Minnesota Zoo - Duck, Otter, Gibbon, Sea Creatures

[guppiecat]

Continuing the Minnesota Zoo set. This set of highlights contains a potentially disturbing photo of a hermit crab. You have been warned. Highlights follow:




Wandering Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna arcuata) - Schrodinger's duck's wings are indeterminate.


Small-clawed Otter (Aonyx cinerea) - "Did I say that out loud?"


Small-clawed Otter (Aonyx cinerea) - If you have a fish, you could make a friend for life.


White Cheeked Gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys) - Some people put an angel or a star on the top of the tree. The zoo puts a gibbon there instead.


White Cheeked Gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys) - When too much current flows between the branches, the gibbon-fuse gets hot and leaves, thus breaking the circuit.


Hermit Crab - Just so you know how alien life under the sea can be.


Sea Horse - Sea Horse Noir


Sea Dragon - I have GOT to try sidelighting more often.


Sea Dragon - They were alien. They came from the deep. They struck without warning. They were only six inches long. The invasion did not succeed.

Comments

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

ha! i love the small clawed otter. he is all "oh noes!"

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Very pretty.

Could I use your otter photos for icons, and if so, how would you like to be credited?

[guppiecat]

You certainly may. I even have other otter photos that you may use.

Just credit me as "Josh More - www.starmind.org". If you can make that a link, I'd appreciate it. (It's a branding thing.)

[guppiecat]

I thought about captioning it as "oops" or "uh oh", but wasn't feeling particularly lolcatty at the time.

[laffingbuddha.livejournal.com]

Sea Horse Noir! Ha!

/insert lonely sax solo here/

"I was coming off of a three day bender of bad coffee, stale donuts and uncooperative Pacific currents when the profile of her dorsal fin hit me like cold reality."

"I never had a chance."

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

"Potentially disturbing" just isn't enough for me to decide if I want to see the pic or skip it.

K.

[guppiecat]

There are some people on my FL that are seriously bothered by bugs and the like. The crab in this photo is taken in a "macro" closeup, so it's BIG. It's also lit by flash, so it's dramatic. All told, it looks like it would be most comfortable lurking about in a dark alley and answering to "Guido".

It is not horrific (to my mind). I tend not to take photos that I would consider disturbing, as that would mean that I'd have to stare at it long enough to nail the focus, set up the lights, adjust the framing, etc. I see no need to subject myself to that, so most of my photos tend to be of cute or interesting animals. When I veer from my "usual", I tend to warn folks.

So, "disturbing" in FL-context tends to be things like insects and crustaceans. It does NOT tend to include things like spiders and snakes, as those are disturbing in my personal context and I avoid them.

[guppiecat]

You totally have to finish this story... all the way to the point where she gets pregnant and sticks him with raising the kids. :)