It's time for another Worldwide Photohunt! Please note that we've changed the guidelines a bit.

Here are the guidelines: You select one of your own photos to post that in some way utilizes the topic. Use the topic as a concrete prompt, or find a novel approach. Each person, just one post/photo per thread topic, (or two if you must)please. Photos should be resized to be no wider than 600 pixels. Too-large photos slow down the loading of the thread, and will be deleted. Read about how to post a photo in a thread, here.. If you have an idea for a photo hunt topic, contact one of the Mods to offer the suggestion instead of beginning another thread.

Posting photos in the thread gives your permission for SlowTrav to eventually move the photos over to Photohunt albums in the SlowPhotos site.

This week's prompt is "Animals."

You're encouraged to describe your photo--where you shot it, details of what you were doing or what was going on, etc.

I would really like to know how to post a collage now! Animals are such a great subject.
Here is a favorite from the San Diego Zoo.

The meerkats in the Budapest Zoo, with whom I had a long and delightful conversation this summer.

Well I can't resist this topic even though we never really came to a resolution on usage. (I've made the image smaller than usual for this reason.)

these are Capybaras...mom and baby...in the wild, in the Pantanal, Brazil. These are the largest rodents in the world and they are so, so cute.

And since I have soooo many animal photos, and Amy said two is okay, here is another.

Grizzly Bear fishing, taken in Katmai National Park, Alaska, this summer. A most amazing day on a fly-in bear trip. Yes we were that close. This reminds me, I will post a link to the full album in another thread.

Face to face with a Tasmanian emu:

Janet what great photos!

Ditto!!!!

Janet, were you behind some kind of protection with the bear? Absolutely amazing.

Thanks Terry and JoAnne. No, we weren't behind any protection, of course that shot was taken with a large telephoto lens, but we weren't that far. The bears were (mostly) in the center of a large stream and we were on the banks. I posted a link to more of the photos in the "North America" forum (don't want to hijack this thread!)

From our recent trip to Marrakech. This camel was among the horses and a donkey taking part on the procession prior to watching a Fantasia, a traditional equestrian Moroccan performance.

Horses (or are they mules?) in Pennsylvania Dutch Country.

An interesting angle at the zoo in Sydney:

We went to Orvieto twice our last trip and this unique cat we found both times sleeping on the seat of a scooter. Not just a specific scooter but any scooter in that area.

Judith just couldn't resist...

This cat is on an ancient colummn in the ruins in the Republican Rome of a complex that included the Theatre of Pompey and the Curia building where Julius Caesar was stabbed to death on the Ides of March. This area is called Largo Argentina in modern Rome. there is a cat sanctuary at the site, and the cats roam the ruins.

I am going to shamelessly use this thread as an excuse to resurrect one of my favorite small world stories. The quality of this photo isn't great, because it was scanned from a print.

I was in Florence, at Piazza San Croce, and took a few photos of this delightful little Jack Russell. It was only after that trip that I joined this board, and discovered that this sweet little dog is Angie's (Tuscanartist) Lira.

Taken in one of my favorite places on earth- the Piano Grande in Umbria. These horses are part of the Sibillini Ranch, located right smack dab in the middle of the valley.

This herd of young Icelandic ponies, untrained as yet, had spent the whole summer in free range around the volcano Hekla at Hekluhestar, and by fall they were one unit.

Don't know if you can sense the movement from this picture, but they went racing around together inexhaustibly, as coordinated as a flock of starlings or a school of minnows. Once trained, they will be gentle, affectionate, tolerant (I should know - they put up with me!) and still spirited.

Desert Big Horn Sheep, taken this past fall in Zion National Park.

A long tail cat at the south tip of the Peleponese in Greece.

Cat in Positano, Italy. 2004

Cameron

And now for something completely different - this little baby hedghog entranced a whole gaggle of us when we found him/her apparently separated from his/her mother when we were visiting Fountains Abbey in 1997. Sorry for the fuzzy photo - it is a scanned print.

Baby goat and girl, Kibbutz in Israel, 2003.

The Lawnmower.
Spring in Fairbanks, Alaska, along the Chena River.

Taken at Seal Bay, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

Big horned sheep, along the shore of Medicine Lake last September, near Jasper townsite in Jasper National Park.

The rams were fighting earlier, and we took a lot of photos of them smashing their foreheads together, time and time again. BONK! BONK! BONK! over and over again.It sounded like 2 hollow gourds being cracked together!

These sheep are wild, but they are so used to 'tourists' that they hardly flicker an eyelash when we stop our cars/campers/RV's, take ga-zillions of photos, walk close to them, take more photos...

