Check out these about pet animals images:
Rileys Mug
Image by mytimemachine
My dog Riley and his close up. Don't he looked thrilled?
Kitteh and kitteh!
Image by Niklas
We saw three or four cats on our walk this evening. Excellent.
Nice Animals Facts photos
A few nice animals facts images I found:
High roof inside the Africian Savannah building
Image by jon_a_ross
The giraffes had just had a baby and so were the subject of much of the zoo activity. In fact this africian savannah building was the single busiest we saw while at the zoo.
Our first stop at the zoo on this trip was to the Africian Savannah building. The birds and Giraffes were both very active as the zoo keepers were busy feeding both of them.
A brief trip to the Calgary Zoo (www.calgaryzoo.com).
The giraffes more interested in the tree
Image by jon_a_ross
The giraffes had just had a baby and so were the subject of much of the zoo activity. In fact this africian savannah building was the single busiest we saw while at the zoo.
Our first stop at the zoo on this trip was to the Africian Savannah building. The birds and Giraffes were both very active as the zoo keepers were busy feeding both of them.
A brief trip to the Calgary Zoo (www.calgaryzoo.com).
Giraffes looking over their range
Image by jon_a_ross
The giraffes had just had a baby and so were the subject of much of the zoo activity. In fact this africian savannah building was the single busiest we saw while at the zoo.
Our first stop at the zoo on this trip was to the Africian Savannah building. The birds and Giraffes were both very active as the zoo keepers were busy feeding both of them.
A brief trip to the Calgary Zoo (www.calgaryzoo.com).
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Some cool animal abuse images:
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Image by Rumpledshirtskin (Chris Martin)
If you like this little guy go check him out on his blog : loving-linus.com
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Image by Rumpledshirtskin (Chris Martin)
Loving Linus
This Blessing Bites: A loving couple who knows nothing about dogs rescues a Jack Russell Terrier who knows nothing about love.
These photos illustrates our blog and life with Linus. Please join us.
www.loving-linus.com
Loving-Linus Blog
Image by Rumpledshirtskin (Chris Martin)
Loving Linus
This Blessing Bites:
www.loving-linus.com
Cool Animal Images images
Check out these animal images images:
Double-Crested Profile
Image by Nick Chill Photography
Double-Crested Cormorant (phalacrocorax auritus) being surprisingly tolerant and cooperative.
View On Black
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In The Sights
Image by Nick Chill Photography
An Osprey, at Lake Murray, scoping out the photographer.
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Bodhi's new game!
Some cool animals games images:
Bodhi's new game!
Image by flythebirdpath~}~}~}
I run through the house with a pole toy, dragging it across my bed. Bo chases it up on the bed. When I drop it, Bo takes the furry end in his mouth and trots away with it, dragging the pole behind him.
Adorable personality at 6 mos old.
Bodhi's new game!
Image by flythebirdpath~}~}~}
I run through the house with a pole toy, dragging it across my bed. Bo chases it up on the bed. When I drop it, Bo takes the furry end in his mouth and trots away with it, dragging the pole behind him.
Adorable personality at 6 mos old.
Zebras in Kwazulu-Natal game reserve
Image by PS_pause
Hilltop camp,
Kwazulu-Natal,
South Africa.
save the little ones
Some cool animal cruelty images:
save the little ones
Image by alphadarius
you could let a puppy outgrow it's collar and slowly choke to death as it gets older.
it would only set you back RM200 or less in Malaysia.
if you think that's unjust, how about signing the SPCA Petition?
Nice Images Of Animals photos
Some cool images of animals images:
Animal Heroes
Image by CircaSassy
This image is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN. Attribution is not necessary. The original book is available at the Internet Archive (www.archive.org/details/animalheroesbein00setouoft ).
Animal heroes; being the histories of a cat, a dog, a pigeon, a lynx, two wolves & a reindeer and in elucidation of the same over 200 drawings (1905)
Animal Heroes
Image by CircaSassy
This image is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN. Attribution is not necessary. The original book is available at the Internet Archive (www.archive.org/details/animalheroesbein00setouoft ).
Animal heroes; being the histories of a cat, a dog, a pigeon, a lynx, two wolves & a reindeer and in elucidation of the same over 200 drawings (1905)
Nice Animal Friends photos
Some cool animal friends images:
Pooh & Friends at AZ State Fair
Image by crochetgal
Taking the first place ribbon at the state fair!
