Lovely Animals

28/04/2025

He looks like a punk rocker… but he’s really a living fossil.
Meet the hoatzin—one of the strangest birds on Earth. Found only in the Amazon and Orinoco basins, this prehistoric-looking bird smells like manure, hisses like a reptile, and feeds its chicks a leafy diet no other bird can digest.
But here’s the real kicker: baby hoatzins are born with claws on their wings. When danger strikes, they leap from the nest into water, swim to safety, then climb back up the tree using those claws—like a feathered dinosaur comeback tour.
From its blue, lizard-like face to that wild mohawk crest, the hoatzin isn’t just bizarre—it’s a reminder that evolution doesn’t always follow the rules. It rewrites them.
Nature's weirdest rebel. And it’s proud of it.

28/04/2025

This is one example where humans often fail to perceive animal suffering. It has been proven that behind circus acts involving animals, especially wild ones, there is abuse and suffering caused by trainers and caretakers.

Whips, metal rods with hooked tips, electric shocks, and other instruments of torture are used on animals to force them to obey commands in exchange for food. Lions, tigers, bears, elephants, zebras, and so on, are deprived of their natural life to face conditions of confinement and violence, where they must perform movements and assume postures completely abnormal for their condition.

28/04/2025

This isn’t sci-fi. This is science.

Meet the Megarhyssa macrurus — a wasp with a built-in precision drill.

That long spiral isn’t a stinger.
It’s an ovipositor — a biological masterpiece designed to pierce deep into wood and inject eggs directly into the larvae of other insects.
No brute force. No battle cries. Just cold, calculated precision.

She doesn’t kill to feed. She invades to ensure legacy.
Her offspring will hatch inside their hosts… and eat their way out.

This is nature’s version of surgery.
And the tool? A weapon crafted by evolution to be both elegant and merciless.

28/04/2025

🦁❤️ Wild Love: Nature's Strongest Bond
Fact: Lionesses are not only incredible hunters, they are also devoted mothers. They protect, nurse, and raise their cubs until they are ready to face life on the savannah.

27/04/2025

This Beluga Whale Crashed a Weddings and It turned out to Be the Cutest Photobombings Ever. You can't help but gush at the whale's adorably innocent expression.

Credit goes to respective photographer.

27/04/2025

27/04/2025

When I brought her home from the rescue, she was a mess—tiny, trembling, and tucked under a tangle of dusty black curls. Her fur was matted beyond recognition, and she smelled like rain-soaked alleyways and old cardboard. But it wasn’t her rough condition that caught me. It was her eyes. They were tired, yes—but behind them was a spark. A quiet, questioning hope.

Her name on the shelter paperwork was *Daisy*, but it didn’t seem to fit this mysterious little creature. After her first bath and a proper grooming session, she transformed completely. A tiny black Schnoodle with soulful eyes and a curious tilt of the head, she strutted out of the tub like she owned the place.

For the first few days, I just called her “Miss Thing”—it felt right. But then, while we were curled up on the couch, my son wandered in and said, “She looks like she should be in an old black-and-white movie… What’s her name, Miss Marlowe?”

The second he said it, I smiled. That was it. Miss Marlowe. Like a classic noir heroine—mysterious, clever, and full of quiet strength.

And oh, has she lived up to the name. At just twelve pounds, she patrols the backyard like it’s her beat. She follows me everywhere, curls into the bend of my knees at night, and has brought a rhythm and joy to my days I didn’t know I was missing.

They say rescue dogs need us. But I think we sometimes need them even more.

27/04/2025

The blue-footed b***y (Sula nebouxii) is a marine bird native to subtropical and tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean.

It's easily recognizable by its distinctive bright blue feet, coming from carotenoid pigments from its diet of fresh fish.

27/04/2025

"One day, I was lounging in the house when I heard loud gunfire. I ran outside just in time to see my neighbors cart off Duke’s mom on the back of their flatbed truck.
After that, Duke spent almost every hour at our home. Curiosity drove me to ask my neighbor’s what his name was but all they told me was they simply called him Dog. A couple of months after that, they simply stopped feeding Duke. I started to feed him because I wasn’t going to let this baby starve.
When it came time for our neighbors to move, I asked them if I could take Duke off of their hands since it was clear they didn’t want anything to do with him. The son said yes, but the day after I asked, Duke was gone and so were they.
I contacted the son and asked if he had changed his mind and decided to take the dog with him and he grew defensive and put all the blame on me and threatened me. After explaining to him I didn’t have Duke, he hung on me calling me a liar.
In an effort to find this baby, I posted Missing Pet signs all over the local vets office within a 25 mile radius.
5 months passed before I got a phone call from the UPS man that delivered in our neighborhood. He said he saw a dog matching the description of Duke in a nearby field and he looked pretty bad. I thanked the man, hung up and drove straight to where he said he saw the dog. It was Duke. Malnourished and severely afraid of everything. However, one look at me and after hearing my voice he perked up and ran straight into my arms.
Now Duke is healthy and happy and has three other dogs and three cats to play with.Now we are a family."

