Due to the dearth of readers’ wildlife photos (yes, I still have some), I will be posting them only sporadically until more arrive. So today I’ll post a selection of my favorite finalists from the Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards for 2019. These are reproduced in The Guardian.
Look at this poor egret!
Warning! Territory marking, follow at your own risk. Photograph: Tilakra Nagaraj/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2019
Grab life by the… Photograph: Sarah Skinner/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2019
Family disagreement. Photograph: Vlado Pirsa/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2019.
Hello! Photograph: Kevin Sawford/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2019.
Dancing Penguins, Ice skating penguins. Photograph: Andre B Erlich/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2019.
Hi!. Photograph: Donna Bourdon/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2019.
And two from the competition’s website, with photographers credited on the photos:
h/t: Robert and other readers (thanks!)
Penguins deserve the Torvill & Dean award.
I was warned once when I was by a Rhino paddock that they can spray urine up to six feet.
Some years ago, a student of mine was working on a monkey behavior project at the Racine Zoo (Wisconsin), standing in the main building taking notes on a clipboard. A man came in and began taunting the lion in a nearby enclosure, which was separated from the public space by a railing, with the lion being held in a by a series of thin, but strong, wires. The student asked the man to stop taunting the lion. The man asked the student if he was a Zoo employee; when he replied that he was not, the man resumed taunting the lion. My student stepped away, and then the lion sprayed the taunting man with urine. Swift and karmic justice.
In like fashion I took a bunch of 14yo school boys from my class on a visit to Auckland Zoo. About 30 of us gathered in front of the hippo enclosure. The hippo greeted us with mouth wide open expecting food deposits. The instructions for visitors were quite clear: ‘don’t feed the hippo’. After a minute or so said hippo rotated 180degrees, backed up to the fence, and with a furious wagging of the tail let fly with a gush of foul smelling egesta that deposited a fine spray over the boys in the front row. A great moment for teacher standing in the back row!
You are clever indeed! 😎
I don’t have a TV but right now I’m hearing the transcript of the infamous call being read on the radio but no mention on google news that it has been released.
Trump has his hand in the cookie jar and I wonder, as some do, if he kind of wanted this to happen.
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If you are hell bend on lowering the tone of your site ,here is a clip of a Gorilla scratching his bum ,LOL.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFWOWLEGpgI
Damn and blast and bugger it all to hell ,remembered where i had seen said Gorilla ,it were on here ,oh the shame .
Hahaha. Love it!
I just want to add that we’ve all been there after a certain age…and even younger presumably. I felt my comment was a bit mocking and I didn’t want that tone to prevail.
That’s ok ,turned 60 in July ,and i have noticed for a few years that i get up to do something ,then can’t remember what is was .
The penguin/(fur seal?) confrontation is quite amazing. That little guy has guts!
These were great. Poor egret indeed!
I always suspected that there was a natural explanation for chemtrails.