359 Friends
Image by Nebojsa Mladjenovic
20080515 - mothra - 156-5673 - Oranjello and the moth
Some cool video of animals images:
20080515 - mothra - 156-5673 - Oranjello and the moth
Image by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)
Oranjello likes to play with his food. Here he is seeming a little apprehensive about taking another swat at it.
BACKSTORY: This HUUUGE moth fell into our house from the back kitchen door. We called it "Mothra"; a common christening for house moths of this size. This was to be a good opportunity for Oranjello to satisfy his hunting urges, as well as to train him to hunt pests -- since we have the occasional mice and snakes (and raccoons!). It also proved to be an excellent photo-op.
attacking.
Oranjello the cat, Mothra.
kitchen, downstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
May 15, 2008.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
...Several Mothra videos were taken with our camera.
1) Carolyn freaking out at Mothra's discovery: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU4-9Nh18cQ
2) Oranjello hunting Mothra: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnkcFjzUAKA
3) Oranjello attacking Mothra, Carolyn helping lift him up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPhjhM4GMC8
4) Oranjello gives up too easy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmuHgZOT6UI
5) Oranjello meowing because he wants Mothra: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOBaWqSiJ-E
6) Carolyn FREAKING OUT when Mothra flew on her: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO0JyDhTbg8
20080329 - Oranjello, the new kitten - 152-5285 - Oranjello - on the couch
Image by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)
Is he throwin' down a gang sign?? Or is he just in the hizouse??? ..... And look how spiky his hair is! We didn't realize he was a longhair! Though as he has grown older, the hair has stayed the same length, so he no longer looks as longhair as he originally did.
BACKSTORY: We got a new kitten! Read about our adventures of buying it from a drunken alcoholic sporting a mullet here: clintjcl.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/journal-got-our-cat-tod... ... This guy was crazy.
cringing.
DoubleMint gum, Oranjello the cat, couch.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
March 29, 2008.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
...View video of Oranjello exploring our couch for the first time at www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUVDLFS9nq0
20100320 - Vicky & Ryan's wedding - post-ceremony - 0 - nature trail - foxes - GEDC1762-GEDC1761
Image by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)
The museum's nature trail was open for a brief period after the wedding ceremony / before the wedding reception.
These foxes seemed sooo bored in their tiny cage. All they did is run around for the most part.
Of course, I've seen real foxes in my back yard, and they are quite skittish.
Clint.
laying down, running, whistling.
fox, foxes.
video.
nature trail, Virginia Living Museum, Newport News, Virginia.
March 20, 2010.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Ryan's blog at www.ideonexus.com/
... View Ryan's photos at www.flickr.com/photos/ideonexus/
... Read Vicky's blog at tgaw.wordpress.com/
... View Vicky's photos at www.flickr.com/photos/tgaw/
BACKSTORY: Carolyn's sister Vicky, and my longtime friend and ex-roommate Ryan S got married!! And now I'm finally back up to 3 brother-in-laws again! :)
BACKSTORY: Carolyn's sister Vicky, and my longtime friend and ex-roommate Ryan S got married!! And now I'm finally back up to 3 brother-in-laws again! :)
Nice Animal Sanctuary photos
Some cool animal sanctuary images:
Horse nose
Image by Jeremiah Ro
The adoption wall
Image by Jeremiah Ro
There's actually many, many more photos than just this single wall, which is great.
Tiger Habitat
Image by Snap Man
There are four Tigers that live in this 10 acre habitat. Some of the Tigers in this habitat weigh nearly 800 pounds, and can live up to 23 years in captivity.
Diceros bicornis female and male
Check out these extinct animals images:
Diceros bicornis female and male
Image by kibuyu
Black Rhinos doing it, London Zoo.
Amazing how this activity draws in the voyeurs - even you!
So... you've had your thrill...now what are YOU going to do to ensure that these amazing animals don't become extinct? Right now the few remaining rhinos are being hammered by poachers for their valuable horns. Only a few thousand rhinos are left on our planet, and 7 billion people - who is the horniest?
Google "rhino conservation" and get started.
Baron Cuvier and the cetaceans
Image by seriykotik1970
The ground floor of Paris's "Museum of Comparative anatomy and Palaeontology".
