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22-08-2012 12:19am#1Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,068 Mod ✭✭✭✭Join Date:Posts: 2995
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!
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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.0 -
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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...!
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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
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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
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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.
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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 Flickr0 -
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 Flickr0 -
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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.
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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.
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