27/04/2025

The Snuggly Spikes:
A Hedgehog Family Portrait"❤️🦔

27/04/2025

This precious baby, a La Plata dolphin that was stranded after birth, is being hand-reared in Uruguay, South America. The newborn baby still had his umbilical cord attached, meaning he had just been born. By grace he wanted it, it fell into the hands of Richard Tesore, who works at a wildlife rescue center. He feeds her a bottle and takes her to practice swimming in the sea all the time. Enjoy swimming in the sea in Piriapolis. This baby is very special as La Plata's dolphins are considered a vulnerable species. She will be staying at SOS Marine Fauna Rescue and will continue to be hand-reared until she is strong enough to care for herself. ( Richard Tesore is the head of S.O.S Marine Wildlife Rescue. )❗️✨
Credit Goes to Respective Owner

01/04/2025

This dog's name was Gunner. My uncle brought him back from WW2. He was raised and slept under my uncle's anti- aircraft gun. The gun crew shared their
rations to feed him. By the time he was 18 months old, my uncle said he would stand up and look at the sky. If he laid back down they knew all was ok. If he growled
and put his hackles up they got at the ready. He knew the sound of the German aircraft and my uncle said he
never got it wrong. He said Gunner was better than any early warning system. I'm probably the only one left in the family that knows that story now, so I thought I'd tell it before it's lost forever, like many stories must be from that time. Thanks for reading it.
Credit - Smoky War Dog LLC

23/03/2025

In 1963, the photographer Richard Avedon took a picture of a man named William Casby.
William Casby, born in 1857, was 106 years old at the time.
In his hands, he was holding his great, great, granddaughter, Cherri Stamps McCray.
The image is amazing because the elderly gentleman holding his descendant so tenderly, was born into slavery more than a century prior.
Casby would eventually live until 1970, dying at the age of 113.
His great and great grandchildren are alive today, and many of them remember him.
It puts into perspective just how relatively recent slavery existed. Because as far away and distant as it may feel now. Even in modern-day America, there are people who have active memories of talking to former slaves.
Credit goes to original owner

23/03/2025

This day in Michigan history, 1932 : Ford Motor Company Introduces the V-8!
On March 9, 1932, Ford Motor Company introduced the production V-8 in its showrooms, and it was an instant success especially with police departments because of its price and speed.
The V-8 is considered one of Ford’s last great personal engineering triumphs: his “en block”, or one piece, V8 engine. The production was the largest commercially available V8 to the masses. Offered as an option to an improved 4-cylinder Model “B” engine in a low priced car, this compact V8 power plant, with its down draft carburettor, enabled 1932 Ford to outperform all other popular competitors and was conceived as years ahead of its time. The Ford flathead V8 is still heralded today as one of the first pioneers in ‘hot rod’ engines.
This flat head engine powered almost all larger Ford cars through the 1953 production year, and was produced until around 1970 by Ford licensees around the world, with the valve-in-block engine powering mostly commercial vehicles..!
Credit Goes To The Respective Owner 🫡

23/03/2025

This is my wife Jessica having dinner after a 14 hour day. She comes home from work, has enough time to eat and get ready for bed and it’s back to work the next day for another shift. She is up early to get ready for her day. She doesn’t like to be bothered in the morning and I respect that. She showers throws her hair up, grabs her lunch gives the dog and me a kiss, and heads out the door.
At work, she takes care of people who are having the worst days of their lives. Strokes, Car accidents, motorcycle accidents, falls, breaks, brain damage, and more. She takes care of mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, friends, and families. It doesn’t matter who you are or what happened. She will take care of you.
She works through lunch and rarely has time to sit. She comes home after 14 hours, takes off her shoes that have walked through blood and tears, and just wants to sit down. I don’t ask her about her day because She doesn’t like to talk about work when she is home and that’s fine.
If she does want to talk, I will listen. Sometimes she comes home happy and sometimes she comes home sad. But no matter how she feels, she is always on time for her next shift.
I love her with all my heart. My wife is my hero. My wife is a Stroke Nurse.
Credit: Philip Ur

22/03/2025

You know this guy? I don't, but I did see what he did in Fostoria Kroger today. When the older man in front of him didn't have enough money to pay for his food, or his card wouldn't work or something, he started walking out with nothing. I heard this man volunteer to pay for it... and he did! That was awesome! We need more people like him! Thanks buddy! If my parents ever needed help and my family wasn't there, I hope someone like you will be around.
Credit: Julie Miller

22/03/2025

I know I shouldn’t have done this, but I am 83 years old and I was in the McDonald’s drive-through this morning and the young lady behind me leaned on her horn and started mouthing something because I was taking too long to place my order. So when I got to the first window
I paid for her order along with my own. The cashier must have told her what I'd done because as we moved up she leaned out her window and waved to me and mouthed "Thank you.", obviously embarrassed that I had repaid her rudeness with kindness.
When I got to the second window I showed them both receipts and took her food too. Now she has to go back to the end of the queue and start all over again,
Don't blow your horn at old people, they have been around a long time.

21/03/2025

"This is addressed to those who don't want to rent apartments to people with dogs and also to those who won't rent houses to them:
I can't take my dog to the beach for a walk because it bothers you on your vacation. You also won't let me rent a house if I have a dog, and I can't bring my dog on public transport either.
However, I can take my dog through the rubble to find you after an earthquake, into the forest after you got lost in the mountains without a map or GPS, under the snow because you went off-piste despite the prohibition, into the water because you swam despite the red flag, and anywhere else you might need because, in the end, it's just a dog... but it will find you.
Dedicated to all those who don't love dogs."