Cuvier was the father of Palaeontology- the first scientist to study and name extinct species. He had a very big head- which led scientists to spend the better part of a century trying to find a correlation between brain size and intelligence. They couldn't.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Cuvier
"In my work on Fossil Bones, I set myself the task of identifying the animals whose fossilized remains fill the surface strata of the earth. This project meant I had to travel along a path where we had so far taken only a few tentative steps. As a new sort of antiquarian, I had to learn to restore these memorials to past upheavals and, at the same time, to decipher their meaning. I had to collect and put together in their original order the fragments which made up these animals, to reconstruct the ancient creatures to which these fragments belonged, to recreate their proportions and characteristics, and finally to compare them to those alive today on the surface of the earth. This was an almost unknown art, which assumed a science hardly touched upon up until now, that of the laws which govern the formal coexistence of the various parts in organic beings. Thus, I had to prepare myself for these studies through a much longer research into animals which presently exist. Only an almost universal review of present creation could provide some proof for my results concerning created life long ago. But at the same time such a study had to provide me with a large collection of equally demonstrable rules and interconnections. In the course of this exploration into a small part of the theory of the earth, I would have to be able to subject the entire animal kingdom in some way to new laws. "
From Cuvier's Introduction to his "Discourse on the Revolutionary Upheavals on the surface of the globe and on the changes which they have produced in the animal kingdom"
Diceros bicornis female and male
Image by kibuyu
Black Rhinos doing it, London Zoo.
Amazing how this activity draws in the voyeurs - even you!
So... you've had your thrill...now what are YOU going to do to ensure that these amazing animals don't become extinct? Right now the few remaining rhinos are being hammered by poachers for their valuable horns. Only a few thousand rhinos are left on our planet, and 7 billion people - who is the horniest?
Google "rhino conservation" and get started.
Baron Cuvier and the cetaceans
Image by seriykotik1970
The ground floor of Paris's "Museum of Comparative anatomy and Palaeontology".
Cuvier was the father of Palaeontology- the first scientist to study and name extinct species. He had a very big head- which led scientists to spend the better part of a century trying to find a correlation between brain size and intelligence. They couldn't.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Cuvier
"In my work on Fossil Bones, I set myself the task of identifying the animals whose fossilized remains fill the surface strata of the earth. This project meant I had to travel along a path where we had so far taken only a few tentative steps. As a new sort of antiquarian, I had to learn to restore these memorials to past upheavals and, at the same time, to decipher their meaning. I had to collect and put together in their original order the fragments which made up these animals, to reconstruct the ancient creatures to which these fragments belonged, to recreate their proportions and characteristics, and finally to compare them to those alive today on the surface of the earth. This was an almost unknown art, which assumed a science hardly touched upon up until now, that of the laws which govern the formal coexistence of the various parts in organic beings. Thus, I had to prepare myself for these studies through a much longer research into animals which presently exist. Only an almost universal review of present creation could provide some proof for my results concerning created life long ago. But at the same time such a study had to provide me with a large collection of equally demonstrable rules and interconnections. In the course of this exploration into a small part of the theory of the earth, I would have to be able to subject the entire animal kingdom in some way to new laws. "
From Cuvier's Introduction to his "Discourse on the Revolutionary Upheavals on the surface of the globe and on the changes which they have produced in the animal kingdom"
Sadie's adoption day - sadiesadoptionDSCN1248
A few nice animal pound images I found:
Sadie's adoption day - sadiesadoptionDSCN1248
Image by marymactavish
After eight weeks with us, today Sadie graduated from foster-dog to official permanent family member. We celebrated afterward with butter pecan ice cream for all of us.
THE GREAT PIG CAPTURE
Image by rikkis_refuge
Chief Animal Control Officer Patricia Dahl is a familiar sight around Rikki's Refuge. One thinks of the ACO as the dog catcher. But out here in the country it gets a lot more exciting. Trish chases down emus, cows, goats and pigs. Sunday she was the only one on call to respond to the citizen who had two pigs rooting up his yard. Trish called Rikki's for back up support. Lena Stocks, Darryl Adams, Drew Cox, Cameron Sayer, Joe Callahan and I took a few hours off to assist. Laurie and Andrew came along to help Trish.
The two relatively young farm pigs weighing only 300 pounds or so each were dining on a flower garden in an unfenced yard. Our job was to simply catch them and put them in the animal control vehicle and then get them out and into a dog run at the shelter to hold as strays. Hopefully the owner would claim them or we'd be having to figure out how to expand Piggy Paradise to house farms. Right now we only house pots. Pot Belly Pigs - you know miniature pigs - those advertised to reach only 40 pounds but topping the scales at 300 by the time they're two years old. They are miniature compared to farms who have reached this size in 3 or 4 months.
We began to attempt to heard the pigs toward the livestock trailer Trish had brought along. No such luck - they headed for the woods. When a pig charges a line of humans, no matter how close you're standing or how hard you push back with your hands - the pig just glides right thru. They are wedge shaped and very ... well ... pigheaded.
