Little punk with a trunk.
Tumblr friends…I have a favor. This photo is entered in a photo contest with the Canadian Wildlife Federation. If you like the photo and feel so inclined, I would be grateful for any votes you could help muster up for the salmon snacking mom and cub.
Click the link, scroll through the images, select the bears (NJ Wight) and then scroll to the bottom of all of the pics to click Vote! You may have to scroll around a little… I thank you for your consideration…
http://cwf-fcf.org/en/do-something/contests-winners/popular-vote-monthly-contest/
Happy Father’s Day!
Pluto is staging a protest against unfair use of the terrier silhouette. Please share if you support her “sit-in.”
Black & White
For more of my zebra work, check out Delight in the Dazzle
The hummingbird
in flight
is a water-spark,
an incandescent drip
of American
fire,
the jungle’s
flaming resume,
a heavenly,
precise
rainbow:
the hummingbird is
an arc,
a golden
thread,
a green
bonfire!
More beautiful hummers on my blog today….Ode to Hummingbird by Pablo Neruda
http://www.njwight.com/2013/06/ode-to-hummingbird-by-pablo-neruda/.
(click to enlarge)
THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE Please see this film!
“Sentience is the capacity to feel.”
“The science is there and it is growing stronger by the minute and we are deliberately ignoring it because it is inconvenient to recognize it.”
Baby mantled howler having a snooze. (Panama)
Thanks for all the nice birthday wishes good people! Sleep tight.
How can you complain about getting older when you wake up to this!
This is Darla, a rhesus macaque who was rescued from university lab studies and now lives peacefully at Fauna. She doesn’t always let me photograph her, but this was a lovely moment she agreed to share. It seemed appropriate to post today given we are all looking out the window waiting for the rain to stop…
Darla is wondering if the sun is ever coming back again…
An enormous social weaver nest in the Namib Rand desert. These nests can have up to 100 separate chambers each with individual entrances. You thought your condo had thin walls…