Yes, this photo cropping is a deliberate editorial choice.
Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ
Alaska Public Media, via AJ & Tara O.
Bet you can guess what happened instead.
Kitten Was Only Supposed to Be Trapped and Released, but…
Love Meow, via Andrew Y.
(Adding neopolitan ice cream to shopping list.)
Pics Of Animals Which Turned Ordinary Situations Into Pure Comedy
Bored Panda, via Andrew Y.
Looks like your basic penguin to me, but what do I know.
Scientists Identify New Penguin Species for the First Time in 100 Years
People, via Andrew Y.
I sing only of sorrow and pain.
Tiny ‘goth’ bird was nearly extinct. Now it’s New Zealand’s Bird of the Year
CNN, via Karen P.
And finally: Polly Want a Dictionary
Andrew Y. found a bird who knows words.
That parrot is incredible!
I love him!
I cracked up when the bowl went over him and he said “hat.”
I know! I want one even more now, so I can teach it tricks. (Won’t happen–I’m too old for a parrot or cockatoo.)
Somebody deserves a honking big cracker.
Have to share the National Park Service’s post from 9.25 – Dolly meets Fat Bear Week? Yes, please.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ddt9K-AGh0u/
So fantastic.
Best thing about this morning. Except for Mike’s posts, of course.
Oh I love this!!!
More like Buttpack, amirite!?? Love Fat Bear Week, and NZ’s bird of the year, and all the other creative ways animal lovers raise awareness for our wild friends.
Misty, I’d take you in a heartbeat if I weren’t overloaded with cats.
Misty is so pretty.
Nothing against Backpack, but Bear 910 was robbed.
Just wow on the African Grey. I had heard that they were very smart, like toddler level smart, but this one knows their stuff. I’m with DebG about Misty, such a cutie. I’d take her if I was closer but good news, I looked on their site and I think she’s been adopted.
going from one female black robin to an estimated 350 birds in existence?
that poor bird.
I wish that guy could figure out how to ask the parrot if he would prefer to live in the wild among his own kind or stay in a house with humans and learn more English nouns and adjectives.