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Elderly Animals of the Day: Shortly after Isa Leshko spent a year caring for her mother as she suffered from Alzheimer’s, she encountered a blind elderly horse living on a relative’s property. Leshko spent the afternoon photographing him, and realized that she had found a project that would help her deal with her mother’s illness. She began to visit sanctuaries across the U.S. to photograph animals that were elderly or at the end stages of their lives.

“I am creating these photographs to gain a deeper understanding about what it means to be mortal and to exorcise my fears of aging. … I also want my images to inspire greater empathy toward animals, particularly farm animals. It is rare to see a farm animal that has actually lived its natural life span given that most of these animals experience brutality and death early in their lives. … I want to challenge people’s assumptions about these animals and inspire reforms to the treatment of farm animals.”

The photos can be seen here — and don’t miss the video.

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20 April 2012 • reblog: thedailywhat • photography isa leshko elderly animals photos

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Henri 2, Paw de Deux by Will Braden.

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Megalara garuda: the King of Wasps

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ianbrooks:

Goatcore

Singapore-based grindcore band Wormrot has a goat in their mosh pit. Your argument is irrelevant.

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allcreatures:

A baby white-handed gibbon known as Knuppy is cared for at a zoo in Bremen, northern Germany. The young gibbon, which was rejected by its mother, is now in the care of zoo owner Renate Anders.

Picture: dapd /Joerg Sarbach/AP (via Animal pictures of the week: 13 April 2012 - Telegraph)

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Gibbon swing “attack”

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slothville:

How to cheer up a sad sloth

It would seem that baby sloths can also suffer a bad attack of the Mondays. Sebastian, the baby in this clip, however is not so much blue from sadness as feeling the cold. He’s an orphan at the sloth sanctuary of Costa Rica. Sloths can’t control their body temperature like other mammals and the Costa Rican nights can be a trifle chilly for an orphaned baby who no longer has his mom to cling to. So the sanctuary came up with the novel idea of making sloth pajamas out of old sports socks.

The clip is from my sloth sanctuary documentary ‘Meet the Sloths’. It premieres in the UK on Animal Planet on March 4th 2012 and features some seriously happy sloths. The only person who could possibly shed a tear after watching it is Kristen Bell.

21 February 2012 • reblog: slothville • cute sloths animals

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Tragedy #323

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thedailywhat:

What Has Been Seen of the Day: Naturally, he’s already a meme.

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Porcupinefish

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allcreatures:

Researchers working in Northern Myanmar have captured the first photographs of the recently discovered Myanmar snub-nosed monkey. “These images are the first record of the animal in its natural habitat,” said Ngwe Lwin, the Burmese national who first recognised the monkey as a possible new species. “It is great to finally have photographs because they show us something about how and where it actually lives.” “The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey was described scientifically in 2010 from a dead specimen collected from a local hunter,” said Frank Momberg of FFI, who organised the initial expeditions that led to the monkey’s discovery. “As yet, no scientist has seen a live individual,” he added. Picture: FFI/BANCA/PRCF/REX FEATURES

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