Pigs were made to dash thru dense forests rooting up truffles as they go and knocking everything out of their way. humans were made to walk slowly on nice sandy beaches with no obstacles.
Back and forth we chased the pigs. One male and one female. The male was in the lead and we figured if we got him the female might, please might, follow. Twice he was lassoed and twice he drug his captors thru the woods giving them good rope burns and whacking their heads on trees. Back and forth we chased the pig. We were all very upset when he found a small hole in the fence into the next yard and burrowed under. Now what? The order came - jump the fence and get him before he tears up someone else's yard.
After another hour of chasing up and down hills, back and forth over the fence, around trees and tripping over vines Drew and Darryl had him down. Grunting, kicking, screaming, rolling over and tossing them about. We waited for Trish to bring the vehicle in. We kept commenting about the cow pies littering the ground and hoping there wasn't a bull lose in the are we were in. An angry bull is not an animal you want to contend with. Meanwhile Laurie and Andrew were in hot pursuit of the female pig and well out of sight from the rest of us.
Trish walked and walked and walked until she found the gate to this property and it was locked. Finally she roused the owner and asked permission to come in and pick up the apprehended pig. The owner was less than happy when he discovered people on his property. One group of the trespassers were holding down his male pig and the other group were cornered, along with the female pig, by the angry bull.
We couldn't believe our ears when Trish walked back and hollered, "untie him and let him go." What? The pig was already home and now the owner had a fence job to look forward for the rest of the day.
This photo was snapped on a cell phone just before we let him go and watched him saunter off, digging up truffles (or bugs or something) and swishing his tail, seemingly no worse for the wear. The weary group of humans got up and trudged back to our truck only to head home picking off ticks and scrubbing off poison ivy.
Whale Tongue
Image by Thoth, God of Knowledge
A LARGE PORTION OF TONGUE. Three-thousand-pound edible tongue of a Pacific gray whale.
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article:
THE EDIBLE FLESH OF ONE WHALE EQUALS IN BULK STEERS OR 500 SHEEP, AND IT "TASTES REMARKABLY LIKE BEEF"
WHALE-STEAKS
AMERICANS ARE LEARNING to like whale meat. Other nations have always liked it, but we are slow to adopt what we consider foreign foods, altho there is nothing particularly foreign about the whale. The Food Administration is responsible for our early attempts at eating whale, but, according to a writer in The Scientific American (Now York, November 16), our liking bids fair to grow and spread after the emergency that gave rise to it has passed. During the war the production of whale meat has enabled us to keep the usual supply of domestic animals nearly normal and has released ample meats of other types for the maintenance of our military and naval forces. Plants for preparing whale meat, storage-houses for keeping it, and vessels for its distribution, are now scattered along the North Pacific coast. Seven stations have thus disposed of about one thousand whales this season —all of which we have eaten. Readers who have never knowingly consumed whale are invited to reflect on the fact that it tastes remarkably like beef. The original owner of that luscious steak you ate last night may possibly have swum the North Pacific instead of galloping about on the grassy plains of Texas. We read:
"The meat of the whale extends in great masses from the base of the skull to the tail fin and downward to the middle line, or completely over the rib section. This meat, all of it of the same quality, amounts to ten tons for each fifty feet of length and each fifty tons gross weight of the whale. Above these dimensions there may be fifteen tons of solid whale flesh of best eating quality. In other words, one-fifth of a whale is meat, without computing the other parts, such as the heart, etc., that are edible. The steer, being also a mammal, with nearly identical skeletonic structure, represents almost precisely the same proportions. That is to say, a steer weighing 1,000 pounds has 200 pounds of beef, but only a proportion of its meat of the first class such as characterizes nearly the whole whale flesh. A 50-foot, 50-ton whale, then, represents in bulk a herd of 100 steers of one-half ton weight each. He represents as much meat also as the herd. He is also equal to 500 sheep of 200 pounds each or to 300 hogs of 350 pounds each.
"Of course, steers range up to a ton of weight, with a corresponding increase of weight of flesh. But a whale also weighs up to 75 tons, representing a herd of 150 steers of a half-ton weight each. Any way you look at it, the whale has advantages over beef cattle. He requires no herdsmen or cowboys to care for him. He and his wife rear, feed, and guard their own young without any assistance from laborers. There is no cost to any one to feed him or his family; no food, clothes, or fuel to buy, with corresponding labor to produce them. When wanted, the whale is in his given haunts, ready to be taken. No butchering is required for him, the harpoon gun lands the fatal stroke. All you have to do is to haul him out and cut him up. The cost of whatever processes are required to put a whale on the market is so small in comparison with that of breeding and rearing a stow that Americans, like the Japanese, will soon have meat as good as the best parts of beef at probably not over fifteen cents per pound and in as large quantities as any family needs.......
