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Baby humpback freed

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UPDATED: Thursday, December 22, 2011 12:02
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Saturday, December 17, 2011 9:47 AM

CANTTAKESKY

I love stories like these. Beautiful!

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Saturday, December 17, 2011 10:07 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Rule #9: Never go anywhere without a knife.

Great find. Thanks for posting.

"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

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Saturday, December 17, 2011 12:08 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

And in other awesomely cute news...

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/12/baby-seal-enters-house-a
nd-naps-on-couch/

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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Saturday, December 17, 2011 1:41 PM

FREMDFIRMA

D'awwww.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CutenessOverload

Every villain has to have a weakness, right ?

-F

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Sunday, December 18, 2011 4:35 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
And in other awesomely cute news...

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/12/baby-seal-enters-house-a
nd-naps-on-couch/

Awww. Makes you want'a take it out clubbing.

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Sunday, December 18, 2011 5:01 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

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Awww. Makes you want'a take it out clubbing.

Sure would be a big hit...

But I think the lil' one has had enough of all that.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Sunday, December 18, 2011 8:41 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Many thanx CTS...made me cry; that show of joy at being free and able to swim again, what a treat! I won't get started on the net problem...I'm all too familiar with it

The seal was neat, too...given it's New Zealand, I'm guessing maybe a Southern Fur Seal. Believe me, there are few things cuter! Done some night watches with the few we get up here (Northerns), and you can't take your eyes off them, they're so adorable. Mean, tho', usually, this one's rare. What a special experince, both of them!

Out on the Farallons off our Coast, there's an abandon lighthouse. The California Sea Lions are well known for climbing up the stairs there, and we once had a CSL at Marine Mammal Center who kept coming back after being released...the free food I guess (lazy bastard!). But to come in an inhabited HOUSE, that I've never heard of!

What a kick, both of them, but the Humpback especially. We prize our Humpbacks here in CA, they're the next most precious guys to the Blues (which were thought to be extinct until one showed up off the Coast!). They're still rare, but I had the blessing of seeing one from the air (friend of mine ran an airplane whale watch). You can't grasp just HOW big they are until you see the whole animal...Humpbacks are big enough! That was obviously a sub-adult, roughly the equivalent of a teenager. What a wonderful thing, thank you so much.

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Sunday, December 18, 2011 8:44 AM

CANTTAKESKY

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I won't get started on the net problem...I'm all too familiar with it

It gets my goat too, Niki.

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"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it." - Richard Lamm

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Sunday, December 18, 2011 8:54 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

Baby animals are cute!

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Monday, December 19, 2011 3:16 AM

CANTTAKESKY

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-563966/Pictured-The-worlds-bio
nic-sea-creature-Winter-dolphin-gets-prosthetic-tail.html

I just watched Dolphin Tale. Excellent family movie.

I am glad we do nice things for animals from time to time.

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"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it." - Richard Lamm

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Monday, December 19, 2011 4:33 AM

DREAMTROVE

Hey wait,

We're cute too...

This last thing I see is called a Bushbaby and comes from Zimbabwe

Pretty adorable actually

Sorry, I digress from the aquatic mammals. The guy in the middle is called "hand fish"

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Monday, December 19, 2011 6:54 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

CTS, yeah, I'm dying to see that one. The one about the three whales trapped in the arctic, too. It's a piece of sanity to see people do amazing things for animals...yes, for people too, it's just a matter of what gets to you. Animals get to me, and when people care enough to do stuff like that, it makes me feel just a bit better about humans. Not only that, but every time they do things like this, humans benefit too:

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Lessons learned from Winter also have been applied to human amputees. Carroll used the same gel sleeve concept to ease painful prosthetic limbs for US Air Force Senior Airman Brian Kolfage, who lost both legs and his right hand in a 2004 mortar attack in Iraq.

(Wiki)

Is Dolphin Tale still in theaters? I have to wait for On Demand or Netflix to see stuff I look forward to, as I can't afford even senior or bargain matinee anymore. Those two I can't wait for!

Bushbabbies ARE absolutely adorable, there's no question about it. And while not "cute" per se, Walruses are NEAT! I got to meet one at Marineworld when I was still at Marine Mammal Center and we went down there for a worldwide conference on marine mammals. He was just ADORABLE, really sweet...the thing I'll always remember most was his whiskers, which I swear to gawd, were just like knitting needles...that hard!

The fish in the middle, however...I'll pass on that one, thank you. ;o)

Just 'cuz I can't resist, here's her tail being put on:

Talk about trust! I see she uses her flukes much more than a normal dolphin, and you can see how her muscles have developed differently at the end. Just damned neat. And talk about a lover--here she is with a human prosthetic wearer:

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Monday, December 19, 2011 7:46 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

The creature from the Black Lagoon must have been inspired by this critter.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Monday, December 19, 2011 12:59 PM

FREMDFIRMA

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Originally posted by Niki2:
Lessons learned from Winter also have been applied to human amputees. Carroll used the same gel sleeve concept to ease painful prosthetic limbs...

Oh indeed, the iceross gel sleeve is a wonder, bad as mine freakin hurts even with it, it'd be downright impossible without one.

Before the vets had to wind up removing the damaged leg entire, I was seriously considering taking Squirmy the cat to doc Aziz to see if he could come up with something for her - she gets by pretty damn good on three though.

-F

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Thursday, December 22, 2011 6:22 AM

MALACHITE

Ha, ha... The first thing I thought of was a "Go, Diego, go!" episode...

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Thursday, December 22, 2011 7:01 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

It always warms my heart to see humans take the time and energy to help a disabled critter, Frem. Never fails to make me feel better about humans...something I often do NOT.

It also warms me to see how well most animals survive and go about their lives when permanently injured. None of the feelings of "less than" or "my life is ruined" or anything, just gettin' on gettin' on. And they usually do it quite well!

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Thursday, December 22, 2011 12:02 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Oh indeed - till I moved Squirmy was the second fastest cat in the house, although not at any point above playing the poor-gimpy-me thing for sympathy and petting...

Since I have Puppy here with me, now Squirmy *IS* the fastest cat in the house and exploits it mercilessly by provoking the other cats and hightailing it, hehehe.

Xmas is always amusing, since Ghoster despite being the clumsiest cat I've ever known since Cricket (and Cricket had an excuse!) is the climber of the bunch and has an almost compulsive desire to climb the tree and nestle in among the ornaments - it's adorable when it works, hilarious when it don't.
We've learned that unbreakable ornaments are a necessity.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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