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Columbian Mammoth

A few nice extinct animals images I found:


Columbian Mammoth
extinct animals
Image by Travis S.
This is an artist's rendition of the Columbian mammoth. Not its open environment where the animal can graze on tall grasses. Tree may have made up part of the animal's diet.

Cool Extinct Animal images

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Disney's Animal Kingdom
extinct animal
Image by Roller Coaster Philosophy
"This really extincts" har har har.

Cool Animals For Free images

Some cool animals for free images:


Venice in Italy. Free pictures for your blog or website.
animals for free
Image by photo-555.com
See free use rules and download larger size on photo-555.com

野毛山動物園のレッサーパンダのキンタちゃん♀ (This Red Panda Name is Kinta. She is Female Red Panda of Nogeyama Zoo.)

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野毛山動物園のレッサーパンダのキンタちゃん♀ (This Red Panda Name is Kinta. She is Female Red Panda of Nogeyama Zoo.)
animals names
Image by Dakiny
レッサーパンダのキンタは、野毛山動物園の看板娘です。彼女は人に見られるのも、人を見るのも好きみたいで、だいたいの時間は、戸外にいて、目の前で、木に登ったり、寝たり、食事をしたりしています。

Kinta is the Most Popular Girl of Nogeyama Zoo. She's seen in person, and see the person I love like.The approximate time, as well out of doors, in front of, or climbing a tree, or sleeping, and some to eat.

Amazing feeling, African masks, sly animal sculpture, displays, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA

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Amazing feeling, African masks, sly animal sculpture, displays, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA
african animals
Image by Wonderlane


DSC07441 African Buffalo skeleton
african animals
Image by godutchbaby
African Safari 2009


DSC07439 African Buffalo skeleton
african animals
Image by godutchbaby
African Safari 2009

Indian Wild Dogs

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Indian Wild Dogs
wildlife animals
Image by yathin



Kangaroo & joey. (2)
wildlife animals
Image by dicktay2000
Flickr Newcastle Sundancers shoot, Hunter region botanical gardens, Heatherbrae, NSW, Australia

Wild animals seen on a path in the botanic gardens.
20111105-IMG_5028

Cool Animal Jobs images

Some cool animal jobs images:



IMG00159
animal jobs
Image by christopherallisonphotography.com
I love my job at the Wild Animal Park it is alot of fun.


IMG00163
animal jobs
Image by christopherallisonphotography.com
I love my job at the Wild Animal Park it is alot of fun.

Cool Endangered Species Of Animals images

Some cool endangered species of animals images:


the 3-legged lemur
endangered species of animals
Image by Scorpions and Centaurs
When she was a baby, she got her leg caught in the security gate for the enclosure. A child panicked and slammed the door on it so it had to be amputated :(

Woburn Safari Park ~~ Bedfordshire, England


black bear
endangered species of animals
Image by Scorpions and Centaurs
Woburn Safari Park ~~ Woburn, England


"NO! I said higher!"
endangered species of animals
Image by Scorpions and Centaurs
A Squirrel monkey gets vocal with his groomer...

~~ Woburn Safari Park; Bedfordshire, England

Nice Animal Sanctuary photos

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Talk to the Paw!
animal sanctuary
Image by The Brit_2
Walk to benefit the Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation sanctuary in Kendalia, TX. www.wildlife-rescue.org - seen on a walker's T-shirt!

Black-tailed Godwit - Meadows near Leiden, The Netherlands

A few nice about endangered animals images I found:


Black-tailed Godwit - Meadows near Leiden, The Netherlands
about endangered animals
Image by David d'O
24 April 2011 - Meadows near Leiden, South Holland, The Netherlands

Black-tailed Godwit / Grutto (Limosa limosa),
subspecies: European Black-tailed Godwit / Grutto ( Limosa limosa limosa.

In spring around 90% of European Black-tailed Godwits in North-western Europa are nesting in The Netherlands. In the 1990's there was a decline of 50% in the Black-tailed Godwit populations. Luckily some meadows are now protected areas in the brooding season. IUCN's Red List for endangered species now lists this species as Near Threatened.

Read the blog about this bird: wildlifespotting.blogspot.com/2011/04/black-tailed-godwit...

For those who like the biological details:
Click a link and you'll go to the Flickr photo page for that rank in the biological classification.

