GP likes it when animals are happy. That means we are getting along. Usually. Someone caught this dragonfly with a smile on his/her face. Did s/he just finish doing … well, never mind. Doesn’t matter, as long as the little bugger is happy, eh?

Mark Manders gets credit for snapping these photos on his camera phone.

it reminds me of the story when some veteran photographers were praising a photograph of a frog.

Clean, crisp, real, alive…among other adjectives were being tossed about.
One of the guys pondered out loud, “I wonder how this photo was taken?”
A little 6-year old girl chimed in, “I just sneaked up on him and went ‘click.’”

Sometimes the best things in life aren’t looked for … they are found.

Other cute animals pictures? Check out the hippos that aren’t afraid of crocs or how a lion cub and a puppy play together.

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Where’s my press pass and camera when I need it? Japanese celebrity, Aya Sugimoto, posed nude for Peta. Yum! What another reason for me to keep using fur. If other females like 40-year old (is she really 40?) will pose nude to stop me, I’m all for doing my part to get them to do their part.

I am not convinced that Sugimoto really gets it.

“When I think of those poor animals, it’s no big deal for me to be naked in an ad. A woman can be gorgeous without real fur.”

Yeah, she gets that part, she is gorgeous, but … when asked about leather products, she said she still continues to buy them because “leather production is different from fur production.”

I guess that means it’s okay to skin an animal but not just give them a haircut. Go figure. No matter, I just want more people like Sugimoto doing their part to stop the rest of the world from using fur. Would anyone get it if they’ll continue to do it?

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Question: What’s cuter than a tiger cub?

Answer: A bunch of tiger cubs.

A tigress in south China named Madonna, gave birth to cubs. The father’s name, and I am not making this up, is Tiger Woods. The cubs were born in captivity by natural means. That is, humans kept their hands out of it. However, after they were born in China, they were taken to South Africa to learn how to survive in the wild. In other words, they needed to learn how to avoid poaching.

It is thought that there are only about 76 South China Tigers left. A farmer in China is standing trial for saying he photographed some of the tigers.

I don’t know if the tigers know it, but they are in some serious trouble if they are depending on Tiger Woods and Madonna to get together to keep their species alive. What do you think?

Man’s best friend, it is believed, can catch the need to yawn from his/her master, too. When someone nearby yawns, for whatever reason, we tend to yawn, too. A researcher at the University of London is claiming that domestic dogs will yawn out of sympathy as well.

Um, don’t these researchers have better things to study than dog yawning habits? Anyway…

Chimps will yawn out of sympathy much like humans do. The researcher became intrigued when his dog yawned right after him. So, he tested his theory on friends and their pups. Sure enough, dogs empathize, too. Dog’s yawned in 72% of incidences compared to 65% of such cases with human-to-human and chimp-to-chimps.

Researchers still aren’t sure why. I say we ask Rover. “Woof, woof!”

In any event, it seems evident that Spot has the ability to empathize with his master. Friends don’t do it, and wives can be way out of touch. But, at least the dog understands.

Is your dog yawning?

Image courtesy of xparxy

It has to be a cultural thing, and one that I don’t get. Some guy in Ivory Coast built a house in the shape of a crocodile. I mean, I know the song “Crocodile Rock” but a house built out of rock shaped like a crocodile?!

Seriously, where do people come up with ideas like this?

“Hey, Kalo! Where you going?”

“I’m going home to be eaten.”

“You mean you are going home to eat?”

“Nope, I am going home to be eaten by a crocodile.”

“Huh!?”

Every night the builder of this house feeds his family to the crocodile he built for them to live in.

“And, here in the nose of the house we have a single bedroom. While back in this portion of the beast is the depository, if you get my meaning.”

I didn’t learn to eat lobster until I was in the Navy. We were riding the Midway, a baby air-craft carrier that carried only about 4,000 people. After a long exercise, as in war games, we were steaming home. The sign on the officer’s mess said “Surf and turf.” Lobster and steak. I have loved lobster ever since.

Speaking, um, writing of lobster … off the coast of Cornwall at Eddystone Reef in England a giant lobster was caught. And, given the very uncreative name, Eddy. Eddy was donated to the Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay. Better there, I suppose, than part of a meal for 4,000 hungry sailors, eh?

Eddy’s claws are about 18″ long. This is longer than a normal lobster. I wonder … what size steak would you put alongside Eddy. We love animals here at GP. Yum!

An aquarium in China bought two whales from Japan.

I like animals, don’t get me wrong. But, do I want to tackle a whale, roll him and her over to find their, um, parts, then get sperm from the non-sperm whales, however that might done, then find Miss Whale and inject her with Mr. Whales juice. Nope, not me. Uh uh. Let somebody else do it.

Seriously, I don’t get it. Who comes up with the ideas of helping animals do the reproduction thing? The Chinese bought the whales for about $125k. Maybe, it’s about the money. I can’t figure out why anyone else would do it, can you?

Quick, what goes zzub, zzub, zzub…

Answer: A bee flying backwards.

What goes buzz, buzz, zzub, zzub, buzz, buzz, zzub, buzz, buzz…

Answer: A whole bunch of bees going every which way and then some.

A truck carrying a bunch of hives collided with a farm vehicle and overturned. The result was the bees got lose, swarmed all over and stung three people to death. Firefighters had to be called in.

Some brave soul even thought to take a few pictures, after which s/he was likely stung, then swelled up into the size of a blimp.

So, tell me, if there were bees swarming everywhere and people were dying, would you get your camera out to record it?

A unicorn-like creature, doe-eyed, relative of the giraffe with zebra-like strips, and also known as the okapi was photographed in the wild in the Virunga National Park.

The male has two horns that look like one when viewed from the side, making some think the okapi is related to the mythical unicorn. Yeah, right.

The photograph is good news says the zoological society and conservationists. The animals have survived poaching and war in the lawless Congo. For a long time, the area was controlled by armed militias.

“We’ve managed to get pictures of three separate individuals, and we’ve also got a picture of one roaming around at nighttime and actually foraging, which is the first evidence of this behavior.”

The biggest obstacle to survival of this unique creature is poaching and war. What was it that they say in Jurassic Park? Life will find a way. GP hopes that we humans will stay out of the way of the survival of all animal species.

Sometimes words are not needed to explain a picture, right?

I guess this is what feels like to be in a Zoo with all the people staring at you and lots of sun. Add to all these a lot of fur and you have a really unhappy polar bear. At least they gave him some ice cubes to lean on. I can even hear the poor guy saying “I just wanna go home, where I have lots of ice, lots of snow and lots of below 0 degrees”. Do we need polar bears in Zoo just to look how cute they are?

One last thing. I don’t know who owns the copyright for that image but anyone knows who the photographer is I’d like to know so that I can give him full credits.