Cute Critters to Take Our Minds Off Everyday Stresses

[BSR]

This video of a baby seal introduced to water for the first time will melt your heart.

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1430027294412791810?s=20

[+ FreshFluff]

[mike carey]

This tweet has a clip from last night's ACT version of the ABC news. It's a great video but the news reader should stop writing his own material.

https://twitter.com/Dan_Bourchier/status/1430336168684494848?s=20

Edited August 25, 2021 by mike carey

[lonely_john]

 

[Danny-Darko]

Wanna watch me play with my big snake? 

[mike carey]

A sight I have seen in Australian national parks, where birds know that people will feed them, and we do have some spectacularly coloured parrots. Here, in a tangent from its election coverage, DW posted a flock of rainbow lorikeets that had descended on Angela Merkel in a visit to a bird park in her constituency. The expression on her face in the first photo is priceless.

https://www.dw.com/en/parrots-swoop-in-for-angela-merkels-swan-song/a-59293171

When they tweeted that photo, their caption was 'BEST.PHOTO OP.EVER!'

[Guest]

7 hours ago, mike carey said:

...The expression on her face in the first photo is priceless.

...

That looks like her face when Trump (or was it Bush Jr.?) put his hand on Angela Merkel's shoulder. When Australia and birds come to mind, the first one I think about is the deadly cassowary, which can rip your guts out with one stroke. Australia always seems so rife with deadly animals, on land and in the sea. The second bird I think from Australia is the kookaburra. At least those won't kill you!

 

Edited September 24, 2021 by Unicorn

[mike carey]

5 minutes ago, Unicorn said:

That looks like her face when Trump ... put his hand on her shoulder.

It does indeed! We are, of course, the home of all sorts of animals that will kill you, but many of the birds (and other animals) are engaging, kookaburras included! As for the deadly animals, they are easy, for the most part, to avoid.

[lonely_john]

 

[CuriousByNature]

On 9/24/2021 at 12:47 PM, Unicorn said:

That looks like her face when Trump (or was it Bush Jr.?) put his hand on Angela Merkel's shoulder. When Australia and birds come to mind, the first one I think about is the deadly cassowary, which can rip your guts out with one stroke. Australia always seems so rife with deadly animals, on land and in the sea. The second bird I think from Australia is the kookaburra. At least those won't kill you!

 

Yup - Kookaburras just sit in the old gum tree...

[Guest]

On 9/24/2021 at 1:00 PM, mike carey said:

It does indeed! We are, of course, the home of all sorts of animals that will kill you, but many of the birds (and other animals) are engaging, kookaburras included! As for the deadly animals, they are easy, for the most part, to avoid.

Yes, as long as you swim within meshed areas of the beaches so you don't get killed by blue-ringed octopuses, jellies, sharks, salties, and the like...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7967433/Shocked-man-finds-deadly-blue-ringed-octopus-kids-paddling-pool-popular-Sydney-beach.html

"If you want to swim the waters of the aptly named Cape Tribulation, Cape-Trib.com suggests you wear a “stinger suit” as the area is home to a lot of stinging jellyfish. Saltwater crocodiles are also prevalent; the locals advise visitors stay away from swimming in the mouths of rivers. If that’s not enough to keep you out of the water, consider these obstacles: Cassowaries – big flightless birds – whose dagger-like claws “can disembowel you,” and stinging trees which, yes, can actually sting you quite painfully with their jagged-edged leaves."

Edited October 4, 2021 by Unicorn

[Luv2play]

5 hours ago, CuriousByNature said:

Yup - Kookaburras just sit in the old gum tree...

Fascinating bird, the cassowaries that is.

Edited October 5, 2021 by Luv2play

[marylander1940]

 

[jeezifonly]

When I grow up, I want to be Bibi the Monkey 

 

 

[marylander1940]

 

[+ sync]

23 hours ago, marylander1940 said:

 

This brought back a memory of one of the dogs I had who experienced its own flatulence for the first time.  You had to be there.  I wept from laughter.

[marylander1940]

 

[marylander1940]

 

[rvwnsd]

In my home office a couple of days ago:

 

[+ azdr0710]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw3uJeYFRK7/

[marylander1940]

 

[Whitman]

[Guest]

Dogs reaction to a trip to the vet:

 

[+ glutes]

An upper story!!

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/interactive/2021/photos-boji-istanbul-commuting-dog/?itid=hp-more-top-stories

[marylander1940]