures of the day: 14 May 2013 - Telegraph)

Photographer Yuzuru Masuda photographed this graceful moon...

hikergirl — Sat, 18 May 2013 03:00:16 +0800

Photographer Yuzuru Masuda photographed this graceful moon jellyfish as he snorkelled in the Red Sea. The fascinating creatures do not sting, so he let them swim right up to him and even brush against his arm.

Picture: Yuzuru Masuda/Solent News (via Pictures of the day: 14 May 2013 - Telegraph)

fatchance: Red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus ♀) with...

hikergirl — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:00:24 +0800

fatchance:

Red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus ♀) with nesting material, in Mahoning County, Ohio.

njwight: Celebrate Endangered Animal Day. Educate yourself...

hikergirl — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:06:27 +0800

njwight:

Celebrate Endangered Animal Day. Educate yourself about the ICUN Red List which currently lists the black rhino as critically endangered. Make Some Noise for our disappearing creatures and the folks who work tirelessly to try to keep them safe!

Photograph: Kerstin Joensson/AP (via 24 hours in pictures | News...

hikergirl — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:01:57 +0800

Photograph: Kerstin Joensson/AP (via 24 hours in pictures | News | guardian.co.uk)

500px / Photo “Peter back home” by Winfried Werner Winfried...

tjpytheas — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:13:55 +0800

500px / Photo “Peter back home” by Winfried Werner
Winfried Werner, 500px.com

Picture: REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (via Pictures of the day: 16 May...

hikergirl — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:40:22 +0800

Picture: REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (via Pictures of the day: 16 May 2013 - Telegraph)

lickypickystickyme: Dog? This sounds like good stuff for ME!

lickypickystickyme — Thu, 16 May 2013 22:06:28 +0800

lickypickystickyme:

Dog? This sounds like good stuff for ME!

Picture: Ronald Wittek/Solent (via Pictures of the day: 15 May...

hikergirl — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:58:01 +0800

Picture: Ronald Wittek/Solent (via Pictures of the day: 15 May 2013 - Telegraph)

zooborns: Phoenix Zoo Receives Unexpected Fuzzball For the...

hikergirl — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:22:58 +0800

zooborns:

Phoenix Zoo Receives Unexpected Fuzzball

For the first time in over a decade, the Phoenix Zoo has a Spectacled Owl chick. The chick was born on February 10th to the zoo’s pair of Spectacled Owls. The pair is quite experienced in rearing young having done so six times in the past, albeit not for some time. After over ten years without a baby, and with the female being 20 years old and the male 15, keepers were not sure if the lone egg laid would be fertile.

Visit ZooBorns to learn more about this expected birth and to see more photo of the fuzzy owlet!

A young woman and her service dog caused quite a stir over the...

hikergirl — Wed, 15 May 2013 08:58:00 +0800

A young woman and her service dog caused quite a stir over the weekend when they both showed up to her college graduation ceremony dressed in matching caps and gowns.

Click through for full story.

(via Service Dog Arrives At College Graduation In Cap And Gown, Becomes A Celebrity (PHOTOS))

Ginger Meggs the Northern Quoll is fed a cricket by zookeeper...

hikergirl — Wed, 15 May 2013 06:00:04 +0800

Ginger Meggs the Northern Quoll is fed a cricket by zookeeper Lynda Veyret from the Endangered Species Conservation Unit at the Territory Wildlife Park, near Darwin, Australia

Picture: Justin Sanson/Newspix / Rex Features (via Pictures of the day: 9 May 2013 - Telegraph)