This incredible photo captured the spiritual moment a faithful otter looked to the heavens for guidance on catching his next meal.
The once in a lifetime snap was taken by photographer Marac Andrev Kolodzinski who spent two hours waiting in freezing cold weather at Whipsnade Zoo, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, to capture the divine moment.
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[LEFT]The president of the California Fish and Wildlife Commission has caused outrage after posing for photographs clutching a dead mountain lion.[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Daniel Richards, 59, is believed to have shot the animal in Idaho, where hunting the big cats is legal.[/LEFT]
[LEFT]However in California, the state where he is in charge of wildlife decisions, hunting mountain lions has been banned for two decades.[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Distant cousins: Studies on rhesus macaque monkeys shows men may not be going extinct within the next five million years after all[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Decaying: Previous studies had suggested men were destined for extinction due to the rate at which the Y chromosome, right, was deteriorating compared to the X chromosome, left[/LEFT]
In the thick of it: A brave swimmer submerged in the lake on Pacific island of Palau is surrounded by hundreds of jellyfish
Dream destination: View of Lake Palau - home to millions of jellyfish - on Palau island from the sky
With no risk of being eaten by predators the jellyfish population thrived and there is now estimated to be up to eight million jellyfish living in the lake.
Over time their stings weakened and these amazing images show tourists can now swim alongside the jellyfish without fear of being stung.
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[LEFT]A parrot lost all its feathers after it was fed a diet of beer and chips. Charlie the two-year-old African grey was also given monkey nuts and kept in a darkened corner alone with no socialisation. Parrots have a brain equivalent to that a four-year-old child which means they need lots of stimulation and care as they grow. But the stress of his situation caused Charlie to pull out his feathers and by the time he was rescued he was mostly bald.[/LEFT]
Sad but true.
I feel guilty enough when I don’t get to take my dog for walks or if I’m out late after work and she doesn’t get as much time outside as she normally does. I couldn’t imagine how they can make that conscious decision to allow the animal’s health to deteriorate so much. It’s really sad.
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[LEFT]You could be forgiven for thinking it was a polar bear that had wandered off the ice and somehow found itself in a forest. [/LEFT]
[LEFT]But this golden, almost white, beautifully unique creature is in fact a white variant of the North American black bear known as the spirit bear.[/LEFT]
[LEFT]The animal, also known as the Kermode bear, lives among more conventional-looking black bears in the dense green forests of British Columbia in Canada.[/LEFT]
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[SIZE=4]Amazing photos of the dogs who love to play fetch underwater[/SIZE]
Photographer Seth Casteel watched a series of pets diving into the water - many chasing a ball - and the result is lots of gnashers, bubbles and some incredible photographs.
Animal rights activists have managed to thwart a bizarre traditional that involves spinning dogs on a rope above a river in rural Bulgaria to ward off rabies.
For hundreds of years, locals in the remote town of Brodilovo in the south-east of the country have carried out the annual Spring ritual.
It involves twisting dogs a rope stretched out over a river until it is taut and then threading a dog through a noose at its end.
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[LEFT]Dolphin: Hey.[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Human: Uh…hey?[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Dolphin: S’up?[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Human: N…not much.[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Dolphin: What’re you doin’?[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Human: What am I doin’?[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Dolphin: Yeah, what’re you doin’?[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Human: Nothin’.[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Dolphin: Not invadin’ my turf?[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Human: Invadin’ your turf?[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Dolphin: Yeah. Are you?[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Human: No.[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Dolphin: Good. Cuz that’d be bad.[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Human: How bad?[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Dolphin: Three of my boys are in your camp on the beach, killin’ your menz. We could just waste you instead of lettin’ you go.[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Human: Yeah, that’d be bad.[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Dolphin: Hellz yeah, it would. Hey…why’d the water just get warmer?[/LEFT]
Dolphins do mate with porpoises of other species fairly often, compared to other mammals. There are dolphin/porpoise hybrids discovered by marine scientists on many random occasions.
Hold on, I didn’t quite understand the significance of the last line. In terms of literature, is your dialogue a comedy or a tragedy?
This ending is funny if the man has just peed himself because he’s afraid of the dolphin, but this ending is sad if the man has just opened an industrial manufacturing plant that has globally increased our planet’s climatic temperatures by releasing an ecologically irresponsible amount of high-impact greenhouse emissions into the atmosphere.
At least I think the pee is funny and the gases are sad, but maybe it’s visa-versa. I mean, after all, a man would have to be really terrified for his life to urinate involuntarily. I feel like there is great interplay of divergent moralities to be taken away from all of this.
