Some cool wildlife animals images:
My friend Kiki
Image by normalityrelief
Kiki - along with two other red foxes - for some reason seems to like my company. While I never have arrived home to find them napping (or bathing themselves, or rolling in the dirt) in my front yard, nearly every time I'm out working in & around my garage & one or more shows up (which is most days), they end up watching me for a bit, then sitting, then cleaning themselves, then (usually) having some fun rolling around, then curling to take a nap, using their tails as pillows.
I truly do not understand why they tend to do this only when I'm around, though I certainly am not complaining - I've grown quite fond of all three. Maybe they think I'm trustworthy enough to sound an alarm should trouble arise or something.
There have been a few times when they've ventured closer to me than about 15 feet (4.5 m), at which point I've felt it necessary to politely shoo them off. As much as I genuinely would love to pet that beautiful fur, first & foremost, well ... they're wild animals, & as nice as they appear there's no guarantee whatsoever they wouldn't bite my hand off, though probably in the most adorable manner possible. The other main reason I don't want them getting too comfortable getting too close is because, well ... we're kind of wild animals ourselves, & there's no guarantee whatsoever - if they felt comfortable coming right up to humans - that no human wouldn't kick their adorable little skulls in. I just don't want to feel potentially responsible for such a mean & unadorable act.
So I remain content with them using my front yard as something of a safe zone, happily watching & taking waaaaaay too many pictures.
[096/365] 16th November
Image by charliebarker
White Rhino
ODC: WILDLIFE
I actually love this photo so much, I took quite a few. I have a new 50-300mm zoom and I used it on the Safari at Animal Kingdom, I didn't need it though...this Rhino was so close to the car, we was driven off a little early as the driver was getting worried it was going to charge. What is a better place to go to get a Wildlife shot than Animal Kingdom haha? I have so many more which I will be putting up later
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Mountain lion track
Image by V. H. Hammer
We found fresh tracks of a small cougar. They are common around here but the animal itself is not often seen. This is a front track, which is wider than it is long. Counting from the bottom, toe #3 leads, which is usual in mountain lion tracks, as is the absence of nail marks. Toe #4 is usually notably large, as it is in this track. The interdigital pad has two lobes, unlike a canine track, which has one.
This was part of a set of tracks that led to the base of a Douglas-fir, and stopped. Another set began at the tree, going in the other direction, which told us that the lion had probably climbed the tree, and later came down and left, and was not sitting directly above us, which would have been cool, but alas... the elusive cougar.