Phylum: Chordata; Vertebrates / Gewervelden
Class: Aves; Birds / Vogels
Order: Charadriiformes; Waders, Gulls, Plovers and allies / Steltloperachtigen
Suborder: Scolopaci; Snipe-like Waders / Strandlopers en Snippen
Family: Scolopacidae; Sandpipers / Strandlopers en Snippen
Genus: Limosa; Godwits / Grutto's
Species: Limosa limosa; Black-tailed Godwit / Grutto
Subspecies: Limosa limosa limosa; European Black-tailed Godwit / Grutto


Black-tailed Godwit - Meadows near Leiden, The Netherlands
about endangered animals
Image by David d'O
24 April 2011 - Meadows near Leiden, South Holland, The Netherlands

Black-tailed Godwit / Grutto (Limosa limosa),
subspecies: European Black-tailed Godwit / Grutto ( Limosa limosa limosa.

In spring around 90% of European Black-tailed Godwits in North-western Europa are nesting in The Netherlands. In the 1990's there was a decline of 50% in the Black-tailed Godwit populations. Luckily some meadows are now protected areas in the brooding season. IUCN's Red List for endangered species now lists this species as Near Threatened.

Read the blog about this bird: wildlifespotting.blogspot.com/2011/04/black-tailed-godwit...

For those who like the biological details:
Click a link and you'll go to the Flickr photo page for that rank in the biological classification.

Phylum: Chordata; Vertebrates / Gewervelden
Class: Aves; Birds / Vogels
Order: Charadriiformes; Waders, Gulls, Plovers and allies / Steltloperachtigen
Suborder: Scolopaci; Snipe-like Waders / Strandlopers en Snippen
Family: Scolopacidae; Sandpipers / Strandlopers en Snippen
Genus: Limosa; Godwits / Grutto's
Species: Limosa limosa; Black-tailed Godwit / Grutto
Subspecies: Limosa limosa limosa; European Black-tailed Godwit / Grutto

Nice Animal Puppy photos

A few nice animal puppy images I found:



Darby's First Day_013010 067
animal puppy
Image by Donnaphoto
New puppy: Australian Cattle Dog (Blue Heeler) and Husky Mix: Adopted 1/30/2010 from PetCo (BARK - Tucson). 9 Weeks Old.


Darby's First Day_013010 069
animal puppy
Image by Donnaphoto
New puppy: Australian Cattle Dog (Blue Heeler) and Husky Mix: Adopted 1/30/2010 from PetCo (BARK - Tucson). 9 Weeks Old.

Nice Endangered Species Animals photos

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Jungle City Edinburgh 04
endangered species animals
Image by byronv2
very shiny big cat in Princes Street Gardens!

These are all part of the Jungle City organisation, which is debuting in Edinburgh for a couple of months and will move to various cities around the world. There are statues all decorated by different artists all over the place (there's a map on the site), small versions are available to buy as are the actual full size statues, to raise money for wildlife charities and to raise awarness of some of the magnificent species we're endangerin

Nice Animals That Are Extinct photos

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Dinosaurs, Crystal Palace
animals that are extinct
Image by Pete Reed
The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs are sculptures that were commissioned in 1852 and unveiled in 1854. When the Crystal Palace was moved to Sydenham Hill after the Great Exhibition, the new Crystal Palace Company commissioned Benjamin Waterhouse (a sculptor) and Sir Richard Owen (a biologist and palaeontologist) to build life-sized models of extinct animals. In the end, the funding ran out, and some of the planned sculptures remained uncompleted.

The reconstructions were based on fossils from the Natural History Museum, and skeletons of modern animals. They predated the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species by several years, and at the time were controversial. Within 40 years, science had moved on, and the models were recognised as being unrealistic. They fell into disrepair, but were restored in 2002, and were grade-1 listed in 2007.

When I was a child I had a dinosaur book with pictures of these, and I have waited for almost half a century to see the real thing. Today I finally made it. After all that time, I was prepared to be disappointed, and slightly surprised that I wasn't.

