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Got your nose. 15 Cute Animals That Will Cause You Horrible Harm. When we think of animals that will destroy us, rend us limb from limb, and leave us in a bloody mess, we usually thing of the huge and horrifying.

15 Cute Animals That Will Cause You Horrible Harm

Which means we forget about the real threats: the tiny, the cute, the gorgeous. The animals at which we ooh and aaah over, but are deadly, poisonous and generally all around nasty. And, after writing this list, I've come up with two pieces of advice. 1) Never go in the water. 2) Never visit Australia. Combine the two, and it's even more true: never go in the water in Australia! Seriously, terrifyingly deadly critters everywhere. 15. Not everyone's particular cup of tea, but many people keep rats as pets, and they're remarkably hygienic. 14.

Puffer fish are hilarious and adorable just on general principle. 13. Lionfish aren't so much cute as stunningly beautiful. 12. Oh, dolphins, lazy stoners of the sea. 11. These snakes are gorgeous and reclusive animals, that hang around the southern reaches of the United States. 10. 9. Look at this thing. Zoo signs. Tiger in the snow.

By Wil Longbottom Updated: 17:53 GMT, 18 December 2011 That's an odd place to take a cat nap, even if you are a Siberian tiger.

Tiger in the snow

This magnificent animal looks quite at home under a dusting of snow at a zoo in Seoul, South Korea. Bobby McLeod photographed the docile feline as he slowly woke up and yawned - annoyed that he had nodded off in the snow. Cat nap: This Siberian tiger managed to catch 40 winks at a zoo in Seoul, South Korea, despite heavy snowfall The male seemed unaware of the chaos heavy snowfall had triggered around the city and apparently enjoyed the freezing temperatures.

Mr McLeod, an English teacher, had to take the train to the zoo because the surrounding roads were impassable. The 47-year-old said: 'On this day there was record snowfall and traffic came to a standstill in Seoul. 'Fortunately, due to a fine subway system, I was able to make it out to the zoo although I had to trudge about three kilometres from the subway station up to the tiger enclosure. Colorful chameleon. Attack Of Wilderness. The Goat Tower. What do you do when you own a group of Swiss Mountain Goats but there isn’t anywhere for them to climb?

The Goat Tower

The answer that South African farmer Charles Back came up with was to create a domicile for his goats that would help keep them fit as well as giving them an altogether butter kind class of goat shed. Unfortunately there are over 600 Saanen goats on Back’s farm – the Fairview Wine and Cheese Farm in the Paarl area of South Africa, just a short journey from Cape Town. That means that only six or so get to live the high rise life but the goat tower has become a symbol of the farm even if it is better known for its wine than its goat’s cheese!

Since the construction of the tower in the 1980s several farmers around the world have seen this wonderful caprine condominium and have followed suit. It may not fit the exact criteria for free range goat herding but the goats themselves look pretty happy with their accommodation. How to Clean Your Owl. Hungover Owls. There it is, the picture that started it all—Old Brown from Squirrel Nutkin.

Hungover Owls

Look how little shit he’s willing to put up with right now! None. None of the shit. I started this blog as an excuse to lie in bed hungover rather than stand outside hungover, and it’s only appropriate that it ends the same way. Hung over owl. 553468_04662c183e712dc6c7bd4dc3a2fc1031_large.jpg (JPEG Image, 800 × 500 pixels)