"A whale is a mammal, not a fish. It produces its young alive and suckles them the same as a cow. Its flesh looks like that of beef, altho admittedly a little coarser in texture, and it has a slight flavor of venison. Whale steaks and roast whale have been served in several of the leading New York restaurants for some time past, having had a preliminary test at Delmonico's restaurant. New York chefs have developed the best methods of cooking and serving, and have found that it yields to as many forms of preparation as beef. There is little to distinguish it from beef, when served on the table, either in appearance, aroma, or taste. Many would be deceived into thinking it beef if not told what had been served. It is only in America that whale meat is a novelty. In Asia and elsewhere whale meat is the staple food.
"Whale meat has every advantage over beef—mutton— pork. In the first place, the whale is a diseaseless mammal, and its salt-water habitats contribute to its freshness, cleanness, digestibility, and healthfulness as food. On the contrary, cattle are subject to tuberculosis and foot-and-mouth and other diseases more or less communicable to humans. As an example, according to the statistics issued by the University of California, a billion pounds of pork are annually lost to America from hog-cholera. Sheep are subject to foot-and-mouth and other diseases. Disease also is destructive to immense numbers of the poultry and domestic food-bird families. In brief, we have diseased meats of all descriptions, if bred on land, and no diseases to worry about if bred in salt water. The meat of the back of the whale further differs from that of all other edible mammals, in that it is uniform, that is, all roasts and steaks, and also boneless. Its sirloin section, of some ten tons, is entirely kicking in those tough, cheap, and nearly inedible parts characteristic of beef, which some of us have to consume or go without meat because of the cost."
In conclusion, the writer quotes Dr. Roy C. Andrew's book on "Whale Hunting with the Camera" to the effect that few people realize the great part whale meat plays in the life of the poorer Japanese, who cannot afford to buy beef. For shipping purposes, it is cooked in great kettles, canned, and sent to all parts of the Empire.
Sadie's adoption day - sadiesadoptionDSCN1248
Image by marymactavish
After eight weeks with us, today Sadie graduated from foster-dog to official permanent family member. We celebrated afterward with butter pecan ice cream for all of us.
THE GREAT PIG CAPTURE
Image by rikkis_refuge
Chief Animal Control Officer Patricia Dahl is a familiar sight around Rikki's Refuge. One thinks of the ACO as the dog catcher. But out here in the country it gets a lot more exciting. Trish chases down emus, cows, goats and pigs. Sunday she was the only one on call to respond to the citizen who had two pigs rooting up his yard. Trish called Rikki's for back up support. Lena Stocks, Darryl Adams, Drew Cox, Cameron Sayer, Joe Callahan and I took a few hours off to assist. Laurie and Andrew came along to help Trish.
The two relatively young farm pigs weighing only 300 pounds or so each were dining on a flower garden in an unfenced yard. Our job was to simply catch them and put them in the animal control vehicle and then get them out and into a dog run at the shelter to hold as strays. Hopefully the owner would claim them or we'd be having to figure out how to expand Piggy Paradise to house farms. Right now we only house pots. Pot Belly Pigs - you know miniature pigs - those advertised to reach only 40 pounds but topping the scales at 300 by the time they're two years old. They are miniature compared to farms who have reached this size in 3 or 4 months.
We began to attempt to heard the pigs toward the livestock trailer Trish had brought along. No such luck - they headed for the woods. When a pig charges a line of humans, no matter how close you're standing or how hard you push back with your hands - the pig just glides right thru. They are wedge shaped and very ... well ... pigheaded.
Pigs were made to dash thru dense forests rooting up truffles as they go and knocking everything out of their way. humans were made to walk slowly on nice sandy beaches with no obstacles.
Back and forth we chased the pigs. One male and one female. The male was in the lead and we figured if we got him the female might, please might, follow. Twice he was lassoed and twice he drug his captors thru the woods giving them good rope burns and whacking their heads on trees. Back and forth we chased the pig. We were all very upset when he found a small hole in the fence into the next yard and burrowed under. Now what? The order came - jump the fence and get him before he tears up someone else's yard.
