These lovely... Whales

Hello everyone! Today I present you
Whales:

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Sperm Whale off the coast of the Azores in Portugal.
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These lovely... Pipefish

Hello guys, the creature of these two weeks is
Pipefish:

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Black-breasted Pipefish shot near St. Johns Reefs in the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt.
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These lovely... Pigeons

Good day guys, I present you the animal of these two weeks - it is
Crowned Pigeon:

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This is Western Crowned Pigeon - amazing, beautiful creature to my mind.
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These lovely... Leopards

The animal of this week is a gorgeous creature called
Leopard:

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Isn't it a great example of the wild life of our planet?.. I do love cats, there is no secret, but I was born in a year of tiger, so that fact makes me love each and every kind of 'cat', whatever the size and the name is:)
What's your attitude to these animals? Do you have cats in your house?.. I do, and actually one of mine really looks kind of this lovely Clouded Leopard lying in a tree... Ah, what a cutie!.
Don't you think so?
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These lovely... Seahorses

Yes... Today I have for you a picture of a lovely creature named
Thorny seahorse:

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I love this animal so much!.. I have great memories related with a seahorse from my childhood... I was 10 years old and traveled to the seaside with my grandparents and my aunt... it was a pretty long trip - for about a month, and I remember it as something very sunny, warm and bright! One of the days, my aunt took me to a boat ride, and when we were returning back to the coast the captain presented me the dried seahorse, that looked just like alive!..
Well... I have no idea where this souvenir is right now...ahh... but I still remember and keep my warm memories in my heart:)
On this pic - thorny seahorse against soft red coral in the waters off of Malaysia.
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These lovely... Bears

Polar bears:

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Great picture! Where else would you see so many polar bears at once?? I can't breathe at the thought how tall are these animals....!
This photo is made near Churchill, Manitoba, in Canada.
Love it.
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These lovely... Slugs

Today I'd like to talk about this amazing creature... or... well, I'm not sure how to call this...
Spanish Shawl:

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I found this image and thought I must post it! It looks so nice!.. Of course, many thanks to the photographer! Honestly, I have no knowledge about this sea slug. And never even thought there are such creatures!

But really, isn't it look much nicer than the "earth" slugs?? :) so colorful!.. It's a beauty :)
This photo was taken in a kelp forest off the cost of Santa Catalina Island in California, USA.

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These lovely... Hummingbirds

Animals are amazing, interesting, funny, smart, sometimes just unbelievable creatures! That is why we love them so much: they bring us joy, happiness, cosiness, and everytime knowledge.

This heading I want to dedicate to our lovely animals.

Sabrewing hummingbird:

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Photo taken in Monteverde, Costa Rica. I adore these little birds! They are birds, aren't they?? Well, I'm not sure :) But it is really amazing to watch over them! I was happy to have such possibility pretty lots of times due to my job.
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Margi...Beauty on the verge of extinction

My dad sent me a link to a very nice article about amazing creatures called Margai or Margi (not really sure about its name translation, in russian it's Марги, Маргай*):

Margi - is a kind from cat's family, living in Latin America. The length of its body is about 60cm, not including a 40-centimetric tail. The weight fluctuates from 4 to 8 kg. In general the cat looks as a smaller copy of related to it ocelote. It has a yellowy-brown wool with dark ring-alike stains. The big expressive eyes of Margi are perfectly in harmony with the colourful woollen 'dress' of this cat. Their long tail serves this animal as a balance weight at movement on branches, after all Margai spends a lot of time on trees. The weight of this charming animal varies approximately from 2 to 5 kg.

This cat conducts a semiwood way of life and is active basically at night. It perfectly swarms up trees and can jump from a branch on a branch as a squirrel. Even from completely vertical trunk Margai goes down a head downwards. Life expectancy of the cat is about 18th years in general. Margi lives mainly in warm, dense woods; neither colds, nor light forests this temperamental, prompt animal loves. Time after time it gets on plantations of cocoa or coffee.

The creature conducts a single way of life. Usually the food appears in small mammals also living on trees; birds, wood lizards, frogs and even insects; sometimes the cat finishes with small monkeys. In some areas of the South America people take Margais instead of a house cat.

