Last seen dancing with seven smaller giraffes.
First Known Video Footage of Rare Snow White Giraffe Captured in Kenya
Twisted Sifter, via Sharon H.
CAUTION: Some disturbing images
Cat Missing 10 Years Ago Reunites With Family After Surviving CA Fires
The Animal Rescue Site, via Murray C.
I am angry cat! This am angry face!
Cat Wouldn’t Let Anyone Near Until Rescuer Gave Help She Needed
Love Meow, via Andrew Y.
I'm a panda! EVERY side is playful side!
France’s Giant Panda Cub Shows His Playful Side
ZooBorns, via Murray C.
And finally: Loose Moose
Recent weather dumped so much snow on Canada that a moose got snowed in, but in this BBC story sent in by Sylvia C., passing snowmobilers dug her back out.
So you’re suggesting the “baby” giraffe is really a dwarfraffe…and there are six more out there?
I think it has more to do with the fact she is white as “snow”
I never noticed the Blue Angels logo on pipers doggles. One of the other pics in the article has him in digi-cam.
He was the dog of the fuuuutureeeeee.
Poor moose. That’s a pretty mind-boggling amount of snow. He must have been tired given how calm he was.
That’s not a logo, that’s the reflection of a jet that was there.
That airport is a Coast Guard Station, and it appears their was a jet their that day.
A team mate of mine met him once. Wish I could have met him.
I meant on the frame. The frame in the pic I linked is the pixel-style camouflage. The one in the original post literally says “BLUE ANGELS.”
Now I want a white girafe.
Yep that’s how we mesure snow in Canada, not in inch deep but moose deep!
It would be difficult to find a white giraffe in the snow! (Hopefully Canada has enough snow now, so white giraffe could still poke his head out)
Make it a white LAP giraffe and I’ll join you!
The cat-lost-for-a-decade story is terrific, but why do people who write articles like this feel the need to throw the words “miracle” and “miraculous” about so freely? I want to scream when I see something unusual but perfectly mundane, and often depending on science and/or medicine, described as “miraculous”!
Tim Minchin has a comedy bit about someone who had identical quadruplets and called it a miracle because the odds of it happening are 64-million-to-1 (or something like that), ignoring the fact that highly improbable things happen all the time – because we forget about the sheer number of things that … happen… (it’s funnier when he says it 😉 ).
(Of course I can’t find it; google gave me a bunch of reviews of the musical Matilda, for which he did the music and which contains a song called “Miracle.”)
On a planet of seven billion people, there’s got to be at least six of everything.
🙂
I agree!
After the “Miracle on the Hudson” (when Capt. Sullenberger and his crew safely landed a passenger jet on the river and saved everyone inside), I recall a reporter kept sort of poking them to call it a miracle, and they very courteously explained that it’s what they train for – that this is how it’s supposed to work. I loved them for that!
I feel the same way, Alice Shortcake. But I sure am happy for the Thompsons and that kitty.
I hope that giraffe and her calf will be safe. I worry that they will be targeted by hunters for their skins as trophies.
I had that thought, too. I love that you can see vestiges of her markings on her fur. Such gorgeous and graceful animals.
Love the Airport Dog Piper – watching him do his job is so impressive.
I wonder what that poor moose is going to find to eat! I guess they eat bark and shoots. He was probably down for days and must’ve been so hungry.