Rescued From My Own Raccoon – Part 1 It’s not cool to admit these things nowadays, but I used to own exotic animals. Raccoons. It wasn’t my fault really. It was me reading Rascal coupled with my mom’s inability to say, “No, Jan, nooooo.” Something I’ve learned to do with my own kids when they beg for whatever wallaby or wolverine that catches their fancy. My first raccoon was a female, pre-owned but in good condition. Rocky, as I named her, lived in our enclosed back porch where she slept high in the rafters. She may have been rather old; she sure slept…
Author: I Spy Animals
What animal sweats pink, …has skin that cracks easily in the sun, …only comes out at night, …and is only 30 inches tall?
I just had to sneak in a little post about turkeys, because there are turkeys, but then there are turkeys! The turkey you’ll eat for the holiday comes from the original American Wild Turkey, seen below:
I was 6 years old when I realized that birds wear hats. It came from the Roadrunner. You know, the bird that was always foiling Wile E. Coyote’s plans. I loved watching that cartoon, and I naturally thought that roadrunners were tall, long-legged, and wore hats with ornate purple feathers on their heads. So imagine my shock on the family’s road trip out West, when my parents stopped the car and pointed excitedly along the road saying, “Look, girls! A roadrunner!” I looked, saw nothing. I stood up and leaned out the window and searched frantically. THIS is what I saw:…
Ever think about what you’ve got on your feet? Here are some animal shoes that I think are just lovely. And weird. Like these Puppy pumps…(especially their tails!) Or fish you can walk on! Or even wolves and giraffes that hold you up! Pretty amazing. Which one did you like best? Me? Oh, definitely the fishy flip-flops! (If you know where I can get a pair, let me know…)
Seahorses! They can be colorful chameleons, changing to adapt to their backgrounds. But some have distinctive patterns of their very own. Like Zebras… and Tigertails. Want to see? Pretty amazing! Zebra seahorses can be found living in Australian coral. And then there’s the Zebra-Snout seahorse: And now for the Tigertail seahorse! And if you think these photos are amazing, wait until you see my close-ups of seahorse faces…coming up next post! Leave a comment and let me know what you think of the Zebra, Zebra-Snout, and Tigertail seahorses!
These little pink piglets aren’t laying lifeless because thistiger cub got hungry! They are actually fast asleep and the little tiger, in Guangzhou park, China, likes nothing more than to jump around on top ofthem for fun. The tiger cub was abandoned by its mother and is being raisedby the mother of these little piggies. And in a reversal, these tigers are mothering little piggies!Too funny! Have a great Friday!
The black zebra… Sometimes, a zebra is born with strange stripe patterns and large areas of black…even spots. These photos illustrate some of the variety possible in the stripes or, in the top and bottom photo, spots of the zebra. Kind of amazing… This Grant’s zebra, below, looks like his stripes have been partially erased. And check this out…spots among the stripes; looks like chocolate running down the stripes and mixing them up! God sure made an amazing world of zebras. To see “white” zebras, check out my blog post “When Zebras Go Pale…” For more info on the incredible “chocolate” zebra at…
What’s huge, rare, and has a shell of many colors? Lobsters. You weren’t expecting that, were you? Because lobsters are…..red? Not if they’re Giant Rainbow Lobsters! Take a look!
When I was younger, I loved a book called The Crossbreed. It’s about a cat that was a cross between a house cat and a wild bobcat. It was a fun adventure that got me interested in bobcats and lynxes and the differences between them. Even the cover illustration was compelling, and wonderful to refer to while reading inside about the length of a bobcat’s tail or the tufts on its ears. See the original, below… Here’s the original review of the book: “This young adult nature novel tells the story of the life of a crossbreed cat—the offspring of…
This animal stumped my daughter…she had no idea. Do you? If you think you know what it is, leave a comment on this post!