Friday, September 15, 2017

#Photographs for the Unusual: Animals 9/16


Two baby Sumatran orangutans – rescued by Thai border officials who foiled a smuggling attempt – play at a wildlife centre at Ratchaburi province in Thailand.

Photograph: Kerek Wongsa/Reuters

Their eyes seem to look so far and they're such lovely, gentle creatures.




Walruses on a beach near the village of Point Lay, Alaska. The US Fish and Wildlife Service found 64 dead walruses on the north-west Alaskan coastline and said the animals may have been killed in stampedes.

Photograph: US Fish and Wildlife/AP

Showing all those tusks, this looks like a convention for dentists.  The stampedes they mention were likely caused by humans getting too close and you already know the sermon on that.

Zen Yogi:  don't do that?

That's the one, Yogi.




A brown bear and cub forage in Ljubljana, Slovenia. More than 400 Dinaric brown bears live in the forests of the Notranjska and Kocevska, only 30km from the Slovenian capital Ljubljana.

Photograph: Marco Secchi/Getty Images

The cub may be Booboo but the adult isn't Yogi since she's almost certainly female.




A feather from one of the world’s most elusive birds, the Australian night parrot, found in South Australia, the first proof in more than a century that it lives there.

Photograph: Australian Wildlife Conservancy/AFP/Getty Images

Imagine how much of a treasure this has become with the Bird People after they previously thought for a century the bird was probably extinct.




The Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos has declared 4.5m hectares in the Pacific Ocean as a protected maritime area, a measure that includes Malpelo’s wildlife sanctuary.

Photograph: Mauricio Duenas Castaneda/EPA

The birds are beautiful and they're even more so when they can live unmolested in a sanctuary, particularly a new one.

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