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There was a very large political rally in my hometown of Portland, Oregon yesterday, and I wanted to see what the crowd was like. I wasn’t looking for anything to post here, but I really like this picture!

Via Ryan Harvey’s Flickr photostream.

(I’m all for political discourse and activism, but please don’t make any political comments, a comment made on an animal blog is not going change anybody’s mind.)

Via Frank Wouters’ Flickr photostream.

Via the Wikimedia Commons

Grace, in a recent comment on the blog, pointed me to an MSN article featuring 10 species from the EDGE (Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered) of Existence conservation program. (As I am American, I can’t get myself to write “programme.”) It is a very neat program that aims at preserving species that are the most endangered and the most distinct from other species, both physically and behaviorally.

As I did not want to spoil on anything on MSN’s list, I chose to show pictures of a species I really like that was not featured in the article, the saiga antelope.

Link to the MSN article.
Link to the EDGE of Existence program’s homepage.
Link to EDGE of Existence profile of the saiga antelope.

The photographer notes:

This large “Hippo Pool” was totally covered with this green vegatation through which hippo’s would pop up to breath.

It made getting a good shot of them very difficult and with them “blowing” almost impossible.

Via Picture Taker 2’s Flickr Photostream!

It’s World Tapir Day!

Treat your tapir right and give it the appreciation he or she deserves.

Ahhhhhh.

(TapirDay.org)

The animals people are scared of the most are sometimes so cute!

Via Rob Parkin’s Flickr Photostream!

I hope this picture isn’t already on all of the cute/funny pictures of animals blogs. It’s one that I think people would love!

SEE YOU TOMORROW

Via zoomar’s Flickr Photostream!

I wonder if this guy is friends with blobfish?

I love elephant seals, I think I could post dozens of them without it ever getting old!

Via flavor32’s Flickr Photostream!

From the Flickr photo/macro description:

Bats can’t launch from a flat horizontal surface, they need to fall first. Normally you should leave a healthy, grounded bat to crawl up something in order to launch itself, but in this case the bat was a healthy juvenile pipistrelle and in a house with three cats… I launched it out of the window before they found it.

Need help with a bat?
Call the Bat Helpline
0845 1300 228 [UK Number]

I wasn’t able to find a similar number for people in the United States, but please, please, be careful around bats. My grandmother was once bit by a bat, and she can tell you, rabies shots are not a nice thing.

Via Steve Brace’s Flickr Photostream! (Third Steve in a row!)

Emi’s Update:
In the US contact your local Bat Working Group (elsewhere I’m sure you can contact a bat conservation organization and they can help you out). Unfortunately the national Bat Working Group website is down, so I can’t link to it, but I’m sure you can pull up a local Working Group or conservation organization pretty easily on google…

I just slept for fourteen hours. now I will post this picture.

I do not think I was that cute while sleeping!

Via Steve Sawyer’s Flickr Photostream!

Is this too straight-up-cute for this blog? Prooobably. BUT OH MAN, I LIKE THIS PICTURE. And I don’t know what other blog I can send this to! Its nose looks a little weird though. Maybe that’s how I can justify its presence on this blog?

I think what I will do is just post things I like. It just so happens that most of the things I like aren’t cute in the most well-appreciated ways.

Via Jude’s Flickr Photostream