Nice Animal Plant photos

A few nice animal plant images I found:


Leadplant Flower Moth
animal plant
Image by Patrick Dockens
Schinia lucens
Parked on a False indigo plant (Amorpha fruticosa)

Order Lepidoptera - Butterflies and Moths
No Taxon Moths
Superfamily Noctuoidea
Family Noctuidae - Owlet Moths
Subfamily Heliothinae
Genus Schinia - Flower Moths
Species lucens - Leadplant Flower Moth - Hodges#11174

Crossposted at bugguide.



PLANT:

Kingdom  Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom  Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision  Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division  Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class  Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass  Rosidae
Order  Fabales
Family  Fabaceae – Pea family
Genus  Amorpha L. – false indigo
Species  Amorpha fruticosa L. – false indigo bush


Barbers' Garden, July 2008: Coneflower
animal plant
Image by bill barber
From my set entitled “Echinacea”
www.flickr.com/photos/organize/?start_tab=one_set72157607...
In my collection entitled “The Garden”
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/collections/7215760718...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinacea

Echinacea, commonly called Purple Coneflower, is a genus of nine species of herbaceous plants in the family Asteraceae. All are strictly native to eastern and central North America. The plants have large, showy heads of composite flowers, blooming from early to late summer. Some species are used in herbal medicines.

The genus name is from the Greek echino, meaning "spiny," due to the spiny central disk. They are herbaceous, drought-tolerant perennial plants growing to 1 or 2 m in height. The leaves are lanceolate to elliptic, 10 – 20 cm long and 1.5 – 10 cm broad. Like all asteraceae, the flowers are a composite inflorescence, with purple (rarely yellow or white) florets arranged in a prominent, somewhat cone-shaped head — "cone-shaped" because the petals of the outer ray florets tend to point downward (are reflexed) once the flower head opens, thus forming a cone.

A controlled double-blind study from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and documented in the New England Journal of Medicine[1] stated that echinacea extracts had "no clinically significant effects" on rates of infection or duration or intensity of symptoms. The effects held when the herb was taken immediately following infectious viral exposure and when taken as a prophylaxis starting a week prior to exposure.
An earlier University of Maryland review based on 13 European studies concluded that echinacea, when taken at first sign of a cold, reduced cold symptoms or shortened their duration.[2] The review also found that three of four published studies concluded that taking echinacea to prevent a cold was ineffective.

As with any herbal preparation, individual doses may vary significantly in active chemical composition. In addition to poor process control which may affect inter- and intra-batch homogeneity, species, plant part, extraction method, and contamination or adulteration with other products all lead to variability between products.[3][4]

The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) assessed the body of evidence and approved the use of expressed juice and dried expressed juice from fresh flowering aerial parts of Echinacea purpurea for the short-term prevention and treatment of the common cold. According to their recommendations

It should not be used for more than 10 days. The use in children below 1 year of age is contraindicated, because of theoretically possible undesirable effect on immature immune system. The use in children between 1 and 12 years of age is not recommended, because efficacy has not been sufficiently documented although specific risks are not documented. In the absence of sufficient data, the use in pregnancy and lactation is not recommended.[5]

Assessment report is also published.[6]
Echinacea is popularly believed to be an immunostimulator, stimulating the body's non-specific immune system and warding off infections. A common reference source for believers is a 2007 meta-analysis in The Lancet Infectious Diseases[7]; however, this study fails to indicate important confounding factors that could drive the reported conclusion. The studies pooled in the meta-analysis used different types of echinacea, different parts of the plant, and various dosages. This review cannot inform recommendations on the efficacy of any particular type of echinacea, dosage, or treatment regimen. The safety of echinacea under long-term use is also unknown.[8]
Echinacea angustifolia rhizome was used by North American Plains Indians, perhaps more than most other plants, for various herbal remedies.[citation needed] Echinacea was one of the basic antimicrobial herbs of eclectic medicine from the mid 19th century through the early 20th century, and its use was documented for snakebite, anthrax,and for relief of pain . In the 1930s echinacea became popular in both Europe and America as an herbal medicine.

Like most crude drugs from plant or animal origin, the constituent base for echinacea is complex, consisting of a wide variety of chemicals of variable effect and potency. Some chemicals may be directly antimicrobial, while others may work at stimulating or modulating different parts of the immune system. All species have chemical compounds called phenols, which are common to many other plants. Both the phenol compounds cichoric and caftaric are present in E. purpurea, other phenols include echinacoside, which is found in greater levels within E. angustifolia and E. pallida roots than in other species. When making herbal remedies, these phenols can serve as markers for the quantity of raw echinacea in the product. Other chemical constituents that may be important in echinacea health effects include alkylamides and polysaccharides.

