Zoology pictures by Posters

OpenYourEyes

Just some of my own pics of the Red Pandas (Ailurus fulgens, or shining-cat), in Dublin Zoo - I was going to say they're one of only two properly herbivorous mammals in the order Carnivora, but it turns out they're omnivorous! (Giant Panda being the other herbivorous member of the Carnivora!

Adam Khor

OpenYourEyes wrote: »

Just some of my own pics of the Red Pandas (Ailurus fulgens, or shining-cat), in Dublin Zoo - I was going to say they're one of only two properly herbivorous mammals in the order Carnivora, but it turns out they're omnivorous! (Giant Panda being the other herbivorous member of the Carnivora!

Great pics of a very cute animal :pac:

Some other carnivorans are also mainly vegetarian- such as the spectacled bear, the kinkajou, the olingos etc. The giant panda is carnivorous once in a while.

Yitzhak Rabin

Nothing special about these. But it shows how cool a simple thing like the common house spider can look up close.

Took them with my new phone camera.

steddyeddy

yekahS wrote: »

Nothing special about these. But it shows how cool a simple thing like the common house spider can look up close.

Took them with my new phone camera.

Great resolution on that camera! Looks like one of those pics you see that are taken with a microscope!

Yitzhak Rabin

steddyeddy wrote: »

Great resolution on that camera! Looks like one of those pics you see that are taken with a microscope!

I'm not much of a photographer, so I wouldn't know much about the spec. Its the Samsung SIII phone if anyone is interested.

SeaFields

Hope these are up to scratch for this thread. All taken on a holiday to Australia a couple of summers ago.


Croc!


A dingo enjoying the sunshine on Fraser Island


Another dingo. This one wandered into our camp at night. Spot the beer can in the bottom corner. He came for a look at us, everyone dropped everything and ran to the safety of the four wheel drives! Except me who was scrambling to find the camera!


He wanted a closer look at me.


So did he...!

Adam Khor

Cool photos, SeaFields :> Aren´t the Fraser island dingos the ones that have attacked people the most?

SeaFields

Adam Khor wrote: »

Cool photos, SeaFields :> Aren´t the Fraser island dingos the ones that have attacked people the most?

That I dunno but we had to watch a video on wildlife safety before going on the trip there. It was dominated by what the do's and dont's of being around dingos was but really you were only in danger if isolated and wandered into a pack of them.

You can just about make out the tag above her ear in the first photo. They are very well managed. The Aussies know how to look after their wildlife. Its a credit to them.

Mickeroo

Friends of mine were there this year, the spent the night on the island. They said it was ridiculous the way the campers were acting around the dingos. Drunk people poking wild animals with sticks etc. 2 weeks after they were there that German tourist got mauled afaik.

(nice pics btw )

locum-motion

Here's an octopus I met in France last month.

locum-motion

And down at the lower end of the size scale, I saw this little fella on the same dive. He's less than an inch long. He is some species of nudibranch (also sometimes called sea slugs.)

locum-motion

Might I suggest that this thread should be split into two - one that has the users' own photos and another for the ones that people find online?

Adam Khor

locum-motion wrote: »

Might I suggest that this thread should be split into two - one that has the users' own photos and another for the ones that people find online?

+1

Hollzy

Yeah, that's a good idea actually. It'd be really cool if we could have a thread devoted to pictures people had taken in Ireland too.

aidoh

I saw a post in the Nature and Birdwatching forum about the arrival of this years winter thrushes and remembered a cool fight I snapped between a pair of redwings the last time it snowed (Christmas 2010, I think).
The photos aren't great because I was taking them from the other side of my window but I was lucky enough to catch them while they were going at it.

They had some sort of cool-looking ritualised display first, where they sized each other up


Then they flew into each other and I'm guessing the guy on the right was the tougher of the two:


And while I'm looking through old photos I may as well put up the seals on Bull Island. Not very exciting but they're just so lazy and cute.


This one reminded me of Mrs. Doyle for some reason




Weird.

aidoh

Sorry, posted that before reading that you wanted to split the thread.

Mickeroo

Okey dokey, I've the taken the posts with your own pics from the other thread and separated them into this thread here. So now we have a thread for pics from the internet and pics we've taken ourselves.

