Category Archives: Animals

Rossini’s cats duet

Rossini composed this piece of opera buffa to ridicule bad sopranos. It is usually featured by a duet of girls but in this case it is interpreted by a chorus that cannot avoid smiles. :)

Cats still love ladders.
Cats still love ladders. Credit Kevin Steele
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Sheep, mixing Churras and Merinos

Sheep were one of the earliest animals to be domesticated for agricultural purposes, sheep are raised for fleece, meat (lamb, hogget or mutton) and milk.
The domestic sheep is a multi-purpose animal, and the more than 200 breeds now in existence were created to serve these diverse purposes.
Churras and Merinos are 2 of those breeds, [...]

Sheeps marching!
Sheeps marching! Credit Caro's Lines
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Bats

Bats are flying mammals in the order Chiroptera. The forelimbs of bats are webbed and developed as wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums and colugos, glide rather than fly, and only for short distances. Bats [...]

Smile for the Camera (Eptesicus fuscus)
Smile for the Camera (Eptesicus fuscus) Credit Furryscaly
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Best fotos of 2009

Space, history, nature, people, animals, … I hope you have enjoyed them.
Note. Credits in this post link to orginal posts of this blog. Photo credits are placed on the landing pages.

The Orion nebula.
The Orion nebula. Credit TheBigFoto
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Little gems of photography VII

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Fennec Fox beyond Internet
The Karmic Koala live
Danse Macabre. Halloween, 31st October

Fennec Fox.
Fennec Fox. Credit suneko
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Cliches about cats

Cats are an important part of Internet nowdays. But they always have played an important role on photography as you can see in these old photos.

Cat is the cutest animal.
Cat is the cutest animal. Credit Beverlykahuna
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The Karmic Koala live

The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is a thickset arboreal marsupial herbivore native to Australia, and the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae.
The koala is found in coastal regions of eastern and southern Australia, from near Adelaide to the southern part of Cape York Peninsula. Populations also extend for considerable distances inland in regions with enough [...]

The Karmic Koala live
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