As with any plant, the chemical makeup of echinacea is not consistent throughout the organism. In particular, the root has been promoted as containing a more efficacious mixture of active chemicals. A 2003 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Taylor et al. 2003[9]) found that when echinacea products made from the entire plant were taken after the second cold symptom appeared they provided no measurable beneficial effect for children in treating the severity or duration of symptoms caused by the common cold virus. The study has been criticized for using whole-plant extracts instead of root extracts, and the dosages studied were lower than those recommended by herbalists.[citation needed] A 2005 study in the New England Journal of Medicine (Turner, 2005[1]) focused on several root extracts, but still found no statistically significant effects on duration, intensity, or prevention of symptoms.

Proponents of echinacea assert that it is not a "one-dose" treatment, and that in order to work effectively, a dose should be taken at the very first sign of a cold symptom. Subsequent doses are called for every two to four hours after the first dose, including during the overnight sleeping period, until the cold symptoms have disappeared.
The several species of echinacea differ in their precise chemical constitution, and may provide variable dosages of any active ingredients.

Reported adverse effects of echinacea include nausea, dizziness, dyspnea, rash, dermatitis, pruritus, and hepatotoxicity. These tend to be infrequent, mild, and transient.[10][11] Echinacea should not be taken by persons with progressive systemic and auto-immune disorders, connective tissue disorders, or related diseases. It should not be used with immunosuppressants or hepatotoxic drugs,[11][12] and has the potential to interfere with anesthesia.[13]

In one investigation by an independent consumer testing laboratory, five of eleven selected retail echinacea products failed quality testing. Four of the failing products contained measured levels of phenols believed to be related to potency below the levels stated on the labels. One failing product was contaminated with lead.[4]

Some species of echinacea, notably E. purpurea, E. angustifolia, and E. pallida, are grown as ornamental plants in gardens.[14] They tolerate a wide variety of conditions, maintain attractive foliage throughout the season, and multiply rapidly. Appropriate species are used in prairie restorations.


Nesting flycatcher
animal plant
Image by Mike Souza
These guys built a nest above our upstairs patio a few weeks ago, but got scared off. I just discovered today that they decided to nest in a spider plant on our downstairs patio.

Cool Animal Puppy images

A few nice animal puppy images I found:




Little flap
animal puppy
Image by jdrephotography
Our female Lhasa Apso, Luma, had puppies again, 4 puppies this time.

Here's a little sneak peak of the cuteness to come *0*

Nice Animal Picture photos

A few nice animal picture images I found:


What a tongue
animal picture
Image by picmasta
A picture of the reptiles exhibition "Vivarium" in Munich, Germany.

Shot in Mai 2011 with a Canon EOS 60D 18-200mm IS. The RAW files are developed with Photoshop Lightroom 3.


Chameleon
animal picture
Image by picmasta
A picture of the reptiles exhibition "Vivarium" in Munich, Germany.

Shot in Mai 2011 with a Canon EOS 60D 18-200mm IS. The RAW files are developed with Photoshop Lightroom 3.

296 | Adoption day

A few nice animal adoption images I found:


296 | Adoption day
animal adoption
Image by Auntie P
The newest members of our family on their way home from the animal shelter.


Carol
animal adoption
Image by Rocky Mountain Feline Rescue
Non-Smoking Kitty

Carol was found at a cigarette store about 8 years ago before coming to RMFR.

She is very sweet and if she is in the mood, she will sit in your lap. She also likes pets and chin scratches.

Cool Animal Health images

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harness training 007
animal health
Image by The Donkey Sanctuary
The Donkey Sanctuary, India staff member, Kailash, making a woven girth.


harness 032
animal health
Image by The Donkey Sanctuary
Guest House meeting room, where we held the donkey harness making course .

Cool All About Animals images

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Kurban Bayramı
all about animals
Image by Melissa Maples
Today is the first day of the Kurban Bayramı, the four-day festival which marks the second most significant holiday in the Islamic calendar. I have a set of photos to share over the next four days, but in order to comply with flickr's TOS, I will have to mark many of them as moderate or restricted. This means that in order to view all the photos, you will have to be logged in to flickr, and you will have to have SafeSearch turned off. On the other hand, if you find anything offensive or triggering about blood, knives, ritual sacrifice, or mutilated animals, you might just want to leave your SafeSearch on and sit this one out.