Happy Snapping

OpenYourEyes

Carraig Fhearghais

Here's a few of mine from Belfast zoo


ie-bluebird by swansong12, on Flickr


ie-bug12 by swansong12, on Flickr


ie-friends by swansong12, on Flickr


ie-reptile02 by swansong12, on Flickr

Carraig Fhearghais

ie-mono-eagle02 by swansong12, on Flickr


ie-tiger01 by swansong12, on Flickr


ie-chimp_back by swansong12, on Flickr



ie-gor01 by swansong12, on Flickr

Galvasean

Some great photos in here. Great work guys!
Not much o contribute myself, just some snaps I took with my grainy camera phone.

Common frog who showed up in my garden recently:


Some fishys at the Sathill Aquarium:

Yitzhak Rabin

I'm off to Patagonia and then to the rainforest in Brazil for a few weeks starting next week, so hopefully I'll be able to get a few good shots, and my camera won't get nicked like it did in Central America earlier this year.

Yitzhak Rabin

I've just spent the last week in Patagonia. The wildlife here is absolutely stunning. It's been unbelievable.

Heres a sample of some of the stuff I saw.

Patagonian Penguins





Guanicos


Some armadillo relative.


But the real spectacular stuff is in the ocean.

Southern right whale


Commersons dolphin



And probably the most amazing thing I've ever seen, an orca beaching to teach its young how to catch a sealion pup.

Mickeroo

Wow, looks like you got pretty lucky with the Whale breaching and the Orca too! Must have been amazing to see in the flesh.

Hollzy

Those photos were definitely worth the wait!

Yitzhak Rabin

Mickeroo wrote: »

Wow, looks like you got pretty lucky with the Whale breaching and the Orca too! Must have been amazing to see in the flesh.

The whale breaching apparently was very common. It was almost guaranteed by the guide. It definitely didn't seem to get him too excited even if we were seriously giddy.

But the orca beaching got the guide totally ecstatic. He kept telling us how lucky we were and how he's only seen it maybe a few times, and never this early. He said it normally starts around February and ends in April and seeing it in December was a miracle. Definitely the most awe-inspiring sight I've ever seen. You really only get an appreciation for how huge these animals are til you see them in the flesh.

I'm heading to the rainforest next week. If its even a quarter as exciting as last week I'll be happy.

Now I'm in the Andes for a bit of hill walking and wine drinking.

OpenYourEyes

Beautiful birds!

aidoh

I've had a pretty good couple of days:

dodderangler

Are you living in ireland
The Harris hawk in the pics
Tell me that's yours or a friends and not wild

aidoh

I thought it was a peregrine.
It's from the Dublin Falconry centre out in Balbriggan.
The rest of the animals are wild.

EDIT: The flight shot is definitely a Buzzard and it was flying around the hill of Howth, so I'm assuming you mean the headshot.

steddyeddy

I will be back in the Rep of Congo next week so hopefully when I'm back I will have some ecellent photos for you guys!

dodderangler

Il be going to Vancouver in September to my friend for 10 days for a bit of fishing and drinking nightlife etc but one of my main goals is to get good pics while I'm fishing seen as it'll be during the huge salmon run I should get pics of bears and maybe wolves
I will have a guide with me so I'm safe enough

steddyeddy

dodderangler wrote: »

Il be going to Vancouver in September to my friend for 10 days for a bit of fishing and drinking nightlife etc but one of my main goals is to get good pics while I'm fishing seen as it'll be during the huge salmon run I should get pics of bears and maybe wolves
I will have a guide with me so I'm safe enough

Well black bears and wolves rarely attack but you have to watch out for Grizzlys which do attack humans on occasion! Ps try to get a picture of Vancouver's other famous resident .

dodderangler

steddyeddy wrote: »

Well black bears and wolves rarely attack but you have to watch out for Grizzlys which do attack humans on occasion! Ps try to get a picture of Vancouver's other famous resident .

Which one?
The coyote? Moose? Raccoon? The many deer species Or the huge Roosevelt elk?
I actually wanna see a coyote t be honest.
My mate seen one take a cat from a garden.

steddyeddy

dodderangler wrote: »

Which one?
The coyote? Moose? Raccoon? The many deer species Or the huge Roosevelt elk?
I actually wanna see a coyote t be honest.
My mate seen one take a cat from a garden.