After another hour of chasing up and down hills, back and forth over the fence, around trees and tripping over vines Drew and Darryl had him down. Grunting, kicking, screaming, rolling over and tossing them about. We waited for Trish to bring the vehicle in. We kept commenting about the cow pies littering the ground and hoping there wasn't a bull lose in the are we were in. An angry bull is not an animal you want to contend with. Meanwhile Laurie and Andrew were in hot pursuit of the female pig and well out of sight from the rest of us.
Trish walked and walked and walked until she found the gate to this property and it was locked. Finally she roused the owner and asked permission to come in and pick up the apprehended pig. The owner was less than happy when he discovered people on his property. One group of the trespassers were holding down his male pig and the other group were cornered, along with the female pig, by the angry bull.
We couldn't believe our ears when Trish walked back and hollered, "untie him and let him go." What? The pig was already home and now the owner had a fence job to look forward for the rest of the day.
This photo was snapped on a cell phone just before we let him go and watched him saunter off, digging up truffles (or bugs or something) and swishing his tail, seemingly no worse for the wear. The weary group of humans got up and trudged back to our truck only to head home picking off ticks and scrubbing off poison ivy.
Whale Tongue
Image by Thoth, God of Knowledge
A LARGE PORTION OF TONGUE. Three-thousand-pound edible tongue of a Pacific gray whale.
-
article:
THE EDIBLE FLESH OF ONE WHALE EQUALS IN BULK STEERS OR 500 SHEEP, AND IT "TASTES REMARKABLY LIKE BEEF"
WHALE-STEAKS
AMERICANS ARE LEARNING to like whale meat. Other nations have always liked it, but we are slow to adopt what we consider foreign foods, altho there is nothing particularly foreign about the whale. The Food Administration is responsible for our early attempts at eating whale, but, according to a writer in The Scientific American (Now York, November 16), our liking bids fair to grow and spread after the emergency that gave rise to it has passed. During the war the production of whale meat has enabled us to keep the usual supply of domestic animals nearly normal and has released ample meats of other types for the maintenance of our military and naval forces. Plants for preparing whale meat, storage-houses for keeping it, and vessels for its distribution, are now scattered along the North Pacific coast. Seven stations have thus disposed of about one thousand whales this season —all of which we have eaten. Readers who have never knowingly consumed whale are invited to reflect on the fact that it tastes remarkably like beef. The original owner of that luscious steak you ate last night may possibly have swum the North Pacific instead of galloping about on the grassy plains of Texas. We read:
"The meat of the whale extends in great masses from the base of the skull to the tail fin and downward to the middle line, or completely over the rib section. This meat, all of it of the same quality, amounts to ten tons for each fifty feet of length and each fifty tons gross weight of the whale. Above these dimensions there may be fifteen tons of solid whale flesh of best eating quality. In other words, one-fifth of a whale is meat, without computing the other parts, such as the heart, etc., that are edible. The steer, being also a mammal, with nearly identical skeletonic structure, represents almost precisely the same proportions. That is to say, a steer weighing 1,000 pounds has 200 pounds of beef, but only a proportion of its meat of the first class such as characterizes nearly the whole whale flesh. A 50-foot, 50-ton whale, then, represents in bulk a herd of 100 steers of one-half ton weight each. He represents as much meat also as the herd. He is also equal to 500 sheep of 200 pounds each or to 300 hogs of 350 pounds each.
"Of course, steers range up to a ton of weight, with a corresponding increase of weight of flesh. But a whale also weighs up to 75 tons, representing a herd of 150 steers of a half-ton weight each. Any way you look at it, the whale has advantages over beef cattle. He requires no herdsmen or cowboys to care for him. He and his wife rear, feed, and guard their own young without any assistance from laborers. There is no cost to any one to feed him or his family; no food, clothes, or fuel to buy, with corresponding labor to produce them. When wanted, the whale is in his given haunts, ready to be taken. No butchering is required for him, the harpoon gun lands the fatal stroke. All you have to do is to haul him out and cut him up. The cost of whatever processes are required to put a whale on the market is so small in comparison with that of breeding and rearing a stow that Americans, like the Japanese, will soon have meat as good as the best parts of beef at probably not over fifteen cents per pound and in as large quantities as any family needs.......
"A whale is a mammal, not a fish. It produces its young alive and suckles them the same as a cow. Its flesh looks like that of beef, altho admittedly a little coarser in texture, and it has a slight flavor of venison. Whale steaks and roast whale have been served in several of the leading New York restaurants for some time past, having had a preliminary test at Delmonico's restaurant. New York chefs have developed the best methods of cooking and serving, and have found that it yields to as many forms of preparation as beef. There is little to distinguish it from beef, when served on the table, either in appearance, aroma, or taste. Many would be deceived into thinking it beef if not told what had been served. It is only in America that whale meat is a novelty. In Asia and elsewhere whale meat is the staple food.