"The Bighorn is famous for spectacular leaps during retreat. He will jump from a nearly vertical rock or cliff and with deft foot-work make safe descent. Often he escapes over a precipice so dangerous that no pursuer dare follow." ~ Wild Animal Homesteads
Brenda

Hawaiian Monk Seal lounging on the beach on the North Shore of Oahu one hot August morning.

The Savannah River~ on the lookout for dinner.

On a cold November afternoon hanging out in Old Town Square in Prague, I saw this carriage driver who warmly dressed his little dog too . . . (so cute)

Up close and personal at the Colorado Springs Zoo

Great photos everyone (well, 'cept maybe the rodent if it were shot by anyone else! How can Janet make even rodents look good?)

My offerings are a Parma Cow


and an Asiago Cow

These two wire-haired dachshunds, whom we met at a cafe in Asti, Italy this year, had been all over Europe on their owners' Harley. They lived in Germany and were returning from a trip to Spain. They would bike all day, then at night put the bike on a train, where they would sleep, for the next leg of their journey.

- Roz

Amy, I keep coming back to this thread to look at your photo. It is so sweet and tender that it just melts my heart.

Moose House Hunting?

This female moose was grazing in a vacant lot just down the road from my sister's house on the Anchorage hillside in July 2008. I didn't notice the "For Sale" sign until I downloaded my photos later. Can't tell if she was pregnant or just very, very full

Tery

A couple of sheep from West Cork, Ireland. All the animals we photographed that day were very cooperative, some of them almost seemed to be posing.

Colleen

September 26, 2008, near the Santa Lucia train station in Venice!

And he (she?) didn't get a treat!

I love everyone's photos! a special to jafbrad and Amy. Your photos are beyond perfect.

I ran into this frog and pony at the airport in Milan.

Pokey

This is Licorice, the Travelling Koalo, looking very smug at being held by a pretty Italian lass, in Pompeii. I had a hard time to get him to come back to me.

This was the very new addition to the Albuquerque Zoo in summer 2007. The giraffe was only 2 or 3 days old, and very cute!

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I love everyone's photos! a special to jafbrad and Amy. Your photos are beyond perfect.

My sentiments exactly! That little girl is exquisite Amy. Your bear shot is amazing also Janet.

My animal shot was taken as the jockeys at the Asti Palio were trying to cajole their horses to the line up for the start of the race. It took quite awhile!

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This little guy prefers an alternative to his legs for getting around the streets of Rome. November 2006.

Do frogs count as animals? This guy was trying (unsuccessfully) to look like a fig in Paestum in 2005.

We came across the Okondeka waterhole shortly after we arrived at Etosha in Namibia. It was recommended as one of the better waterholes to see animals and they were right. It was amazing even though it was noon - not normally a great time to see animals.

Marta that photo is stunning. A "once in a lifetime opportunity"!

Wow Marta that must have been an amazing experience! Such a beautiful scene. I must go on a safari trip someday.

I am totally impressed---wonderful shots by all. I too love the eyes on that little girl in Isreal.
And, I always am blown away by everything that Janet does---that bear is wonderful.

ColleenK---do you remember that my wife and I are in your shot at the Palio d' Asti. I can see us clearly but I do know where to look. Smack in the middle is a Italian man with a black sport coat and black hair.
My wife is right above his head, wearing a straw hat, and I am right of her. What a great day it was---I have many pics in my slowtrav gallery. Of course, it was Asti and not Alba.

Tanzania

Yes Bob I do remember but it is really hard to see you! I also realized I meant to sat Asti instead of Alba but it was too late to go back and edit it. It was a wonderful day!

Wow Marta that shot is amazing. I soooooo want to go to Africa, perhaps in 2010. Shots like that make me realize I MUST go soon!!!

Love your shot too Pokey...nothing in the rules said the animals had to be flesh and blood

Great thread, great shots all!

We encounter lots of animals when we're hiking in rural areas in Europe: sheep, cows, goats, horses, donkeys, pigs. And I like taking pictures of dogs and cats that we meet in our travels.

But for this photohunt I thought I'd post a photo of some animals we didn't expect to see.

This photo was taken from the balcony of our rental apartment in Garmisch, Germany this summer, about a five minutes walk from the town center. (Garmisch is a good sized town.) We were surprised to hear cow bells one afternoon and looked out to see two men on bicyles herding a group of cows down our street. Cars came to a stop and dodged the cows. One or two cows wandered in the wrong direction. Every day-- early morning and late afternoon-- these cows were herded between their barn and their pasture. A family must have been involved, because some days we saw this woman and a young girl. Several cows usually stopped to get a drink from the rain barrel below our balcony.

Kathy

I love all of these pictures! I felt kind of bad looking at the picture of the capybara. I volunteer at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, and sometimes I do a little talk on the anaconda at the Amazon Rising exhibit. I always finish it with a video clip of an anaconda stalking, winding around, and unhinging its jaw to eat...........a capybara!