Ha ha sorry an it was a joke about Sasquatch. You'll hear some stories when you're over there. Seriously though there's the Vancouver wolf on the island which isn't found anywhere else (that's disputed).

dodderangler

steddyeddy wrote: »

Ha ha sorry an it was a joke about Sasquatch. You'll hear some stories when you're over there. Seriously though there's the Vancouver wolf on the island which isn't found anywhere else (that's disputed).

I looked at the Internet on them and most of them seem to be white which is gorgeous.
I want to see wolf and bear and Roosevelt elk. Them lads are fcuking monstrous. Huge rack on them

Birdnuts

The Congo and Canada - I have to say lads I'm pure jealous. I'm tempted by this though: http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=2761806#post2761806

ShaShaBear

Hopefully I've finally figured out how to directly attach photos :P

steddyeddy

Birdnuts wrote: »

The Congo and Canada - I have to say lads I'm pure jealous. I'm tempted by this though: http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=2761806#post2761806

North Korea! Fair play birdnuts I know nothing about the wildlife of Korea at all (except the ladies :P).

As regards the Congo if you seen the flights you wouldn't be jealous. I saved a bit of money but will be going from Dublin to Heathrow to Ethiopia (abbis addiba) to Kindamba in Congo. I'm also a bit nervous because this time I'll be going alone and as a result a prime target for crime.

Birdnuts

steddyeddy wrote: »

North Korea! Fair play birdnuts I know nothing about the wildlife of Korea at all (except the ladies :P).

As regards the Congo if you seen the flights you wouldn't be jealous. I saved a bit of money but will be going from Dublin to Heathrow to Ethiopia (abbis addiba) to Kindamba in Congo. I'm also a bit nervous because this time I'll be going alone and as a result a prime target for crime.

Noting ventured nothing gained would be my attitude. Do U have good guides/contacts waiting for you in the Congo??. Birdtrek tours is doing trips now to Somaliland and Sierra Leone - very positive feedback from these trips so far based on the write-ups I've seen. .

steddyeddy

Birdnuts wrote: »

Noting ventured nothing gained would be my attitude. Do U have good guides/contacts waiting for you in the Congo??. Birdtrek tours is doing trips now to Somaliland and Sierra Leone - very positive feedback from these trips so far based on the write-ups I've seen. .

Well the guides I used previously where Foot2foot Africa and they have served me well previoulsy. There are a large number of illegal tour operatorsand it's actually illegal to go on a tour with one so I have to be careful with that.

Hollzy

I'm off to South Africa myself on Saturday so hopefully I'll have some good photos for you all when I get back too I'm off for a month though so you'll be waiting a while!

steddyeddy

Hollzy wrote: »

I'm off to South Africa myself on Saturday so hopefully I'll have some good photos for you all when I get back too I'm off for a month though so you'll be waiting a while!

Enjoy Hollzy have a great time! I'm off for a month myself!

Mickeroo

Must say I'm very jealous of the lot of ye! Enjoy

dodderangler

Il bring ya back a stuffed toy moose from Canada EH
Can't wait to go over
I'm leavin on Thursday 24th September and il be there for Friday have few drinks go out with me mate and next morning start fishing and hopefully catch one of the 29million salmon who come up river
Hopefully see plenty of wildlife while I'm out.

Adam Khor

I'm jealous as hell of you guys. In a good way tho :pac:

steddyeddy

I made it guys. So far I have seen a hornbill bird of some type andy a two horn chameleon. Pictures soon.

Yitzhak Rabin

I'm currently living in the Middle East with work. Here are a few of the little critters I share my living area with.












If anyone knows what species each of these lads are I'd love to know. Particularly the spider, as he bit one of my colleagues and he had a bit of a reaction, so I'd be interested to know the species of that one. Its occupies an area of about 1.5 inches squared.

steddyeddy

This is Africa TIA

steddyeddy

Right guys ill upload the trip pics of animals now!

steddyeddy

Hey guys I' not back yet so you'll have to forgive me that I can upload only a few shots at a time but when I get back I'll upload them more efficiently.

Sorry about the quality as well. These were taken with a camera and the picture of the elephant was taken when an ele was extremely close to me ad in fairness scared the crap out of me!