Nature & Wildlife Pictures of the Day
Squirrel recreates Michelangelo’s painting of the creation of Adam…
This hungry squirrel recreated Michelangelo’s famous painting of the creation of Adam as it reached for a walnut…The hilarious snap was captured in a park and shows the furry critter clinging on to a tree while stretching for a snack…The stunning photo looks like the famous picture on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in which God gives Adam the spark of life through his fingers…Photographer Stanislav Duben, 33, took the photo of his 16 year-old-sister, Aneta, as she fed the squirrel..
Picture: Stanislav Duben/ Solent News
Beau, a 45-day-old short-beaked echidna, is cared for by Annabelle Sehlmeier at Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia
Picture: Newspix / Rex Features
Nachi, a 14-year-old Celebes crested macaque, watches her two-week-old baby Nina at the Ramat Gan Safari park near Tel Aviv, Israel
Picture: EPA/OLIVER WEIKEN
Pandas return to newly built Wolong Panda Base for first time after it was damaged in earthquake, Sichuan Province, China.The 18 pandas are the first to return to the Wolong nature reserve since the magnitude-8.8 earthquake on May 12, 2008.
Picture: HAP/Quirky China News / Rex Features
Siberian Swans Swim In a Line, Sanmenxia Reservoir In China. Over 500 swans from Siberia go there to spend the winter.
Picture: Xinhua /Landov / Barcroft Media
Halloween Treat!!
Komodo dragon Raja investigates and enjoys a Halloween pumpkin at London Zoo
Picture: Tony Kyriacou / Rex Features
Sumatran tiger Jae Jae enjoys a pumpkin treat at London Zoo
Picture: Tony Kyriacou / Rex Features
- Cheetah, Kenya
A male cheetah assumes a lookout pose in a fig tree in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve. His prospects are sobering. Shy and aloof by nature, requiring vast spaces to live and hunt, the planet’s fastest sprinters are in a race for their very survival.
Photograph by Frans Lanting, National Geographic
Emperor Penguins, Antarctica
Emperor penguins are Olympian swimmers, capable of diving to 1,750 feet and remaining underwater 20 minutes on a single breath. “I was mesmerized by their beautiful bubble trails,” says Nicklen, who braved 28°F water to capture these images.
Photograph by Paul Nicklen, National Geographic
Spiny-Headed Blenny
Corals build the rampart that shelters the landward provinces of mangrove and sea grass. The reef’s calcium carbonate city teems with species, among them this spiny-headed blenny
Photograph by Brian Skerry, National Geographic
Koshki Rescued Asiatic Cheetah in Iran
Rescued as a cub from the hands of a poacher, five-year-old Koshki grew up in a reserve in northeast Iran. He’s one of only two Asiatic cheetahs living in captivity. A thick tuft of fur on his shoulders, needed for bitter winters on the high steppes of central Iran, sets him apart from African cheetahs.
Photograph by Frans Lanting www.lanting.com
Supermom!!
A young cheetah mother named Etta by researchers scans the Serengeti for signs of danger while her four 12-week-old cubs wrestle. A long-running study has found that the majority of cubs here are raised by a small group of cheetah supermoms.
Photograph by Frans Lanting www.lanting.com
Sunset Blues
by Riccardo Trevisani Photography
http://500px.com/photo/17102601
Leopard chillaxing in a tree
Courtesy of Wild Live Africa/Natalie Steffen van Zijl
www.wildliveafrica.org
Guanacos drawing by Tana Pujals
POLAR BEAR on the Tundra, Churchill, Manitoba
Courtesy of Marry Gabbett
http://greenglobaltravel.com/2012/10/29/polar-bear-pics-churchill-manitoba/
- Wolf pup getting acquainted with his territory.
Black Knights!!
Snow Leopard Beauty!!
Pretty Blue Eyes!!
Wolfie: Penetrating Eyes!!
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