Itchy Bear the Itchy Bear

Otters and Panda Bears

Otters are very fast, and difficult to photograph.







Pandas, no so much.














Pictures taken at the San Diego Zoo, in San Diego, California.

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Let it Snow

I love snow.



It comes after each summer brings more grey hairs to his aging face.




I love snow. Snow makes him young again.



So let it snow







Let it snow!








Let it snow!



Happy 10th birthday, Kodi.

Are you grown up?

I'm not sure.



You have a baby face.






And a serious face.








But people still ask me...




... how old is your puppy?






And I have to explain...




...you're just a little slow to mature.


Happy 2nd birthday Badger!

Our closest living relative

The Bonobo is the living species that humans are most closely related to (and their relatives the common chimpanzee).



We share a common ancestor and are separated by only a few million years of evolution. Equally evolved, but in different directions.

Bonobos are able to recognize 'self' in mirror and other reflection tests. That's something a human child can't do until they are 18 months old.



See the resemblance?

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Things you didn't know existed

Hello.

I am a pangolin, the world's only scaled mammal.



I am nocturnal, and it is too bright out here.



I have no teeth, and eat ants and termites.

I came back

The trouble with vacations is that they are temporary.
I'm back now.

But I took pictures!

Here is a preview. 5 week old African elephant (yet to be named) and his mother Umngani, sister Khosi (5) and brother Ingadze (2). They live at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, California.

I'm going to Disneyland!

Have you ever actually looked...

at the faces your dog makes when they have a stick in their mouth?







This is the best one


Wait for it


Here it comes




Really Daisy? Really?


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