Sometimes the only way to deal with the monkey on your back is to take care of it until it grows up and leaves on its own.
Dwarf Mongoose (Helogale parvula)
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noun
the steepest angle at which a sloping surface formed of a particular loose material is stable.
Dingo
Sure is great to be a dingo.
Sea Otter
“As I told you Mr Potter, naughty children deserve to be punished.”
Sea Otter
Sea otters know you can’t actually slap someone over the Internet, but that doesn’t stop them trying.
Fish
Among Sony’s numerous attempts to capitalize on the rights to Spider-Man was the short-lived underwater movie.
Electro didn’t go over well with test audiences.
Sea Otter
“Tofu?”
Clown Fish
Wet Fishy
Cold fishy
Scale, gill and fin
Hiding fishy
Cozy fishy
Sting resistant skin
Piranha
If you don’t keep turning your piranhas, they don’t ripen evenly.
Sea Otters telling ghost stories
“She woke up to discover it had all been a dream … the monsters, the chase, the desert, all of it. But then she rolled over to discover that her bed was DRY!”
Fish
For a while, a long time ago, I was puzzled over the fact that both water (mostly made of hydrogen and oxygen) and air (mostly nitrogen with a bit of carbon and oxygen for flavor) were clear when most things made of those atoms are not.
Then I realized that eyes evolved in water and then moved to land.
Sea Otter
This otter just realized how what he said at dinner last night was likely interpreted by his dining companions.
Egyptian Tortoise
He’s operating his T.A.R.D.I.S.
(Terrapin Adjusting Reverse Downward Internodal Shrub)
Eurasian Harvest Mouse (Micromys minutus)
Getting a bit annoyed at people conflating short tempers, the inability to clearly articulate one’s thoughts, petty sniping, transparent media manipulation, racist beliefs, misogyny, poor business practices, drug use, and sexual assault with the the colour orange.
Some can’t choose how they look.
Green Tree Python
It is surprisingly difficult to get photos of snakes with both ends in focus.
Rainbow Lorikeet
The rainbow lorikeet’s tongue is black because all their colour is on their outsides.
Mossy Frog
Despite it’s name, this frog is not actually mossy.
Kangaroo
Invisible teddy bear
Naked Mole Rat
This is the best photo of a naked mole rat I’ve ever taken.
Usually, they’re hiding because it’s daytime and they have scratched the heck out of their glass front so there’s no chance.
They’re not the prettiest animal out there, but for a critter that lives a weird sort of mammalian insect it sure does look the part.
Prairie Dog performing The Rape of Lucrece
At last it rains, and busy winds give o’er:
Then son and father weep with equal strife
Who should weep most, for daughter or for wife.