Feel free to express any and all opinions on the photos in this set, but please do not expect me to engage in any arguments about religion or animal rights, as after today's experience I'm having some fairly complicated feelings that I wish to keep private for the moment. I've pretty much used up all my available energy taking these photographs anyway, so for now any debates will have to be amongst yourselves.

Whatever your opinions are, I hope this set speaks to you in some way. The full set is here.


Bear Crossing Sign
all about animals
Image by MyFWCmedia
Your Guide to the Florida Black Bear - Interesting things for people of all ages to know about bears.

myfwc.com/bear


Nice Plush Animals photos

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(20/52) Stoofed Animals!
plush animals
Image by originalpozer
This was a nightmare to take a photo of!

I couldn't get Mordechai to stop stealing the stuffed animals, so I had to shut him out of the room (which led to incessant scratching at the door). Sammy J. wouldn't sit in the kitty bed (bought it for ). I had to settle for this shot since both of them lost interest with the peanut butter only after 3 shots.


suburban wildlife
plush animals
Image by missresincup
This plush seal is a souvenir from my vacation at the North Sea 3 weeks ago.
It's the official mascot of the seaport Carolinensiel - and because I couldn't come up with an appropriate name it still has it's official name "Carolinchen".


Hillary Clinton
plush animals
Image by mbeldyk
This was in the claw game at Walmart in Broomfield, CO.

Cool Animal Rights images

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eat shamu
animal rights
Image by arimoore
(no, not really. please leave shamu alone.)

this awning sums up so much about humans' schizophrenic relationship with animals. if we can force them to do something entertaining enough, we'll stay their execution -- but if they aren't cute enough, or they don't dance nicely enough, or they act too much as they would in nature, their luck is up. at sea world they force animals to do tricks -- and they serve dead animals in the cafeteria. this place is just skipping the tricks and putting the fishes straight in the cooking pot. more honest, really. but still depressing.

Tanda Dam Wildlife Park - Kohat, Pakistan - February 2002

A few nice extinct animal images I found:


Tanda Dam Wildlife Park - Kohat, Pakistan - February 2002
extinct animal
Image by SaffyH - wont renew pro account now!

Photo taken by me before I started using digital!

Tanda dam is a medium sized man-made dam to supply water and electricity to the region. The area was closed off by the NWFP Wildlife Department to captive breed rare and extinct animals within the province. in the scrub forest there are Nilgai or Blue Bulls, Chinkara gazelles and Hog Deer while on the slopes there are urial - the latter being the only one out of the 4 to be found in the wild state in NWFP. Birds found here include grey partridges, chukor, see see, black partridges, doves, larks and other small birds.



Borrego Springs, California
extinct animal
Image by Harry Pherson
Northeast of San Diego County California is a 600,000 acre area called the Anza-Borrego. Here is the Desert State Park and a small village called Borrego Springs.

Here you will find something very unusual....here be dragons and dinosaurs and other long extinct animals. These are sculptures created by Ricardo A. Breceda ( ricardoabreceda.com ) who was inspired by his daughters enthusiasm over dinosaurs. Check out his web site for more information.

This photo is one of Ricardo's creations which is a 350' Sand Serpent. It is laid out so a road runs through it.
The photo was taken around 10:00 pm with a full moon casting enough light to illuminate the foreground and silhouette the serpent's head.

Borneo macaque monkey

A few nice animals endangered images I found:


Borneo macaque monkey
animals endangered
Image by Daniel Kleeman
A long tailed macaque monkey waits for leftover food at Sepalok nature reserve in Borneo

Giant Eland at Woburn Safari Park

Some cool endangered species animals images:


Giant Eland at Woburn Safari Park
endangered species animals
Image by Scorpions and Centaurs



EAZA Carnivore Fundrasing Campaign info from Woburn Safari Park
endangered species animals
Image by Scorpions and Centaurs

Nice Animal Pound photos

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Pet of the Week: Houdini, 12479187
animal pound
Image by LollypopFarm
Yes, you've seen Houdini before. She’s being featured again in the hopes just the right person will see her and scoop her up! Houdini is a 1-year-old Bluetick Coonhound/Pit Bull mix. She is back at Lollypop Farm for a second time through no fault of her own. She weighs 44 pounds and is a nice size dog…not too big, not too small!