Last years because of cutting down of tropical woods the livestock of Margais siderably reduced. Besides, poachers quite often kill him for the sake of beautiful, dense and soft fur.

Now these wonderful longtailed cats, as well as many other cat's familys with beautiful wool, are threatened with extinction.

*(c)elLfhouSE

These lovely cats II

... Another link leaded to the page with several cute pics of cats and their incredible "friends":

Aren't they amazingly cute?? I bet you can't say 'no' :)

These lovely cats

I received today from a friend a link to nice article about cats! The first about cat's hotel really amused me: 

I've seen this wonderful photo recently:

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A small group of horses, New South Wales, Australia.

I liked it a lot because of a nice composition. Have no idea how the author caught such moment, but he's got my respect. Do you like horses?

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Crazy two weeks. Part I

Good evening friends,
I must confess that I feel somehow ashamed for keeping silence that long. But you must forgive me that as these 2 weeks have been really crazy for me. And, well, of course I didn't really think about sitting down and writing to you. Tonight I feel like I have to tell what has happened to me during this time.

First of all, as some of you know due to my tweets in Twitter.com, these two weeks in a row I went to the seaside. During the first trip which I took with my parents, my brother that is visiting me here, my brother's friend and a son of one of my girlfriends, the time went by peacefully, and because of the unusual company, the trip seemed to be good. But on the third day the guys found on the beach a green sea turtle. The poor creature should has been wounded by fishers to whom it might has fallen into fishing nets. The turtle had a really big wound in her head and seemed that her left paw (if you let me call it so) was dislocated. The moment my brother and his friends saw the turtle, some of the local workers were ready to take the poor thing to the kitchen and prepare a soup!.

Of course we didn't let them do such a thing. And brought this turtle to the club where we have a small apartment on the beach. As I had nothing else to do that day, I've spent most of it near that creature. I just knew she's still alive because her eyes were opened. I'm blushing to tell you, but everytime I see an animal, I'm talking to it. It might look silly from the side, but I love animals so much that this doesn't really bother me. 

So I've been sitting near the turtle and was talking and talking to her, as I thought she's about to pass away. After about 2 hours spent with my knees on the sand (feeling nothing much without moving), I was kind of shocked. Yes! Because the turtle suddenly made quite a sharp movement towards me, with her neck extended and slightly opened beak, it was quietly hissing. The first and instinct thing was to get as far from the turtle as possible. Well, of course, despite of that sudden move, we all know that turtles are usually slow creatures. Though I must say that I've never had any little one at home as a pet, and only few times viewed these sea green turtles on the beach (most of which were dead by the moment). So really I have no real knowledge how to act with these animals. When my dad saw how the turtle acts with me - these moves became pretty frequent btw - he told me, that probably it's talking to me, well, the way the turtle can. Of course, I didn't really think it was so. To my mind the turtle was just trying to make me understand that it's tired of my company and wishes me to leave it alone... However, I went to the apartment and tried to find smth about sea turtles. And so I found out that my dad was actually right: the turtles really extend their necks towards a person if he talks "gently" with them; and try to hide their heads on the opposite situation. Honestly, I felt much better after I read this!

Then, I found that these creatures are not predators, and that they dont eat meat. So we tried to feed "her" (with my mom we decided to think the turtle is a female :) with some green apple. For sure it was very exciting - expecialy if you imagen that in the internet I didn't find any instruction for that case... But the most exciting thing was that "our girl" actually liked it!.. Yes! It was amazing and so strange to feed this quite big animal.
Well, we've spent 3 days with our new "pet", during which we really saw the turtle getting better and better. Frequently men (as "she" was really heavey - I couldn't lift "her" up) took the "girl" to swim to the ocean :) The turtle was swiming, but was still too weak to make it to the deapth itself. I've found that these sea creatures can live with wounded heads for quite a long period of time, so each day we were glad to find "her" alive in the morning. And we all thought that we are doing great job! But then we had to leave to the city, and of course there was no way to take our "girl" with us. So we left the turtle with our neighbors (an ukrainian family), as we knew that we'll come back to the ocean in a week.

Unfortunately, at that time I didn't know yet that the first part of the "operation on turtle rescue" will be the last one and the next journey to the beach will be awfully sad :(

Elegantly yours,
Olya Nikol P.