Some cool names for animals images:
Wounded horses being taken aboard a barge for transport to a veterinary hospital
Image by National Library of Scotland
This photograph shows a wounded horse being led up a gangway on to a barge. The sides of the gangway are canvas. Other horses and mules are being held on the quayside, waiting their turn to board. Several of the horses have bandages on their head or legs. Numbers appear to have been tattooed onto their rumps.
British veterinary hospitals treated over 2,500,000 horses between 1914 and 1918. Thousands more died.
[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Hospital barges for wounded war horses in France. Wounded horses being taken aboard a barge for transport to a veterinary hospital.']
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Hogg Island Sheep
Image by Intiaz Rahim
This breed is named after Hogg Island, a 17th Century English settlement in Virginia. George Washington owned between 600 and 1,000 sheep, which were used to make wool and provide lamb and mutton for all who lived and worked at Mount Vernon. Sheep were also pastured to trim yards and fields and their manure used as fertilizer.
Today, you'll see these very rare (fewer than 200 are in existence!) animals grazing throughout the estate and at the George Washington: Pioneer Farmer site. Seasonal "Sheep to Shawl" demonstrations show each step in the wool-making process used at Mount Vernon 200 years ago.
Ardea cinerea
Image by TeryKats
Thanks to [http://www.flickr.com/photos/merewether] for naming the bird
