The year in (Animal) pictures - lots of pics

Hi Everyone!

Here is my second annual (LOL) Year in Animal Pictures!
Enjoy!



All right, here's the way it's gonna be, see ... Proud papa Kibabu makes sure visitors keep their distance during the first public outing of his 6-day-old baby, Kimya, at Taronga Zoo in Sydney



Just chillin': This black angus had to snort a lot of white stuff before he could score some grass in Fairfield, Mont.



Uncanny how he anticipates my every move: Pumpkin prepares to attack a vaguely familiar intruder at a garage sale in Belleview, Fla.



I saw you looking at Billy ... This possessive Canada gander adopted the doe on Poldi and Horst Schmitt's farm in Napa, Calif., and now won't let other goats near her. He's one jealous bird.



Oh, great, we're out of paper: Newly toilet-trained Diew the elephant does his business at an innovative private elephant camp in Thailand's Chiang Mai province. No more Huggies for you, Diew!



I hate it when I find a strange face on my mole: To be specific, it's a star-nosed mole, known for its voracious appetite and a mug straight out of H.P. Lovecraft. The critter takes less than a quarter of a second to identify a piece of food, grab it, wolf it down and then look for more.



What goes up doesn't always come down in Great Falls, Mont



One life down, eight to go: Firefighter Dave Wallander carries a crabby tabby rescued from a mudslide that enveloped a home in Hacienda Heights, Calif. One of the residents of the home was trapped in a bathroom with mud up to her waist.



Fuzzy surrogate: At the zoo in Abilene, Texas, a newborn Angolan Colobus monkey cuddles with a stuffed animal in an incubator on loan from a local hospital. The baby, delivered by C-section, needs the incubator because her mother rejected her.


These photos and captions are from http://www.sfgate.com. I will be back with more later!
:hi:

And funny captions :thumbsup:

I found all these at sfgate.com. I think I will edit my original post to give them credit for those captions, it would take me weeks to come up with something as clever. LOL

Love the cat one! :hi:

are excellent!

Thanks...