Houdini has learned "sit" and "down" and is even excelling in agility. She loves to learn and would benefit from more training.

A home with older children is recommended, as she might prefer a quieter home. She would also do best in a home without any cats. Houdini is good with other dogs and loves to play. This lovely girl is looking for an adopter she can call her own and who will help her bloom.

If you’d like to make Houdini a member of your family, bring the whole family, dogs included, out to Lollypop Farm to meet this sweet girl!

Cool Endangered Animal images

A few nice endangered animal images I found:




Snow Leopard ~ (Panthera uncia)
endangered animal
Image by rogersmithpix
Panthera uncia ... Is listed as endangered. It is a sad fact that the biggest threat to snow leopards (like most other endangered animals) are humans. Humans have for centuries hunted them for their fur and their bones; fur to wear as coats and hats, and bones to be used in traditional medicines.
... photographed at Taronga Zoological Park, Sydney, Australia

Nice Animal World photos

Some cool animal world images:



20090408_Disney_Animal_Kingdom_0242
animal world
Image by CCRcreations
Disney World - Animal Kingdom April 8th, 2009

Sea Otter (intentionally shot and killed), female pup, 77cm length, Morro Strand State Beach 24 June 2010

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Sea Otter (intentionally shot and killed), female pup, 77cm length, Morro Strand State Beach 24 June 2010
video of animals
Image by mikebaird
Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) (intentionally shot and killed), female pup, 77cm length, Morro Strand State Beach near Northpoint bluff, Toro Lane and Beachcomber Dr., near the State Park Campground, Morro Bay, CA. recently shot and killed by someone, 24 June 2010, as determined by on site necropsy by Mike Harris of California Fish & Game. (ref. Michael Harris, Environmental Scientist/Sea Otter Biologist, Calif. Dept of Fish and Game, OSPR-Veterinary Services, 1385 Main Street, Morro Bay, CA 93442, 805.772.1135 office; 831.212.7090 cell; mikeharris [at} ospr.dfg.ca d o t gov. I (Mike Baird) found and reported this otter at 5:25 pm 24 June 2010. I pulled it from a rising tide at the waters edge to the highest adjacent point using a mutt mitt bag, and tagged the subject for Mike Harris’ attention. I left a message for him at 805.772.1135, emailed the first three images with GPS coordinates to him and to Flickr, and moments later Mike Harris responded and was on the scene. These graphic images document the on site necropsy process, and, as can be seen, a bullet (lead pellet?) was found in the skull of the baby otter and recent blood trauma was found around the wound under the skin and on the skull. By request, these graphic images and videos were not immediately published in public view here on Flickr, pending permission by Fish and Game, as they wanted to address how to best handle publication of such crime scene information to optimize their ability to prosecute this crime.
To use this photo, see access, attribution, and commenting recommendations at www.flickr.com/people/mikebaird/#credit -
Please add comments/notes/tags to add to or correct information, identification, etc.
Please, no comments or invites with images, multiple invites, award levels, flashing icons, or award/post rules.

Last week 6/24/2010 I found a sea otter that had been shot and killed on Morro Strand.
Mike Harris of CA Fish & Game came and performed an onsite necropsy, which I documented with an iPhone camera.
Until this moment I had been requested to withhold publishing these images and videos showing the cause of death.
The images and videos have now been approved for publication, and are exposed at Flickr.

Warning, these are graphic images showing blood and guts and the bullet/pellet projectile and hole in cranium.
they are posted for educational purposes, and hopefully to spur someone who might have witnessed this crime to report the culprit to the authorities.

The set is at
www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/sets/72157624227202983/

Here is a copy of the official press release.
********************
California Department of Fish and Game News Release

June 30, 2010

Contact: Warden Hank Hodel, DFG Law Enforcement, (805) 610-3920
Kirsten Macintyre, DFG Communications, (916) 322-8988

Information Sought on Sea Otter Shooting on Morro Bay Beach

The Department of Fish and Game (DFG) is seeking information about a
sea otter that was shot in Morro Bay on Thursday, June 24.

