Animals are Magical

[wondering]

Wookie! I haven't heard this song in such a long while! This kind of song may be why childhoods of long ago were so much lighter...well, that and the 99% of things we didn't know back then. 🧐

[mountain_jim]

https://x.com/ClownWorld_/status/1900959503342071991

Emotional support lion.

[mountain_jim]

Posted by Wookie (here)
This is all I can think of

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uxFIGWm9M6w

I was unaware of this tune until Jerry Garcia and David Grisman covered it on the Not for Kids Only recording in 1993, 2 years before Jer passed.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-9AUiLJnoDg

[rgray222]

Senior dog adopted after 700 days in a shelter.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=s4xEpAiCv1s

[mountain_jim]

https://x.com/ClownWorld_/status/1901419396633092419

Little bro is living his best life

— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) March 16, 2025



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Pandas are just oversized toddlers in fur coats

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by mountain_jim (here)

I was unaware of this tune until Jerry Garcia and David Grisman covered it on the Not for Kids Only recording in 1993, 2 years before Jer passed.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-9AUiLJnoDg

A very tiny (and rather weak!) joke, but definitely about a Magical Animal.

Years ago, a good friend of mine who had been a Californian flower child of the 60s, owned a beautiful budgie that lived very happily in in a large cage.



Its name was Garcia.

(... only thank this post if you see the joke! )

[grapevine]

Baby alligator learns to do the death roll

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bsoyC3C6_XA

Very cute but you wouldn't want to substitute your finger "

[East Sun]

I hate to see any bird in a cage!!!

[RunningDeer]

Posted by East Sun (here)
I hate to see any bird in a cage!!!

Speaking of cages...Marni, the cockatoo.

Cockatoo escapes his cage with parrotproof locks in no time.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XSpF7iCKMcY

Marni, the cockatoo scoots to his cage.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hNz7H3LUSEw

Cup Challenge

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pu6O_iOZIO4

Marni knows when it’s bedtime and time for his evening snack.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=G28m5KnN2yM

Marni trying to wake up his Little Human

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MeimNg5-bjM

Marni gets an outside shower

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3LuOaXeQbOU

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by East Sun (here)
I hate to see any bird in a cage!!!

I couldn't agree more. (For the same reason, I can never visit a zoo anywhere. )

Re my friend's budgerigar, which she called GARcia (because it was a Bud-JERRY-GAR ), she saw it in a small cage in a pet shop when she was passing by.

When she went close to the cage to take a look, it started singing to her. So she bought it (and also bought a much bigger cage!), and took it home. She knew that if she released it into the wild in London where she lived, it would never survive.

[Inversion]

[Ravenlocke]

Text:
A female falcon was equipped with a GPS tracker during her journey from South Africa to Finland.

She covered approximately 230 km per day, flying in a straight line across African lands until she reached the desert in the north.

She then followed the path of the Nile River over Sudan and Egypt, avoiding flying over the Mediterranean Sea. Instead, she crossed over Syria and Lebanon, also steering clear of the Black Sea because if she got thirsty, she wouldn’t be able to drink from it.

She continued in a straight line and reached Finland after 42 days.

https://x.com/AfricanHub_/status/19031229834656646

[Eva2]

Great shot by National Geographic Award Winner:

[onawah]

Whether birds are unhappy in cages I think depends a lot on the circumstances.
My mother often had at least one parakeet when I was growing up.
They always had a cage with food and water, a kind of stone to trim their beaks on, a swing and several perches, mirrors and toys, but they weren't confined to their cage.
They were allowed to fly around and perch wherever they liked, sometimes on top of our heads or our shoulders, where they would give us little love pecks on our noses or ears.
When one landed on my eyeglasses, it would hang upside down from them so it could look into my eyes or peck my nose.
They seemed to like playing with and nesting briefly in our hair (sometimes leaving a messy deposit to remember them by!)
When we had two at a time, they would happily play tag a lot, and follow each other around.
They also liked to hang onto the curtains and look out the windows, and take a bath in a water-filled container in the sink.
The sound of running water would really set them off singing, but they chirped and sang on and off constantly during the day, very cheerful sounds.
When they got really tired, they would settle back on a perch inside their cage, and never seemed to mind when we closed the door for the night and covered the cage to keep them warm.
Parakeets seem to be unusually happy creatures however.
It may not be the same for other birds, though parrots, cockatoos, etc. seem to have adapted to the captured life pretty well, at least with owners who really care about them.
But I also understand the sentiment of hating to see a captured bird if they appear to be unhappy.
The painting on the cover of the book "The Goldfinch" still haunts me, though I loved the book.
But I would like so much to set free that fictional chained bird, which doesn't even have the space of a cage to flutter around in...

Posted by East Sun (here)
I hate to see any bird in a cage!!!

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by onawah (here)
Whether birds are unhappy in cages I think depends a lot on the circumstances.
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But I also understand the sentiment of hating to see a captured bird if they appear to be unhappy.
The painting on the cover of the book "The Goldfinch" still haunts me, though I loved the book.
But I would like so much to set free that fictional chained bird, which doesn't even have the space of a cage to flutter around in...

Posted by East Sun (here)
I hate to see any bird in a cage!!!

Thank you, Onawha, for this heart-moving reflection. I didn’t think to look for the slim chain, until reading again.


Sliding doors.

Let’s go to the murky depths of the blue oceans, where sunlight dies, and further to the dark*.

Lots of vid clips of swimmer critters, big and small, unexpected or familiar, cute or gross or boring. And disappointingly absent lol, how hard could it be to get vid of a huge squid down in his/her own domain? We’ve got deep submersibles,, heck strap some cameras on some sperm whale heads!

So, TIL the Collosul Swuid, shorter than the Jayant Scooid, but probably normaly heavier. One brought up in a fish net was half a ton/tonne, made a rare picture, and then they said that much larger beaks had been found in sperm whales (gets handled different than soft parts of that main food, makes Ambergris, which iirc can kill the whale if excretion doesn’t work).

I love the huge spider crabs and other big buddy bugs.

Why do the Ocean's depths Produce Giants?

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“The deep sea is seemingly very inhospitable to life with very low amounts of food available, high pressures and low temperatures. This is partly true because there is less life per square meter spread across the deep however, giant creatures are still able to evolve in these environments, so why is this?”


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Edit, have not verified the the above links’ function. Placing only for source claims record. -J

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YMGQmSWj3tg

[rgray222]

To be clear I did not adopt this dog, this is simply a post someone put on a shelter site.

We adopted this face yesterday...' He is 2 years old and has been at the shelter for 40 days!!!! This morning is the first time she climbed on the couch!!!!! Look at that face!!!!!! I’ll never forget his face when he saw us when he came home and sat on the couch..... I think the picture says it all!!!!! Animals feel and understand everything!

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Ants are smarter than you think!

https://x.com/Motabhai012/status/1904384466946314253

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by Eva2 (here)
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yo Eva, it’s OK. The kid is OK.

[Eva2]

Posted by Johnnycomelately (here)

Posted by Eva2 (here)
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yo Eva, it’s OK. The kid is OK.

[rgray222]

This guy came to work in the morning only to find..........................................