Via Nick Lawes’ Flickr photostream.

I plan to change web hosts today, if anything weird happens, that is probably why! If all goes well, there won’t be a thing to notice but faster page loads!

Edit: I’m sorry for all the trouble this has caused! I have decided to move back. I guess this was another learning experience???

I really like subterranean animals, but there are so few good pictures! I was surprised to find out that these moles were alive after the photographer found them while gardening. They look so vulnerable!

(I’m getting better at predicting what taxa an animal may belong to, but for the first time in a while, I still had to look up the superorder of a mammal, I wasn’t sure if moles were Euachontoglires, the superorder that includes rodents and primates and their allies, or Laurasiatherians, which is composed of, among other things, bats, carnivorans (cats, dogs, walruses, etc), pangolins, and ungulates), or if they were a member of a completely different superorder. It turns out they are a member of Laurasiatheria, in the order Soricomorpha (which also include shrews and the rare solenodon), which seems to mean they’re more closely related to whales, bears, and bats than any mouse. WELL, NOW I KNOW THAT.)

Via Tracy Lee Carroll’s Flickr photostream.

The title the photographer gave this tapir was “sing a song.” If it is making a sound, I wish I could hear it! I love tapirs but have no idea what they sound like. I think it looks more like the tapir is just taking a breath after a refreshing drink though.

Via Suneko’s Flickr photostream.

Happy Mother’s Day! Here are a pair of mother and baby animal pairs!

Via CuteOtters.Com!

And my pal Rick wanted me to post this one:

If you’d like to see more mother/baby pairs this Mother’s Day, there are five more pairs in this recent post!

(Sorry this is brief! I’m a little behind on things!)

(also, hi mom! i guess!)

My grandmother’s favorite animal is the owl! Maybe this will make up for posting bats.

Photo via Nick Lawes’ Flickr Photostream!

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!

I really like golden lion tamarins. They have always appeared to me to be a creature out of fantasy rather than reality. They’re both so alien and familiar.

From Wikipedia:

The Golden Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia) also known as Golden Marmoset, is a small New World monkey of the family Cebidae. Native to the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, the Golden Lion Tamarin is an endangered species and among the rarest animals in the world, with an estimated wild population of 1,000 individuals and a captive population of approximately 500. [more...]

Via Steve Harris’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

A person on The Amazing Regret Index and a person on the Something Awful forums both independently said “coots are uglorable” sometime in the past week. I haven’t heard anybody else mention any animals, so why not post a coot.

This coot chick appears to be resting its head on its mother. I will probably be posting a couple more of these soon, there are a few great pictures of coots.

Via Freebird4’s Flickr Photostream.