The young female otter was found just north of the Morro Strand
Campground along the beach in Morro Bay. Wardens estimate that the
animal was killed by a shot to the head between 9 a.m. and noon. A
necropsy was conducted and the weapon was determined to be a pellet gun.

DFG is seeking witnesses or any information related to the shooting.
Anyone with information is urged to contact DFG Warden Hank Hodel at
(805) 610-3920. An anonymous report can also be made by calling DFG’s
CalTIP line, 1-888-DFG-CALTIP.

Sea otters are federally protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act
and the Code of Federal Regulations. If convicted of shooting an otter,
an individual can face up to ,000 in fines.
###
Subscribe to DFG News via email or RSS feed. Go to www.dfg.ca.gov/news.


Sea Otter (intentionally shot and killed), female pup, 77cm length, Morro Strand State Beach 24 June 2010
video of animals
Image by mikebaird
Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) (intentionally shot and killed), female pup, 77cm length, Morro Strand State Beach near Northpoint bluff, Toro Lane and Beachcomber Dr., near the State Park Campground, Morro Bay, CA. recently shot and killed by someone, 24 June 2010, as determined by on site necropsy by Mike Harris of California Fish & Game. (ref. Michael Harris, Environmental Scientist/Sea Otter Biologist, Calif. Dept of Fish and Game, OSPR-Veterinary Services, 1385 Main Street, Morro Bay, CA 93442, 805.772.1135 office; 831.212.7090 cell; mikeharris [at} ospr.dfg.ca d o t gov. I (Mike Baird) found and reported this otter at 5:25 pm 24 June 2010. I pulled it from a rising tide at the waters edge to the highest adjacent point using a mutt mitt bag, and tagged the subject for Mike Harris’ attention. I left a message for him at 805.772.1135, emailed the first three images with GPS coordinates to him and to Flickr, and moments later Mike Harris responded and was on the scene. These graphic images document the on site necropsy process, and, as can be seen, a bullet (lead pellet?) was found in the skull of the baby otter and recent blood trauma was found around the wound under the skin and on the skull. By request, these graphic images and videos were not immediately published in public view here on Flickr, pending permission by Fish and Game, as they wanted to address how to best handle publication of such crime scene information to optimize their ability to prosecute this crime.
To use this photo, see access, attribution, and commenting recommendations at www.flickr.com/people/mikebaird/#credit -
Please add comments/notes/tags to add to or correct information, identification, etc.
Please, no comments or invites with images, multiple invites, award levels, flashing icons, or award/post rules.

Last week 6/24/2010 I found a sea otter that had been shot and killed on Morro Strand.
Mike Harris of CA Fish & Game came and performed an onsite necropsy, which I documented with an iPhone camera.
Until this moment I had been requested to withhold publishing these images and videos showing the cause of death.
The images and videos have now been approved for publication, and are exposed at Flickr.

Warning, these are graphic images showing blood and guts and the bullet/pellet projectile and hole in cranium.
they are posted for educational purposes, and hopefully to spur someone who might have witnessed this crime to report the culprit to the authorities.

The set is at
www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/sets/72157624227202983/

Here is a copy of the official press release.
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California Department of Fish and Game News Release

June 30, 2010

Contact: Warden Hank Hodel, DFG Law Enforcement, (805) 610-3920
Kirsten Macintyre, DFG Communications, (916) 322-8988

Information Sought on Sea Otter Shooting on Morro Bay Beach

The Department of Fish and Game (DFG) is seeking information about a
sea otter that was shot in Morro Bay on Thursday, June 24.

The young female otter was found just north of the Morro Strand
Campground along the beach in Morro Bay. Wardens estimate that the
animal was killed by a shot to the head between 9 a.m. and noon. A
necropsy was conducted and the weapon was determined to be a pellet gun.

DFG is seeking witnesses or any information related to the shooting.
Anyone with information is urged to contact DFG Warden Hank Hodel at
(805) 610-3920. An anonymous report can also be made by calling DFG’s
CalTIP line, 1-888-DFG-CALTIP.

Sea otters are federally protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act
and the Code of Federal Regulations. If convicted of shooting an otter,
an individual can face up to ,000 in fines.
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