"Whale meat has every advantage over beef—mutton— pork. In the first place, the whale is a diseaseless mammal, and its salt-water habitats contribute to its freshness, cleanness, digestibility, and healthfulness as food. On the contrary, cattle are subject to tuberculosis and foot-and-mouth and other diseases more or less communicable to humans. As an example, according to the statistics issued by the University of California, a billion pounds of pork are annually lost to America from hog-cholera. Sheep are subject to foot-and-mouth and other diseases. Disease also is destructive to immense numbers of the poultry and domestic food-bird families. In brief, we have diseased meats of all descriptions, if bred on land, and no diseases to worry about if bred in salt water. The meat of the back of the whale further differs from that of all other edible mammals, in that it is uniform, that is, all roasts and steaks, and also boneless. Its sirloin section, of some ten tons, is entirely kicking in those tough, cheap, and nearly inedible parts characteristic of beef, which some of us have to consume or go without meat because of the cost."
In conclusion, the writer quotes Dr. Roy C. Andrew's book on "Whale Hunting with the Camera" to the effect that few people realize the great part whale meat plays in the life of the poorer Japanese, who cannot afford to buy beef. For shipping purposes, it is cooked in great kettles, canned, and sent to all parts of the Empire.
Available at the Gordon County Animal Shelter. 706.629.3327
Check out these animal shelters images:
Available at the Gordon County Animal Shelter. 706.629.3327
Image by zane.hollingsworth
GCAS
Available Animals currently at the shelter
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Date:September,25,2012
Time:11:21:36:AM
Camera:NIKON D7000
Lens:95
Lens(35mm eq.):142
ISO:200
SS:1/400 @ f/5.3
Available at the Gordon County Animal Shelter. 706.629.3327
Image by zane.hollingsworth
GCAS
Available Animals currently at the shelter
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Date:October,2,2012
Time:09:52:41:AM
Camera:NIKON D7000
Lens:150
Lens(35mm eq.):225
ISO:250
SS:1/320 @ f/5.6
Available at the Gordon County Animal Shelter. 706.629.3327.
Image by zane.hollingsworth
GCAS
Available Animals currently at the shelter
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Date:December,14,2012
Time:05:22:48:PM
Camera:NIKON D800
Lens:80
Lens(35mm eq.):80
ISO:200
SS:1/200 @ f/5.6
Nice Animals For Free photos
Check out these animals for free images:
aardvark
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This is an illustration from a CALI Lesson by Eric Molinsky. www.cali.org/lesson/564 CALI Lessons are interactive study materials that most law students can access for free. See cali.org to learn more
Cow
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Cow at Rhodos, Greece
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Dec 4, 2009 4:59PM: Baxter
Check out these animal protection images:
Dec 4, 2009 4:59PM: Baxter
Image by Barbara.Doduk
FIV "New" AIDS Section
www.rapsociety.com/catsanctuary/
August 8, 2009 5:07 PM - Pekoe
Image by Barbara.Doduk
Front Courtyard Kitties
www.rapsociety.com/catsanctuary
Sept 4, 2009 5:22 PM: Prince
Image by Barbara.Doduk
www.rapsociety.com/catsanctuary
Dec 4, 2009 4:59PM: Baxter
Image by Barbara.Doduk
FIV "New" AIDS Section
www.rapsociety.com/catsanctuary/
August 8, 2009 5:07 PM - Pekoe
Image by Barbara.Doduk
Front Courtyard Kitties
www.rapsociety.com/catsanctuary
Sept 4, 2009 5:22 PM: Prince
Image by Barbara.Doduk
www.rapsociety.com/catsanctuary
Nice Endangered Animal Species photos
A few nice endangered animal species images I found:
The flying trainer / La adiestradora voladora
Image by . SantiMB .
Zoo - Barcelona (Spain).
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ENGLISH
The Bottlenose Dolphin is one of the most common and well-known dolphins. Recent molecular studies show it is in fact two species, the Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and the Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin (T. aduncus). It inhabits warm and temperate seas worldwide and may be found in all but the Arctic and the Antarctic Oceans.
Bottlenose Dolphins are still occasionally killed in dolphin drive hunts for their meat or because they compete for fish. Bottlenose Dolphins (and several other dolphin species) often travel together with tuna, and since the dolphins are much easier to spot than the tuna, fishermen commonly encircle dolphins to catch tuna, sometimes resulting in the death of dolphins. This has led to boycotts of tuna products and a "dolphin-safe" label for tuna caught with methods that do not endanger dolphins.
Bottlenose Dolphins (as well as other dolphins) are often trained to perform in dolphin shows. Some animal welfare activists claim that the dolphins there are not adequately challenged and that the pools are too small; others maintain that the dolphins are well cared for and enjoy living and working with humans.
Direct interaction with dolphins is used in the therapy of severely handicapped children and adults, and many report it as having a highly positive effect.
The military of the United States and Russia train Bottlenose Dolphins as military dolphins for wartime tasks such as locating sea mines or detecting and marking enemy divers. The USA's program is the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program, located in San Diego, California.
In the town of Laguna in south Brazil, a pod of Bottlenose Dolphins is known to drive fish towards fishermen who stand at the beach in shallow waters. One dolphin will then roll over, which the fishermen take as sign to throw out their nets. The dolphins feed on the escaping fish. The dolphins were not trained for this behaviour; the collaboration has been going on at least since 1847. Similar cooperative fisheries also exist in Africa, and have been reported through recorded history.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottlenose_Dolphin
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CASTELLANO
De las más de 30 especies de delfines que existen, el delfín mular o delfín hocico de botella (Tursiops truncatus) es el más común y más conocido de la familia de los Delphinidae. Ello se debe a que con frecuencia se tiene en cautiverio, pues su naturaleza sociable y su inteligencia lo convierten en la estrella de muchos espectáculos.
En estado salvaje, estos delfines grises viven en grupos de hasta 10 ó 12 individuos. Como otros delfines, se sirven de un sistema de "eco" para localizar su alimento y, a menudo, cooperan entre ellos para acorralar a sus presas. Frecuentemente surcan la estela dejada por los barcos y, a veces, se acercan a los nadadores y los dejan jugar con ellos.
Habitan en los mares cálidos y templados de todo el mundo y pueden encontrarse en todos los océanos a excepción del Ártico y el Antártico.
La especie se conoce comúnmente por su carácter y curiosidad amistosos. Es frecuente que un zambullidor sea investigado por un grupo de ellos. De vez en cuando, los delfines han rescatado a zambullidores en peligro llevándolos a la superficie, un comportamiento que también demuestran hacia los miembros en peligro de sus propias especies. En noviembre de 2004, un informe más dramático de la intervención de un delfín vino de Nueva Zelanda: un gran tiburón blanco se acercó a tres salvavidas, nadando a 100 m de la costa cerca de Whangarei. Un grupo de delfines, detectando al parecer el peligro de los nadadores, se reunió y los rodeó firmemente por cuarenta minutos, previniendo un ataque del tiburón.
Las apariciones de los delfines en la mitología y las leyendas son numerosas, y atestiguan de la relación entre el hombre y los delfines desde la antigüedad. La mitología griega cuenta que estos mamíferos marinos antes que delfines fueron hombres, concretamente unos piratas que intentaron vender al dios Dionisio como esclavo, y este como castigo los convirtió en dichos cetáceos. En la mitología romana Neptuno, el dios romano del agua y el mar, siempre era representado con su característico tridente y rodeado de delfines. Se trasmite la leyenda que entre los antiguos cristianos los delfines es el simbolismo de la regeneración del individuo.
Desde la época de la Guerra Fría los delfines se usan por parte del la Marina estadounidense con fines bélicos debido a su gran inteligencia: ya sea como colocadores de minas, como espías (transportando equipos de detección ópticos o electrónicos) o directamente como soldados, atacando a buzos o embarcaciones. Estos delfines están bajo una Unidad que se conoce como "Unidad de Mamíferos Marinos". El Pentágono ha confirmado el uso de delfines en el Golfo Pérsico para el dragado de minas y la detección de buceadores.
Al igual que los perros antitanque, los delfines son entrenados y usados con fines bélicos, en este caso en el medio subacuático. Se los adiestra para que transporten, coloquen o remuevan minas explosivas magnéticas bajo el casco de embarcaciones militares metálicas. Cuando colocan minas, su labor no es suicida, ya que huyen tras la colocación de la bomba y pueden ser usados para una futura nueva misión.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delf%c3%adn_mular, es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebro_del_delf%c3%adn#Capacidades...
Pets Corner
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Pets Corner at Longleat Safari park.
Pets Corner
Image by Cyberslayer
Pets Corner at Longleat Safari park.
